Went to watch this a few hours ago... OOPS!

Orlun · 12-03-2005, 03:52 PM

mms://media.keloland.com/KELO/120305Count.wmv
Windows Media File.

LOL! Well, so much for that plan.

New "Leaning Tower of Zip" in the USA. I can get you tickets.

Dillgaar · 12-03-2005, 04:05 PM

They need to get that architect to rebuild New Orleans and the levees.... wow... never seen anything like that... the thing dropped a good 15 feet too... sheesh

GuyJantica · 12-03-2005, 04:05 PM

Wow, that sucks... I mean, there's snow everywhere!

Oh, yeah, and the building is leaning...

Ah, that's hilarious.

-GJ

Orlun · 12-03-2005, 04:10 PM

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Originally Posted by GuyJantica

Wow, that sucks... I mean, there's snow everywhere!

Oh, yeah, and the building is leaning...

Ah, that's hilarious.

-GJ

Tell me about it. I've had to snowblow out my driveway every day this past week.

Still, variety is why I live here.

The building is an old feed processing grain elevator and is build of reinforced concrete. I was half expecting the demo to fail but its still pretty impressive to imagine the stresses it survived.

Their going to try regular wrecking balls and a crane starting monday but even that will be dangerous as hell.

Skarlath · 12-03-2005, 05:35 PM

Hahahaha, I love you Americans:

"You've got to be careful not to get too close. There's a distinct perimeter roped off here, to keep people away, to keep them safe because of liability issues."

Not because people might get hurt, but because the hurt people might be hungry for some extra cash.

GuyJantica · 12-03-2005, 09:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Orlun

Tell me about it. I've had to snowblow out my driveway every day this past week.

Heh, that reminds me of a joke...

In my day, that is to say, when I was younger and lived in a state that gets snow close to sea level, we used shovels. Now I live in Southern California where snow is only associated with mountains and skiing. Weee!

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Originally Posted by Skarlath

"Hahahaha, I love you Americans"

Don't you just? We only care about maiming and killing people insofar as we might be held liable. Take Baghdad for instance... you know we'd rather just nuke it and not worry about it, but some of you in the global community would blame us for it. You know back in the old days, before frivolous lawsuites were "in", we could bomb anybody multiple times and no one would care for 20 years or so.

What's happening to the world? I blame the Oloh's and Havelocks of the world.

/slay sarcasm

-GJ

Korsal · 12-06-2005, 02:11 PM

That was funny, but obviously the company that tried to demo it has the same training as the current SOE devs... well this should work... umm well guess not!

rofl poor guys... should have used more C4..

Korsal

Havelock · 12-06-2005, 02:30 PM

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Originally Posted by GuyJantica

I blame the Oloh's and Havelocks of the world.

Don't blame me, I just put people in jail.

nubbins · 12-06-2005, 06:11 PM

they had this on the news last night
i laughed so hard i nearly pissed my self (literally

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Orlun · 12-06-2005, 06:47 PM

I drove by it again today and got pretty close. Still makes me smile. Were trying to organize a "Save the leaning tower" committee as a joke but don't think it'll happen. They are bringing in a huge crane and wrecking ball from Minneapolis and plan on beating it down over the next week or two. That will be pretty cool to watch too.

Dojo · 12-06-2005, 09:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Orlun

I drove by it again today and got pretty close. Still makes me smile. Were trying to organize a "Save the leaning tower" committee as a joke but don't think it'll happen. They are bringing in a huge crane and wrecking ball from Minneapolis and plan on beating it down over the next week or two. That will be pretty cool to watch too.

Hah. Yeah, I doubt the city would want that building around much longer. Who knows what's holding that thing up. Loose rock supported by unexpected new snow? Who knows. One way or another, it could come crashing down unexpectedly for whatever reason... Better to smash it down professionally and planned than to have to crashing down without warning.

Though I have to admit. Looks pretty awesome. And hilarious.

SirOddball · 12-08-2005, 12:40 PM

Man, that's one of the funniest things I've ever seen.

Orlun · 12-15-2005, 07:01 AM

Just to update the story.

They finally got the big crane assembled and had a huge wrecking ball brought in. On Sunday, they started beating on the tower to bring it down piece by piece. After 4 days they are down about a third of the way from the top. Here is a live webcam if you want to watch the much slower destruction.

http://www.siouxfalls.org/Information/falls_webcam.aspx