Yet instead of dump trucks... 
they will be pushing us old folks off the 4th floor!
Posted on 11/06/2009 2:07:08 AM PST by The Magical Mischief Tour
DETROIT -- Nobody can say for sure how an old dump truck ended up on the fourth floor of the abandoned Packard auto plant on East Grand Boulevard. But there's no doubt about how it got back down.
It was pushed through a hole in the wall.
The act, caught on video, required the efforts of a number of people, a sledgehammer, a hydraulic floor jack, stacks of cinder blocks and a peculiar sense of propriety.
The Packard plant, a 3.5-million-square-foot luxury-car factory, opened in 1907 and shut down in 1956. In more recent decades, other businesses operated on the premises or used it for storage, but by the late 1990s, the Packard plant was all but forsaken.
Detroit has 80,000 abandoned lots and buildings, according to the city's planning department. Old housing projects, homes, strip malls and even high-rise buildings sit empty across much of the city. Motown has more vacant office, retail and industrial space than nearly every other big city in the country.
Like many of Detroit's abandoned buildings, though, it's anything but deserted. Rather, it's a hive of activity, buzzing with scavengers, vandals, late-night revelers, arsonists, photographers and urban explorers who brave the crumbling buildings' many hazards and create a good number of their own. The complex remains unguarded.
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I bet if you “YouTube” it you’ll find a real-time video of the crash....
Yet instead of dump trucks... they will be pushing us old folks off the 4th floor!
My son was in there taking photo’s not long ago...he said it is a real creepy place...they found a spot loaded from front to back, top to bottom, with old clothes...
Detroit is the future of the USA under socialists, unions, and OBAMA.
Makes me think of the pld Omega Man movie, or at very least the next installmenet of Snake Plizkin...”Escape From Detroit”.
I sure hope Dagny has saved the engine.
The video is embedded in the WSJ article. Those kids are lucky the floor or the cinderblocks didn’t collapse on them.
Definitely an outside job. Nobody in Detroit would work that hard. I’d guess it was the work of Amish Canadians or Hottentots.
Freight elevator
Fun With Gravity.
YouTube video showing the before and after:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qn064jjnIc
I don’t think this was the work of the photographer mentioned in the article.
Maybe the fifth floor fell through?
We have a lot of empty supermarkets and strip malls in my area. I’ve always wondered how the owners don’t go bankrupt just with paying the property taxes.
A fascinating website.
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