[ClearCase_guy]

Does Detroit still burn itself down in celebration?

[SMGFan]

I think they ran out of things to burn … or arsonists.

[bankwalker]

Detroit and Camden ...

[redshawk]

It was called devils night during the 60’s in Detroit. It was mainly harmless then. Until the riots started. Eggs were the worst because of the damage done to painted surfaces on cars and houses.

[Yo-Yo]

Does Detroit still burn itself down in celebration?

It's called Devil's Night and yes, they do but not nearly as bad as they did in the 1990s.

[Jack Black]

In Detroit it is called "Devil's Night" and it became a tradition to arson buildings on Devil's night, under the theory that there were be too many fires for the Fire Department to attend to them all, and you had a better chance of successfully burning the building to the ground.

Why would you want to burn a building to the ground?

Well first off Detroit has hundreds of thousands of vacant buildings. Detroit, at its peak had a population of 1.86 million people. Today it has only 713,000 people. That's down almost 1/4 million people since 2000! The death of Detroit isn't over!

So these hundreds of thousands of empty houses, who wants to burn them down? Well criminal owners trying to collect insurance money for a failed investment, neighbors trying to get rid of a crack house or a house full of homeless bums, gangs trying to secure their territory, and of course some thrill seekers.

There is a wikipedia article on Devil's Night and a book on the topic: "Devil's Night" by Ze'ev Chafeis.

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From the 2013 article Detroit Arson A Persistent Problem As City Services Decline from Huff Post.

New Jersey is distinctly second tier when it comes to hosting a proper Devil's Night. Hell, they don't even have the name right.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Yep, that’s what came to my mind, that October 30th in Detroit is devil’s night. And it became a night to commit arson.

[lastchance]

What’s left?

[Hot Tabasco]

Does Detroit still burn itself down in celebration?

No..

You sound more and more like a sex education teacher who is still a virgin............