It’s kinda remarkable to watch:
The game will be moved to Detroit’s Ford Field as the repairs to the Metrodome will take at least a week, and the other venue in Minneapolis can’t be made ready in time.
December 12, 2010
Vikings-Giants game moved to Detroit after Metrodome roof failure
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September 5, 2010
Detroit Police save money by eliminating pistol practice?
At least, based on this story, you’d have to think it’s the most likely answer:
Cop Fires Twelve Shots at Dog, Hits Two Animal Control Workers Instead
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Detroit Police needed to remove the dogs, so they called the Michigan Anti-Cruelty Society. While the rescuers were setting traps for the three pit bulls, one got loose and started running towards a police officer. That’s when, we’re told, she pulled her gun and fired off twelve rounds.
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“The police pulled a gun out and shot, but she missed the dog. I guess she was scared or something, and she hit the animal control person,” he said.
One animal rescue worker took a bullet in the back of the leg. Another grazed his back side. A stray bullet also clipped his co-worker’s boot.
Not quite the best advertisement for range safety, weapons handling expertise, or accuracy.
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June 15, 2010
This graphic is almost totally self-explanatory
A jaded viewer might note that the only “incoming” links were from the areas around Washington DC . . . they are from the government and they’re there to help.
By way of Paul Kedrosky’s blog.
June 4, 2010
Detroit has no monopoly on post-apocalyptic urban scenery
For example, check the images from Battleship Island (Gunkanjima) in Japan:
What’s now decay and rot once was bright and brilliantly full of hope: Who lived here? What were their lives like? What happened? How did it all come apart? How did it all crumble to almost nothing?
In the case of Hashima Island, or Battleship Island (Gunkanjima in Japanese) as it’s often called, hope and optimism became dust and decay because one black resource (coal) was replaced by a cheaper black resource (oil). Populated first in 1887, the island — which is 15 kilometers from Nagasaki — only began to really, and phenomenally, become populated much later, in 1959.
Even the nickname “Battleship Island” has a bit of history behind it.
H/T to Ace of Spades for the original link.
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February 26, 2010
Detroit has no problem that the government can’t make worse
Detroit has had a rough time lately — if you define “lately” as 50 years. But never fear . . . in spite of depopulation, de-industrialization, urban decay, crime, and soaring rates of illiteracy, the government is going to do something:
From its status as one of the wealthiest communities in the country, with a population of close to 2 million people 50 years ago, it has shrunk to a chaotic, sclerotic mess of 900,000 souls.
So in America, land of the free, the city elders of Detroit are now planning a forced march down Woodward Avenue. Citizens will be relocated from desolate neighbourhoods, their former homes bulldozed.
How will the city get people to move? In some cases, it will invoke eminent domain legislation, that favourite weapon of central planners, and expropriate. In others, it will simply cut off more services as they become too expensive to provide.
Mass state-driven relocation has happened in Communist China, the former Soviet Union, but America? Not since the creation of Native American reservations, and certainly not in 21st century urban areas.
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