novaderrik wrote:
can't have that one lone guy making the rest of the city look like a E36 M3hole..
I doubt it was even that. More like someone on the city council was going to pay a huge sum of money to a buddy to "clean it up." Now the council member isn't going to get his cut and is pissed.
Of course Philadelphia would never ever do that.
novaderrik wrote:
logdog wrote:
He should move to Detroit and he could clean up entire neighborhoods that have been abandoned, not just one silly lot.
the solution for Detroit is a bulldozer.. you plow over all the empty houses and push them to a central location and have one hell of a bonfire..
then you take some grass seed and just spread it around everywhere.
Just burn the houses where they are. Keep the fire under control, but nice and hot till it's just a basement full of ash. Move on to next house. Offer other cities the chance to send in their own fire fighters to use this for training exercises.
In reply to Gearheadotaku:
sounds like they may be working on it
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/weird_but_true/weird_but_true_HIcGkFAu1Cq36QAsZJAJnJ
Detroit could soon become a firefighter fantasy camp.
The commissioner of the city’s fiscally strapped fire department has proposed allowing small-town “tourist firefighters” to tag along and help the Motor City’s Bravest on the job — and charge them for the training.
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/weird_but_true/weird_but_true_HIcGkFAu1Cq36QAsZJAJnJ#ixzz274DU2D4z