29 Replies to “Never Change, Detroit”

  2. To be fair, the Silverdome was built when Detroit products were made to last.
    Okay, not really, but…

  5. Detroit was a very great city back in the day as was Cleveland (which at one point had the HQs for over half of the DJIA) circumstances both internal and external have changed that. Perhaps in time they will get some of it back.

  7. My respects in advance to the brave soul who will now have to wander into the structure to assess the result and formulate plan B. I’m wondering if the USAF 5th Bomb Wing does contract work.

  10. I doubt that they would be foolish enough to send anyone back in to retry with explosives. Much safer to stand back and bring in the large crane and wrecking ball and prepare for another month of related expenses. The Engineers and or Blasters responsible have expensive insurance policies for such events.

  19. I had a 1951 Pontiac Silver Streak with straight eight and Hydramatic once.
    Quite often it would not start.

  20. So much for the ballyhooed “inside job” by the Mossad of taking down the World Trade Center that has been espoused by the idiot left since 9/11. Months of preparations in rigging this building for destruction, all under the watchful eyes of engineers, building inspectors, specialized contractors, and dozens of tradesmen and we come up with this dud! Then we have the conspiracy of the World Trade Center where the theorists believe that the destruction of the two towers was orchestrated, engineered and rigged unbeknownst to the thousands of workers in the towers who worked there everyday. The Mossad agents crept in every night and laid out miles of detonation cord and tons of explosive charges under the very noses of security guards, cleaners, shift workers, etc. that are employed round the clock in a modern office building. That the theory even gained traction is testimony to the intelligence of the average American.

  23. I had a Pontiac once, just once. On the way home from the dealership (12 miles) the exhaust pipe burned a large hole in the carpet, right under my feet. Turned out there was restriction in the exhaust pipe; the liner came apart. Then, every 6 mos or so, one or two rocker arms would go. (400 big block.) The tranny went to hell twice, and finally on the day that I sold it, I was driving on Hwy 2 south of Moose Jaw and the fuel pump fell off. My Dad (who despised unions) always claimed that a lot of those ”lemons” were the result of angry UAW workers who had purposely sabotaged their work. Probably what happened to the explosives in the video.
    Today, I stick with Ford.

  27. I see this completely differently.
    Despite the best attempts to bring it down, the structure was so well designed that it survived a planned demolition. If I was one of the engineers who designed this, I’d be damn proud of myself.

  29. Conversely, if I was the engineer who rigged up the explosives, I’d be hanging my head in shame.

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