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It’s hard to believe, but we’re just weeks away from New Year’s Eve, a day that is without question, my least favorite holiday. However, the city of Macon, Georgia has decided to jazz it up with something New Year’s has always been missing: a controlled demolition.
According to WMAZ, Macon-Bibb County commissioners decided this week that the county would be celebrating the start of 2025 by imploding an old hotel building that used to be known as the Ramada Plaza but has been sitting empty since 2017.
“We acquired this property to blow it up, and I think a lot of people are going to have a problem with it,” Mayor Lester Miller said.
It’ll cost $2.4 million to bring the building down. more
How date they! That building could have housed hundreds of hungry Haitians.
(apologies to Dr. Seuss)
You mean “dare”, Thirdtwin. And it’s “hundreds of hungry, homeless Haitians”.
They could have filled the hotel with several thousand ILLEGALS and have them live comfortably. Also by doing this they could have made this an undercover sting operation for deportation.
I understand that these high-rise demolitions are carefully programmed and the sequencing and timing is totally computer-controlled. Once set up, all it takes is a simple push of a button to set it all in motion.
Macon might recoup some of that $2.4 million by auctioning off the button-pushing privilege. I gotta believe that there are some rich folks who would get a real bang (!) out of that!
Would be a whole lot cooler if they implode the hotel packed full of illegal, hungry, homeless, Haitians.
@Richard — Oh, that’s HEARTLESS AND CRUEL!
Feed ’em first.
The reason hotels have been sitting vacant in suburban Seattle are is that the State and King county have been pushing the mess they created out to suburban areas by buying up hotels and filling them with drug addicts. Within short order the hotels are uninhabitable and the cost to repair them exceeds the value. The Red Lion in Renton is an excellent example, the shame is it is one of many.
Rename it the Kamala Plaza before implosion day.
Fill it with illegals felons. Those Three Waters guys for starters. Maybe the CNN staff?
Fill it with Haitians and other illegals, then blow it up.