VIDEO: Fun, frolic and destruction with a dump truck at Detroit's Packard plant
This dump truck is going to take a dive - Click above to watch the video
In future Detroit, pushing a junked dump truck out of a fourth floor window at the old Packard plant might result in a swarm of gen-1 Taurus police cars surrounding the building, and, if you're particularly unlucky, intervention by ED-209. ("You have 20 seconds to comply...").
In the present day, this creative bit of criminal mischief gets you featured on The Wall Street Journal website. Go figure! Follow the jump to watch the video.
[Source: The Wall Street Journal]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Yar 11:56AM (11/06/2009)
It took them four months? Give me a 24 pack of Bud and I'll have it out in an hour.
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JayP 12:05PM (11/06/2009)
A few Tennessee boys would have had than engine rebuilt and driven it off the building.
MKIV 12:37PM (11/06/2009)
The simpler things like this in life that makes it so much fun. Love it!
artso06 12:04PM (11/06/2009)
What a waste of my time...
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James 12:07PM (11/06/2009)
What a waste of everyone's time. Waste of time for me to watch it, waste of time for the people to do it.
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Yaroukh 12:07PM (11/06/2009)
you cheap bastards, where is my explosion!?
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chris 12:19PM (11/06/2009)
stephen Mcgee needs to find a new job...guy nearly missed the pivotal moment ...and only one camera at a high angle??? come on!!!
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Jared 6:17PM (11/06/2009)
Thats what I was thinking. A rookie that thinks he does such a good job with his cinematography work that he must include his name has failed once again...
BillG 12:23PM (11/06/2009)
Well, that was 3:14 of my life wasted. But the truck dumpers wasted a lot more.
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dukeisduke 12:23PM (11/06/2009)
So, what was the point of all this, anyway? Will we get another video when they push that StepVan out the window? It's a sad testimony on the state of the city of Detroit that the Packard plant still sits empty and abandoned, 53 years after the last real Packard rolled off of the line. At least the limestone main entrance facade has been saved, relocated to the Packard museum. The building was designed by the famous architect Albert Kahn.
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I'm Italian 12:36PM (11/06/2009)
what I'm missing here is the sense of pride doing it.
I'd have been happier with the mysterious presence of a truck on the 4th floor of an old building.
Spare time and boredom at their finest.
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parduino 12:44PM (11/06/2009)
Four months to launch a truck from a 4th floor?. There´s plenty of space up there, why didn´t they put the truck in neutral and give it a push???? I Want my 3:14 back!!!!
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eric 12:49PM (11/06/2009)
Thought it was artistic, and loved the way that dump truck held on until the very end.
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grandam3400 4:38PM (11/06/2009)
I agree... I live here. Name another city where you could get a way with pushing a truck out of a building for 4 months in a downtown area?!!! Kind of sad... really sad :(
kevjohn 12:53PM (11/06/2009)
I say we start an investigation. I want to know what everyone else apparently wants to know: why the hell did this take 4 months of "planning"?!? Let's get Congress to set up an inquiry panel. It'll take 3 years and cost $480 million, but we'll get to the bottom of it by golly! Until Oliver Stone makes a movie in 2015 refuting all their findings.
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Taylor 12:54PM (11/06/2009)
"It's the D thing"....the dumbass thing?
I can't believe they didn't have a camera down below taping what was going on.....not that what was going on was that big a deal. Especially not worth 4 months of work.
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sk 12:59PM (11/06/2009)
That's what we should do with all of Detroit, push it into the river
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dukeisduke 1:09PM (11/06/2009)
More bits of useless Packard trivia, from my Hemmings calendar:
1) On this day in 1899, the first test run of Packard's first car took place, and;
2) Yesterday was the 146th anniversary of James Ward Packard's birth (Nov. 5, 1863).
I know, big yawn.
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martin 2:26PM (11/06/2009)
so lame.
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Venom 2:58PM (11/06/2009)
God it get more and more embarrassing to live in this state everyday.
They really need to start tearing down these eyesores.
That would go a long way towards make the city and the state in general look a lot better.
4 months of planning? Really?
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