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    Dang Detroit Kids Push Abandoned Dump Truck Out Packard Plant Window

    Abandoned Detroit Packard Auto Plant Catches Fire
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    Image of danio3834 danio3834
    11/07/09

    In reply to Dang Detroit Kids Push Abandoned Dump Truck Out Packard Plant Window
    These morons haven't lived. "No one has ever pushed a dump truck out a window".

    They think they're so epic. Fucking drive it out! #detroit
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    Image of powermatic powermatic
    11/06/09

    In reply to Dang Detroit Kids Push Abandoned Dump Truck Out Packard Plant Window
    Seeing this, I don't want to hear my mutant, post-apocalypse kids say that "there's nothing to do". #detroit
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    Image of HoonThatFerrari HoonThatFerrari
    11/06/09

    In reply to Dang Detroit Kids Push Abandoned Dump Truck Out Packard Plant Window
    This = lame.

    Now, winching it back, throwing in an old Pinto engine and driving it off the edge, jumping out onto the floor at the last split-second... THEN I woulda been impressed. #detroit
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    Image of Kuro Kuro
    11/06/09

    In reply to Dang Detroit Kids Push Abandoned Dump Truck Out Packard Plant Window
    Is it me or is Detroit the seedling of the Mad Max-imization of America? #detroit
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    Ben Wojdyla promoted this comment Kuro was starred Kuro was unstarred
    Image of Ben Wojdyla Ben Wojdyla
    11/07/09

    @Kuro: It's just you. It was way worse in the 80s and 90s, the Detroit of danger and gangs and violence doesn't really exist anymore, sure it's still got it's scary parts but what city doesn't? the only difference between now and then is that a lot of self-important hipster douches are pretending they're edgy and making media about how edgy they are and putting it on the internet.

    The Packard Plant, which used to be one of the most dangerous places in the city, is now the go-to venue for red bull drinking suburbanite morons wearing tight pants with designer labels.

    To prove the point, I'm heading down to Eastern Market, which is right downtown, to buy some locally roasted whole bean coffee from R.Hirt, which has been operating since 1887, and I'll maybe grab an omelette at Zef's while I'm down there. Detroit is not a "very scary place" anymore, just downtrodden.
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    Image of Kuro Kuro
    11/09/09

    @Ben Wojdyla: Man, I've been there a thousand times (used to work on one of GM's ad accounts) and it's always been plenty scary to me! I've truly never seen a US city take on the look of a war zone the way parts of Detroit has, New Orleans included. But hey, I truly wish the place well. There's some soul and some history to the place and I appreciate some of the electronic music that came out of that place years back. I hope Mad Max can be kept at bay... #detroit
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    Image of The5thElephant The5thElephant
    11/06/09

    In reply to Dang Detroit Kids Push Abandoned Dump Truck Out Packard Plant Window
    Why is everyone hating so much on these kids, and calling them hipsters and hippies?

    Way to be fulfill the stereotype that hipsters and hippies have of car lovers. #detroit
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    Image of AclockWorkApple AclockWorkApple
    11/07/09

    @The5thElephant: I agree. A hipster would be completely apathetic to the whole dump truck thing in general, and more concerned about looking cool while riding a "fixie" and sipping on starbucks. A hippie...well, face it they'd be way too hashed out to do anything of the sort. #detroit
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    Image of danio3834 danio3834
    11/07/09

    @AclockWorkApple: Agreed, these kids are neither. They're just bored and extremely new to the world of vehicular destruction ridiculousness. #detroit
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    Image of RandomDesign RandomDesign
    11/06/09

    In reply to Dang Detroit Kids Push Abandoned Dump Truck Out Packard Plant Window
    Meh, it was much cooler on the 4th floor.
    Thanks for ruining it guys! #detroit
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    theeastbaykid promoted this comment RandomDesign was starred RandomDesign was unstarred
    Image of theeastbaykid theeastbaykid
    11/06/09

    @RandomDesign: The next challenge is clear: Putting it back up. #detroit
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    Image of Nitrous Oxide Nitrous Oxide
    11/06/09

    In reply to Dang Detroit Kids Push Abandoned Dump Truck Out Packard Plant Window
    The last standing law in Detroit: universal gravitation. #detroit
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    Image of d3c509b aka Steve d3c509b aka Steve
    11/06/09

    In reply to Dang Detroit Kids Push Abandoned Dump Truck Out Packard Plant Window
    fuckin' hipsters.

    But jalopnik, I understand you want to post on these stories... but man, your makin' Detroit look bad!

    no... wait... Detroit is making Detroit look bad. I am ashamed to live in the same county as Detroit anymore. Luckily it has gotten past the point of sadness, and clearly gotten to the point of humor.

    Any of my fellow Detroiters agree? Does this kinda stuff even affect you emotionally? I am simply desensitized to Detroit's blight. #detroit
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    Image of The5thElephant The5thElephant
    11/06/09

    @d3c509b aka Steve: Hipsters? What?

    Your entire comment is just negativity. #detroit
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    Image of d3c509b aka Steve d3c509b aka Steve
    11/06/09

    @The5thElephant: uhm... duh.

    I work in the South Eastern MI automotive industry.
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    Image of The5thElephant The5thElephant
    11/06/09

    @d3c509b aka Steve: My point was more about assuming they were hipsters, and that being a universally bad thing in your opinion, but whatever. #detroit
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    theeastbaykid promoted this comment The5thElephant was starred The5thElephant was unstarred
    Image of theeastbaykid theeastbaykid
    11/06/09

    @The5thElephant: Probably stereotyping, but then again anyone who takes that much time and planning to push a dump truck out of the window is the same kind of person that spends lots of time and planning on taking a perfectly good bike and making it have no brakes. #detroit
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    Image of skitter skitter
    11/06/09

    @theeastbaykid: That was very well played. #detroit
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    Image of Iron-Balls Minardi Iron-Balls Minardi
    11/06/09

    In reply to Dang Detroit Kids Push Abandoned Dump Truck Out Packard Plant Window
    With four months, I would have got it running and drove it out. #detroit
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    vwminispeedster, pronounded Si-trow-in promoted this comment Iron-Balls Minardi was starred Iron-Balls Minardi was unstarred
    Image of that ain't the way to have fun, son that ain't the way to have fun, son
    11/06/09

    In reply to Dang Detroit Kids Push Abandoned Dump Truck Out Packard Plant Window
    I'm still trying to figure out why there is a dump truck, and an old Grumman step van, on the fourth floor of any building. #detroit
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    Image of ppiddy ppiddy
    11/06/09


    @I was drivin' that Model A: Or your RV. Which, incidentally, still has a refrigerator full of food. #detroit
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    I was drivin' that Model A promoted this comment ppiddy was starred ppiddy was unstarred
    Image of that ain't the way to have fun, son that ain't the way to have fun, son
    11/06/09

    @ppiddy: You'd think the elevator wouldn't be large enough...

    Though this is the Packard factory, and those were some pretty large/hefty machines.

    I still want to drive one of the late Clippers. Love the tail lights/mini-fins on the '55. #detroit
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    Image of Tanshanomi Tanshanomi
    11/06/09

    In reply to Dang Detroit Kids Push Abandoned Dump Truck Out Packard Plant Window
    Back when I was in Catholic high school, the backpacking club got permission to spend a week hiking a huge plot of woods owned by a monastery. We found the original, unused 3-story stone monastery building out in the woods. We went in and made ourselves at home -- broke up some antique furniture to make a big fire in the fireplace, took about a hundred gallon glass bottles up to the roof and threw them down onto the sidewalk to watch them shatter, and then smashed up a working phone with a with a lock on the rotary dial, trying to call overseas just for the hell of it.

    We later learned that the bottles were used annually when they made apple cider, and the phone was a nearby hermetic friar's only means to call for help in an emergency.

    To this day, I wish I could go back and undo all we did that day.

    Any chance these Detroit hooligans will ever come to regret THIS?

    Nah, I didn't think so either. #detroit
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    Image of powermatic powermatic
    11/06/09

    @Tanshanomi: A check and a note of apology to the proper folks would go a long way towards righting a wrong. Just sayin'. #detroit
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    Image of Tanshanomi Tanshanomi
    11/09/09

    @powermatic: You know, that's a damn good idea. I might just do that next payday. #detroit
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    Image of new22003 new22003
    11/06/09

    In reply to Dang Detroit Kids Push Abandoned Dump Truck Out Packard Plant Window
    4 months of planning and they needed a "videographer"? All this to be douchebags and do something unimpressive and not visually interesting?
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    Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est promoted this comment Edited by new22003 at 11/06/09 3:22 PM new22003 was starred new22003 was unstarred
    Image of okidokedork okidokedork
    11/06/09

    @new22003: Someone who thinks they're a "videographer" anyway (could the guy throw his name up there anymore? geez). They all seemed pretty impressed with themselves. There really must not be that much going on in their part of town.

    I've done stupid shit too for my own amusement, but I never felt it required taping and passing around. #detroit
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    Image of Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est
    11/06/09

    @new22003: videographer = some unemployed kid holding a camcorder. #detroit
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    Image of MaWeiTao MaWeiTao
    11/06/09

    In reply to Dang Detroit Kids Push Abandoned Dump Truck Out Packard Plant Window
    Well, that was quite anti-climactic. It wasn't much more impressive and pushing a toy truck out of a bedroom window. #detroit
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    Image of Bentoboxx, My Tank is full of it Bentoboxx, My Tank is full of it
    11/06/09

    In reply to Dang Detroit Kids Push Abandoned Dump Truck Out Packard Plant Window
    Wait.......People still live in Detroit? #detroit
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    Image of Dr. J Dr. J
    11/06/09

    In reply to Dang Detroit Kids Push Abandoned Dump Truck Out Packard Plant Window
    Would have been better, in a Nitro Circus kinda way if one of them rode it down too... #detroit
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