SaintB
12-07-2007, 18:40
Seattle Times (http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003784005_ball11.html)
Pittsburgh Post Gazzette (http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07193/801183-151.stm)
Meadville Tribune (local paper) (http://www.meadvilletribune.com/local/local_story_192232414.html)
Meadville Tourism Bureau, are you thinking what I'm thinking?
On Monday morning, a 1,500-pound wrecking ball came loose from its cable and rolled down North Main Street in Meadville, Pa., ricocheting from curb to curb, smashing cars, until it rear-ended an Allegheny College student sitting in his car at a light.
He, another driver and the crane operator were all injured; it's kind of amazing nobody needed to be hospitalized after a rampage like that.
That might change if the wrecking ball were fitted with horns, of course.
It was an accident this time, but Meadville -- or, heck, any town that wants to drum up some tourism with a violent new festival -- could become a world-famous destination if The Rolling of the Balls became a regular event with proper marketing.
Is your strawberry festival going soft? Church carnival attendance dropping off? County fair deteriorating to poor? Get a wrecking ball -- maybe two or three, if you've got wide streets -- and drop it off a crane just uphill of a big group of runners. You'd have to wall off the street to contain the mayhem, but think of the revenue for hotels, restaurants, parking garages, drugstores, ambulance services, chiropractors and reconstructive dentists.
Of course, to really get the word out, you need a famous writer to come out and do a book about the festival, maybe even participate.
I am not available. I prefer to sleep in. Also, I am sane.
Yep.. no serious injuries, everyone is ok but the damage is upward of $75,000. All in all... its pretty funny way to make the headlines.
Pittsburgh Post Gazzette (http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07193/801183-151.stm)
Meadville Tribune (local paper) (http://www.meadvilletribune.com/local/local_story_192232414.html)
Meadville Tourism Bureau, are you thinking what I'm thinking?
On Monday morning, a 1,500-pound wrecking ball came loose from its cable and rolled down North Main Street in Meadville, Pa., ricocheting from curb to curb, smashing cars, until it rear-ended an Allegheny College student sitting in his car at a light.
He, another driver and the crane operator were all injured; it's kind of amazing nobody needed to be hospitalized after a rampage like that.
That might change if the wrecking ball were fitted with horns, of course.
It was an accident this time, but Meadville -- or, heck, any town that wants to drum up some tourism with a violent new festival -- could become a world-famous destination if The Rolling of the Balls became a regular event with proper marketing.
Is your strawberry festival going soft? Church carnival attendance dropping off? County fair deteriorating to poor? Get a wrecking ball -- maybe two or three, if you've got wide streets -- and drop it off a crane just uphill of a big group of runners. You'd have to wall off the street to contain the mayhem, but think of the revenue for hotels, restaurants, parking garages, drugstores, ambulance services, chiropractors and reconstructive dentists.
Of course, to really get the word out, you need a famous writer to come out and do a book about the festival, maybe even participate.
I am not available. I prefer to sleep in. Also, I am sane.
Yep.. no serious injuries, everyone is ok but the damage is upward of $75,000. All in all... its pretty funny way to make the headlines.