Mt Rainier landmark meets wrecking ball

"Onlookers gasped when the wrecking ball – slowly tumbled off the roof before crushing a small meadow ranger named Skipole on the ground."

Is this mean?  I guess I'm just one of those "mean people suck" characters.

Is this mean?  I guess I'm just one of those "mean people suck" characters.

Yep, it's probably mean. Open dialog tends to suffer once one party in a conversation alludes to dropping a wrecking ball on a friend of another party.

It's snowing up there now - I hope the demolition crew's keeping warm (looks chilly on the webcam (crane's gone too)).

Demolition Pic of the Week:  blogs.thenewstribune.com/adventure/2008/..._week_jvc_demolition

Paradise camera shows the flying saucer and crane still in place ...

Yep - I'm guessing that fog obscured my view of the crane, but not the saucer.

According to urban legend, or maybe it's rural legend, the JVC was originally designed for a park in HI, but for some reason the couldn't build it, and not wanting the plans to go to waste, decided to use them at Rainier. Anyone else heard this or can confirm this? If that wasn't the reason it was built, then I would really like to know the reasoning behind building a structure with a large relatively flat roof in a place that gets hundreds of inches of snow a year.