Detroit Really Has Its Priorities In Order
By Wyatt Earp | February 21, 2011
The world’s worst city keeps embarrassing itself.
From sci-fi cult film, to Twitter phenomenon to Detroit landmark-in-the-making.
Plans for a statue honoring RoboCop, the half-man, half-machine crime fighter of the 1987 movie, are moving ahead after a group of artists and entrepreneurs in Detroit, Michigan raised more than $50,000 via Facebook and an online fund-raising site.
I guess no one thought to raise money to fix their economy, huh?
Probably would have been a better idea to put up a Buckaroo Banzai statue:
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Big GIANT Double Facepalm!!!!!!!
Yes, but you should have heard my sister – who lives outside Detroit – go on and on about people who have never been to Detroit don’t know how great it is.
What ever. My sister and I don’t really get along, so consider the source.
Besides, they’re just trying to be like Milwaukee. I mean, they have a Fonzie statue!!
You know, you could find us more pictures of Peter Weller from the ’80′s. Just to be nice.
ugh, we’ve already have to live with the embarrassment of Joe Louis’s fist all these years, this isn’t any worse.
And as far as potential statues of other Detroit “notables” goes, at least Robocop stands for law and order!
UNLIKE our other recent “heroes:”
Kid Rock – glorifying the bubba lifestyle, not even from Detroit
Eminem – hardly a role model
Coleman Young -mayor from 70′s to 90′s – squandered city’s tax base when it still had one. Could’ve used it to stop the decay before it got out of control
“Freeze!”
“You wanted me?”
“Dead or Alive!”
What great dialogue!
If Robocop had been a UAW member, they could have gotten federal stimulus money to build the statue.
Danny – Hey, a statue will distract the peasants from the rampant crime rate.
GroovyVic – Detroit’s only hope is that the statue comes alive and starts fighting crime.
Sally Anne – Consider it done.
MC – No worries, Detroit should be turning around any second, thanks to the Stimulus Plan!
Dr. Evil – “Your move, creep!”
John D. – But he would have also been corrupt as the day is long.
Maybe they’re using the statue to help entice people back since giving away property and money to bring people back doesn’t seem to be working.
Kim – I saw that. They literally can’t give homes away!
I see they have their priorities in order.
On the plus side, the new Tiger stadium allows Ford, GM, and Chrysler to place their logos in centerfield (which usually costs 2,000 a game) for free!
I like those little kind of stories. Almost makes me want to not hate the Tigers as much
Robert B. – They should build a statue of money so they remember what it looks like.
Dr. Evil – Eh, Tom Selleck always wore that damned hat on Magnum, P.I.
Maybe Chicago can take this idea and make a giant statue of Ferris Bueller…
Ferrell – See? That’s a statue fundraiser I can support!
Well at least the Rocky statue was a movie prop.Ger
YAY!!! THANK YOU WYATT! Buckaroo Banzai is one of my all-time favorite movies! ♥
Ger – Yeah, not as bad as a fundraiser.
Sally Anne – You’re quite welcome. Great flick.
I don’t get your problem, I’m fer it.
I guess no one thought to raise money to fix their economy, huh?
How? Give money to Republicans to run against the Dems who’ve screwed Detroit?
Like they have a chance of winning.
The best way to turn any region around, whether the middle east or Detroit, is to get rid of one-party rule and make the leaders accountable to Teh Peepul. We don’t have that in Detroit.
Changing the deck chairs didn’t make the Titanic go down any faster or slower, but it gave people something to do instead of obsessing on their coming demise.