FARGO (AP) — Workers building a $25 million hockey arena got to the site Monday and found vandals had started up a huge crane on the floor, raised the boom and bent a beam supporting the roof.
Construction site manager Trevor Speidel said the vandals also used the crane to smash a concrete block, shattered windows and threw equipment off the roof of the Urban Plains center, punching a hole in the concrete below.
The vandalism likely happened late Sunday night or early Monday, Speidel said.
"They didn't understand the controls (of the crane)," Speidel said. "If that crane would have been a little bit farther back, they would have tore that whole beam down."
It could have created a domino effect, "and you'd probably have lost half the building," Speidel said.
Structural engineers are coming to take a closer look at the damage, he said. He expected it would delay work on the arena, which had been set to open Oct. 31.
"I would say in excess of $500,000, probably," Speidel said, referring to a preliminary damage assessment
or maybe they understood the controls just fine
_________________ "He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." - Winston Churchill
The leech's kiss, the squids's embrace,
the prurient ape's defiling touch...
and do I like the human race?
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Posted:
Mon Apr 21, 2008 4:25 pm
Hooliganette 1st Hockey Game
Joined: 23 May 2006
Posts: 15
Location: Fargo - Home of the Hooligans
I didn't do it!! But can't say I'm all that disturbed by it
More than likely a bunch of bored kids and not even Jets fans at that!!
I really wonder how this will all shake out.
Posted:
Thu Apr 24, 2008 6:48 pm
barkeepnd Bought Skates
Joined: 14 May 2006
Posts: 198
Location: downtown Fargo ND
not jets fans for sure... just drunk stupid people.. one of whom i had the displeasure of working with
unfortunately for him North Dakota treats property damage far harsher then other crimes.. so he's looking at 10 years. unfortunately for his roommates now the police seem to be following THEM around even though they had nothing to do with this.
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