Richard van Pukkem In the case of the man's situation I can see where they would make an exception for him. What I was really referring to was a situation where say some has somehow hooked into a hydrant to fill a pool or wash a car or water a lawn or some other situation like that because they don't want to spend more money on their water bill. I know some companies can hook into a hydrant for water but they have to have a water meter connected to the hydrant to be legal. From what I can see they didn't connect a meter to the hydrant for his temporary connection so I assume the water department and/or city has allowed for the connection to the hydrant as long as the connection runs to his meter or have decided to just let him have free water because of the issue that has him connected to the hydrant.
"Hack" has come to mean much more than just computer hacking. In fact, that's why so many people specify "computer hacking" rather than just "hacking."
after some light digging. the building next door was restored in 2015 and is now a nice hotel and the coffee shop closed after one of the owners left the same year. looking at more recent streetview photos it is a different company now however i cannot tell what the name or their product is.
With enough heat bricks crumble. Yes concrete does burn when it gets hot enough burns. In 1996 a strip mall in Sacramento burnt down to the ground. Burning steel and the concrete. Chemical analysis showed it was similar to solid rocket fuel that NASA uses. Solid rocket fuel is AP,aluminum and plastic polymer all which you can buy on Amazon.
captain porkie It would be a lovely city, as it has so much wonderful architecture. Tbh Detroit could actually make a killing off of tourism if they got their shit together -_-.
You can’t blame the government for everything. They have much more important things to focus on than dying buisnesses in Detroit. The city is already bankrupt, just throwing more money at it’s going to do nothing.
@@evanwatling3897 Uhh keeping your cities' economy functioning is probably one of the most important things the government need to be doing. Money would help, just not wasting it. It need to be used strategically along with some real policy changes. But in this case the problem is with the owner of those dilapidated building. At this point they should just imprison the guy and demolish those buildings and make the owner pay for that demolition. if he can't, then sell off his assets until he does.
A bit of history: In the 1950’s, Auto Manufacturers moved into the City of Detroit for the easily obtainable resources and easy shipping routes. However, after the Fuel Crisis in the mid 1970’s, the stock in the automotive industry took a swan dive. Major manufacturers such as AMC and Oldsmobile were forced to either shut their doors completely, or cut back significantly on their models. Into the early 1980’s, despite the dramatic increase in gas and diesel prices, Detroit Automakers were starting to catch on to the newer technologies in Fuel Economy. However, when the prices went up, many factories had to close down, costing thousands in jobs and causing American Automakers to outsource other jobs to the UK and Asia. Into the 1990’s, Detroit was continuing to steadily decline as manufacturers continued to outsource, move to other cities, or shut down entirely. The final nail in the coffin fir the City of Detroit was the 2008 Stock Market Crash, which caused GM, one of the last manufacturers to produce in Detroit, to shut down more than half of its divisions as part of a Bail Out deal from the US Government(it was about $35Billion). Even now, in 2021, Detroit’s economy is on a steady and somewhat scary decline. Perhaps in the next 20 years the city will be a ghost town in its literal meaning.
A news station should know how to use words correctly. The fire hydrant was not "literally MacGyvered" because MacGyver didn't rig it up himself, it was just MacGyvered. Literally, for the many people who don't know basically means that what you just said actually happened, it's not an exaggeration or a figure of speech.
lit·er·al·ly /ˈlidərəlē/ adverb 1. in a literal manner or sense; exactly: "the driver took it literally when asked to go straight across the traffic circle" ▪ used for emphasis or to express strong feeling while not being literally true: informal "I have received literally thousands of letters" Both are mentioned in the Oxford dictionary. Thought you should know.
tigersharksteph Thank you, I did not know that. After I read you comment I had to see for myself and with the description under the definition it looks like the driver example is the actual definition and the letter example is Oxford recognizing common usage of the word but not a true definition. (Again, thank you. I'm not trying to be an ass or say you're wrong, that's just the default way of reading a youtube reply. I appreciate the information)
I once saw a newscaster on WVVA say coffee was "grinded" daily. The joys of living close enough to West Virginia to sometimes pull in their television station.
I'm from Louisiana so I barely understand proper english. Its funny I've known several real people who sound like boomhauer from king of the hill, or Farmer Fran from the waterboy. And Balto yea I didn't wanna call you out, but I had just LITERALLY heard it was acceptable for both. Kinda funny that people are so stupid, so often, that the common usage actually inverted.
Nope- Straws are sterile for the most part from GBA free toxin plastics. These Industrial rubber lined mesh water hoses are years old, not clean and after used just rolled up and used again for the next fire. Industrial High Pressure fire fighter main hoses are not food grade and nothing like drinking straws. And also, most food locations, especially family owned this coffee shop here use a separate filtration system on top of purchased drinking water. to remove bacteria, cysts, lead, iron, rust, various growths etc.. Nice try though. And yes- it actually does change a lot.
I live about a half hour from Detroit, and please just let me say, I've seen a lot of improvements and there are so stunning parts of Detroit now. It seems like you don't get to see it too often, but there are some pretty nice parts. Yes, a lot of it is garbage, but go look up some pics I think you could find some
Its all fake walls.. you know like North Korea does fake markets, happy people, fresh fruits, veggies and water in the stores... ya know its all fake... lol. Its Detroit.....
Its sad seeing Detroit in older films as being so beautiful and brilliant. I've never been there so I can't say off personal experience how it is but its so sad the state the towns in now.
You know it would have been easier for the owner to demolish the building for 10-20 grand and sell the land for 50 75 grand and make a profit rather than fighting the city and being sued for 100 grand
i think you may have misunderstood the video there...not the Cafe owner in this video is being sued but the Owner of the buildings next to his. he is being sued because he doesnt keep his building to the buidling Standarts i.e that it is safe (no falling bricks and stuff) the way it is now they may collape and kill people and cause damage when they start repairing the water. so it is basically his fault that the city cant do anything about the water
What a crappy situation. I used to visit that coffee shop regularly when I worked in Detroit. It's a cool little place. As for the Wurlitzer and the Metropolitan Building, they're known as brick throwers. On more than a few occasions, vehicles have sustained damage in the alleys around them. In one case, a cornice brick from the Metropolitan Building found its way through the roof of a very nice Ford F-150.
+4 Tonnes of Fury Keep in mind that our state Governor is Republican Rick Snyder. The main problem with the city of Detroit is the racial tension, that lead to the riots, which lead to massive white flight. The city was left with a lower population, with most people under the poverty line, and weak budgets that can't maintain the existing infrastructure.
A quick Google seems to show it's standard to have them separate. I know in my home town in Maine, we had 2 separate systems and every year, accounting money got moved from the fire dept. budget to the water dept budget but that was just on paper. I see a mention that it's done that way because they can't have fluoride in fire fighting water but sodium fluoride isn't flammable. Type of pipes maybe? I see mentions in zoning rules and laws that fire protection pipes have to be metal. I know our drinking water mains up in Maine were originally copper with a slow conversion to pvc. They had laid the copper back in the 'teens as part of a Big Deal program.
It could be potentially cheaper for them to use a reclaimed storm-water source rather than from the water dept/treatment facility. I'm sure it just depends on the area and situation and is usually cheaper to just hot tap into the water mains.
They placed rags over the fittings so no one could loosen them by hand The duct tape is to secure those rags. This also could be to hold on some type of freeze protection. Metal fittings can conduct the cold. Looks like both buildings should be demolished.
Who owns the buildings that are falling apart? A business? The bank? Someone who bought it out of foreclosure? Whoever owns it needs to fix/destroy these buildings.
I'll bet that city officials continued to draw their pay all during the time they demonstrated their ineffectiveness and incompetence. Those buildings didn't become dangerous suddenly; there had to be evidence of structural deficiency years ago and yet the city was incapable of fixing the problems.
So the city should have the build appraised, very conservatively, forcibly buy it and demolish it. The building is dangerous and the owner isn't doing anything about it.
I wonder what happens when a building is a safety issue like that but the owner literally has no money to fix it...? I imagine if he could the building would have been maintained and used for business. It really just needs to be torn down. I don't think selling it is really much of an option.
some piece of work the owner of that dilapidated building must be refusing to do anything so that basic maintenance of pipes can be done. I am glad not to have any such old buildings anywhere near me for many miles.
If you look at Google street view of the Wurlitzer Building you can see how built up it is now. They fixed it between 2014-2017. Looks like rotten junk ready to be torn down but not anymore! I noticed that fire escapes don’t seem to be mandatory anymore as they took them down to
I thought this was a case of someone hooking into a hydrant illegally until the video started playing.
SOU6900 I guess it IS illegal. Or i must have missed something. They are just telling the story in the mans favor.
Richard van Pukkem In the case of the man's situation I can see where they would make an exception for him. What I was really referring to was a situation where say some has somehow hooked into a hydrant to fill a pool or wash a car or water a lawn or some other situation like that because they don't want to spend more money on their water bill. I know some companies can hook into a hydrant for water but they have to have a water meter connected to the hydrant to be legal. From what I can see they didn't connect a meter to the hydrant for his temporary connection so I assume the water department and/or city has allowed for the connection to the hydrant as long as the connection runs to his meter or have decided to just let him have free water because of the issue that has him connected to the hydrant.
SOU6900 The city hooked it up that way for him
Yeah lol
me too, that's why I clicked it to be honest
The title makes it seem like the hydrant was by hacked by the business to get free water
Yep. It is a bit click-baity.
Hacked? I wonder how they got through the firewall. Not everything in the world is a HACK.
"Hack" has come to mean much more than just computer hacking. In fact, that's why so many people specify "computer hacking" rather than just "hacking."
"Hack" has become a word for lazy people. How about connected to the fire hydrant.
"Business forced to use hydrant for water supply" .
You mean there is actually an open business still in Detroit?!?
cuz he's white
Element of Kindness he looks related to LEZ from American pawn & jewellery...lol
"element of kindness" mocks detroit in today's news
There is actually a private business still in the world??
Justin McNeil You also for your language
Fitting that the temperature is 69 degrees because all those people are getting screwed
69
@Alvin Ronan Thats crazy, Didn’t ask!
@Alvin Ronan Wow, it’s almost like you knew we wouldn’t give a damn.
Yeah, but usually both people get a little pleasure from 69. This is like someone screwing your childhood teddy bear and making you watch.
u dont actually screw when u 69 tho haha
Six years later. I assume the man is still getting his water from the hydrant?
most likely he just has zero customers and shut down.
Read a comment saying he closed down
@@ALopez336 who even lives in detroit at this point?
It's like a whole different country
after some light digging. the building next door was restored in 2015 and is now a nice hotel and the coffee shop closed after one of the owners left the same year. looking at more recent streetview photos it is a different company now however i cannot tell what the name or their product is.
Hydrant water can be yellow from time to time
You can't have shit in Detroit, not even a mains supply apparently.
Now I get the memes
Duct tape fixes everything somtimes
Red Green
Y'know what they say, if ducttape doesn't work, you're not using enough ducttape!
Class A Living even broken hearts?
Class A Living "It fixes everything sometimes" That doesn't make any sense lmao
Even with 1,000 PSI? XD
Didn’t think people wanted that city water so much in Detroit
That's Flint your thinking of. Dangerous levels of lead in the drinking water .
@@MrChase115 not anymore
The reporter reminds me of the reporter from family guy Tricia Takanawa
it does
It's exactly these stereotypes that they are making fun of. It's not a coincidence.
Hold it. Is the reporter making fun of Family Guy?
How...? Because she is Asian? lol..
The don't look or sound anything like each other...
SpencerFcp believe me it is when i saw the asian girl tricia takanawa was the first name that come up my head
If they didn't pay the fine what makes you think they'll follow through fixing it lol
Solution his to burn it down to the grown and then send the owner the bill
+khary watson Concrete and bricks does nut burn.
With enough heat bricks crumble. Yes concrete does burn when it gets hot enough burns. In 1996 a strip mall in Sacramento burnt down to the ground. Burning steel and the concrete. Chemical analysis showed it was similar to solid rocket fuel that NASA uses. Solid rocket fuel is AP,aluminum and plastic polymer all which you can buy on Amazon.
khary watson there's many solid rocket fuels...
Thats one that tends to burn the hottest.
Just tear down Detroit and try again...
TypicalWhiteAsianBoy gotta press the reset button
And without liberals this time. Haha
first black mayor was the beginning of the end of it all.
at least we accumulate wealth instead of spending every dollar we get.
TypicalWhiteAsianBoy Nah they gonna wait for alot of people to die then they'll do something.
I love how she went out to a random fire hydrant to film that intro.
I am thankful she pointed out what a fire hydrant looked like at the beginning or I would have been lost.
Back to you, Tom Tucker...
fr8hauler 😂😂
But they say Detroit is such a lovely city. How can this be?
captain porkie Blame OCP.
Nah. I'll blame you this time for not understanding sarcasm.
captain porkie My god you are slow, what he said was a joke.
I am not your God.
With that said, I see you actually don't speak sarcasm, or atleast able to read it and you want to call me slow. lol
captain porkie It would be a lovely city, as it has so much wonderful architecture. Tbh Detroit could actually make a killing off of tourism if they got their shit together -_-.
I'm actually impressed that the water department was so creative. Every now and again, a civil servant impresses me!
Well at least he's keeping the fire main clean.
weird to see you here.
I don't even know how I ended up here.
Same, I enjoy the vids man.
Haha I thought about that too. Cheers.
Nice profile
0:17
Officer: "So someone official did this?"
Potential suspect:"yeeeeeeeesssss..."
Officer: "well my job is done here, carry on"
thats a fire marshal not an officer
Mmmm...hydrant flavored coffee.....
typical govt
temporary = permanent
Premanent to you temporary to the government.
You can’t blame the government for everything. They have much more important things to focus on than dying buisnesses in Detroit. The city is already bankrupt, just throwing more money at it’s going to do nothing.
@@evanwatling3897 Uhh keeping your cities' economy functioning is probably one of the most important things the government need to be doing. Money would help, just not wasting it. It need to be used strategically along with some real policy changes.
But in this case the problem is with the owner of those dilapidated building. At this point they should just imprison the guy and demolish those buildings and make the owner pay for that demolition. if he can't, then sell off his assets until he does.
A bit of history: In the 1950’s, Auto Manufacturers moved into the City of Detroit for the easily obtainable resources and easy shipping routes. However, after the Fuel Crisis in the mid 1970’s, the stock in the automotive industry took a swan dive. Major manufacturers such as AMC and Oldsmobile were forced to either shut their doors completely, or cut back significantly on their models. Into the early 1980’s, despite the dramatic increase in gas and diesel prices, Detroit Automakers were starting to catch on to the newer technologies in Fuel Economy. However, when the prices went up, many factories had to close down, costing thousands in jobs and causing American Automakers to outsource other jobs to the UK and Asia. Into the 1990’s, Detroit was continuing to steadily decline as manufacturers continued to outsource, move to other cities, or shut down entirely. The final nail in the coffin fir the City of Detroit was the 2008 Stock Market Crash, which caused GM, one of the last manufacturers to produce in Detroit, to shut down more than half of its divisions as part of a Bail Out deal from the US Government(it was about $35Billion). Even now, in 2021, Detroit’s economy is on a steady and somewhat scary decline. Perhaps in the next 20 years the city will be a ghost town in its literal meaning.
Gasp who would've guesses that having the highest property taxes in the nation wouldn't help the auto industry ?!?!?!
@@nicak777alex9 Egad! Who would’ve guessed history and economics were the same class? New subject created: x20 Brownie Points.
Hello, i had a question. is chiocago also experiencing a steady decline in their economy?
$20 says this work still hasn't been done in 2018..
A news station should know how to use words correctly. The fire hydrant was not "literally MacGyvered" because MacGyver didn't rig it up himself, it was just MacGyvered. Literally, for the many people who don't know basically means that what you just said actually happened, it's not an exaggeration or a figure of speech.
lit·er·al·ly
/ˈlidərəlē/
adverb
1.
in a literal manner or sense; exactly:
"the driver took it literally when asked to go straight across the traffic circle"
▪
used for emphasis or to express strong feeling while not being literally true:
informal
"I have received literally thousands of letters"
Both are mentioned in the Oxford dictionary. Thought you should know.
tigersharksteph Thank you, I did not know that. After I read you comment I had to see for myself and with the description under the definition it looks like the driver example is the actual definition and the letter example is Oxford recognizing common usage of the word but not a true definition. (Again, thank you. I'm not trying to be an ass or say you're wrong, that's just the default way of reading a youtube reply. I appreciate the information)
Wow... I literally died when I learned that the Oxford dictionary would screw English like that.
I once saw a newscaster on WVVA say coffee was "grinded" daily. The joys of living close enough to West Virginia to sometimes pull in their television station.
I'm from Louisiana so I barely understand proper english. Its funny I've known several real people who sound like boomhauer from king of the hill, or Farmer Fran from the waterboy. And Balto yea I didn't wanna call you out, but I had just LITERALLY heard it was acceptable for both. Kinda funny that people are so stupid, so often, that the common usage actually inverted.
Must be some bad tasting coffee. through a fire hose?!?! No thanks
Nope- Straws are sterile for the most part from GBA free toxin plastics. These Industrial rubber lined mesh water hoses are years old, not clean and after used just rolled up and used again for the next fire. Industrial High Pressure fire fighter main hoses are not food grade and nothing like drinking straws. And also, most food locations, especially family owned this coffee shop here use a separate filtration system on top of purchased drinking water. to remove bacteria, cysts, lead, iron, rust, various growths etc.. Nice try though. And yes- it actually does change a lot.
Acuravigor47 filters...
Acuravigor47 nvm
Yeah it probably would taste like camel filters
Acuravigor47 Today's Special: The Hydrant-ccino
goddamn this is America! I though i was watching the neighborhood in Africa!
Why doesn't everyone just move out of that trash city!?
cos they dont have money
@@Nogapniba Poor people can move too, homeless people do it all the time.
@@infantryrecon101st was that a joke?
@@infantryrecon101st yeah that’s what I said they can’t move even tho they want to
I live about a half hour from Detroit, and please just let me say, I've seen a lot of improvements and there are so stunning parts of Detroit now. It seems like you don't get to see it too often, but there are some pretty nice parts. Yes, a lot of it is garbage, but go look up some pics I think you could find some
Its all fake walls.. you know like North Korea does fake markets, happy people, fresh fruits, veggies and water in the stores... ya know its all fake... lol. Its Detroit.....
You know that cartoon dog named Droopy? "Where the brick is actually bowed away from the building." Sounds just like him!
Cop: The waterboard hook tha'up?
Man: Yea
Speech 100
What a stinkhole Detroit has become. I got out of there about 10 years ago while the getting out was good.
My uncle uses it to wash his truck. It has a meter and he has to pay for how many gallons he uses to the fd
Those hoses supplying them with water are hopefully drinking water grade. Garden hoses tend to have materials that aren't safe for drinking.
Its sad seeing Detroit in older films as being so beautiful and brilliant. I've never been there so I can't say off personal experience how it is but its so sad the state the towns in now.
tear down the structurally unstable structures start underground water pipe repair/replacement...
case closed...
Dizzy Pony tearing a large brick building in that area isnt so easy.
Dizzy Pony unfortunately the owner of the structures is doing legal shenanigans
You know it would have been easier for the owner to demolish the building for 10-20 grand and sell the land for 50 75 grand and make a profit rather than fighting the city and being sued for 100 grand
I feel like it would take more to demolish than 10-20 grand, especially since its location you cant strap explosives to it and let it fall..
It's only a brick facade. That's like saying your house should be torn down because a piece of vinyl siding is loose.
Why is he being sued? It's the city's fault.
i think you may have misunderstood the video there...not the Cafe owner in this video is being sued but the Owner of the buildings next to his.
he is being sued because he doesnt keep his building to the buidling Standarts i.e that it is safe (no falling bricks and stuff) the way it is now they may collape and kill people and cause damage when they start repairing the water.
so it is basically his fault that the city cant do anything about the water
Oh I was getting mad too, thanks for clearing it up
The Fire Hydrant was a band-aid until they could fix the real problem.
detroit: become forced to use fire hydrants
What a crappy situation. I used to visit that coffee shop regularly when I worked in Detroit. It's a cool little place. As for the Wurlitzer and the Metropolitan Building, they're known as brick throwers. On more than a few occasions, vehicles have sustained damage in the alleys around them. In one case, a cornice brick from the Metropolitan Building found its way through the roof of a very nice Ford F-150.
"business uses fire hydrant to get water" what else would they get from it, pumpkins?
Some say he still gets water from the hydrant.
Eddi Kimball, he is
A.J. Deutsch he actually isn’t because that shop closed down lmao
"Duct tape wont fix that" said no man ever.
I wouldn't even feel safe walking by them
Thoughts:
This is innovative on the part of the business owner.
Jane Park is really hot.
Bloodgod40 Business owner didn't do it, the city water board hooked it up like that.
But we can agree she is hot
Whatever, Shang. (😉)
Innovation? Christ, it's basically survival
not surprise its fucking Detroit
first thing I thought before clicking on this news report was this has got to be Detroit!
The city needs to condem the building, and tear it down, or confiscate it, repair it, and then sell it.
This city is, sadly, doomed...
it's Detroit what you think
The Wurlitzer building is now home to The Siren Hotel.
I was thinking to myself "What kind of county, town, or city is this happening in? This is not okay.".
Then she said Detroit.
Wow i knew Detroit was a shit hole but damn i didn't know it was this bad!
5and 50 yeah trump sucks but really its bad leadership of the city
Skin tone chicken bone
Well no shit Sherlock
@@Murakamibelt detroit is a liberal run city
@@mycattookmykfc1488 i know i had replied to someone
@Scott Luther i had replied to someone before
Of course. Detroit.
The people who haven't fixed the water supply should get billed by the fire department for the amount of water used.
It is a simple permit with any Fire Dept. They come out and set a meter for you to hook to.
I cant wait to live in detroit
Only in detroit
ah Detroit~ you never stop being Detroit~
I always see stuff like this surprised, but then I see it's in Detroit and I just think "oh, yeah".
thats detroit af
That's a horrible mix, hair and beverages.
Its now 2021, and nothing has changed.
modern problems require modern solutions
I'm pretty sure the water out of those things is unfit for drinking it's not like tap water
It comes from the same pipe AFAIK so it should be ok, well it comes from the same pipe here in the UK I know.
It is tap water
isnt this the new lady from faimly guy??
YelierPlays Mc family*
looks like a friendly vibrant neighborhood!
If you're worried about Machinery collapsing a building why are those buildings allowed to be occupied and standing
this is what happens when you continuously vote Democrat.
It's cute how you still buy into the false dichotomy. Oh, to be this innocent again
This is what happens when the city government goes unchecked for decades and the people dont care about the city they live in.
Corporate democrats*
republicans will fuck up the state even more, look at alabama and south carolina.
+4 Tonnes of Fury
Keep in mind that our state Governor is Republican Rick Snyder.
The main problem with the city of Detroit is the racial tension, that lead to the riots, which lead to massive white flight. The city was left with a lower population, with most people under the poverty line, and weak budgets that can't maintain the existing infrastructure.
Apollo Smile really?
that is not potable water
The water that comes from the hydrants come from the water mains that supply the buildings.
tic toc yes it is, It's the same water that his service would give him.
Actually it may not be. Some towns and cities have separate lines. I don't know about Detroit though.
A quick Google seems to show it's standard to have them separate. I know in my home town in Maine, we had 2 separate systems and every year, accounting money got moved from the fire dept. budget to the water dept budget but that was just on paper.
I see a mention that it's done that way because they can't have fluoride in fire fighting water but sodium fluoride isn't flammable.
Type of pipes maybe? I see mentions in zoning rules and laws that fire protection pipes have to be metal. I know our drinking water mains up in Maine were originally copper with a slow conversion to pvc. They had laid the copper back in the 'teens as part of a Big Deal program.
It could be potentially cheaper for them to use a reclaimed storm-water source rather than from the water dept/treatment facility. I'm sure it just depends on the area and situation and is usually cheaper to just hot tap into the water mains.
They placed rags over the fittings so no one could loosen them by hand The duct tape is to secure those rags. This also could be to hold on some type of freeze protection. Metal fittings can conduct the cold. Looks like both buildings should be demolished.
Imagine plugging that thing in and taking a shower. The showerhead will go ballistic.
Legacy of the liberals.
Texas is doing pretty well
Azerd have you seen texas highways?
Yes, remember the federal government pays for highways thus it is not a great representation of state wealth
forget the pipes just look at that reporter damn she is hot
darnell vlogs my ass
2 Litivan are u saying ur ass is even more hot then her?
darnell vlogs maybe
Both of you are creepy asf 😂
Who owns the buildings that are falling apart? A business? The bank? Someone who bought it out of foreclosure? Whoever owns it needs to fix/destroy these buildings.
Thanks Liberal Govt. Detriot! Well done!
I'll bet that city officials continued to draw their pay all during the time they demonstrated their ineffectiveness and incompetence. Those buildings didn't become dangerous suddenly; there had to be evidence of structural deficiency years ago and yet the city was incapable of fixing the problems.
A legitimate news outlet actually used 'MacGyvered' as a verb in a real story, wow.
This is why you wear a hard hat while working.
So the city should have the build appraised, very conservatively, forcibly buy it and demolish it. The building is dangerous and the owner isn't doing anything about it.
you can't say "literally" if Mcguyver did not rig it himself.🙄
Detroit never ceases to amaze
0:29 mate thats not a garden hose lol
thats a 2 and 1/2 inch supply line
a garden hose is 5/8 of an inch to 3/4
That building is slowly breaking apart. How is it that people are allow to live in it? That is a tragedy waiting to happen.
In Utah the contractor would be fined and possibly made to shut down for lack of safety
The city should sue the building owner for loss in revenue from the businesses hooking up to a free water supply.
I wonder what happens when a building is a safety issue like that but the owner literally has no money to fix it...? I imagine if he could the building would have been maintained and used for business. It really just needs to be torn down. I don't think selling it is really much of an option.
some piece of work the owner of that dilapidated building must be refusing to do anything so that basic maintenance of pipes can be done. I am glad not to have any such old buildings anywhere near me for many miles.
A bit of imagination, some handy work, and duck tape.
You will solve any problem.
Jesus that city needs more funding
That building hasn’t come down because it’s one of the decent one’s in Detroit
One of the very few cases where eminent domain should be used.
Fire Hydrant water is about as dirty as unfiltered sewer water.
Similak Child it’s the same water that comes out the faucet
If you look at Google street view of the Wurlitzer Building you can see how built up it is now. They fixed it between 2014-2017. Looks like rotten junk ready to be torn down but not anymore! I noticed that fire escapes don’t seem to be mandatory anymore as they took them down to
The government should nationalize all those buildings (obviously with out any compensation) and have them demolished by army engineers, or something.
America wouldn’t have these problems if they didn’t spend 600+ billion on military.
Just another day in the most Democratic city in Michigan. Liberal paradise...
And on a side note, the water pipe feeding that hydrant is 100% lead.
Good to see the courts doing their job and punishing the owner of the dilapidated buildings!
If the buildings are like that, they need to put up NYC style scaffolds.
Gotta do what you gotta do
100 fines for a collapsing building and no one didn't anything about it. Anyone else would be jail
The thumbnail of this video explains the situation of the video pretty well.
For those complaining about the title.
It shouldn't have taken that long, bit isn't drawing water from the hydrant pretty standard during repairs?