Broke city spending half a million dollars on wooden stakes…?
We can only hope that Detroit never suffers a vampire outbreak as the cost of killing the blood-suckers would pretty much bankrupt the already struggling city.
A local TV news report has discovered that demolition contractors tackling blight in the city are paying almost eight dollars each for simple wooden stakes that are then used to de-mark a completed demolition site.
According to the city’s own figures, it demolished 4,000 derelict homes last year and will take out a further 4,000 in 2015. That’s a bill of $480,000 for simple wooden stakes; $480,000 that could be used to demolish more homes.
Detroit vampires can rest easy in their coffins tonight.
