03.22.2009 2:55 pm
Even a three-alarm structure fire is a family event
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Two brothers who had come to watch a fire with their father frolic on the grounds of the new Edward A. Doisy Research Center of St. Louis University at Grand and Chouteau Avenues as the the abandoned Pevely Dairy plant burns across the street.
Oddball image, huh?
This married couple was driving by, pulled over and got out of their car to watch, too.
Not to encourage pyromaniacs, but maybe there should be more abandoned building fires on weekend days with nice weather. They seem to provide cheap family entertainment when we’re all trying to stretch a dollar.
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Um… wow. Maybe there shouldn’t be more abandoned building fires. Their development seems to provide jobs when we’re all trying to stretch a dollar.
I’m sure suburban St. Louis County residents wouldn’t appreciate this near their home. We don’t find it funny either.
How ridiculous! You are encouraging some nut job to start burning down buildings.
I see we are supposed to keep the comments civil, but I don’t find this post to be civil. Arson is a act of violence and terrifying to the community who lives nearby. Also puts our firefighters in danger of losing their lives. Show some respect.
Why does this blog post glorify incidental details like folks rubbernecking across the street, an activity often considered irresponsible when done in a moving car?
Didn’t a large, historic building just burn for mysterious reasons? Isn’t there in all likelihood an arson investigation underway right now? Doesn’t the old dairy’s proximity to a recently opened academic research center open up the possibility the property owner may be using insurance fraud to flip the building?
Don’t get me wrong; it’s great to see families recreating in the spring weather, but there are plenty of parks for that. This blog post seems to be intentionally neglecting another story.
Indeed, to wit.
Dairy site for sale - 11/2008
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/business/stories.nsf/developmenteconomy/story/1D34379C84F9BA9686257500000DB44A?OpenDocument
And people wonder how St. Louis went from being the third most powerful city in the country to #52 in less than a century…
With nuanced coverage like this perhaps the St. Louis Post-Dispatch should be renamed the Wildwood Chronicle and Hayseed Intelligencer.
Such professionalism makes one simultaneously long for the Globe-Democrat and the inevitable collapse of the P-D and the consequential unemployment of the “professional” detritus that hasn’t already jumped ship.
[Uncivil stories deserve responses in kind.]