Popular Mechanics Publishes Guide on How to Take Down Statues

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Popular Mechanics has published an article on the best way to safely bring down these types of monuments.

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Popular Mechanics Publishes Guide on How to Take Down Statues

By: Joe Concha, The Hill, June 17, 2020:

Popular Mechanics magazine published an instruction piece on Tuesday that tells readers how to take down statues “without anyone getting hurt.”

The guide from the magazine comes as statues are being taken down in several cities across the country amid protests following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis last month.

Statues that have been taken down include several Confederate figures, former President Thomas Jefferson and Christopher Columbus.

“Should you happen to find yourself near a statue that you decide you no longer like, we asked scientists for the best, safest ways to bring it to the ground without anyone getting hurt — except, of course, for the inanimate racist who’s been dead for a century anyway,” writer James Stout begins.

Stout also taps mechanical engineer Scott Holland to provide explicit details of how to safely bring down a statue that includes assembling a team of up to 70 friends for the job.

“To break the statue from its base, split into two teams on either side and work in a back-and-forth motion. Most statues are attached to the base by 2 to 3 feet of rebar, so you’ll actually be breaking it at the bronze above the rebar—not the rebar itself,” Holland tells Stout.

“When the U.S. took down that statue of Saddam Hussein, you can see it folds at that spot where the rebar is in the base of it,” Holland adds.

The story drew some criticism from a number of voices on social media.

https://twitter.com/CHSommers/status/1273058251391799297

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felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago

That’s wrong!
The only saving grace is these savages are too dumb to follow directions. All they want to do is destroy them. They want to erase our history, culture and traditions. They have learned in school we are an evil country.

Rusty
Rusty
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

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felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago

WELCOME TO YOUR PROGRESSIVE UTOPIA
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From Ben Garrison –
This cartoon was published nearly three years ago. It predicted our future, which has now arrived in full, ugly bloom. Actually, I’m not much of a prognosticator and my crystal ball broke a long time ago. In 2017 the incidences shown in this cartoon were already occurring. Now they’ve all become worse.

Expect to see more statues being torn down. Nancy Pelosi and her radical Democrats are all for it. They are for kneeling at every opportunity. After all, they hate America, and want to destroy our history.

Expect the NFL to order all players to kneel during the National Anthem.
(OK, I’m just joking, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it happens).

Poppey
Poppey
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Ten out of ten again felix.

Keep whacking those nails in hard.

cylde
cylde
3 years ago

Magazines hire from colleges that indoctrinate journalism students thoroughly in leftist ideology. That is a major reason there are so few magazines left. The few that remain are struggling and have no Hemingways. They are technically competent hacks with no personality or character. How can they write about characters when they have none themselves????

Rusty
Rusty
3 years ago
Reply to  cylde

Immigration is one issue for me as it hurts all American. One of the pages on the SPLC hate list is Vdare.com. Several years ago one of the readers posted a letter. He had attended Wayne State University in Detroit in the early 1970s. His journalism professor told him “Don’t worry about telling the facts, tell the reader what you want him to think.” Wayne State? A Michigan university in the County Detroit is in and was named after the colonial officer Anthony Wayne. Once one of the wealthiest cities in the country it’s not had a Republican mayor since 1961. When Jerome Cavanaugh was elected he promised minorities anything they wanted. The 1967 Riot took place at the lowest Black unemployment in Michigan’s history. From a city you could walk around safely any time of the day to one you could not walk around safely in the broad daylight. The Democrat Party = existential threat to the USA. They’ve destroyed the Black family, what do they have for the other Americans? Compare two cities on August 1945 and August 1975. Detroit and Nagasaki. Which one would you live in?

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago
Reply to  Rusty

Even in high school, want to be “journalists ” use the NYT as their model for reporting. This is true! They are brain washed into believing that is real journalism and that is the proper world view. Add four more years to it and the stance you need to take for great grades and wonder no more about lefty journalists dominating the liberal media.

They also do the UN. In high school they have clubs called, “Model UN” and offer awards and college scholar ships for imaging this is a worthy organization as well as competing against other Model UN clubs across the U.S.. The reality is it is corrupt beyond hope and we should withdrawal. These kids would be appalled at that. Then they go off to college to study International Relations or something like that and carry on the liberal torch.

John Blow
John Blow
3 years ago

What are these idiots going to publish next? Molotov Cocktail making instructions? Silly Me! Here I am thinking that publishing material to “Incite Violence” was illegal!

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago
Reply to  John Blow

How to properly assault a police officer?
It’s insane.

BuzzDeBlanc
BuzzDeBlanc
3 years ago

The good news is none of the protesters can read !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BuzzDeBlanc
BuzzDeBlanc
3 years ago

The good news is none of the protesters can read !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BuzzDeBlanc
BuzzDeBlanc
3 years ago

The good news is none of the protesters can read !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

durabo
durabo
3 years ago

Nazi Minister for Propaganda Josef Goebbels’ offspring are running the USA’s media

JeromefromLayton
JeromefromLayton
3 years ago
Reply to  durabo

Not possible; all five of them died in the Hitler bunker, late April 1945. Kindred souls?

durabo
durabo
3 years ago

Figuratively, not literally

Mark Huber
Mark Huber
3 years ago

Popular Mechanics, trying to find relevance, takes a wrong turn. Does anybody read it anymore?

reyol
reyol
3 years ago

Long march through the institutions. They started with the ivy league. Their students became professors at private institutions. Their students became professors at state universities. Their students became learning facilitators at community colleges. All together, they train the teachers, the businessmen, the doctors, the lawyers and all other professions. Eventually, they get to a blue collar publication like Popular Mechanics.

The original Leftists would never condescend to working at a blue collar magazine like that but then again, they didn’t have to. They trained those who trained those who eventually got jobs there. This is why an All American magazine of yesteryear is today, so woke (anti-American) that it hurts – or they think being anti-American is actually patriotic.

James Jones
James Jones
3 years ago
Reply to  reyol

Good summation, and accurate too. I just might quote you if you don’t mind.

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