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November 30, 2015 10:33 am PST
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/J72DyGRj5-s/a-tall-smokestack-collapsed-on.html
A tall smokestack collapsed on a backhoe, and a drone filmed it
This 115-year-old smokestack in Pell City, Alabama didn't go down without a fight. The 158-foot chimney survived two attempts to demolish it with explosives. That's when Tim Phifer was brought in to knock it over with a backhoe. But in a final throe of resistentialism, the smokestack decided to collapse on the backhoe burying it in 2.6 million pounds of rubble. Fortunately, Mr. Phifer survived the attempt on his life.
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