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(Some Guy)   Middle school raises $46,000 for a library renovation by letting students pay per swing to smash up the old one with sledgehammers   (gazette.com) divider line
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sweatmasterB
2007-12-08 6:04:38 PM  
who need books. we have the internet
 
Dusk-You-n-Me [TotalFark]
2007-12-08 6:12:20 PM  
Great idea.
 
SphericalTime
2007-12-08 6:23:02 PM  
Back in the early 1900s they raised funds for WWI by soliciting donations. For every $100 they raised, they would ram a tank into a local hotel. They raised so much money that they destroyed the hotel.
 
Bob Down
2007-12-08 7:11:39 PM  
Imagine what the Faculty offices would earn.
 
Kumana Wanalaia
2007-12-08 7:57:43 PM  
suck it, libs?
 
Zimmy
2007-12-08 8:00:15 PM  
I'd hit it.
 
marymarch
2007-12-08 8:01:11 PM  
That is a lawsuit waiting to happen.
 
hillbillypharmacist
2007-12-08 8:01:50 PM  
What kind of library costs 46k to build? Good job thinking that cunning plan through.

/I'm sucking the joy out of Christmas
 
SwallowTheKnife
2007-12-08 8:03:53 PM  
It would be nice if they didn't make enough money to renovate the new library, then ended up with no library.
 
moothemagiccow
2007-12-08 8:10:17 PM  
So barbarism's still incredibly popular. Wake me up in a few centuries.
 
Calvin Coolidge
2007-12-08 8:12:44 PM  
moothemagiccow: So barbarism's still incredibly popular. Wake me up in a few centuries.

Lighten up, Francis.
 
Luthiel
2007-12-08 8:12:59 PM  
Very cool. I dreamed of getting to do something like this in high school.
 
Chamander
2007-12-08 8:14:43 PM  
That's a pretty great idea, subby.

It's not quite what the article says, though, it is?
 
KelvinTheClown
2007-12-08 8:18:06 PM  
I trust you all remembered to bring in your implements of destruction. Now let's trash this dump.
 
AstralRunner
2007-12-08 8:19:07 PM  
Does that figure include the cost-savings from not having to pay as much to have the old one demolished?
 
Johnny the Man
2007-12-08 8:19:49 PM  
So I wonder how much drew would make by selling filter bypasses.

Like, for $5/post, you could turn the filter off.

fark shiat fark shiat fark

Boobies
 
FatherG
2007-12-08 8:21:20 PM  
They did something similar at my middle school years ago, although it was per-minute not per-swing. Tons of students got to beat the crap out of a car, the music dept. got new instruments.
 
Mimekiller
2007-12-08 8:23:49 PM  
moothemagiccow: So barbarism's still incredibly popular. Wake me up in a few centuries.

if by barbarism you mean human nature, than yes good sir, you are correct.
 
buzzcut73 [TotalFark]
2007-12-08 8:36:11 PM  
Good point on the demolition savings. That can be a significant cost in any undertaking such as this.

Gotta wonder how old the building they were smashing was...anything pre-1978 you'd have to wonder about lead paint and the possibility of asbestos in the concrete. Still, I'd be all for smashing shiat with a sledgehammer or whatever else I can use.

/slashies for smashies!
 
Tourney3p0
2007-12-08 8:36:28 PM  
moothemagiccow: So barbarism's still incredibly popular. Wake me up in a few centuries.

They tried the more sophisticated route of asking politely for more money, but it just didn't bring in the funds they hoped. I heard one of them even added a 'pretty please'.

Besides, it saves them even more money in the long run once the old library needs to be demolished. If you act quickly, you can go politely ask for the structure to collapse without any brutish destruction.
 
Fluff Girl
2007-12-08 8:42:18 PM  
moothemagiccow: So barbarism's still incredibly popular. Wake me up in a few centuries.

If gheyness were bricks, this post would be the Great Wall of China.
 
WhyteRaven74
2007-12-08 8:50:46 PM  
hillbillypharmacist: What kind of library costs 46k to build? Good job thinking that cunning plan through.

I'm pretty sure the 46k is just to help offset whatever the cost is by not needing to as much in the way of extra funds.

Fluff Girl: If gheyness were bricks, this post would be the Great Wall of China.

that post is teh win
 
Fluid
2007-12-08 8:59:43 PM  
What kind of library costs 46k to build? Good job thinking that cunning plan through.

/I'm sucking the joy out of Christmas

I dunno, I could probably spend 46K stocking a library with books.
 
FlashHarry [TotalFark]
2007-12-08 9:03:30 PM  
the students smashed up an old renovation?
 
Phone_Answering_Monkey
2007-12-08 9:38:33 PM  
Schoooollls out. For. Ever.

/Simpsons did it.
 
myCrows
2007-12-08 10:14:47 PM  
least accurate headline ever
 
nobodyUwannaknow
2007-12-08 10:31:08 PM  
That aint much money. Have another fundraiser where the donations buy matches to burn the books.
 
CyberMan
2007-12-08 10:51:55 PM  
Did the subby even RTFA? Nowhere there does it say that there was any 'pay per swing' fundraiser...

They raised $46k for the library renovation, and the students helped tear it down, but there's no direct link between the two =P
 
anonymous
2007-12-08 10:54:33 PM  
I know a story just ran about how toxic old libraries are... but using students who are only exposed for a minute each sounds a bit like chernobyl
 
Bucky Katt [TotalFark]
2007-12-08 11:46:41 PM  
myCrows: least accurate headline ever

no, no. there's been much worse.

/I submitted some of them
 
teribeth
2007-12-09 12:00:49 AM  
myCrows: least accurate headline ever

Wait a few days hours.

Although the pay per swing idea is brilliant.
 
serial_crusher
2007-12-09 12:09:55 AM  
buzzcut73: Good point on the demolition savings. That can be a significant cost in any undertaking such as this.

Could high school kids swinging sledge hammers really be considered a feasible demolition option? Think of the lawsuits.
 
Third_Uncle_Eno
2007-12-09 12:11:09 AM  
Did somebody say "sledgehammer"?


Link (new window)
 
letstakeawalk
2007-12-09 12:28:58 AM  
I suggested the same concept as a fund-raiser when my town built a new high school. In a small mill town, I figured there would likely be generations of people willing to spend a Hamilton to swing a hammer on the old building...
They told me there were "liability issues", so it never happened.

//just wanted to rough up that crappy locker that made me late so many times
///schools need this sort of creative financial solution
 
TofuttiCutie
2007-12-09 4:44:32 AM  
Good job, Chamander. I'm glad I'm not the only one who read the whole article. I kept waiting for the "raising money by the sledgehammer swing" part. Subby's going to have nightmares for being a bad liar.
 
guardian_devil
2007-12-09 7:23:01 AM  
A fundraising group at my University did this with a car. Pay per swing to demolish a car. All proceeds went to the homeless.
 
leegalizit
2007-12-09 10:27:13 AM  
"Mr. Principle, tear down this wall!"
 
RyanAntiHero
2007-12-10 1:20:34 PM  
Bah. This is old hat. We used to do this twice a year in college to make money for the computer society charity fundraiser.

/Sledge Hammer + Old Compy Equipment = Cathartic Joy
 
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