# Targets in disaster movies

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/targets-in-disaster-movies/244925>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 13, 2004, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/targets-in-disaster-movies/244925 "2004-05-13T07:52:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![SanibelMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@SanibelMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanibelMan)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2004, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/targets-in-disaster-movies/244925/41 "2004-05-14T03:43:57Z")

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> [@ftg](#):
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> It can’t be imploded. There’s a transit line underneath. It has to be torn down the old fashioned way. Will probably take a couple years. Maybe they should try eBay, buyer picks up.

Ooh, you’re right, MetroLink goes right under it. Well, hell, that’s no fun at all, is it? Out of this whole financial boondoggle we don’t even get a nice explosion?

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**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2004, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/targets-in-disaster-movies/244925/42 "2004-05-17T19:15:10Z")

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> [@SanibelMan](#):
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> I almost hate to say it, but there is no more McDonald’s riverboat or Admiral casino. I know, I know, surprised me too. I just think the Arch doesn’t have the heft and mass needed to cause major destruction - I mean, there’s maybe 100 people in it at any one time and if it fell, it couldn’t really take all that much out. I don’t know what else there is in St. Louis worth destroying - Busch Stadium will be blown up soon anyway… Taking out Lambert would be doing the city a favor… Maybe Westport?

I haven’t lived there since I left to go to college in 1988, so I guess I shouldn’t be surprised by the McDonald’s being gone, or that they finally got a rail system (if that’s what MetroLink is), but no more Admiral!!! Noooooooo!!! Next you’ll tell me that Ragazzi’s is gone too. (Actually, don’t tell me - I don’t want to know).

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