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An earthquake risk? WTF?

The beautiful queen continues her quest to have baldy-man's iconic airfield tower demolished, time for an update.

Things progress in the beautiful queen's unending desire to destroy Tokoroa's one claim to fame on the world stage.

Apparently she has found some minion willing declare that the airfield tower is an earthquake risk and therefore must be demolished.

Seriously?

A solid, galvanized steel tower which is firmly bolted to a very large concrete pad in a "restricted area" where there is zero foot-traffic is somehow an earthquake hazard?

I guess there is always someone willing to sell their soul for a few pieces of silver.

And here's the real kicker...

Although hundreds of people from around the world have already made unsolicited pledges totally thousands of dollars to fully restore the airfield tower, the council remains hell-bent on demolishing it -- at an estimated cost of $20,000 to ratepayers.

I kid you not.

Instead of accepting many of thousands of dollars from people around the world, all of which would go into the local economy and thus boost the districts fortunes by that amount, the beautiful queen and her cohorts would rather spit in the face of such kindness and exercise their own petty personality-based agendas at a huge cost to the community.

Sadly, the beautiful queen may be about to discover that the media takes a very strong interest in her unwillingness to honour the promises she and her council have made to this community.

Supporters of the tower from around the world continue to post their selfies and videos containing pictures or models of our tower shot in far-away places. I don't think Tokoroa has ever had as much international attention. Exactly how the beautiful queen will try to explain-away her arrogance and petulance in the face of this global support will be very interesting to see.

She will say "the tower must go because it is unsafe" -- which will look like a silly comment in the light of the fact that supporters are willing to fully fund its total restoration to a perfectly safe condition at no cost to council or ratepayers.

With this in mind it is also interesting that the queen's council are trying very hard to side-step my LGOIMA request for the number of people injured as a result of falling in the CBD due to the slippery pavers that have been a blight on the area for decades. They've said they'll need an extension which would take a response past the sign-off for tower demolition and it is obvious why that has been done.

She will say "the tower is an earthquake hazard" -- despite the fact that even if it did fall (which it won't), there is nobody around for it to fall onto and there are far more earthquake-prone structures in the town that are seemingly ignored.

No doubt the beautiful queen's PR/communications team will be working furously in a week or two when the media start asking some very hard questions about the apparent lunacy of this move and seek to find out what's really behind it.

Sadly, we've seen over the years that this queen doesn't care one bit about public opinion. Nothing stands in her way and she has been seen to place her own petulance ahead of the district's image and reputation on a number of occasions -- such as on this occasion.

As a result, I doubt that risking huge levels of very negative media reporting will phase her one bit. What a sad reflection on someone who has previoussly promised to work in the best interests of the district. Sad, but not surprising to baldy-man.

Ah well, the saga continues and it aint over until it's over.

I suggest that the beautiful queen pull up the drawbridge and man the ramparts. The battle is about to begin in earnest!

This is one of the best bits of support I've seen so far. A guy from Australia built his own Tokoroa Tower... not just a model. Bloody marvelous!

Carpe Diem folks!

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