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I don’t know about you folks but I seriously like Robocop. \u00a0The whole part man, part machine concept protecting the innocent and upholding the law is right up my alley.<\/p>\nI don’t know about you folks but I seriously like Robocop. \u00a0The whole part man, part machine concept protecting the innocent and upholding the law is right up my alley.<\/p>\n
So when I saw an article about a group of people wanting to erect a statue of Robocop in Detroit I had to read further…<\/p>\n
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As you might know (read this post<\/a> if not), with the economic crisis affecting the automobile industry particularly hard in the USA, Detroit is slowly turning into a modern day ghost tow<\/a>n<\/a>.<\/p>\n The New York Times<\/a> has a great article stating:<\/p>\n The campaign\u2019s organizers intend to put the statue on land owned by the Imagination Station, a nonprofit group whose interests include public art, near the derelict Michigan Central train station. They are exploring other sites if the city agrees to sign on.<\/p>\n The unusual fund-raising effort sprang from a question posed to Detroit\u2019s mayor on Twitter last week by \u201ca random dude in Massachusetts,\u201d who proposed that the city celebrate \u201cRoboCop\u201d the same way Philadelphia does \u201cRocky,\u201d according to the project\u2019s Web site. The first-term mayor, Dave Bing, replied: \u201cThere are not any plans to erect a statue to RoboCop. Thank you for the suggestion.\u201d<\/p>\n Jerry Paffendorf, who helped organize the campaign, acknowledges that RoboCop will not revive Detroit. But he hopes the project will not only create a tourist attraction, but also show that \u201ccrowd funding\u201d can make a difference in a city where so much needs to be done. Additional money collected through March 26, when fund-raising is scheduled to end, could go toward other \u2014 perhaps more important \u2014 projects, he said.<\/p>\n \u201cSometimes it takes a RoboCop to show a different way to do things,\u201d said Mr. Paffendorf, a 29-year-old Internet entrepreneur. \u201cMy hope is that it sets an example and puts this kind of funding on the map, so when people see big problems, they can think, \u2018If crazy people raised $50,000 for a RoboCop statue, we can certainly raise more to take on something bigger.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n More than 1,600 people agreed to chip in an average of $17 through a Web site, DetroitNeedsRoboCop.com<\/a>, and half of the target amount was contributed by a San Francisco company that specializes in turning fake consumer products from movies and television shows into reality. Not coincidentally, the company, Omni Consumer Products<\/a>, shares its name with the villainous conglomerate that tried to turn a dystopian Detroit into Delta City in the 1987 science-fiction film<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n So far more than $59000 has been pledged and there is still a month to go! \u00a0How is that for crowd funding!<\/p>\n