Why hasn't Detroit ever owned up to its urban planning blunders?

[Detroitnerd]

I'll gladly bring a shovel.

'Punish Cobo' Effort Gets Under Way

Armed with shovels and what one participant described as a "pair of shit-kickers," angry Detroit residents charged into Woodlawn Cemetery to dig up the body of long-dead Detroit Mayor Albert Cobo [[1950-1957) to give him a sound beating.

One combatant, identified only as "The Gnome," vowed to "pummel" the bodies of all Detroit mayors after Hazen Pingree [[1890-1897).

"They thought they'd be safe from us by dying and being buried six feet underground, but we're gonna dig 'em up and beat 'em up, too, because of all the bad decisions they've made."

One shovel-wielding man, identified only as Detroitnerd, a haggard and apparently drunk miscreant, said he would rather have started with Mayor Edward Jeffries [[1940-1948), but disinterring the corpse of Cobo was "a good start."

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