Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for December 31, 2018

Those fake buildings must throw off salespeople and proselyting missionaries every once in a while.

You can probably tell the fake buildings apart from the real ones by the smell.

Umm, on second thought …

Now you know why I buy my clothes at TJ Maxx and Marshall’s.

Hum burning up money …..HAPPY NEW YEAR !

They only stopped burning the excess stock because of public pressure.

I hope not!

I wonder if the Jehovah’s Witnesses and Mormons have a list of those addresses in New York.

Those fake buildings are really for Harry Potter and his gang.

between Governor’s Island and Brooklyn there are artificial islands with ventilation towers for subway tunnels going under the East River; The Holland and Lincoln Tunnels between NJ and NYC also have venting shafts. Partially how the NYC subway system got flooded during Superstorm Sandy 6 years ago.

London has those, too, for the Tube.

Burberry’s reasoning for burning clothing instead of donating it was that they didn’t want the ‘wrong’ kind of people (read: poor people) to be seen in their brand, making it seem less luxurious. Toxic capitalism.

No wonder my old house in Brooklyn was so drafty!

So has London Underground.

I’m not sure that “chased” is the correct or even appropriate verb for what the Secret Service did at the NYC Marathon. They ran the race with her. While I’m sure that among the agents there are at least a few marathon runners, I’d still give them kudos for that above-and-beyond performance of their duties!

Didn’t one of the “Sherlock” episodes bring that ‘fake building’ practice to light?

Post your political comments about The President of The United States of America somewhere else!!!!!

yeah screw Burberry, blatant waste of materials and artificial scarcity…

Here’s a picture and short article about one of the fake buildings in NYC: https://untappedcities.com/2013/04/05/fake-brownstone-brooklyn-secret-subway-ventilator/

Burning inventory. Capitalism in a nut shell.

In Los Angeles they have fake buildings to disguise oil wells.

Shoulda’ used IRS agents; they can pursue poor people for months…