Star City leave it to the pros…

Australian casino owner will leave rock demolition to the professionals.

Tabcorp Holdings has dealt a blow to Sydneysiders itching to tear down the fibreglass rock in the main atrium of Pyrmont’s Star City casino.

The listed gambling concern has called off plans to give volunteers sledgehammers to knock down the fake multi-storey rock, much in the same way the Berlin Wall came down 20 years ago. ”It’s got so much electrical wiring and so much gear inside it that it would have been a danger for people to smash up,” a clearly disappointed Star City spokesman, Peter Grimshaw, explained to CBD.

”We’re just going to leave it to the professionals,” he said. ”Safety comes first, I’m afraid.”

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