Video – Hitachi’s brothel basher…

Hitachi high reach demolishes “house of ill repute”.

In a Utopian world, certain buildings would be exempt from demolition: pubs; decent restaurants; anything prominently flying a West Ham flag. In that demolition Nirvana, there would be lots of tax offices, double-glazing sales offices and call centres to keep demolition contractors busy and well fed.

Although I am too old and far too married to frequent such establishments myself, I would like to think that so-called houses of ill repute would fall into the former category.

So it is sad to report the demise of one such establishment in Auckland, New Zealand. Thankfully, that demolition – by Yakka Demolition – does provide us with another great video: