They should just excavate a big pit in the Red Zone, throw in some scrap wood from the demo'd houses from the quake and driftwood from the recent floods, douse it with a bit of gasoline and spark it up. Give every Christchuchian $150* in $5 notes to throw into the burning pit at an ornate ceremony desinged to pay homage to the Gods of Capitalism and Waste and Local Government Ineptitude.
*Working: $66 million ÷ 380,000 Chch reisdents = $173 and change. I figure it'd cost a bit of money to dig the whole, cart the fuel, and send out the money. But the cool thing is that all this would have the exact same, if not better, impact on Chch's economy as building the stadium.
They should just excavate a big pit in the Red Zone, throw in some scrap wood from the demo'd houses from the quake and driftwood from the recent floods, douse it with a bit of gasoline and spark it up. Give every Christchuchian $150* in $5 notes to throw into the burning pit at an ornate ceremony desinged to pay homage to the Gods of Capitalism and Waste and Local Government Ineptitude.
*Working: $66 million ÷ 380,000 Chch reisdents = $173 and change. I figure it'd cost a bit of money to dig the whole, cart the fuel, and send out the money. But the cool thing is that all this would have the exact same, if not better, impact on Chch's economy as building the stadium.