Mexicantown bridge

This is why we can't have nice things

$5M pedestrian link in Mexicantown open for less than one day

Oneita Jackson scribbles "For a good time, call ...?" Can scarce breathe here boss.  I don't know what "Mexicantown" is, but I'm seeing an urban hole-in-the-wall style hideout, where Detroit outlaws laze about, shooting heroin amidst stashes stolen toaster ovens and plasma televisions. This story is just so Hollywood perfect for Detroit, a poster city for failed, institutionalized, Democrat Party rule.  Chechnya in America.Giddy-up. “ Less than a day after it opened, the Mexicantown Bagley Avenue Pedestrian Bridge was vandalized, Michigan Department of Transportation  officials said. Numerous individuals have "tagged" the $5 million bridge with spray paint and used knives to carve into a wooden bench in the middle of the span. Others signed their names with pens and magic markers on the bench, officials said. In fact, an MDOT employee's video camera caught one woman as she used a colored pen to scrawl on a bench in the middle of the 400-foot-long bridge. "Yes, it was me," said Oneita Jackson, a copy editor at the Detroit Free Press and author of Sunday's "O Street" blog. "I did it. If you see a person with a green pen ... dressed in black slacks and a red top, that's me. I was excited about the event and wanted to put my name on it." [Story with film at 11] ”