Soon to Collapse Arena To Open Soon

Victoria's arena is due to have its first act, Rod Stewart, appear in a few hours. The builders are almost done. With a rush like this, the arena builders have laid out $250,000+ in the last day for wages and super-duper overtime. Inspectors turned up a number of shortcomings, but things are right under the wire for the repairs, re-inspections and follow-up repairs.

I have three theories of how tonight will go:

  1. It will go off without a hitch (yeah right)
  2. The high pitches and loud volumes of Rod Stewart's version of wheelchair rock will vibrate the wet cement and porridgy drywall. That will bring down the roof and make Victoria infamous for being "The Town That Killed Rod Stewart."
  3. The safety inspections will fail and the arena will have to remain closed. Rod Stewart's people will be bummed. His fans will riot. The nacent arena is suffer untold damages from cane blows and hurled bottles of vitamins and liver medicine.

Wifey and I checked out the arena and snapped some photos. As we were driving away, CH News pulled up beside us to prep for a report. One of reporters was readying himself and he wasn't pleased when I said, "news" prefaced with air-quotes. My beef with them: they bump real stories in exchange for stories about household pets in jeopardy. If the downtown core were scooped out of the Earth and taken away by the Borg, their lead story would be: "Oak Bay residents can't agree on new street signs."

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