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Key Bank tower comes down

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WC | 7:31 a.m. Aug. 18, 2007

It was Awesome!

Ryan | 7:40 a.m. Aug. 18, 2007

I'm sure there will soon be some video online of the demolition, but in the meanwhile here's a video I uploaded to YouTube: (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg5sAVEEEzI)

Paul | 7:43 a.m. Aug. 18, 2007

This was hardly a skyscraper, try an office building! Guess the author has never been to a city larger than SLC. See the world man!

Hyrum | 8:23 a.m. Aug. 18, 2007

Nelson, a 31 year old employee, was pregnant in 1980? Did I miss something in the report? If she's currently 31, then she wasn't even alive in 1980. If she was pregnant in 1980, then she's not 31 now. Anyone else notice that? Maybe if I reread it it will make more sense....

Hyrum | 8:25 a.m. Aug. 18, 2007

Yep. I reread it. A 31 year-employee...not a 31 year-old employee. Haste makes waste...

Lily | 8:37 a.m. Aug. 18, 2007

Wow. That was hard to watch. It just looked so much like The Towers. Anyway, it's amazing that we can manage somthing so intricate as that. Really amazing.

Stenar | 8:54 a.m. Aug. 18, 2007

When the term skyscraper first came into use, they used it to describe buildings less than 10 stories, so technically they could call this building a skyscraper even though it's not as tall as the lofty towers in NYC and elsewhere.

Most Impressive | 9:59 a.m. Aug. 18, 2007

Awesome video. Nice work getting that on the website! I heard about this from a friend, and it's cool to see all way cross-country! Excellent!

Take Three | 10:40 a.m. Aug. 18, 2007

This was a skyscraper, and an office building! Guess Paul has never been to a city smaller than SLC. Thanks for seeing the world man!

California Reader | 11:35 a.m. Aug. 18, 2007

Hey Deseret News, It's really unfortunate that you find it necessary to take the name of God in vain in this article. Even if it is a quote, it's unnecessary. It disturbs me that the newspaper owned by my own church chooses to print those kinds of words. You guys are unique, or at least you should be. Please stand up for clean speech. Please do not use the pages of the Deseret News to print profanity.

Anonymous | 11:51 a.m. Aug. 18, 2007

As soon as I saw the photo of the building collapsing (previously seen on tv) my immediate thought went to the instability of the mine shaft.

NICK | 12:32 p.m. Aug. 18, 2007

To Hyrum aka "Haste Makes Waste"

If you happened to do the math correctly in your first comment you would ind that had the Key Bank employee been only 31 years old, she would have been alive in 1980, theoretically age 4. 2007-31=1976. 2007-1980=27.

Lets hear it for reading correctly and being mathematically proficient!

Lindsay | 1:09 p.m. Aug. 18, 2007

I agree with the California Reader. Using profanity in any newspaper is poor taste.

Look | 1:29 p.m. Aug. 18, 2007

Look, the newspaper is to report what happens including what people say, which some of you deem profane.

Tom | 1:50 p.m. Aug. 18, 2007

Quoting a person precisely as they said something is not in poor taste for any journalistic publication. To change the quote to reflect otherwise, or to simply not use it, is censorship and shouldn't be tolerated by anyone, regardless of who owns the newspaper. If something is an offensive to you, don't say it. But please don't expect others to conform to your overly restrictive standards.

Censored | 2:58 p.m. Aug. 18, 2007

Wow, it appears the paper censored the original story and removed the part about the 31 year Key Bank employee saying "Oh my God!!" three times as the building collapsed.

What a pity.

Sam | 3:09 p.m. Aug. 18, 2007

Hey they can do whatever they want to with the paper including removing profanities. Taking the Lord's name in vain is the worst kind there is.

Original | 3:29 p.m. Aug. 18, 2007

Here is the original uncensored paragraph from Doug's original report:

"It's bittersweet," said Julie Nelson, a 31-year employee of Key Bank watching from the new Key Bank tower, a block to the east, the only words she could find as the building toppled was three progressively louder shrieks of, "Oh, my God!"

To Sam | 3:45 p.m. Aug. 18, 2007

According to LDS theology, the woman did not take the Lord's name in vain. She said God, not Jesus.

Jamie | 3:50 p.m. Aug. 18, 2007

Why are all of Deseretnews.com's pictures so painfully low-res?

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