A game: Guess the cost of this fountain...

[JaggedEdge]

My university built a memorial fountain in honor of Hurricane Katrina and Rita victims. Can you guess how much they spent on it?

I apologize, I keep forgetting to bring my camera to campus to snap a picture, this one was stolen from the news paper.

[The.Severed.Angel]

It looks pretty cheap.

[JaggedEdge]

Looks can be deceiving...

I concur though.

[BizzleLuvin]

isnt it a little...ironic...that the fountain is flooding over with water, kinda like new orleans.

i dunna, maybe $5,000

[Booyagrandma]

easy 100k, looks to be 10k thou

Booya

[JaggedEdge]

They meant for that to happen, it is supposed to be symbolic, the only problem is the coastline doesn't drain. Therefor one it floods once, it stays flooded. I believe it is supposed to flood every 30 mins or so, but it is pointless when the fucking thing is already flooded.

And no Bizzle, your estimate is to low. Granted, that guess is very logical based on the picture, but no, they spent more than that...

[JaggedEdge]

easy 100k, looks to be 10k thou

Booya

100k, still to low. And yes I agree, it looks like crap. Based on seeing it in person. I will say the fountain SHOULD cost 60k at the most, assuming the stones are rare and imported from a single cave in India.

[hairyboblovesthemob]

Well did the university build it or did they commission an artist? If they paid an artist it would be expensive. In the millions. Let's say $2.5 million.

[iNHALE.xHALE.]

250,000$ ?....

[JaggedEdge]

250,000$ ?....

$255,000 to be exact. Good guess.

Can anyone say, "huge waste of fucking money."

There are still people without homes... Maybe I'm in the minority here, but would $255,000 been more appropriately spent building a few cheap houses?

Was that just a good guess, or did you cheat and look on the internet?

[JaggedEdge]

Well did the university build it or did they commission an artist? If they paid an artist it would be expensive. In the millions. Let's say $2.5 million.

No, three Mexicans worked on it for a little under a year. I'm almost certain it was a local contract job.

[iNHALE.xHALE.]

actually one one of my friends had commented me on it over the weekend..and then i cheated :D

[JaggedEdge]

lol, I'm sorry, but there was a secret $1,000 prize for the closest guess. However since you have admitted to cheating you must forfeit said prize. ;)

Just out of curiosity, where is your friend from who mentioned it? I'm curious how folks from other areas feel about this. I'm rather annoyed at the whole situation for a number of reasons.

The University is very proud of their work though and seem to think it was a quarter-million well spent.

[IThinkIamFeelingit]

I am gonna guss about 250k...projects like that always tend to be a little more expensive with the manual labor and all involved.

[JaggedEdge]

inhale beat you to it, but you were off by only 5,000

[iNHALE.xHALE.]

no!!!!!!

well fuck it--

my boy eddie is from SLU he was here over the weekend though & it was more of a comment on the fountain because everyone was discussing Katrina

[JaggedEdge]

ahhh... I was just wondering how hard they were promoting it.

If he were from another state, I was going to be shocked that anyone outside even knew about it.

[NextLineIsMine]

Im just thinking of their thought process behind this... A huge tragedy happened a while back, why dont we build ourselves memorial to feel better about it instead of donating like everyone else

[LIP]

In the paper a few months ago they had an article about a hospital [England] that spent £70,000 on a ROCK - just a ROCK to go outside the front entrance.