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.

JaggedEdge Reviewed by JaggedEdge on 09-04-2007. A game: Guess the cost of this fountain... 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. Rating: 5

[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?