My friend Mark at PrivacyStar upstairs thinks I talk too much about parking. Well, Mark, here I go again...
Archaeologists confirmed today that bones found under a car park in Leicester, England, are the bones of Richard III. I think a car park is like a parking deck or a pay-to-park lot, right?
If back in 2003 and again in 2008, we'd actually built the $4.5 million parking lot in Downtown Conway that was proposed(http://old.thecabin.net/stories/033008/loc_0330080009.shtml) then I would protest digging it up to uncover royal bones. A downtown parking deck would be too valuable to destroy. (Especially for crazy Richard III - a great play but a terrible king and a murderer who'll end up getting entombed as a royal hero.)
Parking is a good problem to have. The need for a parking deck is a sign of a growing, vibrant and active downtown. I think it's time to put a parking deck back on the agenda. And if we need to say that there may be some bones buried on the southwest corner of Front and Main streets, so be it.
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....Am I the only one thinking that Rhonda may know where a body or two might be buried?
Diggin' up bones
Just a couple out near the river but none downtown :-)
These Two
Did the same thing dumped the bones out at the river
* Donald E. Iburg Jr. and Bambi Lynn Bradley were accused in 1994 of killing two North Little Rock men on Horseshoe Mountain near Greenbrier.
Police claimed Iburg and Bradley shot the men then burned their bodies over the course of several days. By the time the crime was discovered, all that remained of the victims were a couple of paper bags of bone chips.
Iburg pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder and agreed to testify against Bradley, who was charged with two counts of capital murder. Prosecutors were seeking the death penalty.
She went to trial, was found guilty of two counts of being an accomplice manslaughter and sentenced to 20 years.
Iburg, 37, is serving a 38-year sentence with a parole eligibility date of 2013. Information on Bradley's whereabouts was not available.
Sad...
A king; a warrior, with a serious case of scoliosis, reduced to rubble under a parking garage. No fanfare. Just concrete. Dust to dust.
Just sad, no matter how you slice it.
Some folks are calling it the
Some folks are calling it the "winter of his cement."