Building implosion in Northern Virginia

This isn't a car-related event, but at 6:05 a.m. today some contractors blew up a high-rise (12-story) apartment in the neighborhood I work in.
The building was the Tencza Terrace apartment building on Ft. Myer, right up the hill from the Pentagon and Arlington Cemetery.
Would anyone be offended if I post the photos I took? It was an event ... well ... it was cool, anyway ... and it was over in less than 15 seconds. The lighting could not have been better.

Since nobody seems to object:

Theron, I've deleted the images due to lack of interest; could you kindly delete the thread?

Awww NUTZ!!! One of my favorite things in the whole wide world is watching stuff blow up! Steve has serious concerns about me...

I get out to that area about once per month (my employer is based in Fairfax with our contracts in DC, Alexandria and Arlington). I would definately have made a date of watching a big building come down. Controlled violence - gotta love it!

angela

I'll put a couple back up, then. I'd hate for you to miss out.

Hey Cory!

Is that the DMV building in So Carolina?

For Lane's purposes, you bet! I got their info, though, and I'm gonna call them. Sometimes you have to tell them what their motor vehicle code should read, so they can look for the right thing.
Wanna help? Here's the DMV skinny:

1189 Iron Bridge Road
Suite 500
Mt. Pleasant, SC 29466-7400
(843) 884-9760

Hey! Be careful guys!!! This'll make it easy for 'em to find me. Then I'll wind up in the Navy brig here (where they put the terrorists) with some big seaman named Bubba wanting to make me his love monkey. Not a pretty picture.

For the record, and for the benefit of anyone lookey-looing from some official, big government office ... I was kidding!
Seriously, though ... Lane, what do they recommend for people with builders' titles? There's got to be some way to transport a vehicle on temporary registration. I guess you'd have to take the build number in, or the donor car VIN if that was the case.
Do you have ANY original car chunks in your ride?

No original chunks that I am aware of. You can verify that with Carey.

As for transportation, I'm sure the DMV folks have some cousin with a trailer you can borrow - for the right price. Of course the problem in this case is that there is no donor car VIN to use. Otherwise it would have probably gone relatively smoothly. Oh well, I've waited a while already. What's a few more weeks? (sniff)

At least they look fast sitting still, huh? I feel your pain.

Yeah they certainly do. I'm gonna go out in the garage and make "brmmm-brmmm" sounds.

Lane, I have to tell you a "hypothetical" story to maybe make you feel a little better. I have this friend ...

(My friend)(hypothetically) might have once bought a car that didn't have a proper VIN. (He)(hypothetically) might have needed one in a hurry, so (he)(hypothetically, naturally) might have gone to a friend of a friend who maybe had some VeeDubs (or something very much like them) lying around behind his shop (or house, or a junk pile ... maybe in a kitchen cabinet) -- and who had maybe already hacked some of those hypo-Bugs up into chunky bits -- and asked if he knew of anyone selling ... (a whole or very specific parts of a Bug).
He (absolutely) didn't know anyone, so (he) left. Shortly thereafter, (my friend) (hypothetically) found a plate (in a Cracker Jack box, where else!) and (also hypothetically) found a pop-rivet gun (in his shoe).
Well, who could blame that hapless fellow? (He) (hypothetically) looked in his other (shoe) for some pop rivets, and (now THIS is the science fiction part, because NOBODY would EVER do this) (he) promptly went to the (very real) Motor Vehicle Administration with what was, for all intents and purposes, a dead Bug on his car and asked the kind people there to have a look at (his) creation.
Within mere minutes, (he) (hypothetically, remember, this is a bedtime story with no basis in reality until the statute of limitations runs out) rolled out with a registration and plates! Can you imagine?
And last week, (he) (hypothetically) went back and renewed for the second time! On (his) way out, he quietly mouthed a "Woo-Hoo!"
That's what he told me, anyway. (On the phone, with a number scrambler and a voice changing device, from Argentina or somewhere.)
(He's) going to live happily ever after, whenever (he) gets done fabricating brake lines and such pesky annoyances as that.

Dude, your friend has a serious complexion problem.

I think I'll try the legal route for now. I could never (no, never, not me) be tempted to try to shortcut the wonderful system our DMV has in place. After all, they're from the government and they're here to help.