The $1 million skateboard park will open in July. 200,000 skateboards will be shipped from the US and given away free to Iraqi children
A million dollar skateboard park? Why not spinning rims for their fish's bicycle? Between bombings and traffic and gunfire, where the hell are they going to use them, other than the skateboard park? Kids ride them damn things all day everywhere to get good at it.
This is so stupid it must be propaganda for American construction..."they got an amusement park over there, it can't be that bad..." "The troops have free use of an amusement park during their down-time."
Mr Werner, chairman of C3, a Los Angeles-based holding company for private equity firms, is pouring millions of dollars into developing the Baghdad Zoo and Entertainment Experience, a massive American-style amusement park that will feature a skateboard park, rides, a concert theatre and a museum. It is being designed by the firm that developed Disneyland. “The people need this kind of positive influence. It’s going to have a huge psychological impact,” Mr Werner said.
The 50-acre (20 hectare) swath of land sits adjacent to the Green Zone and encompasses Baghdad’s existing zoo, which was looted, left without power and abandoned after the American-led invasion in 2003.
But I hope it's real, and I hope you lose your shirt.
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