Child with cancer to knock down Newstalk ZB building

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Child with cancer to knock down building

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The former Newstalk ZB building

The former Newstalk ZB building

A child with cancer will be the one to push the button and implode Christchurch's Newstalk ZB building.

Seven demolition companies joined forces to bid $26,000 for the right to choose who'd be the one to set off the explosives this Sunday.

They passed the opportunity to the Child Cancer Foundation. 

The 14-storey building is expected to take just 7.7 seconds to come down.

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2/08/2012 6:09:06 p.m.

S wrote:

Wonderful for the child and the childs family!

2/08/2012 3:17:25 p.m.

Vaughan wrote:

Anything that makes a cancer patient feel better for 7.7 seconds give or take, I'm all for it. Another thing I'm for is comparing this soon-to-be controlled demolition video, to that of World Trade Center 7, 1 & 2. Look closely at the striking similarities of controlled imploding free fall of the Newstalk ZB building, to that of WTC 7 especially. That's assuming TV3 plan to have cameras there to document the event. . .