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Last Wednesday, the national press reported how a disgruntled tenant used a mini-digger to demolish three cars and most of the home of his landlord in Bradwell-on-Sea, Essex. It could have been worse. Vincent Frostick, 41, who lives opposite, said: 鈥淗e asked for a van to be moved so he could take down the final wall, but it wasn鈥檛 so he left it.鈥� The next day, carried several pictures of the carnage, which suggested that the police description of the house as 鈥渟everely damaged鈥� was a bit like describing the Titanic as damp underfoot.

On the whole, bloggers seem to enjoy demolition. Indeed there is a whole website, , devoted to the noble art. The homepage is quick to tell us that 鈥淚mplosionworld.com publishes news, feature articles and non-proprietary technical information鈥�, but you sense from the weight of exclamation marks (鈥淚mplosion live!鈥�) that it enjoys its work.

The most notable implosion of recent weeks seems to have been at the Trojan nuclear power plant in Oregon, USA, of at 鈥� the image on the left shows Trojan just before the big kablooey. You Tube () also carries a , which seemed alarmingly quick for nuclear decommissioning. A quick browse told me that it was the cooling tower that been reduced to rubble. The reactor, which was switched off in 1993, is quarter-of-a-mile away. Louis the Pug () commented in response to the video: 鈥淚 find the carefully planned implosion of buildings somewhat artistic, tranquil if you will. Except for that little girl screaming at the top of her lungs in a combination of glee and terror. That was grating.鈥�

One site, , seemed slightly less excited by the spectacle, even asking bloggers in its discussion forum 鈥淲hat would you do with a 499-foot cooling tower?鈥� 鈥淚 like a reporter with a sense of humour,鈥� responded blogger Mama mia, before suggesting 鈥溾�� pencils?鈥� Tdn also offered the chance to view the video in reverse under the link: 鈥淒oes watching a deflating Trojan tower depress you? Well, click here to see it go right back up.鈥� That鈥檚 the spirit.

Elsewhere, carries the entry 鈥溞强沾�媒 1, Demolition crew 0: Somewhere, an architect is smiling and a demolition is looking for a new job.鈥� This shows footage of a 200 ft building in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, being dramatically turned into 鈥� a 180 ft building in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Watch and enjoy as a subnuclear detonation succeeds only in making a building topple slightly before sinking slowly into its own basement. Clearly the work of a demolition contractor who could do with talking to the good people at .