Oddly enough, when I searched for a wrecking ball image for this post, I found this one, of "Tim Riley's Bar" being demolished.

Walking from the train to my office today, I stopped to watch a demolition team using a wrecking ball to destroy a parking garage. They were working on some reinforced horizontal beam, and everytime the huge metal ball dropped on the beam, the entire building shook visibly, bits of plaster and concrete flaking off and dust billowing out. Most interesting to me, though, was the thunderous booming that reverberated through the ground with each drop. I felt a bit like Jeff Goldblum looking at that glass of water in Jurassic Park.