Government theft equals collapse of civilization in Detroit------How Broke is Detroit? Firefighters Use Pop Cans For Emergency Alerts

And guess who is gonna pay to fix the theft?
How Broke is Detroit? Firefighters Use Pop Cans For Emergency Alerts  –  Deadline Detroit:
"How broke is Detroit?
How archaic is the fire department's emergency alert system?
Tresa Baldas of the Detroit Free Press writes that Detroit is so broke that firefighters get emergency alerts through pop cans, coins, door hinges, pipes and doorbells.
She writes "that they make these gizmos themselves — one involving a pop can that gets tipped over by an incoming fax. The clink of the can means there’s an emergency. Then there’s the chain-reaction gadget: a fax hits a door hinge, which then tugs on a wire, which then sets off a doorbell"