Radio Shack Selling Subway Cars on eBay

David Cantrell writes "The Radio Shack Corporation (formerly the Tandy Corporation) headquarters in Fort Worth, TX was one of the only companies in the world to have its own private subway system. Its main purpose in life was to move employees from their parked cars to the office building. About a year or so ago, Radio Shack decided the subway system was no longer needed and they shut it down permanently. Well, they are now selling the subway cars on eBay. For $5000US, you can get your very own Radio Shack Subway Car. Rails sold separately. Click for the eBay auction page."

Huh?

[stratjakt]

It's just a guy who picked radioshackoutlet as his nickname, it has nothing to do with Radio Shack.

And there are a lot of people, enthusiasts, collectors, eccentrics, who would bid for such a thing. I had a great uncle who bought a vintage caboose and had it parked in his backyard, and attached to his house. Made a really cool little 3-season porch.

Hell, if I had the bananas and space for it, I'd probably want it.

I guess I have no sense of humor, because this isn't one of the 'funny' ebay auctions.

and this has what to do with slashdot?

[Gorphrim]

If IBM decides to sell off some lawnmowers they used to use to trim the grounds around their HQ, will that be "news for nerds, stuff that matters" as well?

I don't know what's worse...this story being on slashdot, or me wasting 2 precious minutes of my lunch hour posting a reply to it.

Re:Is this the one?

[RWarrior(fobw)]

> They recently sold the mall and coporate
> headquarters and are building a new headquarters a
> few miles away.

A few miles away? Try on top of what used to be the safest and best public housing project in the city, directly across the street.

The city actually tried to sell the prime downtown real estate to Tandy without bothering to find everyone who lived in the subsidized low-income project alternative housing. They offered top of the waiting list, but a waiting list doesn't help when you're homeless and sitting in the rain because the city could make a quick few million bucks.

It took the threat of a lawsuit to stop the city from outing the residents onto the streets. Instead, now Tandy has given them all computers (virtually no cost to Tandy of course) and the city had to find them housing.

But the whole mess really stank.

You can find the alternative newspaper coverage [fwweekly.com] [Fort Worth Weekly] (later backed by the big-time [fwst.com] rag, but the big-time rag's search isn't as good) by using their archives and search function. The key string is "Ripley Arnold."