It’s real: Bum’s rush for Matty!

By Joel Thurtell

Ain’t it great? The judge in the case of Ambassador Bridge owner Manuel “Matty” Moroun squatting on city park land has ruled in favor of the people of Detroit!

Matty has 90 days to get his butt out of Riverside Park.

Oh sure, he may appeal the ruling of 36th District Court Judge Beverly Hayes-Sipe.

Or find some other way to stall.

But it’s a major step towards pushing the billionaire trucking tycoon away from the property he desperately needs if he’s going to finish building his second bridge.

Slight engineering problem here: You can’t suspend a bridge from thin air. Generally, in this real world of ours, bridges have a couple of points on the ground. Problem for Matty is that he doesn’t own the land where his new bridge needs to start in the U.S. The city of Detroit owns it. It’s called Riverside Park.

Maybe Matty thought a few years of adverse possession might give him a claim to public property.

Didn’t work.

He got othe ol’ heave-ho.

Bum’s rush.

Ninety days, Matty.

We’re counting.

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