Camden Courthouse To Collapse In A Minute Or So

Got a leak in your apartment? Maybe a broken cabinet door? A slow drain? Maybe a mouse or two?

Well, you have nothing on the Parkade building in Camden.

This really can’t be contained in paragraph form, so — and I really hate to do this for the second article in a row, but — I have to go to charticle format. The Parkade building, which houses probation, juvenile and child-support offices, has:

• a leaky roof, leaving half of the top floor unusable.
• deteriorated to the point where you can see through a wall.
• concrete, metal and other tiles falling on workers from the ceilings.
• unreliable elevators that smell like urine and frequently break down.
• a worker who contracted Legionnaires’ disease.

• stalactites in the parking garage.
• very little toilet paper.
• bad wiring, which led to a fire last year.
• a fourth floor that reaches 87 degrees in the summer.
• intentional holes punched in the ceiling to let water from the leaky roof drain.
• rats in the trash-strewn file-storage area.
• fleas every year, attracted by the rats.

Unfortunately, if they attempted to find a new building, there wouldn’t be parking or something, so, ha ha!, you have to live with rats, workers!

A most disorderly Camden courthouse