"It's an unsafe structure, and efforts to repair it in the past have failed."

Bradford, of course, gets its first game this year since the ground was shut down in 1985 because of the unsafe structure of the pavilion.

It was believed that elephants had instincts that would keep them from setting foot on unsafe structures.

On 21 August 1964 a fire destroyed most of the theatre and the unsafe structure had to be demolished.

There are at least nine red-letter regulations expressly forbidding entry into "unsafe and unimproved structures."

They feared the arena would increase water rates in town, and that the arena was an unsafe structure.

Downed trees and unsafe structures were also a problem in Wales in the aftermath of earlier storms.

County and state social-assistance agencies, the Mayor said, were permitting their "clients to reside in unsafe substandard structures."

According to folklore, elephants are used for such shows of strength because they are widely believed to have uncanny instincts and will not cross unsafe structures.

"We're telling them they're in an unsafe structure and asking them to leave."