May I introduce: Spira, the white elephant, grazing in the middle of Jönköping.
Now we are the proud owners of our very own White Elephant. Or so we think...
What looks as a truly rare and precious gift to its citizens is in fact going to throttle us sooner or later.
The days of inauguration are barely over, the dust of the inauguration party just settled and it is cracking, shaking and rumbling already.
When it will lift it's ugly trunk and trumpet out the admission of a massive failure - we just have to sit and wait. It is not the question Whether but When.
A "White Elephant" is an idiom for a possession whose cost and maintainance is out of proportion to its usefulness and worth. Moreover this beast cannot be passed on to somebody else as nobody really wants it. :D :D :D
