Residents in Rotterdam appear to be outraged over a plan to deconstruct the Koningshaven lift bridge, dubbed "De Hef" by locals.
Locals in Rotterdam, the Dutch port city, are protesting a plan to temporarily remove a historic bridge to allow the passage of a record-breaking yacht apparently owned by former Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
In fact, some people are already making plans — albeit jokingly — for what they'll do if the initiative succeeds: hurl eggs at the yacht as it passes beneath the Koningshaven Bridge, dubbed "De Hef" by locals.
A Facebook event titled "Throwing eggs at superyacht Jeff Bezos" has been posted more than 1,000 times in the week since it was created, and over 4,000 people have confirmed they will attend.
Thousands of people have signed a petition to prevent Jeff Bezos from returning to Earth.
"Calling all Rotterdammers," stated organizer Pablo Strörmann, "bring a box of rotten eggs with you and let's toss them en masse at Jeff's superyacht when it sails through the Hef in Rotterdam."
According to him, the demonstration began as a joke among friends and quickly became "far out of hand." (According to the English-language news site, this isn't Strörmann's first viral campaign.)
According to The Washington Post, De Hef was erected in 1927 as a railway bridge with a liftable midsection that allows ship traffic to pass over. It was deactivated in 1994 and replaced by a tunnel, but was saved from demolition by popular outcry and eventually named a national monument.
According to Boat International, the sailing yacht in question was apparently commissioned by the billionaire Amazon founder and is presently being built at the Oceanco shipyard in the Netherlands. It will be made up of three masts that will be made of aluminum and steel and will be over 415 feet long.
"When she is completed, she will not only be the world's largest sailing yacht, but also the world's largest superyacht."ever built in the Netherlands," it added, According to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the waterway where the bridge lies is the only way the ship can move from the shipyard at Alblasserdam to the open seas. As a result, Oceanco requested that the middle piece of the bridge be temporarily removed by Rotterdam officials.
