More than 5,000 people participate in the call to ``let's hit a rotten egg when the world's largest yacht owned by Jeff Bezos is completed''

Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon and one of the world's top 10 millionaires, is building a sailing yacht with a total length of 127 m 'Y721' in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. In response to the fact that Rotterdam's historic bridge was being rebuilt due to the influence of this yacht, the citizens of Rotterdam called on Facebook, 'When Y721 is completed, let's hit the rotten eggs!' More than 5,000 people expressed their participation. I'm here.

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Y721 will cost 485 million dollars (about 56 billion yen) to build, and will be the world's largest yacht when completed. It was reported that the reconstruction of the bridge is underway because it is too big to pass under the bridge around the shipyard.

Jeff Bezos' yacht is too huge to pass, so to rebuild the historic Rotterdam bridge - GIGAZINE

The Konningshafen Bridge in the Netherlands, which is undergoing renovation, is an elevator bridge built in 1927 and is loved by locals as a cultural asset with historical value. The Konningshafen Bridge had just undergone restoration work in 2017, and the local council had just passed a resolution that it would never be dismantled again. However, since Mr. Bezos offered to bear the construction cost, it was dismantled in just five years from the restoration work, and the local media raised strong criticism.

And Pablo Stolmann, who lives in Rotterdam, launched an event on Facebook called 'Eieren gooien naar superjacht Jeff Bezos (Let's throw an egg on Mr. Jeff Bezos' huge yacht)' and on June 1, 2022 Jeff Called to throw rotten eggs on Bezos' yacht.

Eieren gooien naar superjacht Jeff Bezos (Throwing eggs at superyacht Jeff Bezos)
https://www.facebook.com/events/302570991844953

At the time of writing the article, about 16,000 people responded that they were ``interested'' in this call, and more than 5,000 people said they were ``planning to participate''. Some of the event participants asked, 'How many people buy something on Amazon the day after throwing an egg?' Some people share how to make a cannon that hits the Y721 in.

``If the ship can't go under the bridge, it's usually made smaller. But if the owner of the ship is the richest person in the world, they ask the municipality to dismantle the cultural property. It is,' he commented.

Furthermore, Mr. Stolmann said, 'The citizens of Rotterdam are proud of their city.I think Jeff Bezos has heard our plans.The real purpose is to publish with Mr. Bezos It's about having a discussion,' he said.

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