Posted Dec 7, 2017, 5:28 PM
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Originally Posted by MichaelTrexler
The Article on the Ferris Wheel is by subscription only. Can you summarize? thanks!
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Tarble, a salesman at Mercedes-Benz of Boerne, seems to take credit for the idea on his Instagram account. He’s been trying for years to build a giant Ferris wheel, interviews, corporate filings and his social media accounts show.
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In 2012, Tarble created a company named Tarble Texas Sky Observation Wheel & Texas Star Aquarium, state corporate filings show.
On Instagram, where he posts daily, his bio includes a reference to “San Antonio Observation Wheel.” He recently has made numerous mentions to the 900-foot wheel and has posted screenshots of news articles about it, with hashtags such as “dontcallitacomeback,” “indebtbutflyinghigh,” “lastlaugh” and a reference to John Galt, a character from Ayn Rand’s novel “Atlas Shrugged.”
“No need to panic,” he posted on Nov. 30, a few days after news broke about the 900-foot wheel, with “Observationwheel” as a hashtag. “Been waiting for this moment — for my entire life ... Debt risk & ambition.”
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In 2013, Tarble self-published a 58-page book titled “The Other Side of the Pond.” Its description on Amazon calls it an “avant-garde novel” and “the most thought-provoking and societal-altering book of our generation.”
He still promotes it frequently on his Instagram by posting photographs of models posing with the book at the Pearl, on the River Walk and on top of a parking garage downtown.
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The IRS filed four federal tax liens against Tarble between 2003 and 2008 for a total of $82,288, county property records show. He later paid off two of the liens; it’s unclear what happened with the other two.
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