Shoot it is another demolition term. (among several others)
Both pull it and shoot it mean destroy the building, not literally pull the damn thing with cables, though they do pull small buildings down with cables, or just run through them with a bulldozer.
So if someone says they decided to shoot it...and we watched the building collapse, does that mean they had a firing squad kill it or some stoopid shit like that?
Pull is very specific in it's meaning when you are talking demolition,,,but you go ahead and spin it in your head any way you care..It's alright, we understand....
Pull
PULL, verb transitive [Latin vello.]
1. To draw; to draw towards one or to make an effort to draw.
pull differs from draw; we use draw when motion follows the effort, and
pull is used in the same sense; but we may also
pull forever without drawing or moving the thing. This distinction may not be universal.
pull is opposed to push.
Then he put forth his hand and took her and pulled her in to him into the ark.
Genesis 8:9.
2. To pluck; to gather by drawing or forcing off or out; as, to
pull fruit; to
pull flax.
3. To tear; to rend; but in this sense followed by some qualifying word or phrase; as, to
pull in pieces; to
pull asunder or apart. To
pull in two, is to separate or tear by violence into two parts.
To
pull down, to demolish or to take in pieces by separating the parts; as, to
pull down a house.
1. To demolish; to subvert; to destroy.
In political affairs, as well as mechanical, it is easier to
pull down than to build up.
2. To bring down; to degrade; to humble.
To raise the wretched and
pull down the proud.
PULL off, to separate by pulling; to pluck; also, to take off without force; as, to
pull off a coat or hat.
To
pull out, to draw out; to extract.
To
pull up, to pluck up; to tear up by the roots; hence, to extirpate;
to eradicate; to destroy.
PULL,
noun The act of pulling or drawing with force; an effort to move by drawing towards one.
1. A contest; a struggle.
2. Pluck; violence suffered.
~Websters
I suppose they are not only illiterate but in addition do not know how to read a dictionary either.
.... and the loony toons dablunder argument will go like this "but they didnt say pull down with explosives"..... or they will drop the conjuction or insert subjects / objects that are not there.