Weird tales in construction
Just for fun…here are a couple of odd construction stories that recently made the news and Building 101, a blog on ENR.com:
On December 12 in Richmond VA work was stopped on a construction site after a backhoe unearthed an unexploded artillery shell thought to date from the Civil War-era…
Meanwhile, on the other side of the country, a tower crane in Seattle appears to have gone insane. Buffeted by unusually high winds, the unmanned crane was spinning around madly for hours on end, drawing confused looks from pedestrians and construction workers alike. Written descriptions are sometimes not enough, so here’s a link to a video of the twirling tower crane one unnerved Seattle resident posted on YouTube.
Several other videos of the mad crane are circulating the Internet. Which all goes to show, you can’t keep a good (or bad) story quiet in this age of online communications.
