Posted on 01/29/2013 10:11:35 PM PST by nickcarraway
A sinkhole swallows an entire building complex in China's southern Guangdong province.
The group of buildings was totally swallowed by the hole which appeared near the construction site of a new underground train station in Guangzhou, one of China's biggest cities.
The first building collapsed at 1620 local time (0820 GMT). The other three buildings then fell into the ten metre hole later that evening, according to China state television CCTV.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
some scapegoat is going to be executed
I guess you can dig clear to China.
Where do the Chinese dig to? They are already in China.
Q: What's on the other side of the world?
A: Ummm... China!
If you have kids, they will love this little program to find out where they'll end up if they *dig straight down.*
Bummer, I end up in the ocean between Australia and Antarctica.
Inadequate footings appear to be endemic to Chinese construction. Until this morning I had no idea what you turn up when you google “piledriver”. Don’t even think about YouTube.
Inadequate footings appear to be endemic to Chinese construction. Until this morning I had no idea what you turn up when you google “piledriver”. Don’t even think about YouTube.
Detroit
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