On 2/15/2011 8:51 PM, Bob W wrote:
a good friend of mine is a structural engineer, one of the people
responsible for the cranes that litter the London skyline. In a conversation
at the weekend he mentioned that while drilling the piles for one of his
current buildings they hit concrete that wasn't meant to be there - not on
the map. So they decided to drill right through it. Several days later, no
progress at all and they decide to make some discreet enquiries. Turns out
it was one of the government nuclear bunkers and they could have drilled
until Doomsday, they wouldn't have got through it. So they just built their
skyscraper on top of it.
B
I once decided to hang a clock on a wall in the flat we were renting.
The modern flats are supposed to have a shelter room. You should have
seen my face when the realization hit that I was trying to drill
something I couldn't possibly drill with my puny rechargeable battery
drill/screwdriver...
/grin/
Boris
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