Builders brick up tower crane in apartment building

Tedminator · #1 (**permalink**) 09-07-2006, 02:53 AM

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Ukrainian builders brick up tower crane in apartment building
2006/07/21

An incredible event took place in Ivano-Frankovsk, Ukraine. Builders bricked up a tower crane in a new building and only understood how complicated the situation was after they had completed it. Now they are struggling to find a way to get the crane out.

The only multi-storey building with a built-in crane in the Ukraine is in Ivano-Frankovsk. The construction in the central square of the city grew as quickly as a mushroom after the rain. The builders quickly built floor after floor. They stopped work when they could no longer make it any taller. At that time, a rumor began to circulate that nearby inhabitants would be forced to move out while a helicopter removed the crane piece by piece.

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The director of the building firm Miroslav Boiko believes that the house with a crane may become a significant city site. “It’s a breakthrough in architectural fashion in the Ukraine ,” he says. “No-one has conducted such construction before. It’s essentially know-how.”

http://funreports.com/fun/21-07-2006/1395-tower-crane-0

Ofcourse it is!

Frank Lloyd Wright is nothing compared to this genius.

ForceoftheTruth · #2 (**permalink**) 09-07-2006, 08:39 AM

This reminds me of another incident in which some workers built a wall around a nursing home (in Britain, I believe), before ever so slowly it dawned on them that they hadn't left an opening to drive out of the nursing home's grounds. According to a witness, they slowly looked back and forth at the wall... then at their truck... then at the wall... The witness compared them with Laurel and Hardy. By the way, if you find such incidents amusing, read "The Incomplete Book of Failures". I'm sure it is available at nearly all libraries. It is the funniest book I ever read.

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