Bungling engineers have been left red-faced after building a railway tunnel that’s too small for trains to actually fit through.
The costly mistake was only discovered when inspectors measured the finished tunnel in the Polish capital, Warsaw, and realised the roof was so low that no trains would get under it.
Rail bosses claim the mix-up happened because workers who were laying new tracks didn’t talk to the team that was building the tunnel.
Poland, it had to be Poland!
Must. Not. Make. Polish. Joke.
Must. Not…
#1 & 2….great minds think alike….then there’s the…NO-I had better not!!!!!!
By any chance were the engineers/track layers blonde?
(signed a blonde)
Thanks, Kendall. With all the world’s problems and the challenges of our daily lives, such humorous stories are a breath of fresh air.
David Handy+
When I lived in Boston a few years back, folks told me of a huge parking structure that was built downtown but never used. You see the architect and engineers forgot to take into account the weight of the cars. The first few cars driven onto it caused major cracks and warping. It was apparently too expensive to retrofit or tear down so it sat empty for a number of years. Folks joked that though Boston had MIT it also had the Big Dig. Don’t hate me New Englanders, it was a story I was told at the time.
Must have been built according to U.S. gov’t contract spec’s….
Remember the Hubble Space Telescope, guys?
Corrective optics = total screw up prior to launch with inadequate testing to discover error, remember?
Not to mention the whole New Hampshire, VGR, Anglican Communion thingy………………………………………………………..