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Scissor lift battery explodes, causes evacuation of Ohio police HQ
What many thought could be a bomb or an attack on the downtown Columbus, Ohio police headquarters was found to be a battery for a scissor lift that exploded inside the building. According to The Columbus Dispatch, employees on the first and second floors of the building heard the explosion and phoned it in. The […]
September 25, 2013
Business
Construction crew solves the Salem mystery of St. Joseph’s statue
For 64 years people in Salem, Massachusetts wondered “Where did St. Joseph go?” Between 1911 and 1944, a 12-foot-tall statue of St. Joseph stood watch 100 feet above the ground in the edifice of the church in Salem that bore his name, according to The Salem News. Though St. Joseph Church burned down in the […]
May 17, 2013
Business
Construction crew bulldozes 2,300-year-old Mayan ruin for road fill
The Nohmul complex stood for 2,300 years as a jewel of Belizean tourism and a beautiful example of the sheer talent and engineering skill of ancient construction crews. All of which makes it tragic that what time could not bring down, a modern construction crew did with complete disregard. According to the Associated Press, a […]
May 16, 2013
Construction Equipment
Disagreement between neighbors escalates into $300k bulldozer rampage
Apparently that old Robert Frost quote “Good fences make good neighbors” doesn’t hold up in every situation. After arguing for months with a next-door neighbor over a fence that made it difficult for for him to move his logging equipment in and out of his yard, Barry Swegle took action. Part of the equipment in question […]
May 15, 2013
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