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Construction worker lifts porta-potty lid, finds wanted woman below
A construction worker who stepped into a porta-potty in Oregon recently was shocked to find Treasure down below. According to a report from The Register Guard, the worker lifted the lid of a porta-potty toilet in Eugene, Oregon, on October 3 and found 27-year-old Treasure Dawn Shockey looking back at him. The paper reports Shockey had two […]
October 14, 2015
Business
Construction crew rescues live deer from basement of house it’s building
Construction crews find all kinds of things on, and often underneath, the jobsite. Suffice it to say, it’s not often that it gives them a fight on its way out of the ground. But that’s exactly what happened when a crew composed of members from Tim Halbrook Builders and Steve Fischer Construction found a live, 9-point […]
November 11, 2013
Construction Equipment
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
Construction Equipment
Dump truck driver unaware he’s hauling a raging fire
This video comes to us from our friends in Russia, where apparently anything can happen on the highways. And as crazy as all the videos taken by dashboard cameras have been, this guy driving a dump truck full of fire is by far the nuttiest thing we’ve seen on a Russian road. The video shows […]
August 16, 2013
Construction Equipment
Sinkhole swallows backhoe in Montreal
A sinkhole measuring 26 long and 10 feet deep swallowed a backhoe performing sewer repairs in downtown Montreal last week. The driver of the backhoe was not injured, according to a report from the CBC. The cause of the street collapse is thought to be the faulty sewer pipe the crew at the site had […]
August 13, 2013
Construction Equipment
Construction crews unearth 6,200-year-old wood carving in Wales
“In archaeological circles, this is the is equivalent to winning the lottery.” That was the reaction from Richard Scott Jones, an archaeologist from Heritage Recording Services Wales, to Wales Online after a construction crew unearthed an ancient wood carving in the UK country. Jones called the carving “priceless” and said it dates back 6,270 years to […]
August 13, 2013
Construction Equipment
Construction crew digs up likely Civil War cannonball fired on Atlanta
This year alone we’ve seen construction workers uncover a mysterious statue and a vampire grave. And now a crew in Atlanta has uncovered a cannonball likely fired by Union troops during the Civil War. According to the initial report from WSBTV, the round was found Thursday near Centennial Olympic Park. The police were called in, […]
July 22, 2013
Construction Equipment
Smugglers stuff millions in marijuana inside construction equipment attachments
Contractors often consider return on investment when it comes to buying a new piece of equipment or attachment. But these guys had something completely different in mind. In what the Drug Enforcement Agency called “one of the most sophisticated drug smuggling cases it’s ever seen,” big dozer attachments were used to smuggle marijuana into Ohio, […]
July 18, 2013
Safety
Workers return to Washington state jobsite after discovery of radioactive soil
Though likely somewhat reluctant, workers returned to a jobsite in Richland, Washington Thursday after radioactive soil was found there. According to the Associated Press, the radioactive soil was found, strangely, under a bird’s nest at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. Work was halted on a waste treatment plant being built there. Upon discovering the radioactive soil, […]
June 7, 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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