Expensive Mistakescoopsweb asks "What's the most expensive mistake you've ever made? Should I mention a certain employee who caused 4 hours worth of delays in Central London and got his company fined £500k?"
No points for stories about the time you had a few and thought it'd be a good idea to wrap your car around a bollard. Or replies consisting of "my wife".
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chthonic, Thu 25 Oct 2007, 11:26)
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In Syracuse NY in the 80sa sudden sinkhole appeared in a couple of front yards.
It turned out that a brick storm sewer, about 12' wide and about as tall, was built about a hundred years before. At the time the surveyor in the tunnel blew an angle and they ended up a couple of hundred feet outside of the easement. So he did what any sane person who was working in a tunnel with men using picks and shovels to dig all day who would resent knowing that they had dug several hundred feet of tunnel in the wrong place would do- he made a couple of corrections and eventually got back to the easement, and carried that secret to his grave.
I think the state ended up just repairing the thing and settling with the property owners.
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The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Thu 25 Oct 2007, 23:10,
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