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DIY Disasters: Doors (and Roads) to Nowhere

by Diane Rixon, Posted Sep 17th 2009 12:00PM

Filed Under: miscellaneous, Essential Skills, Know-How

Construction cones, source: Flickr.

Photo: A National Acrobat, Flickr

We all need a morale boost mid-week, don't you think? I do. And nothing makes me smile like big, old can't-ignore-'em construction and public works mishaps. Check out my new slideshow to see what I mean.

What were these roads/doors/stairs/balconies supposed to lead to? What happened? Who is to blame? We'll never know ... but we can have a chuckle at some terrible construction jobs.

DIY Disasters: Doors (and Roads) to Nowhere(click thumbnails to view gallery)

Nice remodeling job. DIY'ers: watch and learn.I'm dumbfounded. But wait: there's more in the Wow. How does something like this happen?This driveway does lead somewhere ... but you'll need 4WD to access your garage. Oops.Please tell me this is Photoshopped.



Tags: construction, disasters, diy-disasters, roads

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  • jan peeters
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    1-02-2010 @6:28PM
    jan peeters said...

    In Belgium they have a lot of useless constructs:
    http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grote_nutteloze_werken

    translated:
    http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=nl&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fnl.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FGrote_nutteloze_werken&sl=nl&tl=en

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