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Sepelrastas t1_j67mpnk wrote

Reply to comment by Edythir in Ancient statue of Hercules emerges from Rome sewerage repairs by Rob-Study-8562

Meanwhile in Finland rock was too hard and planners didn't know how to plan. If only we could have unearthed historical treasures, that would have been actually interesting.

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seaworthy-sieve t1_j68c35f wrote

Meanwhile in Ottawa we forgot that we're built on a rat warren of tunnels and sewers, so we caused a sinkhole and now one of our stations always smells like poo.

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Swiss_cake_raul t1_j68tni1 wrote

Meanwhile in Boston we filled in a shallow bay with garbage until it was just barely solid enough to build high rises on, and then decided to tunnel underneath the whole thing like a hundred years later. Actually it went pretty well all things considered.

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Basedrum777 t1_j688z8u wrote

We wanted to dig but earth was in the way I guess!?

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