Saturday, August 16, 2008

Badly Trained

Blight At The End Of The Tunnel

Bungling engineers have been left red-faced after building a railway tunnel that's too small for trains to actually fit through. The costly mistake was only discovered when inspectors measured the finished tunnel in the Polish capital, Warsaw, and realised the roof was so low that no trains would get under it.

FOOTNOTE: No emergency measures?

9 comments:

Bart said...

Oh god, I just flashed back to elementary (primary) school and all the jokes that centered around the Polish being stupid.

Anonymous said...

What Bart said -- AND, I predict an upsurge in new Polish jokes. Even though they claimed to be schooled in building tunnels, those engineers certainly weren't very well trained.

Cliff said...

My mind just flashed back to some of my favorite Road Runner cartoons where the coyote would take a brush and bucket and paint a tunnel on the side of a mountain. At least the trains fit through those.

Craver Vii said...

That's okay; if you just get that train to go fast enough...

Kaye Waller said...

That's the same kind of ineptness as THIS.

Bear Naked said...

Now that is amusing!

I wonder though who will take the blame at the end?
The engineers and their supervisors or the lowly labourers who constructed the tunnel

Bear((( )))

RiverPoet said...

I re-read this a couple of times just to be sure this was a Polish tunnel. Groan! And they wonder why there are so many jokes? :-)

Peace - D

Sandi McBride said...

I feel a joke coming on here...but I'll cough it back...you are a devil David!
Sandi

Shrinky said...

Talk about "dig yourself a hole"..