Funniest Engineering Fails

Engineers are responsible for some of the most difficult and necessary jobs without them, our buildings would fall down, our trains would not run on time and the answer to every problem would simply involve a lot of duct tape considering the difficulty of the job. Mistakes and oversights happen from time to time, and when they do, they can be a lot of fun. Let's take the time to look at some of the

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in history. What you are currently seeing is a train on the route from Ohio to the city of Cecil on a routine freight delivery only instead of traveling along solid, sturdy rails, the train teeters precariously on tracks that look like they belong to a roller coaster, not a railroad, while it looks like a Photoshop trick, melted tracks are a real, if unusual, phenomenon.

Prolonged heat metal is known to relax, expand, and then contract when things cool. This is generally not a problem for railroads, as the tracks are put through a process called stress. This increases the temperature range in which most vias can maintain their shape and ensures that they return to their original state. form if hastily assembled tracks are expanded that forgo the tensioning process, however, they run the risk of the spaghettization we see here, this is when important ballasts become damaged or dislodged as the tracks expand and when they contract they do not. they return to their original shape.

These tracks in New Zealand probably only had a small weak spot along the railing, but that was enough for them to become completely spaghetti when the region was hit by a 7.1 earthquake, so despite looking tough, the tracks Imperfect railway lines can be sensitive, and while many areas of the world do not have to worry about earthquakes, we all need to worry about rising temperatures as summers become increasingly hotter around the world, causing which could create more and more train tracks, so I hope we all like roller coasters. Look, trackless vehicles are pretty simple. I understand that cars go on the road, trains go on the tracks, it's not difficult to understand, except that the engineer behind this crazy design decided that this train would go wherever it wanted, now what you are seeing is not a rogue train.

Pretending it's a car, it's just terrible design. This road was located along Neft Kalar Avenue in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan. As you can see, there are no crossing signs or barriers and the tracks are almost invisible. The only warning motorists receive is a very desperate-sounding horn. from the fast approaching train Well, who in their right mind thought that was a good idea? Well, it seems that the railway was built many years ago to transport grain from the docks on the coast of Baku. The seven-lane highway was built over the tracks as the city developed. but the engineers did not seem to think that a warning system was necessary.

It's strange. Thanks to continued development, the tracks have been tarred, although evidence that they existed can still be seen on Google Maps. Sorry Baku, you can't hide this dangerous mistake from the rest of the world Disney's Death Ray quick question where is the happiest place on earth? the arms of a loved one no, you can't buy merchandise in the arms of a loved one is Disney World, of course, the only place where grown men are encouraged to interact with children in strange costumes that hide their identity, ah , happiness, well, in 2003, Disney decided to add a little more prestige to their name by commissioning famous architect Frank Gary to design a fancy new concert hall for them, which would be located right in the middle of downtown Los Angeles .

This was his final proposal. Sleek, futuristic and somewhat mind-blowing, obviously the unconventional designs divide people's opinions, although it is clearly a stunning piece of architecture. It's also a bit of a monster in more ways than one. This metal abomination was made up of more than 12,500 curves. stainless steel panels and this meant that while you could safely appreciate the unique design of the concert hall at night, during the day it became blindingly bright, the steel panels that covered the building were extremely reflective to the point Since people said that looking at the building during the day was like looking directly into the sun, to make matters worse, the hall is right next to a main road and its inevitable glare was responsible for temporarily blinding several drivers, but wait, There's more, you'll see that the concert hall not only reflected light, but also magnified heat.

For some passersby, the sidewalk around the metal monstrosity could heat up to 140 degrees, enough to cause serious burns, if they weren't careful when they realized they had basically installed a permanent demand machine. Disney acted quickly, they had every single one of those 12,500 panels sanded making them significantly less bright and while this means the building is not as incandescent as Gary envisioned, it is much safer and good too because after Disney bought the rights to the Star Wars franchise in 2012. That super-scorching beam of light would have made it look like the concert hall was Disney's tribute to the Death Star.

Hmm. I wonder if they thought about targeting Universal Studios. Tread carefully. Have you ever returned home to find a loved one fast asleep and started? crawling around the house like a spy so as not to wake them up I've done it a couple of times, but thanks to my two left feet it usually ends up waking me up. Mrs. Astonished I can still breathe a sigh of relief knowing that my heavy footsteps have never caused as much damage as this foreign guy Daniel Johnson and his brother from Pauling New York were exploring a picturesque winter wilderness when this old house caught their attention, unfortunately it seems that the foundations of the house were not up to the task of supporting the weight of all that. snow, so a small jump was all it took to shake the structure and make it fall.

Good thing I wasn't inside, or I would have learned how hard it was to carry all that snow, you know, it's not hard to hit them. The like and subscribe buttons below are very well designed, unlike this next fun flop, The House Grove Built. Our next story takes us back to 2006 and some pretty horrible forums, if you've been on the internet for a while. You're already holding your breath because this website is responsible for a classic Internet drama. Our story begins when a forum moderator named Grover decided that he was going to build his own house based on an MS paint mockup and despite not being fully qualified.

The perfect storm users let him know it was a terrible idea, but Grover didn't listen and soon became the architect of the most famous building on the planet. The Grover House The Grover House really was the home that he kept giving with every image Grover posted. telling a different fun story. Grover's unique eye for aesthetics is on display here, where you can see seven windows in four different styles, none of which fit together cohesively and if you think they make more sense from the inside, then they don't. There is a photo of his kitchen that reveals that Grover thought he would need eight outlets within a foot of each other.

Personally, I'm a fan of this interior image that reveals a perfectly placed window so if you fall out. stairs, you would also crash out the window into a swamp below. Oh, didn't I mention that this entire house was built in a place called The Great Dismal Swamp? No, that's not an area in a Dark Souls game, that's a real swamp in Virginia, Grover thought. It would be the perfect place to build a house now, the funny thing about houses is that they need to pass several safety inspections to be considered habitable. As you can imagine, Grover's house failed the safety inspection, perhaps due to his septic tank. not being enough to support the waste his family would produce or the fact that he used drywall, a notoriously flimsy substance, as a filler material, so Grover was finally forced to admit that enough was enough and packed everything up himself, Of course, instead, Grover decided to become a qualified health and safety inspector just so he would have the authority to walk by his clearly unsafe home.

The final fate of the Grover house remains a mystery with some claiming it was abandoned, while others insist Grover still lives there today wandering around the monstrosity like a madman. scientist, come on, Hollywood, where's our Grover house horror movie alien trap? If you've ever been house hunting, you already know that beachfront properties tend to be very expensive, but how close is too close, how about this house, dammit, and I thought about my belly? It was impressive, this house was on the bank of a river that ran through Yellowstone Wyoming when it collapsed in the drink and was carried away by a powerful current.

Fortunately, no one was hurt as everyone had evacuated the house safely long before it collapsed into the river, although it is crazy that this kind of thing happens all the time when houses are built along cut banks. , that is, banks that have sudden drops into bodies of water because the cut banks are exposed to the elements, they are particularly vulnerable to erosion, this means that with sufficiently severe weather it is only a matter of time before your property faces the sea ​​to become a flooded property, either that or this house was simply too thirsty to hire work.

Pro tip, always make sure you have a spare tire on hand, after all, you never know when you might get a flat or need to permanently embed it at a construction site. Now it always pays to be prepared. I guess then how did this tire end up here? Well, it may seem like these builders were on autopilot and accidentally buried a nice tire in their wall, but it's there intentionally, you see the tire actually provides the perfect curved shape and base to create a beautifully symmetrical arch, after the which can remove the tire. These people may be building a simple arch, but it is so close to the ground that it could also be a Mazar, which is a mausoleum or burial place consisting of a series of arches, this technique is not strictly limited to austere tombs, although here We can see some civil

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students in Ethiopia tasked with building a small arched bridge from local waste. a leftover tire turned out to be a great talk from the Foundation about Arch deco problematic bridge over Waters ah Venice a city of history culture canals and head injuries surprised by that last one yes, they tend to leave it out of the travel brochure the city's impressive Grand Canal en Despite this, despite this, it was over two miles long and 225 feet at its widest point, however, in the mid-2000s there were only three bridges crossing it, which could get quite crowded. , so in 2008 the city commissioned famous architect Santiago Calatrava to design its fourth Grand Canal Bridge. previously responsible for such striking architectures as Sweden's Revolving Torso Tower and Spain's Tenerife Auditorium, so the Venetians were hoping for something impressive for their next Bridge, but this was the result of the arduous WorkOne or Constitution Bridge of Santiago.

The simple and bold citizens were satisfied with the Bridge. elegant curved design and surprising translucency, but there was something these Venetians didn't see to achieve that transparent appearance. Santiago had primarily built the bridge with glass and why is this a problem? Well, Venice experiences about 32 inches of rain a year. The year was spread out pretty evenly across the months and glass is a notoriously slippery material when wet. This made the Constitution Bridge quite treacherous to cross all year round, but in winter it was a death trap, as well as receiving a lot of fog during the winter from the rain that fell. on the cold glass The bridge would freeze quickly, making it even more slippery The bridge soon became infamous among locals and tourists alike Pedestrians in droves suffered constant slips and accidents when trying to cross it, plus there was no ramp, which meant that If you were in a wheelchair you had to pray that the person who helped you up those stairs had a steady footing.

Now we can all laugh and point out Santiago for this mistake, but how could he have seen this coming? Perhaps because he had made exactly this mistake before creating Bilbao's notoriously slippery Zubi Zuri Bridge. also made of glass, in the end the city of Venice had no choice but to cover the Constitution Bridge with a series of ugly stone panels ruining its aesthetics but improving its usability, that isa mistake that Santiago will not do again, right or not. I quote that the stairs that lead to hospitals are an essential invention, although quite simple, that we are an essential step in the advancement of humanity.

Steps have even been found at Gobekli Tepe, one of the oldest settlements in the world dating back twelve thousand five hundred years. With that in mind, how is it possible that we can still get such wrong looks today? We have over 12,000 years of experience with this guys, come on, the reason horrible switchback stairs like this exist is often due to poor planning if a series of steps are followed. They are too big for the staircase they are meant to occupy, often the only way to make them fit without sacrificing their height is to place them diagonally, at least that's what happened with these meme-worthy stairs designed by Gabriella Gustason in 2006.

To Gabriella, these panic attack inducing stairs are functional and exciting to go down due to their steeper slope. Well, accidents happen and sometimes you have to make the best of a bad situation. It's unfortunate but understandable, but there are also stairs like these that simply have To be intentional, any builder with a pair of eyes could see that there is something very wrong here, which leads me to think that this is a case of malicious compliance. Malicious compliance is the act of following given orders but intentionally ignoring any problems or errors with those orders. In this case, perhaps the contractors were stiff on payment and decided to teach their client a lesson.

Oh, you don't like these bosses, well, we followed the blueprint. He gave us exactly so it's someone else's edge-of-your-seat problem. Now we've all experienced the indignity of sitting excitedly at a ball sports event only to realize sitting behind a giant that completely obstructs your view happens, but it's something the stadium can't really control what it can control, however, are seats like this one at Fenway Park where the fans' view is completely obscured by a pillar, yeah, suddenly sitting behind Lurch doesn't seem like a problem, how about it? this one at Yankee Stadium, where half the view of the field is obscured by a raised platform, speaks to a class divide, finally there are these seats and, uh, I don't know what to say here, maybe these seats were okay for a family of giraffes at a ball game, but other than that, how do you explain them?

Even if they exist, many sports fans theorize that seats like these exist solely so stadiums can advertise a larger seating capacity than they actually have. No one is supposed to end up in these seats, but sometimes computers. I make mistakes and people get put in there anyway well that's not the case from now on I won't go to a sports game without my trusty periscope a leak came up the pipes and electrical wires in a house look a lot like our own bones and arteries and just like us, they can break down if you don't take care of them, for example, take a look at this electrical outlet that seems to be leaking, wait, how did that happen?

Well, as crazy as it sounds, it's actually a more common problem. From what you might think you see, homes tend to be filled with pressurized pipes that help water get from one area of ​​your home to another. Sometimes, if these pipes are not installed correctly or simply wear out, they can crack and this causes water to leak and pool inside. your walls and if you have a loose outlet creating an indoor waterfall, if this happens to you, turn off the main water valve in the building and call a plumber as soon as possible and no matter how bored you are, don't plug in your phone.

Slow burning molasses is a thick, sticky, dark brown substance known for its sweetness and extremely slow pouring speed. Yes, if you've ever heard the phrase "slow as molasses," that's why in addition to being cloyingly sweet, did you know that molasses can also be deadly? In the 1910s, molasses was experiencing a boom in popularity as a cheap alternative to sugar. Now, during this time, Purity Distilling Company opened a molasses processing plant in Boston, Massachusetts, and their safety precautions were a bit lacking, to say the least, as the company expanded. He quickly built a new distillery whose construction was supervised by a man named Arthur P.

Gel, but Gel was a financial advisor and had no engineering experience, but it was cheaper than a trained engineer and, as you can probably see, it didn't take long. . one of the facility's main tanks caused a leak that was quickly repaired; However, as more and more cracks began to form, the company had the bright idea of ​​why not paint the tank a dark color, they didn't really realize if no one could tell. The tank was leaking, so there was no real problem, ingenious, well, no, on January 15, 1919, the 50-foot-tall tank finally gave up and released a landslide of more than 2 million gallons of molasses.

The wave was apparently 55 feet high and traveled as fast as 35 miles per hour, as the tank was only 200 feet from the harbor, causing enormous damage to the city and ending up injuring 150 people. If you're wondering how something as harmless as molasses could be so harmful, consider the fact that it's 40 percent denser than water, meaning it's much harder to swim or walk in. Honestly, the city was practically buried alive. More than 300 people volunteered to clean up the spill, but it still took weeks to clean up the molasses. The company lied and tried to blame the disaster on anarchists, but eventually a court.

He ordered them to pay three hundred thousand dollars in Damages, about $5.1 million in today's money, regardless of how sweet the molasses is. I bet it left a bitter taste in your mouth. Nervous parking. Imagine you are a self-employed bus driver and you have just purchased a shiny new vehicle and are excited to start your career. Driving home you will realize that you have made a big mistake. your garage doesn't have capacity for your bus. What are you doing? You apply for a larger parking permit. Try extending your garage, move to a more spacious place, no, how about just knocking down a wall and letting your Caboose buses hang freely in the air?

This photo was taken in the cicada trabahara district of Olinda in Brazil, according to forum commenters. This image was published. In reality, it is a school bus that belongs to a self-employed driver and his garage clearly did not fit his vehicle, so they removed a wall. I see a big brain thinking there, but this makes me feel uncomfortable for many reasons, like the structure of the building on top, is it okay? is overly invested in what happens next and perhaps more importantly why he thought this was a good idea in the first place. The madness on display here makes me wonder if the image is just clever Photoshop after all.

The shadows are falling on the bus seems a little manipulated, but either way, we've probably all experienced buses worse than this tour abroad. There's nothing like opening the window on a cold winter morning and being greeted by a blanket of fresh, crisp snow. Wait a second, get better, well that's not snow at all, it's foam, are you going to do it? No, that's right, what you're seeing is foamy, wobbly foam and it was everywhere in Santa Clara, California on November 18, 2016. For a few hours there was massive speculation about the cause, with the usual internet weirdos claiming that was sensitive or that the work of the Illuminati was the real culprit;

However, poorer design tracing of the foam revealed its origin to be a hangar occupied by the Signature Flight service that repairs and maintains aircraft. engines, as you would expect, it is dangerous to work with jet engines if something goes wrong and one explodes, a fire sustained by jet fuel can spread incredibly quickly, which is why the company uses an alarm system that dispenses foam like this when it detects an accident. The foam is designed to spread over a large surface area as quickly and thickly as possible, suffocating the fire before it grows too large, but it is also soap-based, so it obviously does not damage the aircraft, however, the characteristic flight alarm left much to be done. desired since it detected a fire when there definitely wasn't one or it just malfunctioned and decided it was time for a foam party.

Also, once the alarm goes off there is no way to turn off the foam, so it went on and on, this could be seen as a After all, it's a good thing that you don't want someone accidentally turning off the foam during a fire, but it also leads In situations like this, while the police were called to respond to the bubble and conflict, there wasn't much they could do besides wait. to dissipate and although the foam can be somewhat toxic in large doses and no one was exposed to it long enough to cause any harm, including the motorcyclist, it's a shame it only lasted a day.

I can't be the only one who would think that. It would be super fun to play a game of paintball there getting in and out of the foam. I cold. Bubble or seven. From Russia, with the location of the sponge, many factors go into determining where the ATMs are installed, for example, if you are a greedy bloodsucker and want to charge a high transaction fee, it does not make sense to place your ATM outside a store that offers free cash withdrawals. Now, with that in mind, try to conceive of a reason why this ATM was placed where maybe this guy was in the The picture is an outlier and the average height in the area is 10 foot five, either that or a nefarious prankster stole the steps leading to this ATM and placed them in another location that would explain what these useless steps are doing here.

Useless stairs like these are what Thomas known as Hyper art, which is an absolutely incredible name for a piece of civil engineering that is functionally useless. Piper art thomassins are usually born when only certain areas of buildings are built or demolished, leaving behind a useless relic, well, it's that or the more compact and deadly one. slides I've ever seen, they may not have been pretty, but they were a hilarious collection of oversights and engineering failures, which one do you think was the

funniest

? Let me know in the comments below and until next time, thanks for watching.