Following the events in Vancouver where a demolition of a three storey building went very wrong, splattering the road with concrete and almost causing injury (almost but not quite, so that the demolition company could say with a degree of truth that it was a good news story because nobody was hurt) I thought I would post up some examples of other classic demolition fails that can be found on Youtube

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Christoph Rehage decided in 2007 to walk from Beijing to Germany.

Going on foot for 4500 km he didn’t make it to Germany but stopped a little short of his target, making it passed the Gobi Desert before deciding to stop the journey for now.

He did, however, manage to have some great experiences on the way and blogged about them on his website (The Longest Way ).

He also posted up an inspirational video of his journey which can be seen below and shows how he changed as the journey went on.

‘Sometimes it happens like that, and we discover a new world in our own homelands.’

“It was the hair of the bright flaxon sort, which the poets have conventionally called ‘golden’, the hair one sees so often on the angels of the Italian primitive painters ‑ though not so often in living Italians. It is the hair which always seems to be more beautiful than any other.”

“Dr. Laird’s gone mad and the Brigadier is afraid he’ll start his machine again, sir.”

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Military doctors violate medical ethics when they approve the force-feeding of hunger strikers at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, according to a commentary in a prestigious medical journal. …

In response to a letter Michael Moore wrote about CNN's reporting on his documentary "Sicko," a CNN spokesperson released the following statement:
"It's ironic that someone who has made a career out of holding powerful interests accountable is so sensitive to having his own work held up to the light by impartial journalists, as we did in our examination of 'Sicko,' " the spokesperson said.
"In our original report, we made one mistake, which we apologized for and corrected on air and online six …

14 July 2007
Dear CNN,
Well, the week is over — and still no apology, no retraction, no correction of your glaring mistakes.
I bet you thought my dust-up with Wolf Blitzer was just a cool ratings coup, that you really wouldn't have to correct the false statements you made about "Sicko." I bet you thought I was just going to go quietly away.
Think again. I'm about to become your worst nightmare. 'Cause I ain't ever going away. Not until you set the record straight, and apologize …