Chile builds bridge upside down

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Agence France Presse




IT WAS meant to be Chile's first drawbridge.

Instead, it was built with at least one traffic deck upside down, so opening day will have to wait, officials said.

The $30 million project was supposed to open this month, and become an instant landmark connecting Valdivia with Teja island by bridging the Cau Cau River.

But it has ended up a laughing-stock in local social media, as Chileans wondered how construction workers managed to mess up something as seemingly clear as up and down.

The gaffe also got President Sebastian Pinera a bit defensive. "It can be fixed, ... and it will be fixed by the company that made the mistake," Pinera said dropping the ball in the court of Spanish infrastructure builders Azvi.

Inspectors getting ready for opening day found that either one or two of the traffic decks were installed backwards, authorities said, though they presumably know their drawbridges even if the old technology is new to Chile.

"The only responsible party is the builder. We are going to make them answer for this," Public Works Minister Loreto Silva fumed.

Azvi did not immediately comment. And no new opening date was announced. Valdivia, 840km south of sprawling Santiago, has about 125,000 people.

[FBD]

[Griffin]

A painting contractor was speaking with a woman about her job.

In the first room she said she would like a pale blue. The
contractor wrote this down and went to the window, opened it,
and yelled out "GREEN SIDE UP! "In the second room she told the
painter she would like it painted in a soft yellow. He wrote
this on his pad, walked to the window, opened it, and yelled
"GREEN SIDE UP!" The lady was somewhat curious but she said
nothing.

In the third room she said she would like it painted a warm
rose color. The painter wrote this down, walked to the window,
opened it and yelled "GREEN SIDE UP!"

The lady then asked him, "Why do you keep yelling 'green side
up'?"

"I'm sorry," came the reply. "But I have a crew of Chileans
laying sod across the street."

[Acid Trip]

[PorkChopSandwiches]

Wonder if this is the same company that built that high rise then realized they forgot to put in the elevator

[Godfather]

My uncles drunk beer and built one of those geodesic dome playground things backwards for my cousin's back yard

Unsurprisingly it didn't bare much weight. They didn't have engineering degrees though.

[Hal-9000]

yeah this one is a little more than upside down schematics