Another week and another tale of the wrong house being demolished.
While it goes against everything I personally stand for to draw attention to a story in the Daily Mail, this one is just so deliciously ludicrous that it would be criminal not to report it.
A demolition crew made a spectacular blunder after it arrived at the right residential street, at the agreed time but then knocked down the wrong house.
The property near Lake Worth, Texas, had been in David Underwood’s family for decades and belonged to his late grandmother. But when he visited the house on Saturday, all that remained was a clean slab of concrete.
Fort Worth authorities, which had contracted the demolition team, admitted the blunder. ‘On July 12, contractors demolished the wrong property on Watercress Drive. ‘The property to be demolished should have been 9708 Watercress Dr. The property that was demolished was a vacant structure located at 9716 Watercress Dr,’ the city’s code compliance office said in a prepared statement.
The confusion may have been due to the fact the Underwood property, a three-bed ranch-style family house, was also vacant at the time.
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