Gee, they dug out a road so they could drive through. They do appear to be Chinese so at least foreigners won’t be blamed. It’s already dubbed “The Great Short Cut”.
https://www.foxnews.com/world/vandals-busted-great-wall-make-shortcut-creating-irreversible-damage
In so many ways that is both an outrage AND something that makes perfect sense. I mean, we drill through mountains so as to avoid making windy roads up and down a mountain, why not put a hole through a ginormous wall rather than have to go around? There is a bit more logic there than for most vandalism.
But yeah, not cool.
Somewhere out there, the ghost of Genghis Khan is mumbling “shit, why didn’t I think of that?”
Why not? I mean, it is very long and parts of it are in crappy shape, falling down. It has had roads cut into many times in history.
Hadrian’s wall has quite a few roads cut thru it.
You don’t understand. They didn’t get a permit!
Sounds like they just widened a pre existing low spot? Perhaps an old gate opening was there? Looks like a sort of crummy dirt wall to me.
"Excavators were used to excavate the original gap of the ancient Great Wall into a large gap, so that the excavator could pass through the gap,