# Shoddy workmanship from around the world. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 14, 2013, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shoddy-workmanship-from-around-the-world/671225 "2013-10-14T16:31:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2013, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shoddy-workmanship-from-around-the-world/671225/1 "2013-10-14T16:31:12Z")
Some of these photos are just incredible. Who would install a play ground ride under a wall? 😕 Or was the ride there first and they built a wall over it? Bizarre. A lot of these are results of workers not questioning orders. _I want a parking space right there!!_ So they mark one out that is blocked by a tree. Just stupid stuff because no one questions the order. > **[Hilarious pictures of shoddy workmanship from around the world](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2458073/You-job-Hilarious-pictures-shoddy-workmanship-world.html)** > > Re-defining the phrase work-shy, these pictures show the lengths some people will go to in order to not finish a job properly. I’ve seen a lot of pics of lazy road stripe work. Dead animals painted over. Branches painted. But how did they raise up the paint thing high enough to paint that SUV? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Accident](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Mr.Accident](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Accident)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2013, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shoddy-workmanship-from-around-the-world/671225/2 "2013-10-14T16:44:59Z")
Heh, in an article about shoddy workmanship, no one bothered to check the spelling on the captions. ---
**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2013, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shoddy-workmanship-from-around-the-world/671225/3 "2013-10-14T17:03:59Z")
For your enjoyment: [ThereIfixedIt.](http://failblog.cheezburger.com/thereifixedit) ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2013, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shoddy-workmanship-from-around-the-world/671225/4 "2013-10-14T17:37:55Z")
This mistake has caused at least 20 falls. I can’t see that curb drop off either. What a dumb design > **[Paving creates optical illusion hiding treacherous trip hazard](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2458553/Pontypridd-crazy-paving-left-20-shoppers-hospitalised.html)** > > Morfydd Jenkins, 75, suffered cuts and bruises to her face and neck (pictured) after tripping on the new paving in Pontypridd, South Wales. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2013, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shoddy-workmanship-from-around-the-world/671225/5 "2013-10-14T17:48:26Z")
Too funny! This reminded me of the Communist era in Russia-the government built tons of high rise apartment buildings-many with balconies (with no access), no elevators, and windows on blank walls. And if you complained, you would get shot.:rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2013, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shoddy-workmanship-from-around-the-world/671225/6 "2013-10-14T17:59:04Z")
I had some great pics from the base in Ukraine where the painters painted over birds’ and wasps’ nests rather than pull them down. ---
**Author:** ![Terr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@Terr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terr)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2013, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shoddy-workmanship-from-around-the-world/671225/7 "2013-10-14T18:03:35Z")
> [@Mr.Accident](#): > > Heh, in an article about shoddy workmanship, no one bothered to check the spelling on the captions. And the Russian post office is identified in the caption as a police station. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Accident](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Mr.Accident](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Accident)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2013, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shoddy-workmanship-from-around-the-world/671225/8 "2013-10-14T18:45:46Z")
> [@Terr](#): > > And the Russian post office is identified in the caption as a police station. I missed that. It just makes things even better. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2013, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shoddy-workmanship-from-around-the-world/671225/9 "2013-10-14T19:10:30Z")
I hope that’s the back loading dock of the Russian Post Office. Would the front be that dreary and run down looking? The tree cut for the power line looks a bit odd, but I’m glad they didn’t chop it all the way down. It’s a pretty tree. If the maintenance guys continue their lazy ways, the tree will soon grow back and fill in the cut area. ---
**Author:** ![Terr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@Terr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terr)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2013, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shoddy-workmanship-from-around-the-world/671225/10 "2013-10-14T19:19:09Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > I hope that’s the back loading dock of the Russian Post Office. Would the front be that dreary and run down looking? Yes, I would say that’s a very regular provincial post office. This doesn’t even qualify as run-down. Just a regular Soviet-era construction. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2013, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shoddy-workmanship-from-around-the-world/671225/11 "2013-10-14T19:39:56Z")
> [@ralph124c](#): > > This reminded me of the Communist era in Russia-the government built tons of high rise apartment buildings-many with balconies (with no access), no elevators, and windows on blank walls. > And if you complained, you would get shot. Really? How many people were executed for complaining about windows on blank walls? ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2013, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shoddy-workmanship-from-around-the-world/671225/12 "2013-10-14T19:56:20Z")
By “windows on blank walls”, do you mean glass panes attached to a wall with no window cut out of the wall? Otherwise, please explain, I’m not sure what a “blank wall” is. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2013, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shoddy-workmanship-from-around-the-world/671225/13 "2013-10-14T20:24:12Z")
The first one with the tree was pretty common sight back when I lived in the suburbs. People plant small trees in their front yard, and eventually it gets big enough that it grows over the power lines. The electric company comes out once a year and trims them back, but only enough to keep them off the lines so it looks terrible. If you want it took look nice, you have to hire someone else to clean it up. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2013, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shoddy-workmanship-from-around-the-world/671225/14 "2013-10-14T20:40:48Z")
There are entire neighborhoods with long lines of trees that look like that. It was fine when they were saplings, but nobody thought what would happen a few decades later. Generally, the streets would look better if they were all cut down instead. I’m not getting the laughter at all the duct tape repairs, either. Those all seem pretty sensible to me. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shoddy-workmanship-from-around-the-world/671225/15 "2013-10-15T05:11:05Z")
> [@Poysyn](#): > > I had some great pics from the base in Ukraine where the painters painted over birds’ and wasps’ nests rather than pull them down. It must have been union rulz or sumtin. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shoddy-workmanship-from-around-the-world/671225/16 "2013-10-15T05:31:47Z")
With respect to the pavement blocking the doors and windows: I see that all the time here (in Russia). In the beginning, they were flush; as time goes by, however, the level of the pavement rises as they do repairs on it. They seldom chip away the old concrete or asphalt—they just layer over it! True story: In central Moscow a few years ago, they actually did remove all the old layers on the sidewalk in front of a bank that was being renovated. When they finally got down to the original concrete, some tourist had written in it with his fingers ca. 1976. It read “To Boldly Go Where No Man Has Gone Before!” I saw this with my own eyes! It has since been covered up again for later generations to unearth and puzzle over. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shoddy-workmanship-from-around-the-world/671225/17 "2013-10-15T07:35:27Z")
I think the tree is kind of awesome. ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shoddy-workmanship-from-around-the-world/671225/18 "2013-10-15T09:24:48Z")
> [@Maastricht](#): > > For your enjoyment: [ThereIfixedIt.](http://failblog.cheezburger.com/thereifixedit) There’s a few in there that don’t seem so strange. Specifically the one where someone has parked their car at a petrol station with the filler on the wrong size. Quite correctly they stretch the hose around to the other side (it is long enough for exactly this purpose). Is it just me or isn’t this perfectly common practice? if the only free spot by the pumps is the “wrong side” doesn’t everyone do this? ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shoddy-workmanship-from-around-the-world/671225/19 "2013-10-15T09:32:01Z")
Another example would the almost completed 47 story building in Spain where they [forgot](http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/builders-forgot-elevator-shafts-finished-skyscrapper-article-1.1422685) to build any elevator shafts. As I recall, what happened was that the building was re-designed to be bigger than originally conceived, and the elevator shafts which were included in the original design were somehow not included in the _new_ design. Oops… ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2013, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shoddy-workmanship-from-around-the-world/671225/20 "2013-10-15T10:23:25Z")
The yellow lines over the car look like a photo gag, not something real… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shoddy-workmanship-from-around-the-world/671225.md?page=2)