Tuesday, August 13, 2013

In China, a battle between rich and poor: Man builds home ontop of condominium.

This is such a weird story, that it's gone viral since this morning.  Look at the funny picture first, and what's the first thing that comes to mind?  Pile of poop, right?

A rich guy in China somehow got a permit to build his penthouse home on the roof of a high-rise condominium.  Then, without a permit, he built up landscaping below and around his home, complete with fake rocks (shotcrete?).

It finally all caught up with him, and he has been ordered to provide documentation that it is structurally sound, or else tear it down.  Seems to me, in China it's all just a matter of more government officials looking for a payout, though.  I mean really, you waited until after he finished building it, to demand that he provide documentation?  No one builds a mountain of poop on the top of a building without people asking questions and complaining to authorities, so a whole lotta folks are looking for pay day in Beijing.



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