Sometimes you need to get somewhere fast.
But "knock-down-one-of-the-world's-most-prized-historical-features fast?" I've never needed to get somewhere that quickly.
China's Great Wall has stood for centuries, through war and upheaval — but one section of the vast structure was seemingly no match for two workers seeking a shortcut.
A part of the wall in northern China has been severely damaged by a pair of construction workers using an excavator, local authorities said.
They really did it. It's not a joke. They knocked down part of the Wall.
Just…boom! Right on through.
The suspects in the incident, "a 38-year-old man and a 55-year-old woman," have been arrested. I don't think it's crazy to imagine that they will be going away forever for this incident. You know, it isn't like Communist China is making any more historical relics. Communist countries usually don't. They gotta conserve what they got.
The earliest portions of the wall date to the 600s B.C., though the part destroyed by our unlucky contractors was reportedly made during the Ming Dynasty, which dates to 1368-1644.
It withstood the Mongol hordes, but not Moe and Curly's excavator!
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