Building Implosion Gone Sour

8/8/09

Turkish building imploders make miscalculation; building falls on its side, then uprights itself again.


In a startling display of incompetence contractors hired to demolish a building near the center of the town of Cankiri, by imploding the structure, misplaced the demolition charges. Instead of collapsing toward the center, the building tilted to one side where it hung precariously for a few seconds, fell on its side, then turned upright, with the top floor on the bottom.