“The world’s biggest tunnel-boring machine, nicknamed Bertha — which hit a pipe and was damaged in mid-December after only 1,000 feet of excavation — is down there in the dark, awaiting what may well be the world’s biggest industrial rescue operation.”
–New York Times article from August 14, 2014.
–Oh fuck! Can you believe it? They were digging a billion-dollar tunnel and . . . wonder of wonders . . . the tunnel machine bit into a PIPE and choked. Now who would’ve expected to find something like that buried down there. Of all the crazy things! A pipe!
