What do you do when the equipment used to dig out your sub-sub-basement in your lovely London property is so deep that it costs more to lift it out than to replace it? Simple — you simply bury it.
It's hard to argue with the economic equation, but it still seems somehow wrong.
New Statesman | The bizarre secret of London’s buried diggers
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You're supposed to turn it into a steam furnace, you heartless bastards!
Imagine how elated future archaeologists will be by this find.
+Al Hunt It's the Mike Mulligan plan! Brilliant!
Sorry, its probably an Urban Myth.
The Not True was also on the BBC site, but I can’t find it at the mo.
They use the tiny diggers, and use a block and tackle to get them out.
@LH – Perhaps. Though the article (which, frankly, is from the HuffPo, even with an English accent) is basically people who might rightly be embarrassed saying, “Well, not, that’s simply ridiculous.”
I will … reserve judgment. And, honestly, it’s less about “profligacy of the wealthy” (though that’s certainly a titillating aspect) as much as “the bizarre economics of deep excavation in a posh residential neighborhood.”