Weird things you may not know!
Jul 21, 2009 19:25:10 GMT -5
Post by mikado-AKA-Shoknifeman on Jul 21, 2009 19:25:10 GMT -5
[glow=red,2,300]Just a thread for strange/ funny stories; anyone can contribute as long as the story is relatively short, and clean 
[/glow]
DUH!!!! I BUILT A RAILROAD TO BANKRUPCY!
The former African French-colony of Gabon needed a way to bring it's economy up to speed, to that end, President Omar Bongo talked the French Gov. into spending more than a half billion dollars for the Trans-Gabon railroad, which opened in 1983.
It required 50 long bridges, each spanning enormous canyons, which were made from the very best Gabon hardwoods. Eventually, the railroad was done, but, there was a problem: The railroad had been built to take the hardwood lumber from the forests of the country, to ports on the coast.....unfortunately, all the hardwood timber that the forest could produce, was USED, on the same railway bridges, already mentioned!!! Of course the project, meant to save Gabon's economy, sent it reeling instead!
[/glow]DUH!!!! I BUILT A RAILROAD TO BANKRUPCY!
The former African French-colony of Gabon needed a way to bring it's economy up to speed, to that end, President Omar Bongo talked the French Gov. into spending more than a half billion dollars for the Trans-Gabon railroad, which opened in 1983.
It required 50 long bridges, each spanning enormous canyons, which were made from the very best Gabon hardwoods. Eventually, the railroad was done, but, there was a problem: The railroad had been built to take the hardwood lumber from the forests of the country, to ports on the coast.....unfortunately, all the hardwood timber that the forest could produce, was USED, on the same railway bridges, already mentioned!!! Of course the project, meant to save Gabon's economy, sent it reeling instead!
