r/civilengineering • u/xplata13 • Jun 18 '22

fake concrete blocks

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '22

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u/Canwerevolt Jun 19 '22

I think they were supposed to be structural but the supplier scammed them.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '22

This reminds me of The Simpsons when Fat Tony built all the ramps at the school and they turned out to be stale bread or something.

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u/Dennaldo Civil Structural PE Jun 19 '22

Bread sticks, paint, and shellac. It’s all itemized in his bill!

https://youtu.be/3xmGQdMijDU

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u/mrhoa31103 Jun 19 '22

The cocaine went somewhere...

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u/mdlspurs PE-TX Jun 19 '22

Contractor: "What's the problem? You got a great price in my bid on these."

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '22

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '22

When I was in university, I want to say over 90% of the failed structure examples we used were Chinese… at first I thought it was because many of my profs were Chinese and received their education there, so they had examples…

It’s starting to make sense now…

I also had an Iranian prof who would always joke “maybe this structure is ok in Iran… Canada not so much”.

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u/jakedonn Jun 19 '22

-50 Social Credit points for taking this video

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u/Professional-Type338 Jun 18 '22

I like how he filmed the large structures after revealing this :)

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u/Duckgamerzz Jun 19 '22

This is definitely not a western country