We’ve recently learned that parking your car where it blocks a construction entrance can get your car smashed into a pancake, but now it appears that merely parking next to a construction site can do the same. The video below shows a demolition contractor attempting to bring down the walls of a gutted building. When he knocks over the side wall, the wall closest to the street buckles and partially collapses, as well. Two birds with one stone, you say? Not when there’s a car parked along that street and it gets destroyed. Some demolitions may seem quick and easy, but it’s always a safe bet to set up a perimeter zone to keep the public safe. Luckily no one was in the car at the time of the collapse.
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Demolitions by implosion seems like the easiest way to knock down a structure, but there is so much preparation that goes into it that even the slightest mistake can have a huge impact. When smokestacks are demolished correctly, it can be a thing of beauty, like when these two silos in Scotland hit each other midair or when this asbestos filled stack was precisely demolished to fall into a pool of water. Things didn’t go so smoothly for demolition crews in Denmark last week, however.