Take care when digging big holes in your garden

Last Saturday a residential building toppled over in Shanghai. Apparently, there was no issue with the building standards; this time the builders were lazy.

They were digging out under the block to build a car park and piled a huge mound of earth next to the building. By all accounts the earth should have been taken off-site, but that would have cost £1. So the decision was taken to keep it on site an re-use it for landscaping. Subsequently there was heavy rain and the weight caused the building to topple.

How would you feel living in one of the neighbouring blocks?

More pics here.