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Sewer line turned out to be collapsed under new house, can’t afford fix immediately

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Sewer line turned out to be collapsed under new house, can’t afford fix immediately So I just bought a new house, moved in on Friday, Everything seemed fine, but after flushing the toilet the second time it backed up into the shower. I got a plumber out and he found that the cast iron line has collapsed under the foundation. The clean out trap access in the yard is bone dry, and there is sewage in the vent pipe. He probed it fr…

Reddit Personal Finance 945 2024-02-04

The co-founder of a collapsed crypto hedge fund was arrested in Singapore

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The co-founder of a collapsed crypto hedge fund was arrested in Singapore Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeSu Zhu, the co-founder of the collapsed crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC), was arrested in Singapore on Friday. Zhu was taken into custody while attempting to leave the country from Singapore’s Changi Airport, as reported earlier by Bloomberg. Teneo, the liquidation firm in charge of liquidating…

The Verge 599 2023-11-13

Widow Sues Google Over GPS Route That Sent Husband Off Collapsed Bridge

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Widow Sues Google Over GPS Route That Sent Husband Off Collapsed Bridge A woman in North Carolina is suing Google after her husband drove a Jeep off of a collapsed bridge and drowned in a creek last year. Her attorney claims the man was following Google Maps in the dark when the fatal crash took place. Drivers have grown reliant on GPS-based mapping services for navigation, but federal… Read more…

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Over 100 Cars Are Indefinitely Trapped In A Collapsed Parking Garage At A Hospital In Florida

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Over 100 Cars Are Indefinitely Trapped In A Collapsed Parking Garage At A Hospital In Florida The parking garage of a hospital collapsed on Wednesday in Jacksonville, Florida, trapping over 100 cars belonging to hospital staff and patients. Nobody was hurt in the partial collapse, but car owners were told their vehicles will stay in the parking garage pending a full investigation by engineers, according to WJXT Read more…

Jalopnik 195 2023-10-11

A Burning Manhattan Crane Collapsed, Sending Debris Into The Streets

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A Burning Manhattan Crane Collapsed, Sending Debris Into The Streets A crane caught on fire in Manhattan this morning and partially collapsed, sending debris into the streets. ABC7 reports that at least six people were injured, including two firefighters. But so far, there haven’t been any reports that someone has died, which, given what happened and how crowded New York City is, is a… Read more…

Jalopnik 266 2023-07-27