They used an excavator to widen a gap in the wall for the machine to pass through. Read more at straitstimes.com.
What do you do when you hit a wall in life? Knocking it down was the answer for two people who rammed an excavator through the Great Wall of China to create a shortcut for their machine.
Youyu police said in a statement that a 38-year-old man, surnamed Zheng, and a 55-year-old woman, surnamed Wang, were detained after investigations found that they had used an excavator to widen a gap in the wall to let the machine pass through in order to save on travel time for their construction work nearby.
Declared a Unesco World Heritage site in 1987, the Great Wall, which spans more than 20,000km, was built intermittently over 2,000 years on the northern border of the country as fortifications to ward off incursions.
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