Demolitions Gone Bad [VIDEO]

It's one of those bewildering eternal circles, like the chicken and the egg or the belief that rules were meant to be broken. You need one to have the other. Mankind takes it's time constructing structures that can last through the ages. Inevitably, everything must come down.

There was news out of Russia this week that they had some trouble with bringing down what looks to be the saddest building in the world. One of those cold concrete towers like the ones that still haunt the abandoned city of Chernobyl.

Back in 2012, Rockford hosted it's own demolition party when the old Morgan Street bridge was brought down in a moment:

There are many examples of spectacular demolition fails (check out how farm silos collapse):

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