June 11
BEIJING - A Chinese court has jailed two officials after they let a blind contractor build a bridge which collapsed during construction and injured 12 people.

Huang Wenge, , and colleague Xia Jianzhong were sentenced to 18 months and one year in jail, respectively, for not stopping the project.

"When they knew the bridge was being built by a blind contractor, they did not stop it," the report said, adding the contractor had changed the blueprint without getting a professional to look at the design.

After the blind contractor changed the blueprint, he carried out the work only using a roughly drawn draft of the plan, which caused the bridge to collapse.

It was not explained how the contractor was able to run the project considering his inability to see
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What can you say to this? What did they expect?? I know people with disabilities can still lead enormously productive lives, but sometimes you just can't do everything that others can do.

That's like saying "food cooked by man with no taste buds tastes horrible."

WELL, DUH!!

I bet he didn't see that one coming...

In the words of Fozzy Bear, "Waka waka waka!"

I just heard Bill Engvall chime in and say ""Here's your sign".

Nice.

that cracked me up!

Although disabled ppl can be very productive, there are somethings that they can and can't do.

I think all you have to do is just read the title of the thread and then you just sorta shake your head and say

"...yup"

sorry but thats funny. didnt anyone else notice he was blind. im sure it would have been obvious.

but then again he could have been partially blind

Maybe it's that some important 'others' had been blinded by money

Me too !!!

And this surprised people?

What gets me is they knew he was blind. He wasn't even trying to trick them or anything.

Good grief.

Guess he did not have a seeing eye dog.