jethrofloyd Posted July 29, 2016 #1 Share Posted July 29, 2016 China Wants People to Stop Stealing Great Wall Bricks http://time.com/4428449/china-stop-stealing-great-wall/ China wants everyone to stop stealing its Great Wall. Officials from the State Administration of Cultural Heritage have announced they will begin conducting regular inspections and will carry out random checks along the wall to ensure local authorities are complying with national protection laws. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmbiguousInsight Posted July 30, 2016 #2 Share Posted July 30, 2016 I wouldn't steal a chunk if you payed me to. Aside from not wanting a stone or whatever material the wall is made out of on my persons, many died on that wall and were promptly buried in it. Who knows what kind of stuff chunks of the walls carry. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aquatus1 Posted July 30, 2016 #3 Share Posted July 30, 2016 That's a myth. People who died during construction were generally buried in graves about 100 yards away. It isn't good engineering practice to leave large voids in heavy masonry construction (which is what the spaces with bodies would become once the bodies decomposed). Human bodies don't make good support structures. I would try not to steal a chunk, but I do have a collection of small stones from places I visit, so while I would be satisfied with a normal stone, I would kind of like to have a wall stone. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmbiguousInsight Posted July 30, 2016 #4 Share Posted July 30, 2016 2 hours ago, aquatus1 said: That's a myth. People who died during construction were generally buried in graves about 100 yards away. It isn't good engineering practice to leave large voids in heavy masonry construction (which is what the spaces with bodies would become once the bodies decomposed). Human bodies don't make good support structures. I would try not to steal a chunk, but I do have a collection of small stones from places I visit, so while I would be satisfied with a normal stone, I would kind of like to have a wall stone. I always pondered that, thank you friend, I did not know that. Personally I wouldn't, wood from my the white house is no different from wood in the Forrest imo. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aquatus1 Posted July 30, 2016 #5 Share Posted July 30, 2016 I do hear they mixed rice flour in the brick clay, however, and that is what gave it both its water-proofing and strength properties. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eldorado Posted July 30, 2016 #6 Share Posted July 30, 2016 (edited) There should be a limit to one brick per married tthieving couple. Edited July 30, 2016 by Eldorado 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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