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Big Booger
December 10th, 2006, 23:38 PM
There's a town in Italy near the Swiss border that gets no sunlight in the winter. It's been this way since the town's founding in the 13th century. Well, several hundred years later some crazy mayor decides he's had enough of no sun in the winter. So he takes drastic measures using a little podunk engineering.

Read more to find out the details to this story:

http://www.capetimes.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=3570650

Human invention never ceases to amaze me.

cash_site
December 11th, 2006, 01:59 AM
what a great deed... i thought he was going to 'move' mountains, but engineering always has its place ;)

rik
December 11th, 2006, 15:51 PM
Wish I could find some good pictures of the town...Maybe Carloc can drive up there and take a few for us... ;)