I keep seeing this story but I have yet to see how he was supposed to have done this.How could he

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The Brits can dish it out but they sure as hell can't take it.
something they just can't do, sort of like brushing their teeth.
The few crooked ones they have that is.
good by you pricks.

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It is possible although I think unlikely.He would have to have dug a fairly deep hole piled the spoil on either side ,lied down in it and waited for the sides to collapse,if the soil was sandy it would not have taken long.I spent years as a construction foreman and have seen several trench collapses ,sometimes minutes after they have been dug.I saw a spectacular one when working on the oceanography building in Southampton, we dug a hole 6m deep by 6m wide by 12m long for an interceptor it caved in just as we started sheeting, it crumpled the steel sheets completely the guy placing the sheets got out just in time by scrambling up the arm of the excavator we left down just in case.
you can see in this picture how the trench has completely backfilled itself.

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