Kicker: Unfortunate shortcut

NICK EICHER, HOST: You’re hearing the sound of people at the Great Wall of China. It’s one of the seven wonders of the world.

It’s also quite an inconvenience. So much so, a couple of construction workers cut excavator tracks and drove their vehicle right on through.

They’d looked in vain for a shortcut to a project on the other side of the wall, so they made their own.

The two are charged with allegedly destroying a cultural treasure.

I guess if they ever try to fix the wall, at least there’s a construction firm nearby.

But I have a feeling the two construction workers are going to find themselves behind some thicker walls, and without their tools.

It’s The World and Everything in It.

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