Resthome conversations (3 of 5): Engineering flaw.

At dinner last month, I caught up a bit with the one resthome resident who used to be an (advertising executive), and we were talking about that Miami condo collapse.

And, he said that one of his friends years ago was a consulting engineer who did a review of subway trackwork in the city, and he pointed out to them this one particular curve, and he was like, "If you don't get that fixed, a train will go off the rail in five years, and the rest of the train will keep it on the tracks, and no-one will die, but it will hang off."

And, they weren't too happy to hear that, but they didn't do anything at all to fix what he had said.

And then, like five years later, exactly what he predicted happened.