Mole Man of Hackney
No one knows how far the the network of burrows underneath 75-year-old William Lyttle’s house stretch. But according to the council, which used ultrasound scanners to ascertain the extent of the problem, almost half a century of nibbling dirt with a shovel and homemade pulley has hollowed out a web of tunnels and caverns, some 8m (26ft) deep, spreading up to 20m in every direction from his house.
This is just weird. After hearing complaints for 40 years, the city is finally told Mr. Lyette to stop his digging and will be filling in the holes with concrete at a cost of £100,000, which Mr. Lyette wil be billed for. He claims it was just home improvements and denies that he dug under anyone’s property but his own.
link: After 40 years’ burrowing, Mole Man of Hackney is ordered to stop
