Over the past 40 years, he has liked digging genuinely

Over the past 40 years, he has liked digging genuinely

Arthur D. Little of William, man 77 years old of Britain London Hackney district is called by locals " Mole mouse people " ,Because in the past 40 years, he have 20 the intersection of Victoria and the intersection of era and ancient the intersection of residence and ground of room excavate ceaselessly in him like mole mouse unexpectedly, dig out a intricate one finally " The genuine maze " . However, because this " genuine maze " Cause his ancient residence to collapse at any time, and it is safe to endanger neighbouring house and road surface. British court Israel of the 14th " Impair public interests " It is from,order William not to be paid up to nearly 300,000 pounds by house maintenance cost in governments local.
Dig under the ancient residence " The genuine maze "

Called by the neighbour " Mole mouse people "

It is reported, 77 -year-old William Arthur D. Little is a retired electronic engineer now, he inherited 1 million pounds of this value, house with 20 bedrooms from hands of parents 40 years ago.

This ancient residence of Victorian era with a history of one hundred years is classified as the key historical relic protection target by the British government.

Gapingly, over the last 40 years, William's underground in his luxurious house unexpectedly dug out an intricate " genuine maze " . Because he has not nearly stopped digging underground every day over the past 40 years, the neighbours all call he as " mole mouse people " ,But William calls one's own antic as " The family upgrades and fits up " .

It is empty to nearly the foundation dig

The ancient residence will collapse at any time

However, this " genuine maze " It is empty to dig nearly all foundations of the luxurious house, cause his luxurious house to collapse at any time. The investigator finds, because William so-called " the family upgrades and fits up " ,Almost there is not any roof beam column to support yet in a lot of parts of structure of the luxurious house, but lean against large-scale furniture and electric apparatus such as some refrigerators, bathtubs and support temporarily.

Make people in a annoyed and sneered at the behaviours or things made one even more, William dig a lot of holes too around the house in him, and the one that regard these holes as him " The garage " Or the storeroom, is used for preserving car and yacht. Neighbour mark claim he afraid William can run the drilling tool into the well from the intersection of the intersection of they and kitchen of house and bottom perhaps one day very.

In fact as far back as 2001, William pavement outside house has collapsed once, having left a big wide hole of 4.5 meter, according to local officer, fortunately the road to the gate of William's home does not have bus that passes, otherwise initiate a horse's disaster of the way. Dose says in the 76 -year-old neighbour's fields lying fallow in rotation: "He is a person working hard, but he has not used the strength on right way. "

Expel from the luxurious house by force

Constructed with the huge fine

In 2006, the local government learnt this at last, required William to stop " dig genuinely " immediately ,In case that he further destroys the ancient building. Meanwhile, William's old man is expelled from the luxurious house by force, so that government's workers maintain and save luxurious house and influenced neighbour's house tottering.

On April 14, the high court of London of Britain tried this case. Court Israel " Impair public interests " It is from,must pay to order by house maintenance costs up to 283,000 pounds on William in government departments local within 14 days, and pay the judicial expenses of 10,000 pounds. It is reported, this is the amount of money of supreme punishment in similar case. In addition, the judge also assigns the prohibition to William, forbid him to carry on any change to the luxurious house after repair in the future.

Say at the hearing on behalf of Simon and Butler of the municipal committee: "Arthur D. Little has been hindering the work of the municipal committee all the time. In the past 5 years, Arthur D. Little has submitted to prefecture court and British royal court countlessly and applied, in order to safeguard him to dig the genuine right. Because Arthur D. Little can't use one's own land rationally, the municipal committee has to cost the heavy sugar to repair everything of his damage. "

However, though William has admitted digging the genuine fact by oneself, thinking this just reconstructs the own house, and he will not dig under the neighbour's genuinely at all. William thinks it makes him move out of his human rights of behavioral infringement of one's own family that the court forces. William said at that time: "At the beginning, I hope to dig a wine cellar, later on this wine cellar was dug into for two fold to be large, then the bigger my digging genuinely is, I have just dug a very large cellar, underground that I have not dug others' home at all. "

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Over the past 40 years, he has liked digging genuinely