English Russia reports in picturesque but readily understandable English:
A while ago there was a story about one Moscow city street advertisement agency.
What made them famous? Their attempt to install a new street ad
stand, so they had to hammer in a concrete pile into ground. They
started doing this and suddenly the pile came down through ground layer
and disappeared somewhere down there.
Yes, they were shocked but they had a task to accomplish so they
started to smash in another pile â€“ it also broke in through the ground.
Now they got really puzzled.
So where have their piles gone? They gone right into a subway train,
nailed a full of people subway train moving at 40mph (70kmh) down to
the ground â€“ right in the middle of the working day. They got extremely
lucky that the subway car in which they hammered in a pile was almost
empty and nobody got seriously injured.
And here are the pilings to prove it: