I see what is missing. There is no woman to supervise the men so they screwed it up :lol:

 

Then you obviously didn't read the article. It was a woman who took the photos, as she was supervising the entire thing.

 

This probably isn't as bad as it looks.

I wish I had pictures, but I have a story to top this one for hilarity. When I was a kid, my best friend was a piano player who aspired to own his own piano, and put it in the basement, so he could play at all hours without bothering the rest of his family.

Some church gave him an old turn of the century player piano absolutely free. All he had to do was get it home. So this guy, his twin brother, their dumbass father, and I all got together one Saturday to help my friend move this thing.

We loaded it onto a little Isuzu pickup truck. I was years away from even contemplating being a truck driver at that point, but I distinctly remember making the comment "Aren't you going to strap that down, or tie a rope around it or something?"

"I don't have a rope. I'll drive careful."

"Hooookay."

So he crept all the way through town with this thing on the back of his little pickemup, and got all the way to the turn for his house. There's a little ice cream shop on the corner, and they have a black asphalt curb guard hump thingie around the perimeter of their lot. He turned too short, and ran over that hump with the back axle.

The piano went over, and made the indescribable sound of 100s of strings (there are usually three or more strings per note, times 88 notes) all going WHUMP! at the same time as the carcass of the thing was going C-R-R-R-R-ACK!

Within the blink of an eye, the piano was reduced to a pile of keys and wooden bits strewn all over the road like an exploded deer carcass.

My friend's brother and I couldn't stop laughing. It was the funniest thing I ever saw. Right out of a cartoon! But that was insensitive of us to laugh while my friend was crying. Ooops.

Dumbass should have used some straps!! Their father was a real idiot about that kind of thing. That reminds me of another time he almost killed me with a chainsaw. City boy who should never have been allowed to touch man tools.

But anyway, in the end, the piano actually survived. The soundboard was intact, and that's apparently the main thing with one of these instruments. A guy in a local band collected the pile of rubble, and somehow or other managed to build a working piano out of the wreckage, which was a truly amazing feat, considering the condition of the instrument after it hit the pavement.

 

My god, that's a priceless Steinway!! Not anymore..... :lol: :lol:

 

I think the customer should get at least a 20% discount!! :P