$680,000 house built on wrong lot

[jtbell]

It should have been built on the neighboring lot. The mistake wasn't discovered until six months after the house was finished!

http://www.news-journalonline.com/article/20141013/news/141019750

 

[Vanadium 50]

This is not the only time this has happened. Not even the only time this year:

http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-rhode-island-house-20140617-story.html

 

[phinds]

To paraphrase Sheldon Cooper, "Oh, well this would be one of those circumstances that people unfamiliar with the law of large numbers would call a odd".