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When you work construction, especially in Chicago, you see things that no one else would see or believe.  Gun fire, bodies, you name, boy did I  see some crazy mess.

This story could be a made for t.v. movie. So Walsh has this huge Manitowoc Crane on 31st and the Lake that needs to be moved down to the boat lagoon on 67th at the harbor.

To break it down, and take it in sections would cost them about 20K in time and labor to move.

Someone finds, or he found them, some fricking drunk lagoon troll with a tug boat and a barge that claims he can move it for 5K cash on the spot.

They tell him go get it. LOL. No way. Yes way. This guy probably hadn't had a bath in a year and maybe three teeth in his mouth. Lucky no lake patrol or inspectors were around. They load this whole monster on this barge in one piece.

Im at the lagoon on 67th running the Komatsu and the owner of the company I work for came out and said we have to dig a ramp down and place some mats to get that crane on shore.

Now how this drunk got that 75ft barge navigated through that harbor no one will ever no, and didn't get thrown in jail,  but here it came and in one piece. WTF.. We were laughing our asses off. You can't make this sheet up. Caught a few pics.

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