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QOTW: What is a land surveyor's greatest nightmare?

Question of the Week: 

What is a land surveyor's greatest nightmare?

Crime and (hopefully) punishment

Hello
This my first post so apologies for the subject matter!!

So this is unfortunately a first for me having been surveying for around 17 years...I was working in Croydon on friday doing a small topographic survey when a car pulls up, out jumps a man

Those were the days

Best survey of my life to date was a over 18 thousand acre boundary survey. Its started at the beginning of the Alligator River in a place called Gum Neck, NC. Look on a NC map for the frying pan that's where it is. Long story short even the bees and

Who was the first surveyor visited Mars to construct Pyramids?

Nasa has announced there are pyramids on Mars?

Lady with a Gun

I am very thankful today that a police officer came out of the woods where I was surveying and asked me if I had seen an elderly lady with a big hat, "like the ones that they wear at the Kentucky Derby".  

The officer said "If you see anyone matching

Resetting a monument

I don't know about you but this is the worst procedure and practice I think I have ever witnessed. This may be acceptable and common practice in some other location in the United States but it is contrary to everything I have been taught and learne

The Deadly Brown Recluse Spider

When you're surveying in the woods, you could easily come across a Brown Recluse Spider and just a few days later, lose your life over it.  And to think when we were kids, we caught Black Widow Spider's and put them in coke bottlesand blow them up wi