How can I get my boyfriend to stop digging his tunnel?

Re:How can I get my boyfriend to stop digging his tunnel? by lazide on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @11:28AM (#31098339)

It’s likely more dangerous thank bedrock tunneling frankly. Loosely consolidated sedimentary soil can easily shift and slide with relatively little outside input. A truck driving by, a rain, sprinklers, even someone walking over it.

And it only takes a small amount of dirt covering someone to crush them or suffocate them to death. Literally less than a foot depending on distribution.

Construction crews have to shore up anything higher than waist high for this reason.

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Re:How can I get my boyfriend to stop digging his tunnel? by fifticon on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @11:42AM (#31098594)

A guy on our street died digging out for sewer, only ~2m deep - a side he had stacked dirt on caved in/slided and covered him. He left a wife and 2 kids. No tunnel, just unsafely stacked dirt mound.

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Re:How can I get my boyfriend to stop digging his tunnel? by rotexo on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @12:10PM (#31099056)

Thank you. My partner is an architect, and while they aren’t a structural engineer, they had enough structures training in grad school to know that hobby tunnel digging is extremely dangerous. There are clearly alternative physical activities that would have all the same benefits with none of the downsides.

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