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Tired of blaming GPS on petty mishaps like the destruction of cars, a demolition crew in Georgia has managed to accidentally destroy an entirely wrong house based on GPS coordinates. Oddly enough, it wasn’t even the first time they’d been by: the man who cuts the grass noticed that the power box was missing from the home and holes were punched into the walls about a month ago — it was suspected as vandalism, but it now seems that the stealthy, directionless demolition company was to blame. The demolition company says it had “paperwork” authorizing the destruction, complete with the coordinates and a description of the home, which the owner’s father had built with his own hands “brick by brick.”

Story from Engadget.com

Update 6/21/09:

CARROLL, Ga. (UPI) – A Georgia man said he received a phone call saying the three-bedroom house his father built had been successfully demolished — by mistake.

Al Byrd said he was shocked when the Marietta demolition company told him the Carroll house, which was vacant but filled with family heirlooms, had been destroyed, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

“It’s just incredulous that something like this can happen and no one contacts the owner,” Byrd said.

He said the demolition company told him the work crew’s paperwork and GPS coordinates had led them to the home. He theorized the vacant house across the street was the house sought by the company.

“We had heirlooms in there,” Byrd said. “My mom’s dining room set, her hutch with her dishes in there.”

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