1.) never give your GPS co-ords to anyone who doesn't like you

2.) who needs cruise missiles any more?

That's so funny. Thank god that wasn't *my* house. ;-)

Some persons less charitable than I may suggest that the gentleman featured in this story deserves to have his house knocked down for his complete failure to understand the proper contextual usage of the word "incredulous".

I, however, laugh in the face of semantics (but not angry workmen in JCBs).

'Vernice Parham, who has lived on the street with two of her six sisters for more than 40 years, was home when the demolition began. “It hurt my heart,” she said. “I wasn’t raised up in it , but I was raised up near it,” Parham said. “I know we got a heavenly home. But we’ve got a Earthly home there.”'

Sounds like the house was right next to the local lunatic asylum...

Anyone else remembering the hitch-hiker's guide to the galaxy?

Nice bit of Shock and Awe. Maybe the US airforce could move into this line of business - could work if they used their enhanced blast JDAMs. Absolutely porktastic!

If a nuclear missile lands on the wrong side of the street, it's not exactly going to make a huge amount of difference.

Also, anything requiring precision is normally laser guided, or at least a combination of GPS to get to roughly the right area, then a laser target for the final accurate positioning...

The place was apparently unoccupied, but hadn't been emptied of all furniture (china cabinet, etc.) so it's unclear how much was actually left in the house. I also note at least two pretty full-looking dumpsters in the linked slideshow, so the lack of visible, recognizable kitchen debris is likely easily explained.

Also, the lack of gas/electrical problems are doubtless explained by "...evidence of the impending apocalypse - in the form of a missing power box and 'holes punched in the walls' - prior to the destruction..." as noted in the article that you're commenting on. I think that we can assume that the "paperwork" that the demolition crew-boss had included forms that said that all utilities had been disconnected at the listed location; thus, no earth-shattering kaboom. If he had a habit of starting demolitions WITHOUT having something in hand saying that all utilities were disconnected, I'm amazed he lived long enough to learn even as much about GPS as he has!

Hang on… You read this article and your reaction is to suspect foul play on the owner's part? That's a pretty weird vindictive sense of 'must've done something'.

I don't have many posessions and am known to spend quite a bit of time away from home, but I don't think I deserve to have my family home bulldozed…

The noobs probably stripped out everything portable of value to sell on the tat bazaar before flatlining the place. Maybe the owner ought to check to see if Ma's heirlooms have popped up yet.

If y'all call a hutch a dresser, what do you call that thing with drawers that hold your underwear?

If you are going to introduce home demolition as a fit and proper punishment for grammatical misdemeanors, then that's going to render homeless virtually all the people who post to this site (including most of the the journalists). The only good thing to be said for the idea is that John Prescott and George Bush would have been living on the streets within a few seconds of opening their mouths.

I think that after having some numbskull demolish your house because the computer said so you're allowed to have a couple of grammatical errors and a stammer.

On Alpha Centauri for 50 of your earth years, if you can't be bothered to take an interest in local affairs....

"If y'all call a hutch a dresser, what do you call that thing with drawers that hold your underwear?"

... Chest of drawers?

"If y'all call a hutch a dresser, what do you call that thing with drawers that hold your underwear?"

... Chest of drawers?

... Tallboy - if it has many drawers and stand pretty high (about six drawers high).

... LowBoy - if it has fewer drawers and stands, em! lower (maybe 3-4 drawers high).

I don't believe that Barnes Wallace had any input in the design of these particular Tallboys.

Make sure your house is more than 20m away from your neighbours' so that GPS positioning errors don't get you.

“I said, ‘What address did you have?’ and he said, ‘They sent me some GPS coordinates.’ I said, ‘Don’t you have an address?’ [and] he said, ‘Yes, my GPS coordinates led me right to this address here and this house was described.’

Whats wrong with using an house address ?

In the States a dresser is a wide, low, thing with a mirror on top.

A chest of drawers is tall, 3 feet or so wide , with lots of drawers but no mirror.

A dresser (aka wardrobe, or armoire) is about like a chest of drawers but usually only has 2 doors and has a rod for hanging things inside - may or may not have mirrors on the inside or outside of the doors.

A "hutch" is actually a separate piece of furniture that sits on top of a "server". The server is usually about 4 feet wide with some combination of drawers and doors and the hutch sits on top of it - just like the "hutch" on some computer desks.

a like a china cabinet or a sideboard?

And where did that number come from after my name??

I am Not a number.

I am a free man!

...plus any other recognisable valuables, is into the back of an unmarked white van or several.

If the experience of a friend whose house was damaged by fire is anything to go by anyway, he said it was amazing how many of the expensive appliances from his rather new and pretty much undamaged kitchen were adjudged 'damaged beyond repair' by the insurer comissioned work crew (before the loss adjuster turned up, naturally), but 'disappeared' to somewhere that wasn't the skip...