design fault

It cracks me up sometimes when you see the stupidity of some peoples ideas right in front of your eyes. Auckland recently spent alot of money to make the place prettier (apparently) and one of these improvements was widening footpaths so the trees had to be circled with tarseal as you can see originally they thought large loose stones on a hill was going to cover the roots and look nice not really taking into account, wind, rain, gravity or people that they would just stay in place which of course never worked so now they have glued the stones in - can't imagine the 100% seal is too good for the tree.