Comment Re:It happened before (Score 1) 990
If you read the This Is Local London article linked from the Wikipedia article, it clearly says that the buyers knew they were not buying the Tower Bridge.
Admittedly, that's the story from the guy who sold the bridge, but I don't see any of the buyers claiming they got ripped off.As a press conference at the British-American Chamber of Commerce in New York with 50 correspondents, the question he had been waiting for came almost at once: "The bridge was only built in 1832. It is not the bridge with houses on it, not the bridge of the nursery rhyme. What's so special about it?"
Mr Luckin told them: "London Bridge is not just a bridge. It is the heir to 2,000 years of history going back to the First Century AD, to the time of the Roman Londinium
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