Well, any burglar could tear the core apart and all he'd find is concrete and two chunks of sporing fringe buried along the hub.

The pillar flew apart, sending concrete chunks hurtling 20 to 30 feet.

Chris Cooper, a spokesman for the department, said the bridge was inspected shortly after concrete chunks fell from it on Feb. 17.

That was apparently the case in Cleveland last week when an officer was knocked out by a concrete chunk thrown through a windscreen.

Near one such poster, a businessman who gave his name only as Ahmed methodically broke concrete chunks into pieces ready for throwing.

And all around them were 50-foot mounds of twisted metal, concrete chunks and shattered glass.

He kept on trudging over the site strewn with concrete chunks that had fallen off the dump trucks.

All that's left is a single pile, about 10 feet high, of boards, concrete chunks, rags, twisted bicycles and go-carts.

The classroom where industrial design was taught is filled with concrete chunks from the three-foot-wide hole in the outside wall made by an artillery round.

A huge cloud of gray smoke drifted over Rafat after the explosion sent the roof skywards and reduced the building to concrete chunks.