Feel free to call William Lyttle the “Mole Man”, because he has spent 40 years excavating tunnels beneath his large 20-room house in East London. As a retired engineer he should have realized what might happen, but as a 77-year-old man he probably forgot that the tunnels might cause his house to collapse. Now he’s facing a charge of 300,000 pounds, or approximately $600,000 dollars, because of how structurally unsound his property is. It’s so bad, that a fridge-freezer and a bathtub are the only supports in some portions of his home!

Lyttle was crazy about holes, even digging holes around his home to store things such as cars and boats. He was evicted two years ago in 2006, since the damage he was doing was affecting neighbors and the pavement outside. Even though he hasn’t been in the place since, the courts just recently decided the damages for his action, totalling over 280,000 pounds for repairs and over 10,000 pounds in legal costs.

According to Simon Butler, “There were poles which had been used to prop sections of floor, which were clearly bowing out of vertical due to the excessive load which the building had been subjected to. Mr Lyttle had extended below the existing basement to the property and mined the two main garden areas. He had also undermined and cut away at the foundation of the neighbouring property.”

We just wonder why he was digging beneath his own house! A man with that size house and the ability to buy cars and boats should have probably just bought a separate playground to dig around.

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