That depends where the concrete was going to be used. On the first floor of a multi floor building? Will probably cause some structural issues after it’s nearly build or fully built.
So if you want to sabotage a building, the idea would be to get a job where you’re assigned to haul the wheelbarrow full of concrete to the back of the jobsite or drag the end of the chute to where it’s going to dump out, so you know exactly where that ton of concrete is going. Then you surreptitiously pour out a couple pounds of sugar from your orange vest or fake beer gut and stir it around with a trowel without arousing suspicion. Zoidberg takes notes: “surrep…titiously…”
A concrete truck can hold up to about 50000lbs or 25 tons so you only need 50lbs of sugar to ruin a truck load. That sounds like a pretty easy amount to throw into a concrete truck
It might not sound like much, but the French people who committed the prison concrete sabotage weren’t ordinary people who showed up with sugar in their pockets, they were a well organized group that had also broken into offices to steal construction plans. One of their documents describes sabotaging the concrete as “a simple matter” of adding sugar, but that’s all - it doesn’t say whether they added it to a running truck (which would be quite a trick because everybody on a truck crew knows who’s in the crew) or mixed it dry with sacks of concrete in a storeroom, or what. It also doesn’t mention observing any actual results. People’s vision of how this would work is way too simple - “Just toss a 50-lb bag of something into a truck!”
2 lbs of sugar would fit in two Venti size drink cups.
1 ton of concrete wouldn’t fill up a VW beetle.
So if you want to sabotage even a small office building, you’re gonna need a fuckload of sugar.
How am I expected to be able to afford a fuckload of sugar in this economy?
That depends where the concrete was going to be used. On the first floor of a multi floor building? Will probably cause some structural issues after it’s nearly build or fully built.
So if you want to sabotage a building, the idea would be to get a job where you’re assigned to haul the wheelbarrow full of concrete to the back of the jobsite or drag the end of the chute to where it’s going to dump out, so you know exactly where that ton of concrete is going. Then you surreptitiously pour out a couple pounds of sugar from your orange vest or fake beer gut and stir it around with a trowel without arousing suspicion. Zoidberg takes notes: “surrep…titiously…”
A concrete truck can hold up to about 50000lbs or 25 tons so you only need 50lbs of sugar to ruin a truck load. That sounds like a pretty easy amount to throw into a concrete truck
It might not sound like much, but the French people who committed the prison concrete sabotage weren’t ordinary people who showed up with sugar in their pockets, they were a well organized group that had also broken into offices to steal construction plans. One of their documents describes sabotaging the concrete as “a simple matter” of adding sugar, but that’s all - it doesn’t say whether they added it to a running truck (which would be quite a trick because everybody on a truck crew knows who’s in the crew) or mixed it dry with sacks of concrete in a storeroom, or what. It also doesn’t mention observing any actual results. People’s vision of how this would work is way too simple - “Just toss a 50-lb bag of something into a truck!”