See the ball , it ' s over there , in Poland ! Poland has your ball ! <| sep |> Sorry about that , was on local connection instead of internet . In the plaza now . <| sep |> In May 2012 , a Michigan boy found a finger in his sandwich at Arbys . Following an investigation it was found that one of the restaurant employees had lost her finger in a meat slicing accident and it ended up in the kids meal . I ' ll have the roast beef sandwich with a side of fingers please . <| sep |> Mostly poor tendering , oversight and legal climates in the US . For example NY has a lowest bid law . So you have to go with a company you know to be shit and likely to overrun because of a low bid . Generally very poor oversight ie not enough engineers working directly for the government . Even worse , some projects are completely designed and built by one company so they try to design a very expensive project . US courts tend to side with contractors . Combined with the lowest bid requirements and agencies just write longer and more complex contracts to the point of requiring specific materials . This removes flexibility vital for any construction project and makes public bids even less attractive to good contractors . The result is that the US which has plenty of good contractors is stuck with employing the worst anyone better goes private and despite having very low homecommercialetc construction costs ends up paying waaaay more .