Contractor Shall Gently Remove... Weirdest Clause Or Requirement?

Sometimes, architects and engineers will insert humorous language within drawings and specifications intended to be caught by the person who is checking their work. On occasion, these slip through and end up in the final documents.

One of the strangest specifications that I ever read said: "Contractor shall provide one first-class security system."

That one sentence was the entirety of the security specification for a luxury car dealership. I was called in after-the-fact by the facility owner to arbitrate whether or not the contractor met this "specification". 

I don't know of any other way to explain it than the VH story. Cool find though.

As a specifying engineer, if I ever inserted a joke like this as Michael Silva stated, to see if the checker catches it, that would not go over well because of the chance it could slip through and go out in the final documents. I can't imagine what would happen at my company if the architect or Owner ended up seeing it in CDs.

I once saw something that said "if anyone is reading this contact me at name@domain.com to claim a free steak dinner" but their actual email address was in there.  I didn't reach out - but wondered if anyone else did. 

I cannot believe how ridiculous that requirement is.

What if the "secret home owner" with the "secret location" is on the other side of the world?

This is awesome.  I want to respond, I don't even care what the project is.

I used to put all the desk furniture in my bosses offices on the 'Toilets' layer in AutoCad back when I was a draftsman.

In your face, bosses!

One of the best ones is when a system requires compliance with RFC 2549, which is of course "IP transmission over Carrier Pigeon Transport".

Whenever I see this, I un-ironically respond with a request to waive the requirement, due to high packet loss and long round-trip times using this IP method.🤓