Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

PasturesNew

Re work.... submit it as it had been done.... and, as such, it wouldn't be "fair" when you balance it against the fact you're dealing with a lunatic who doesn't think through consequences ....so might easily pop back one random evening with some fuel and a lighter as the work WAS done so they'd not see it as fair it wasn't submitted.

Re other .... technically a pre-meditated event. 1st off could be "oops, didn't mean that to happen/embarrassed/stupid" .... 2nd is just criminal minded arrogance.... and so is severe.

The two events are unrelated, except by geography and date.

1] Worked hard/did work/met deadlines. The reward for this is the submission.
2] Idiot.... the outcome is a lifetime ban from the premises and maybe other officials becoming interested.

Different events. And, in law, not submitting might be seen as applying a rule retrospectively, which could lead to untold consequences for the big chiefs.

michaels

Conrad wrote: »

I just had a Laurel and Hardy moment, so embarrassed.


Dear Son is doing his weeks work experience with me at my office. Today I had a H&S inspection scheduled on a flat I own and let.


Dear Son followed me into the flat to meet the lovely tenants, a Polish couple.


So I began my inspection and got to the 2 ceiling alarms that sit in the open plan kitchen / living room.


'Did I install these'? I couldn't remember. The flat is 2 yrs old.


Anyway lets test them eh Mr tenant.


First one tested fine, battery all ok.


Second one, well it's not something I recognised.


Where do we press to test it? Tenant and I circled it a few times.
In the end started jabbing a protruding piece of plastic .


Beep - red and blue light. What does that mean?


'Let me play around with this' I say.


A couple more presses


WHACK!!!!!!!!!!!
All hell breaks lose! Alarms and something else.........


Tenants dive for the floor - !!!!!! is happening here??


Oh no, a moment of realisation, the inbuilt funky looking sprinklers mounted low on the walls have all gone off..


Within seconds we were drenched in something, and running round like headless chickens


How the hell is this going to end.......


'Something' is spewing out in very high powered wide arc jets, we can barely see

what is this stuff, is it foam or what!


how will I even get this thing off??


An age of indecision passes, panic rising big time


I know - I twist the ceiling alarm to take it from it's mounting and run into the bedroom, nothing


I jab away at it


Panic rising


At last, somehow it stops


We all stand there dripping, except son who has by now dived out the front door (great help!)




Turned out to be super fine water mist thankfully, so we all got mopping and wiping and in fact couldn't stop laughing




What a wally

I hope your DS did his duty and whipped his phone out and filmed the whole thing for posterity.

Pyxis

Conrad wrote: »

I just had a Laurel and Hardy moment, so embarrassed............

At least you know the fire precautions work!




Unless you've broken it, now?




Perhaps you'd better test it again!:D



Seriously, I'm a bit puzzled why fiddling with the detector, and in the absence of heat, smoke or flames, would set off the sprinklers.

Is there a simple and less wet way of testing that they work?

michaels wrote: »

I hope your DS did his duty and whipped his phone out and filmed the whole thing for posterity.

If he didn't, he's really let his generation down! :rotfl:

Ooooh! If he did, ask him to put it on YouTube? I'd like to see it!

silvercar

SingleSue wrote: »

A member of the staff was put at risk..basically he drove his car at them and either from jumping to avoid being run over or actually being hit, the college employee ended up on the bonnet of the car. This was then further compounded by number 2 trying it again on the way out of the car park.

There was a threat of the police being called but I don't think they were in the end as no injuries but that still doesn't reduce the seriousness of his actions.

A friend's son drove his car from one side of a halls of residence car park to the other, got into a stroppy argument with the car park supervisor who promptly performed a citizen's arrest on the poor lad. The lad ended up in court, found guilty of drink driving (failing to supply a specimen) and ended up with a criminal conviction. the university still awarded him his law degree, though it hampered him getting article until it fell off his record.

michaels

Can you be guilty of drunk deiving on private land?

Pyxis

michaels wrote: »

Can you be guilty of drunk deiving on private land?

That's a point.

vivatifosi

Conrad, thank you so much for fessing up. That gave me such a chuckle.

ukmaggie45

I see we're at 600 pages now.

It's time somebody else "sponsored" the new continuing thread - when I took it on you only got 500 pages.

Please!

Or at least discuss it if nobody wants to volunteer!

GDB2222

michaels wrote: »

Can you be guilty of drunk deiving on private land?

It depends. If it's your back garden, no you can't be. But if it's an area that the public can enter, then you can be. There's lots of case law about this, often concerning pub car parks!

Pyxis

ukmaggie45 wrote: »

I see we're at 600 pages now.

It's time somebody else "sponsored" the new continuing thread - when I took it on you only got 500 pages.

Please!

Or at least discuss it if nobody wants to volunteer!

Would you like me to?

What should be on the first page? I wouldn't want to break any 'rules'.:o