When the brown hits the fan - Worst bloopers

[highspark]

Whats the worst bloopers you have done in regards to customers possessions.I've done many but probably the worst was when I was sent to look at an alarm. Got up to the bellbox un-screwed it then casually placed it hanging on the leg of the ladder...Gust of wind ....smash..... damn that isn't good. Couldn't get a direct replacement (none the same shape) so had to replace the whole bellbox.

 

[spark 68]

I once 'cattled' a central heating controller during an IR test on a ringfinal (a hidden spur), and now always do a 'soft test' at 250V first, just in case.
This has only every happened once, and will never happen again, lesson learnt.

 

[Paul.M]

Laying cables in a loft and the piece of wood I was sitting on snapped in half, gravity took over and my backside went straight through the ceiling in the spare bedroom!

The posh customer saw the funny side of it. I repaired it FOC of course and he was happy with the out come. He gave me twenty quid tip because I came back once the plaster were dry and I painted the full ceiling. Still makes me chuckle now thinking of my butt cheeks hanging from the ceiling .

 

[highspark]

Abit of an only fools moment.....Was cutting out old wiring on a rewire. Cut into a lighting circuit....bang...that sounded loud. Went down stairs and the pendant had smashed into the meter clock and cracked the it.....damn

 

[Plonker 3]

As a apprentice, putting in some new lights with another electrician. I was asked to nail the floor boards down, never looked what I was doing just placed them all down before nailing them. Job was complete and on the way out the owner of the house asked where the water was coming from that was leaking down the side of the light fittings. Yep you guessed it , straight through a water pipe, got away about 2 hours later than we should have.

 

[AP Electrical]

Moving leather sofa into a conservatory in a customers house while we did some skimming work few years ago, anyhow I didnt know they had installed spot lights into stripped wooden floor, anyhow time went on and darkness came and the lights were switch on.
so theres me skimming away all cozy by the roaring fire, whoops.

 

[mhar]

Customer takes possession of part of a brand new barn complex conversion at midday. I turn up at 2.00 as arranged only to find customer has already managed to fall out big style with the neighbours. Have to run a cable to the tv, preferred route is external but this would mean going into the neighbours garden so is a no no. Only route in is by the front door and left through a 1.2 m thick cob wall or along hallway and round through lounge door frame. Hallway is about 15' long and 7'6" high, is polished wooden floor and plastered walls so would look horrible and be the first thing you see when you go in the house, explain this to the customer and he agrees. Longest bit I have is 1m long so I explain this to customer and that he should get permission from the neighbour for me to go into his garden. Neighbour refuses. Bit of head scratching as customer wants it done there and then before wife arrives so I say that the only way that I can think to do it is to use my 1m long bit to drill as far as I can then hammer it in and then use a 300mm long bit in the hole as well to give me the extra length and continue hammering but that by doing this there is likely to be a large exit wound. Some discussion then customer says to do it as will be hidden by the tv. So I drill in and start to tap the 1m bit in when I lose my nerve. Explain to the customer again, he says to do it, I say i'm not at all happy, he says he will do it so we put the second bit end to end in the hole and the customer starts tapping. Easy at first but then he gets to the plaster on the other side and gives it a bit of welly. Thrump!!! Builders had used sand and cement plaster straight onto the bare cob, exit 'wound' was from floor to ceiling and approx 9' long. All we could do was laugh (and cry with laughter) even when we were cleaning it up before the wife's arrival

 

[GLENNSPARK]

on an install a while back.......banging knockout boxes into a single thermalite wall between hallway and bog on the hallway side......one belt too much and straight through.....and theres the mrs of the house on the pot...lol....

 

[robd]

Had a ceiling with 40 plus gu10's in, 4 zones, controlled by rf switches with 4 receivers hidden in the ceiling. Not wired or installed by me but got the job of testing it, pulled various lights down from ceiling and was turning them on and off with the switch to help me hunt for the receivers, had one of the GU10's sitting on the edge of the pool table, turned lights on and pulled various lights down. Then I hear a cracking sound behind me, the GU10 has melted a ring out of the paintwork on the edge of the pool table! I also left one of my pens behind one night and the little girl got hold of it and drew on the chairs! Oh dear, I think they loved me, and my boss too come to think of it!

 

[Knobhead]

OK it’s on the industrial side. We worked as a team, 1 electrician 2 fitters and a welder. So I could find myself belting 7 bells out of a pump, the fitters mucked in when I needed a hand.
We were getting a bit annoyed with a pump that the impeller wouldn’t come off the shaft. The impeller and shaft were scrap so it didn’t mater what we did to them. The welder comes up with the idea of heating the impeller to crack it off the shaft. OK lets give it a go, bear in mind the impeller weighs ¼ of a ton. ½ an hour of heat from 2 oxy-propane heater nozzles and it just getting a dull red. Two of us then took up the sledge hammers, a few good hits and a lump broke off. Oh well if it’s got to come out in bits then so be it. More heat more hammering and red hot bits were flying all over. The workshop was full of smoke and it was getting difficult to see anything so time for a tea break.
In the workshop we had a mess room built out of wood. You can guess the rest, it explained where a fair amount of the smoke came from.
We weren’t popular with the other shift teams.

 

[Deleted member 9648]

About 5 years ago got a call to a very plush country pile for a few small install jobs.....two outside lights either side of the front door was the first job. Only way was to drill through the wall at a carefully calculated angle with a meter long SDS,the first went through a treat....second one all hell let loose,I'd gone straight through an alarm cable..........Following this disaster there was some fishing to do with a legnth of oval,not going according to plan,getting frustrated, the end of the oval hooked round an antique plate hanging on a wall and knocked it off....:sad_smile:.....left the job somewhat sheepishly,after much apologising to the lady of the house. Thought I'd never go back there again,but amazingly they are now regular customers....must be the years of bullsh**ing practice!

 

[Darkwood]

Not me but my work mate was up a small pair of steps many years ago fitting a drop for a dear old lady, she politely offered a cuppa and biscuit to which my mate said please...
5mins later she walks up to him cuppa in hand but he was connecting the drop and unaware of her presence, she noted this and poked her finger in his side ---- well instant reflex meant his arm shot down by his side and flying his elbow straight into her head!!!

She went down and was out for the count for at least 10mins, her hubby walked in from room after hearing the cup/plate smash and with a red face and apologetic tone he explained repeatedly apologising ....... what do you think the old hubby said; "Ive been waiting years to do that, quietest i've ever heard her".
When she came round she had no recollection of the incident and offered my mate another cuppa......
Still crack me up now !!!! :blush5:

 

[trev]

Last few days of a fit out of a training centre for young unemployed, little bit of stripping out to do. Electrical foreman tells me to remove a fire alarm call point and points to the one to remove. "But thats red mate it's brand new" says me
"Listen mate" he says "I get paid for thinking, you get paid for doing"
"So you want the red one on the right hand side of the door as we look at it taking out?" I asked just for clarity
"Yes, at last the penny drops" He shouted
So away I go, a few seconds in the alarm starts sounding. Being well drilled in the emergency procedures everyone in the place(many many different trades all in all about 100 lads) downs tools and walks into the car park (I'm trying hard to keep a laugh in at this point). Elec foreman comes out and tries to tear lumps off me threatening me with the sack until I pointed out that he told me to do it several times in front of witnesses and was questioned several times so if it were anyone's fault it wern't mine.Then in the distance we heard a naaayyy naarrrr naaayyy naaarrrr as the fire brigade beat a hasty path to the training centre's door.
All the lads on the job got a free 45 minutes off and the main contractor got billed somewhere in the region of £500

 

[Rockingit]

Grief - so many possible contenders I think I might share an almost a mishap, instead.

I've worked in some pretty bizarre settings over the years, but a couple of years ago I got asked to advance the electrical install for a big party the RAF were having in one of their hangars at a station. Trouble is, in some piece of genius planning they hadn't cancelled what the hangar was used for early enough - so to cut a story short, I'm up really high in the rafters of this reinforced hangar (think they call them a HAS?) whilst there is a taxiing, armed to the teeth with genuine weapons about to take off, Harrier UNDERNEATH me, on the Cherry Picker. I got a quick whoosh of fairly hot engine exhaust, fingers got really sweaty and slippery really quickly, and I dropped a 3T shackle pin (weighs about 500g, solid steel bolt). Amazingly, it missed £45m of Her Majesty's property by a nats whisker and no-one noticed.

 

[Andy78]

As an apprentice I was in one saturday, as was everyone else, for a largish cable pull. Something like 150m of 95mm 4 core up and over a factory floor. I had pulled the good job up in the scissor lifter feeding the end of the pulling rope and cable over girders, through loops of rope, round corners, over cable rollers etc. After it was all in, the guys on the ground started dragging the slack through. I heard a massive clang behind me and had to shout "whoaah".
i was then left with the unenviable task of telling the 7 knackered, burley, generally p****d off sparks, who didn't really want to be in on a saturday anyway, that half of it had to be pulled back out because I had passed it through the guard rail of the scissor lifter.

 

[Paul.M]

Rockingit how much is your PLI? I bet its not £45M! Close call mate.

 

[Plonker 3]

Just remembered this one, don't know how I could forget it.

A shoe shop that the company I worked for fitted out, had Air Con units fitted, one slight problem though. AC units are 3 phase and shop only has single phase supply. So the fun begins.

The shop ask us to fit a 3 phase supply, not a problem we are electricians and do this sort of thing. I cant remember the exact details but it was something like a 4 core, 240 SWA needed it was also about 90 meters long to the switch room.

We get the spec of our boss on the first day, builders have dug up some of the roadway where cable will be run, then through another unit next to the one we are pulling the cable into. Off we go and commence the work.

Cable pulled in and ready to be terminated, thats tomorrows job.

In the office first thing the next day our gaffer looks a little annoyed and peed off. Turns out the unit we ran the cable through weren't happy that we had done it without there permission. So we have to pull it out and re route it, which took about 2 days as most of it was buried already.

Roll on a few days later and time to terminate the cable in the switch room. Off 2 off us go gland in hand and ready to wrestle the cable.


The switch room set up isn't very good with 4x4 galv trunking with notches in it which pass single insulated cables to meters mounted on the wall.

Hole drilled, armourings stripped, gland in trunking we start to feed the cable into the gland which was a right fight. Anyway struggling away all of a sudden the cable straining into the gland it pushes the trunking away from the wall and produces a almighty bang and fire work display off sparks. Jumping back looking in I though WTF, other spark working with me says lets push the trunking back and re fix it, I was going no where near. He pushes it back only for the same thing to happen again.

I got told to go and find out which units it had affected with the power cut we caused. As you can imagine it was the one we had annoyed a few days earlier and they were mightily annoyed and giving me a round of abuse when I told them what had happened. Needless to say I couldn't give them the office number quick enough and get the hell out of there.

 

[DNS1]

Not me, but this is a mistake I witnessed by a plumbers apprentice who was fitting our new boiler...

They'd needed to lay a new 4 core from the boiler in the utility on the ground floor, to the control unit in the airing cupboard on the floor above and the other side of the house.

Apprentice sent upstairs to jemmy up the floorboards in a back bedroom and drill the holes for the cable.

Unfortunately, 30 seconds later he'd somehow managed to forget that he'd lifted the boards, so strolled back into the room and straight into the hole...

I was in the living room below at the time and was suddenly covered in dust and bits of plaster and looked up to see a leg hanging through the ceiling and hear the noises made by a plumbers apprentice who's just received a joist in the nuts!

 

[Rockingit]

Rockingit how much is your PLI? I bet its not £45M! Close call mate.

Oddly enough, that was one of my first thoughts, too! The military are exempt from both PLI issues AND health and safety if they choose to be, but I wasn't planing on finding out exactly how it works!!

 

[BillyTheSparks]

My biggest oh Sh#t moment happened last Thursday. Was working at a flat above a shop where I had completed a PIR a couple of months before, and in the rectifications was to bond the old gas pipes under the stairs next to the CU. One of the pipes already had a bit of 6mm on it, and I thought well if I'm doing one I might aswell upgrade the existing one while I'm at it. At this time it's about 16:45/17:00 and I thought I'd just take the 6mm out of the CU for tonight put it in a MET block with the ME and new CU earth. I didn't turn the CU off as I know now that I should have. Anyway whilst pulling it out the bottom of the CU it touched the busbar! A small-ish pop and flash of light and everything went off.
I pulled the main fuse and checked to see that the supply was still live, but it wasn't! So i headed down to the Spar shop below and explained the situation to them and they said that they had lost power to some of their fridges etc. So I opened their DB and found that a Phase had gone down...(didn't think about the main cutout fuses at their head)
So I said I'd sort it, and went up to see my client. When I got to her she said she could hear a hissing under her hall floor. I said it's probably the shops down stairs or the neighbours using the water.
It wasn't, and turned out to be a burst pipe. By this time I went down into the hair dressers also below and they had a puddle of water on the floor, I started searching for the stopcock but couldn't turn it off so phoned a plumber I know to come and sort it. In the mean time I decided it would be helpful to start digging up the concrete hall floor to expose the water pipe. (Bad idea!!) As I took the last bit of floor out a torrent of water gushed up into my face and started to flood the flat! The client had to call the fire brigade to help me to turn the water off at the road whilst I was on my knees in the hall with every conciveable towel around the hole to hold back the water as much as possible while I scooped up what I could with a jug; with my hands in the hole to stem as much of the water I could!! (I felt like the little boy whith his finger in a dyke!)
At last the fire brigade came and sorted out talking to the shop owners and finding the stopcock in the road, while I was on the phone to the electricity board (by now it's around 20:00)
The main cutout fuse in the Spar shop had blown and so I replaced it.
The reason for all of this was that when the earth touched the busbar and went pop, it did the same under the floor between the old gas pipe and a nail which was holding the water pipe in place when the place was built (about 50/60 years ago) and blew a hole in the main water pipe in to the flat!

I left that night at about 21:15 with my head in my hands and some unhappy people, I went back on the Friday to clear up and finish what I had started. My client said that Sh#t happens it's how you deal with it that makes it better and she would always ask me back to do more work.

 

[Paul.M]

Ok more a blond moment than the brown stuff hitting the fan.

Estate agency sent me to an unoccupied flat to renew a light fitting which they supplied to match the wall lights. Off I go, nice simple job at the end of a long day. Went into the living room were they was just a blanked off ceiling rose, took it off and installed the new crome fitting that matched the 2 wall lights. Re-energized the circuit, turned on the light then I saw this next door in the dinning room

DHO, I've changed the wrong light!

I went back to the estate agents and told them that the fitting they gave me matched the wall lights and that they don't give off enough lumins for a room of that size so it must have been for the living room and not the dining room (blag, blag, blag). No it wasn't but they agreed with me (lucky) and rebooked for the other fitting to be changed.

Moral of this story kids, always check what your changing over so you don't have a Del boy Trotter moment like me.

 

[highspark]

My biggest oh Sh#t moment happened last Thursday. Was working at a flat above a shop where I had completed a PIR a couple of months before, and in the rectifications was to bond the old gas pipes under the stairs next to the CU. One of the pipes already had a bit of 6mm on it, and I thought well if I'm doing one I might aswell upgrade the existing one while I'm at it. At this time it's about 16:45/17:00 and I thought I'd just take the 6mm out of the CU for tonight put it in a MET block with the ME and new CU earth. I didn't turn the CU off as I know now that I should have. Anyway whilst pulling it out the bottom of the CU it touched the busbar! A small-ish pop and flash of light and everything went off.I pulled the main fuse and checked to see that the supply was still live, but it wasn't! So i headed down to the Spar shop below and explained the situation to them and they said that they had lost power to some of their fridges etc. So I opened their DB and found that a Phase had gone down...(didn't think about the main cutout fuses at their head)So I said I'd sort it, and went up to see my client. When I got to her she said she could hear a hissing under her hall floor. I said it's probably the shops down stairs or the neighbours using the water.It wasn't, and turned out to be a burst pipe. By this time I went down into the hair dressers also below and they had a puddle of water on the floor, I started searching for the stopcock but couldn't turn it off so phoned a plumber I know to come and sort it. In the mean time I decided it would be helpful to start digging up the concrete hall floor to expose the water pipe. (Bad idea!!) As I took the last bit of floor out a torrent of water gushed up into my face and started to flood the flat! The client had to call the fire brigade to help me to turn the water off at the road whilst I was on my knees in the hall with every conciveable towel around the hole to hold back the water as much as possible while I scooped up what I could with a jug; with my hands in the hole to stem as much of the water I could!! (I felt like the little boy whith his finger in a dyke!)At last the fire brigade came and sorted out talking to the shop owners and finding the stopcock in the road, while I was on the phone to the electricity board (by now it's around 20:00)The main cutout fuse in the Spar shop had blown and so I replaced it.The reason for all of this was that when the earth touched the busbar and went pop, it did the same under the floor between the old gas pipe and a nail which was holding the water pipe in place when the place was built (about 50/60 years ago) and blew a hole in the main water pipe in to the flat!I left that night at about 21:15 with my head in my hands and some unhappy people, I went back on the Friday to clear up and finish what I had started. My client said that Sh#t happens it's how you deal with it that makes it better and she would always ask me back to do more work.View attachment 10551View attachment 10552

And the moral of this story is always have an apprentice with you to blame!!!

 

[rmaynard]

not myself but another spark i used to work with extended a ring main on the first floor, long story short, all fitted and tested ok, floor boards back down, happy customer. had a phone call about an hour later saying i think you have trapped my cat under the floorboards, they went back and there it was scratching away, must of got in there when they had the boards up

 

[DPG]

I'd have left it there. Would that have been wrong? Daz

 

[a1guvner]

A few years back doing a refurb in old bond street, pricey, had to re-fit the picture lights in the antiques room, all going really well taking down the pictures as i go and re-fitting after, last fitting having a large cabinet in front of it all warapped up in a dust sheet, fit the base plate and conect the flex and get the securing screws in without incident, stand back and think jobbed jobbed, offer the picture back up and then doom kicks in and as the picture rests in its position the picture light's stalk falls apart sending the head of the double light swinging down into the nice oil painting which was lot 93 from sotherbys and causing a nice hole in the canvas

Really loved that day

 

[Des 56]

happy customer. had a phone call about an hour later saying i think you have trapped my cat under the floorboards, they went back and there it was scratching away, must of got in there when they had the boards up

My mate lifted the floorboards and found the skeleton of the cat that the poor old dear had lost about the time she had central heating installed

We became aware of that because my mate showed the woman the skeleton he had found, she put 2 and 2 together and was a little upset to say the least about the fate of poor Ginger
He must have been a quiet little soul or the plumber was maybe cat phobic and did the dirty deed himself,then perhaps hid the evidence

 

[Paul.M]

Not me this time but a workmate (and I still take the mic )

Few years ago he was sent on a job to renew one db skt and install two new skts. He knocked on the door at number 12 (or whatever house number it was) told the lady that he's come to do the skts and away he went. Chased in the 2 new skts extending the ring, job done and off he goes to the next job.

Gets a phone call from the gaffer "when are you going to get there, customer is waiting in for you and your 3 hours late as it is!"

"Ive done that job" he replied.

"Then why have I got an angry tenant on the phone who has taken the morning off work?"

"Ive done that job at number 12" he shouts back at the boss.

Boss says in an inquisitive voice "number 12? It should be number 21!"

He put down the wrong house number on the job sheet and the woman at number 12 just thought her landlord had requested this work to be done.

I take the p at any opportunity asking "have we got the right house this time". It never wears thin lol.

 

[grimysparks80]

LOL. Had the same thing happen to a lad called eddie at our old place. I was in the office on monday morning when eddies customer from satyrday phones up, asking why he never showed up to fit a central heating programmer.

They call eddie and hes outraged because he did go. lovely little semi with a blue front door. Exept our customer, it turned out, had a white front door. He couldnt remember where he went as hed used a sat nav to get there. Kids let him in to do the job as their mum was out.

Bet she was happy with the surprise job she had done. We never did find out where hed been.

 

[trev]

Not my cock up but a pretty good one from a council. Decent homes work is going on and the programme is in full swing. Sparks turn up at a house to start the rewire, lady of the house lets them in and goes off to work. Few days later plumbers go in and swap the boiler for shiny new combi, the day after in go the kitchen fitters and install a pretty nice new kitchen.
After a few weeks nothing more has gone in and the site manager rings the window company to find out what's happening with their new windows and doors. Well says the company's installation manager the guy who lives there is a mate of mine and he told me a few weeks back that they had the mortgage through and now owned the house so I cancelled it.
The guy was working away and his wife assumed he had arranged all the work.
Oops several thousand quids worth of work carried out with no authorisation. Don't know if the council ever got their money.

 

[trev]

Another one not mine.
Same decent homes job foreman spark sends me to a house to second fix a heating system. I told the old boy why I was there and he immediately offered me a cuppa which was gratefully accepted. He showed me to the cupboard where there's a brand new boiler all nicely second fixed already, now I'm confused.
His wife then comes out of the bedroom and asks me why I'm there so I explain again "Who sent you? that boiler has been in 3 months now"
"I was sent by the council" says I
"But it's not a council house" she shouts! then starts to berate her husband for letting me in. Turns out the old fella's mind was wandering.
So after apologising for disturbing them I went to sit in the car while on the phone to my gaffer, while in mid conversation I noticed a police car come round the corner. A couple of minutes later there's a big burly cop at the car window demanding ID.
Gaffer also got a rollocking from the boys in blue

 

[Spudnik]

I connected a WB combi boiler the wrong way round.


BANG!!!

Thankfully, the 3A fuse popped before anything on the boiler!!!

Luckily, customer not present

 

[Guest111]

worst one for me was a kwik save in the north east, anyway we were ripping out all the concession shops to make the store bigger you remember them,little butcher, grocer that type of thing well I never throw anything away if it,s any good so I took the alarmbox off and there was a black box attached that I thought may be handy so I cut the cables and put it straight in my van,5 mins later door flies open and in run these 2 coppers.turns out the place had a history of being held up so the police had put a radiolink in to try and catch the thieves,but the store manager had forgot about it so when I ripped it out they thought it was a robbery,anyway at least he got his box back as it had gone in my van and not in the skip.

 

[PB1]

I made a stupid mistake on my own house rewire that I only found out last weekend. The rewire had been done over quite a long period working around other trades and waiting for various walls to be boarded etc, so I was relieved when I'd got the final long run of cable in for the kitchen socket circuit back to the consumer unit. Last weekend I finally got round to connecting up the last two kitchen sockets, got to the last cable and thought, funny this seems quite flexible. Started to strip it and noticed grey, black brown. Went to the other end of the house to the consumer unit to check the other end of the cable waiting to be connected and realised I'd used 1.5mm 3core T&E instead of 2.5mm. FFS.
Luckily the plasterer hadn't been able to get to plaster the boards that the cable was behind, nor had the carpet fitter been yet. Phew. It only took a couple of hours to replace it and I learned a valuable lesson - read the label - twice at least, and check the end of the cable before you start!

 

[Dcf]

I wired a load of ac3 air curtain heaters in the local cinema.all concealed cabling,severe phase imbalance sorted out I am a prem league sparks me.
tested the circuits fired them up work fine. 10 min later a fire alarm message to evacuate comes over the pa system.wtf is going on.8 fire engines later and about 20 firemen roll in .the oil coating on the elements on one heater had blown into a detector resulting in me evacuating 7 cinemas.

 

[trev]

I accidentally meggered the big boss when I was an apprentice. We were trying to get the new apprentice but the gaffer picked the cable up. Ooops

 

[highspark]

I made a stupid mistake on my own house rewire that I only found out last weekend. The rewire had been done over quite a long period working around other trades and waiting for various walls to be boarded etc, so I was relieved when I'd got the final long run of cable in for the kitchen socket circuit back to the consumer unit. Last weekend I finally got round to connecting up the last two kitchen sockets, got to the last cable and thought, funny this seems quite flexible. Started to strip it and noticed grey, black brown. Went to the other end of the house to the consumer unit to check the other end of the cable waiting to be connected and realised I'd used 1.5mm 3core T&E instead of 2.5mm. FFS.
Luckily the plasterer hadn't been able to get to plaster the boards that the cable was behind, nor had the carpet fitter been yet. Phew. It only took a couple of hours to replace it and I learned a valuable lesson - read the label - twice at least, and check the end of the cable before you start!

I did this on my first day as a trainee!

 

[Knobhead]

I wired a load of ac3 air curtain heaters in the local cinema.all concealed cabling,severe phase imbalance sorted out I am a prem league sparks me.
tested the circuits fired them up work fine. 10 min later a fire alarm message to evacuate comes over the pa system.wtf is going on.8 fire engines later and about 20 firemen roll in .the oil coating on the elements on one heater had blown into a detector resulting in me evacuating 7 cinemas.

Your trick with the cinema reminded me of this. One of the other strings to my bow was event (dis) organisation. We did a show in a Manchester nite club, the stage show was going without a hitch, until this!
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We forgot to cancel automatic response to a fire alarm. It’s a big club, minimum 5 engines to attend. I was given a sever ear bending by the fire officer and threatened with arrest.

Also had other run ins with the fire brigade at work, but their another story.
Auto fire alarms are great, but not when it’s a mistake on your part

 

[Paul.M]

Is this thread open to the public because its making us lot look like a right bunch of mupets LOL.

Engineer54 is first row, bottom left!






I'm going to get some stick for that one I think.

 

[Knobhead]

The Muppet show, that's a management meeting

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[Knobhead]

I thought you would have E54 and I as Statler and Waldorf

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