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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Dec 10, 2022 20:27:26 GMT
Don't just ring the emergency services and then hang about for a day. Someone is going to want a fag.
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Post by borchester on Dec 10, 2022 23:05:48 GMT
Don't just ring the emergency services and then hang about for a day. Someone is going to want a fag.
Oh God, it is the brussel sprouts isn't it? We have just had a prequel to the Christmas dinner and it is as though Nord Stream has sprung another leak
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Dec 10, 2022 23:10:22 GMT
Don't just ring the emergency services and then hang about for a day. Someone is going to want a fag.
Oh God, it is the brussel sprouts isn't it? We have just had a prequel to the Christmas dinner and it is as though Nord Stream has sprung another leak Apparently the three story building reverted back to flatpack form.
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Post by walterpaisley on Dec 11, 2022 9:36:39 GMT
One of Constable (now SERGEANT!) Eldest Son's occasional duties over the past few years has been as a result of the following scenario..
Idiot sees video on YouTube, etc, showing how to bypass utility meters and get "free" gas/electricity.
Utility company notices subsequent fall in payments by said idiot, and sends inspector over (with Constable Eldest Son as backup) to find Rube Goldbergian assemblage of old hosepipe and jubilee clips in basement.
(Idiot arrested, and emergency utility engineers flown in.)
As prices skyrocket, so have these cases. (In one notoriously rough bit of Sheffield, he recently attended three such houses in the same week.)
Human stupidity seems to be an infinite resource.
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Post by johnofgwent on Dec 24, 2022 6:41:12 GMT
I’m sure there were a spate of these a decade or so ago and most were destruction of properties who didn’t even have gas.
About 50 years ago when I was 15 there was a spectacular incident north of the A469/470 in Cardiff perhaps a quarter mile north of the interchange where the university hospital is now. And it was about this time of year.
It was a miserably cold night and I crawled into bed at about 10pm and about an hour later the flat roof of my bedroom was rained on by small lumps of something, the noise being like hailstones but there was no storm outside the windows.
The next morning the road was filthy dirty, and then we looked and saw the whole of the front drive of our house and all the neighbours was equally filthy. Walking to catch the bus to school we saw why.
A huge chunk of the main road was just … missing. Police, fire and gas engineers were everywhere.
A few weeks later the paper ran a story. Apparently the cold weather had caused some sort of malfunction and the gas main which was actually far too near the surface of the road became over -pressurised and cracked. The damage ripped the road surface off and threw it into the air, along with lots of the sand and small gravel ballast
The fronts of houses on the Main road took the brunt with many windows damaged, but some of the stuff was thrown so far it went right over those houses and landed on ours on the next street back.
Thank god there wasn’t an ignition. That would have been impressive.
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Post by Baron von Lotsov on Jan 8, 2023 13:18:45 GMT
One of Constable (now SERGEANT!) Eldest Son's occasional duties over the past few years has been as a result of the following scenario.. Idiot sees video on YouTube, etc, showing how to bypass utility meters and get "free" gas/electricity. Utility company notices subsequent fall in payments by said idiot, and sends inspector over (with Constable Eldest Son as backup) to find Rube Goldbergian assemblage of old hosepipe and jubilee clips in basement. (Idiot arrested, and emergency utility engineers flown in.) As prices skyrocket, so have these cases. (In one notoriously rough bit of Sheffield, he recently attended three such houses in the same week.) Human stupidity seems to be an infinite resource. Good point. I had not considered that one. Thanks for keeping us informed of the goings on in the real world.
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