Disabled bay painted around car

BBC ^ | 6/23/06

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Maybe it was an excellent practical joke and not government contractor stupidity? What a great joke that would be.

It reminds me of the time I was helping start up a new a Chinese fertilizer factory many years ago. The concrete crew had to pour a new factory floor and a large valve was sitting smack dab in the middle of where the new floor was to be poured. Rather than move the valve, they carefully placed a form around the valve and proceeded with the pour. The next day, there was this beautiful new floor with a huge hole in the middle and the valve still sitting on the dirt with the forms removed. "It isn't my job" rules everywhere.

[Dr._Joseph_Warren]

This reminds me of something that happened years ago in my small mid-western town.

Our police force had two cars that patrolled during the day. In the evening they only patrolled using one car and they would park the other car in front of City Hall. They had a portable "No Parking: Reserved for Police" sign that they rolled out at ~4:00 pm when the shift changed so they had a place to park the unused squad car.

An out of towner had parked in that spot around 3:30 and gone shopping. When he returned at 5:00, there was a sign where there hadn't been one before and he had a ticket.

Needless to say, he raised holly hell and got the ticket revoked.

Most small town police are pretty good, but some of them are really clueless.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Sounds like the typical bureaucratic SNAFU one would expect behind an iron curtain.

[bcsco]

"...just a crooked doctor who will write the prescription or whatever is necessary."

I've been handicapped since 1995 but only got my tag a year ago. My wife was after me for years to get one but I resisted (out of pride). My doctor was in agreement, however she's known me for years. Those doctors who do it illegitimately are quacks and deserve to have their licenses revoked.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Actually, they are speaking English.

We speak American English.

They spoke it first.

[proudofthesouth]

I live in Huntsville, Alabama. Is this a true story? (With our local government it wouldn't surprise me if it were.)

[4yearlurker]

Seems like the UK has no shortage of idiots working for the Government......much like the USA.

[Kozak]

Believe it.

[NonValueAdded]

The workers were fired after a review of the work order showed clearly that a fake fire hydrant was specified, not the handicapped bay. /h

[EricT.]

[William Terrell]

It was represented as true to me. Some years ago, actually. I come from Montgomery and live in Birmingham.

[BlazingArizona]

Who cares? Why do we get stupid British stories on here anyway? Don't they have their own internet sites?

I saw this happen once (but with a red No Parking curb, not handicapped markings) in Irvine, CA.

[308MBR]

Look out! Once the cops in Georgia's most famous fee grabbing town, Ludowici, find this, there's no telling what's next. I'm sure they're already working on a portable fire hydrant.

[rawhide]

There is a photo shown here, (I cannot post it), at this link with more to this story:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006290144,00.html

[Erasmus]

Forgive me for being unable to restrain myself---

It was starting day at the Tuna, Texas power company for two fledgling engineers. Bruce was from UT Austin--a Teasip. Gomer was from A&M--an Aggie.

The foreman gave the young'ns their first field assignments. "We got some new lines to put in, and we'll start today with the power poles. We got one stretch over on Lamar Road, and the other's out on Magnolia Chase. We got two crews waitin', and they got the maps and the drawings."

"Bruce, you take Lamar, and Gomer, you take Magnolia. Report back here by 5:30 so I can see how ya did."

The boys went on their way, and both returned at the appointed time to report on how they'd done.

"OK, Bruce, how'd ya do?"

"Well, we got about three quarters of a mile done, from 3rd Street to 9th. They're all ready for stringing."

"How 'bout you, Gomer?"

"Boss, we got most of the way from 16th to 17th Avenue."

"Gomer! How come Bruce got 7 blocks o' poles done and you didn't even get one?"

"Boss, did you see how much of the poles he left out of the ground?!"

[Erasmus]

It reminds me of the time I was helping start up a new a Chinese fertilizer factory many years ago.

You could have stopped right there and it would still have been funny.

[William Terrell]

Some of these guys. . . one hopes they don't have children.

[pau1f0rd]

yes, www.freebritannia.com - and they put stupid American stories on there too sometimes ;-)