Skip to comments.
Disabled bay painted around car
BBC ^
| 6/23/06
Posted on 06/25/2006 8:49:34 AM PDT by LibWhacker
click here to read article
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20, 21-38 last
To: LibWhacker
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.
To: LibWhacker
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.
To: LibWhacker
Sounds like the typical bureaucratic SNAFU one would expect behind an iron curtain.
23
posted on
06/25/2006 9:41:04 AM PDT
by
Ghost of Philip Marlowe
(Liberals are blind. They are the dupes of Leftists who know exactly what they're doing.)
To: Freedom4US
"...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.
24
posted on
06/25/2006 9:43:37 AM PDT
by
bcsco
(KOs = KOincidence of KOmmie KOrruption!)
To: robertpaulsen
Actually, they are speaking English.
We speak American English.
They spoke it first.
25
posted on
06/25/2006 9:45:47 AM PDT
by
Knitting A Conundrum
(Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
To: William Terrell
I live in Huntsville, Alabama. Is this a true story? (With our local government it wouldn't surprise me if it were.)
26
posted on
06/25/2006 9:46:06 AM PDT
by
proudofthesouth
(Mao said that power comes at the point of a rifle; I say FREEDOM does.)
To: LibWhacker
Seems like the UK has no shortage of idiots working for the Government......much like the USA.
27
posted on
06/25/2006 9:46:43 AM PDT
by
4yearlurker
(My grandfather's voice was soft and merry and far away as he reminisced.)
To: calex59
Believe it.
28
posted on
06/25/2006 9:48:34 AM PDT
by
Kozak
(Anti Shahada: " There is no God named Allah, and Muhammed is his False Prophet")
To: LibWhacker
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
29
posted on
06/25/2006 9:50:22 AM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
("So to hell with that twerp at the [WaPo]. I've got no time for him on a day like this." Mark Steyn)
To: LibWhacker
30
posted on
06/25/2006 9:51:25 AM PDT
by
EricT.
(CA conservatives only serve to inflate the number of electoral votes won by the Dems.)
To: proudofthesouth
It was represented as true to me. Some years ago, actually. I come from Montgomery and live in Birmingham.
31
posted on
06/25/2006 9:54:46 AM PDT
by
William Terrell
(Individuals can exist without government but government can't exist without individuals.)
To: freeplancer
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.
To: LibWhacker
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.
33
posted on
06/25/2006 10:34:26 AM PDT
by
308MBR
( Somebody sold the GOP to the socialists, and the GOP wasn't theirs to sell.)
To: LibWhacker
34
posted on
06/25/2006 12:26:37 PM PDT
by
rawhide
To: William Terrell
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?!"
35
posted on
06/25/2006 1:08:17 PM PDT
by
Erasmus
(Run amuck. There's a lotta mucks out there a-waitin' to be run!)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
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.
36
posted on
06/25/2006 1:11:11 PM PDT
by
Erasmus
(Run amuck. There's a lotta mucks out there a-waitin' to be run!)
To: Erasmus
Some of these guys. . . one hopes they don't have children.
37
posted on
06/25/2006 3:19:01 PM PDT
by
William Terrell
(Individuals can exist without government but government can't exist without individuals.)
To: freeplancer
yes, www.freebritannia.com - and they put stupid American stories on there too sometimes ;-)
38
posted on
06/26/2006 3:31:12 PM PDT
by
pau1f0rd
(Still more majestic shalt thou rise, More dreadful from each foreign stroke.)
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20, 21-38 last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson