[cripplecreek]

Sounds like the work of Hazzard county's finest.

[calex59]

"We are doing everything we can to put it right, and to examine our processes to prevent anything like this happening again."

Try doing away with the nanny state. It might help.

[WSGilcrest]

“That’s funny right there, I don’t care who you are.”

[claudiustg]

An error? :^)

[6SJ7]

A council has apologised to a woman who was fined £60 after workmen painted a disabled bay around her car.

Good thing it wasn't a paving crew.

[robertpaulsen]

disabled bay = handicapped parking zone. NOW, it makes sense. I thought they were painting a lame horse.

Well, what do you expect from the same people who gave us 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe?

Speak English, for crying out loud.

[satchmodog9]

Gubbmint at its finest.

[gcruse]

This reminds me of Henny Youngman who said he finally found a way around San Francisco's extreme shortage of parking places. He went out and bought a parked car.

[William Terrell]

A team of two, Lopez and Carter, contracted to plant saplings along a highway median leading into Huntsville, Alabama. Lopez dug the holes, Carter inserted the tiny trees and Lopez filled int he holes and packed the earth around the newly planted root balls.

One day, a commissioner of highways noticed that Lopez was working by himself. He would dig a line of holes, then return and fill them in. Upon questioning, Lopez responded thusly, "Well, Carter he sick and stay home today, so I decide to come in and work, for paycheck."

[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.

[4yearlurker]

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

[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.]

[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