OT;Medway Darwin Awards

[The Medway Handyman]

I wondered why my daughter had a power cut....

[Andrew Gabriel]

[The Medway Handyman]

Sorry, wrong daughter! Twas the youngest who had the powercut & the eldest works for London Ambulance..

[Owain]

disconnected ...

Owain

[John Rumm]

man" - obviously used too high a charge current!

[Andy Hall]

Whatever happened to Willie Whitelaw's short, sharp shock?

[Frank Erskine]

That was just a flash in the pan.

[Dave Liquorice]

His burns healed quickly then?

[Rod]

So, to add to innumeracy and illiteracy, do we need immedicacy?

Partner contributes ignormedicance, but I am not convinced. :-)

Maybe a visit here:

[John]

Solicitors will now be chasing him to take up the case against the owners of the building - for failing to ensure it was secure.

[Alan J. Wylie]

[Huge]

"The coroner recorded a verdict of death by misadventure. "

Terminal stupidity, more like. I have precisely no sympathy for this bozo. In fact, my first response was "good".

[Andrew Gabriel]

I wouldn't say the crime justified a punishment of 10 days agonising death.

I also don't see how you can claim to be stealing scrap metal when the metal was clearly still in use. That's not consistent with the definition of scrap.

[Huge]

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The "crime" was stupidity. It's always punishable by death. And if he'd stayed home and watched the Jeremy Kyle show, he'd still be alive, wouldn't he? Why shouldn't he take the consequences of his actions?

Criminals lie. This is hardly news.

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember [e-mail] (Alan J. Wylie) saying something like:

[PCPaul]

Absolutely true. A farmer friend of mine had some yoofs cross several hedges to get to his barn in the pitch black where one of them proceeded to give himself several nasty stab wounds by walking into a plough blade.

He (the farmer) was prosecuted for not having protective covers over the blades and not having warning notices up. Illuminated, presumably.

[tony sayer]

What or which prats did the prosecuting in this case?..

[PCPaul]

God knows, he was just complaining about it when I laughed at his signs...

[The Natural Philosopher]

We were driving down te road last weekend somewhere in Oxfordshire when we saw a big NON illuminated sign 'Warning: road lighting not in operation'

Now after dark without road lights you wouldn't have been able tp read it would you? and I would have said that anyone driving without their eyes closed would be able to tell that there were no street lights..

[Dave Liquorice]

How many temporary signs are illuminated? Most are retro reflective though.

The presence of street lighting also dictates the speed limit, 30mph unless otherwise indicated and with small repeater signs.