Funniest work story

[Mental Trousers]

Way back in the dark ages I did some glazing on commercial buildings. One building in particular had a multi storey car park less than 1m away. Anyway, nobody ever parked on the top level. This building had the usual mirrored glass in it. All the glass had been temporarily put in and we were there to make it permanent. Because it had Building Site signs plastered everywhere all the locals knew it was empty on Saturdays and Sundays. Except it wasn't because many of the contractors would catch up on the weekends. So, on Saturdays and Sundays when a car appeared on the top level of the car park everyone would choose that time to take a well earned break and go lean against the railing on that side of the building as they invariably parked as close to our building as possible. Being less than 5m away and looking down on these cars we saw some interesting sights. Of note, a couple in a Mazda 323 manual getting into a 69er in the front seats, a bunch of suits passing a bong around and 1 very noisy young lady, tits out, doors wide open, going at it rodeo style with the guy hang on for dear life.

[RT527]

I gots one from my days when I was Stationed at Glen Eden As a volunteer Firefighter, Now I wasnt there but heard about it all the same.

A certain volunteer brigade ...lets say from Waitemata station, used to drive around a lot, Familiarization I think they called it, this used to mean they would end up at Mt wellington on occasions , and further afield, when on one of these journeys they came across an accident on the causeway by Waterview , of which just after Waterview there is a Bridge westward bound.

As they were city bound at the time , they needed to get some tools across the Motorway, one Bright Spark grabbed the Tool box and headed off, when much to everyones surprise he disappeared from view Whilest negotiating the median Barrier........Thats right theres a small gap in the Bridge said fireman disappears , then pops up swearing , apparently he`d let go of the tool box at the same time as he hit the water,......

[RT527]

Oh and another one for ya`s.

Down here where i`m stationed now, we go to a lot of accidents, and get to redirect traffic a lot, or close roads, on one occasion when we had closed a main road, just after another side road, a truck driver came up to me and said could i just go up that road as I`m doing a pick up from there....I said it was ok and he came down the road on the wrong side past the waiting line of traffic and proceeded up the rd...

A member of the Public pulled out of the line and followed him...when he got to me I stepped out and stopped him, asked him politly where he was going...he said from his rather immaculate 911 Porsche that he couldnt wait either and revved up and took off in pursuit of this truck.........about 15 minutes later he comes back, red faced dirty car and a dent in the side of the car, The truck was a milk tanker...the road was a dead end and the seal finished about 1 k up the road.....he had lost it mid corner where the seal ended cause said bozo was going too fast, after about 15 mins we opened the road again .....there was perhaps 200 cars in the queue by now so i let about 70 go then stopped the traffic for the other side to go ,...bout 70 of them , then my go again, I finally let him go ......when he pulled out to follow the tanker he was 3rd in the line....lol

[NC]

While I was working in Mt Maunganui as a Builder I came across this guy who was nick named Bo Bo. Upon asking why was he called Bo Bo I was brought up to speed on why. He the kinda guy that steps on the ladder run above the resting place of the ladder.
I used to be a bit of a practical joker back then.

This is my story about Bo Bo.

We were working on a rural property so in light of that we had electric fences around the site with a mild voltage going through them. Nothing to get excited about.

Now while talking to Bo Bo about cladding the outside of the house, I asked him if the electric fence was on. He said that he didn't know. Sweet as I said and walked over and touched the fence. It had a little bit of a "hum"to it. Yeah it's on, come over and touch it. It's not too bad I said to him. He said I was lying and it was going to give him a massive zap.
Alright then, I bet you I can make you touch it twice by the end of the day. I told him.
Whatever, he said.

We had one more sheet of cladding to go on the side of the building and there just happened to be a piece of metal strapping within reach. So when he walked around the corner I paced the cladding in the path and hooked up the electric fence to it. When he came back around the corner I politely asked him to give me a hand moving the cladding cause we didn't want it damaged.
And that was number one.

Number two
While he was told to get into the scrap metal skip to find a bit of flashing that he had biffed out, after been told not to. I wandered over to him and while his back was towards me I hooked the skip up to the fence.

Number Three
We had a cladded long drop on site that had fallen over in the wind. I asked Bo Bo to give me a hand. While we were doing this, we started talking about the electric fence. He asked me if it was really on?
Now by this stage he had knowingly been zapped twice. You've got to be kidding me! I said to him. Oh yeah! was his response.
I convince him to touch the fence, BUT he still had his hand on the iron on the loo hence arcing and burning his finger.