Health and safety looney, again

After the replacement of our beloved kettles with these boiling water
taps, we now have had fitted to our pedestrian gate, a gigantic
powerful hydraulic ram that closes it.

Reason: we've had people wandering into our car park, and this was
considered undesirable. To be fair, we had a walk-in thief a while
back, too.

Anyway, this ram was just designed to close the gate. It didn't
actually make it secure.

Problem: our gates are also access for some sheltered housing, that
shares the same sort of courtyard as we use for parking. And the old
dears in their zimmer frames and wheelchairs didn't have the strength
to open the gate.

So the ram was weakened to make it Old Dear Friendly.

But the constant banging of the gate on its stop has now ripped the
stop out of the wall, and the ram has been removed.

I have suggested that in place of this total waste of money, we revert
to a simple latch and a sign saying Please Shut The Gate.

Anyone know how much those rams cost?

 

http://www.fwi.co.uk/Prices/Prices.aspx?sPage=deadsheep

 

<snip>

I had to take Mum into town the other day for a tribunal meeting with
the DWP lot.

When we arrived, we were asked if we would like a drink, 'water, juice,
or anything?'

I requested a cup of tea.

Oh, they can't supply hot drinks any more, H&S procedures you see, in
case the people they have given the hot drinks to spill it and make a
claim.

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Lesley
Residing in the Capital of Culture 2008
CBR600FW
Peugeot 206 S
SBS#11 (with oak-leaf cluster)
BOTAFOT#101A UKRMHRC#12
BONY#54P BOB#18

 

You *have* to be joking.

 

Lucky you didn't ask to borrow a pencil - they can cause nasty nose- and
ear-related injuries. I wonder if they take your belt and shoelaces off you
when you go to the toilet in case you decide to try to hang yourself whilst
you're in there? One can never be too careful!

 

Sadly, no.

--
Lesley
Residing in the Capital of Culture 2008
CBR600FW
Peugeot 206 S
SBS#11 (with oak-leaf cluster)
BOTAFOT#101A UKRMHRC#12
BONY#54P BOB#18

 

Last time I gave blood, I noticed that I only got a choice of squash or
water with my biscuits, no tea. At the time I didn't think too much of
it, just assuming their boiler was broken or something, but now you've
mentioned that I wonder if the NBS has the same policy.

 

Think I'm due soonish, I'll see.

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"We can stick needles in you to drain your blood, but we can't serve you
tea."

 

I bought a cordless drill from Homebase on Saturday but found, when I
got it home, that it was a non-working return that some eejit had just
put back on the shelf. When I took it back and got a replacement
yesterday I asked if they had a three-pin socket I could plug it into
just to check the new one actually worked.

"Sorry, we're not allowed to plug in electrical items"

Who really won the war, eh?