Expensive Mistakescoopsweb asks "What's the most expensive mistake you've ever made? Should I mention a certain employee who caused 4 hours worth of delays in Central London and got his company fined £500k?"
No points for stories about the time you had a few and thought it'd be a good idea to wrap your car around a bollard. Or replies consisting of "my wife".
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chthonic, Thu 25 Oct 2007, 11:26)
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NMR machinesare great beasties, although here students were never allowed to use them. We had to submit samples to the operator, and come back when the run was done.
The best apocryphal story here was about the bloke who sat in the lecture theatre directly above the machine, on its axis. His bank cards were all wiped. That's believable, although I'm less sure about vacuum cleaners etc.
I'm also always amused by the change from "NMR imaging" to "MRI" for medical scanning machines, because the populace was scared of the word "nuclear"!
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K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 25 Oct 2007, 15:27,
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