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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I was given theseemingly simple task of removing a 40' high feed bin prior to the fitting of the new one. After cutting through 3 of the 4 legs I pulled the bugger with a ferkin great forklift. Nothing happened. I then moved on to plan B; cutting most of the way through the remaining leg and pushing the 5 ton monstrosity very hard. Amazingly the bloody thing fell exactly in the direction I'd planned until at 45 degrees it mysteriously twisted round and deposited itself on the roof of the building.A big crane can cost £1000 per hour and it can take a long time to rectify one eejit's mistakes, I know that now.
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Infidel , shit and wrong, Thu 25 Oct 2007, 16:06,
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