Never drench the inspector.
One of my closest friends works for the county as a plan review engineer in the commercial department. Among his duties he sometimes is called upon to do site visits and inspections, which he normally books for the later part of the week when most of his mandatory meetings have been done.

One of the largest projects going on in the county at this point is a multi-billion dollar banking center being constructed by one of the world's biggest banks. It's a multistory building, and at certain stages inspections must be done throughout the building. As it was going to be a long inspection, Richard went out there first thing in the morning, planning to be there for most of the day.

He parked outside of the site, put on his blaze yellow vest and white hardhat, collected his plans and other papers, and walked down the construction road. There was plenty of site work being done, so he didn't hear the truck approach from behind as he was almost to the building, but was walking along the edge of the road for safety. The truck pulled up alongside him, and the driver waited until he was almost past Richard before blowing his horn and waving.

The truck was the water truck, which sprays non-potable water (meaning old stormwater pumped in from some swampy area) over the construction roads to keep down dust. The blast on the horn and the wave coincided with Richard getting blasted with a couple hundred gallons of swamp water.

Richard turned around and calmly walked to his car, where he took off his boots and poured out filth. The fire inspector was going by, so Richard called out, "Hey, are you going to see the general contractor?"

"Yeah, I'm on my way there.... are you all right?"

"I'm fine. Tell him that the entire site just failed inspection and is now shut down until we re-inspect."

What this translates to is that the 250 plus people who work the site around the clock were forced to do nothing until Richard came back to that site. This was last Friday, and I believe he had to go to a training seminar for the first part of the week. He may be back by now, but I'm not sure of that.

Total cost of being a twat and hosing down the county inspector with swamp water: probably in excess of $50,000, if Richard returned today.

Not hearing directly from the contractor, but hearing through the grapevine that he was shitting himself while he waits like a spanked puppy for Richard to re-appear: priceless.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Thu 12 Apr 2012, 18:59, 16 replies)

It always heartwarming to hear of
Minor public officials getting the arse.
( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Thu 12 Apr 2012, 19:11, closed)

Yes but have you gotten to the bottom of this disappearing stripper of yours?

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Thu 12 Apr 2012, 19:32, closed)

Holy fuck!
8,000 qotw replies.

You're a winner.
( Ring Of Fire A petty, drooling belming butthurt retard., Thu 12 Apr 2012, 20:18, closed)

I also have a large penis that I've been using to do the sex on your mum with

( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Fri 13 Apr 2012, 16:23, closed)

Reassuring to see that your acquaintances share your wit.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Thu 12 Apr 2012, 21:37, closed)

Cheers.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Thu 12 Apr 2012, 21:37, closed)

Sounds like Richard was the twat
What kind of sensible person, in their right mind, even legally, could fail a whole site inspection because they got wet?
It would be perfectly reasonable to take legal action, and/or to have him sacked or "retrained" as govt depts do these days.
(M61A1 CUPID- STUNTS, Fri 13 Apr 2012, 3:41, closed)

A large number of people get killed due to violating rules on building sites.
These accidents are generally caused by people who know better than to abide by the little rules.

Shutting down the site because you got wet - being a twat.
Shutting down the site because the driver wetting you violated safety rules to do so - in a quite blatant and knowing manner - perhaps more or less the persons job.
(speedevil, Fri 13 Apr 2012, 8:36, closed)

Agreed.
The site managers are obviously tolerating blatant pissing around* on site. That sort of thing just doesn't happen if you are running anything close to a tight ship.

*You could probably get the driver done for assault too.
(tacpprm has a mmrpcat, Fri 13 Apr 2012, 10:39, closed)

We don't know that the soaking was blatant and knowing.
The most we know is that R didn't notice the warning until it was too late. And, let's face it, builders' machinery is hardly silent - which makes me wonder just how much attention R was paying.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 13 Apr 2012, 13:58, closed)

I can answer that.
There were a lot of trucks and whatnot moving around the site, so Richard didn't hear the water truck approach. The horn and wave were done just as the water was hitting him- so yes, it was intentional.

When he got back to the office he told his supervisor what happened, and the supervisor laughed and agreed that he had responded correctly.

By the time Richard told me this story he was laughing about it himself. Getting harassed a bit by the construction people is expected, and he takes it with good humor. Getting doused on a cold windy day with swamp water is just egregious.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Fri 13 Apr 2012, 15:48, closed)

He *says* that the horn and wave were just as the water was hitting him.
The most that we can say there is that this was his first awareness of the horn and wave. And even if there was no warning that he didn't notice, that says nothing about the intentions of the guy driving the water truck.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Sat 14 Apr 2012, 16:17, closed)

If you're going to make shit up
you could at least make interesting shit up.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Sat 14 Apr 2012, 18:59, closed)

Unless you are in a 3rd world country
not many people on building sites get killed because they violate rules. Most of the deaths (which aren't many)* are outright stupidity (Violating laws of physics) , that sort of shit OH&S will never cure.

*not many depends on your definition-some people say one death is too many, while I think that the world is overpopulated and should be allowed to sort itself out.
(M61A1 CUPID- STUNTS, Mon 16 Apr 2012, 13:40, closed)

Richard....
... that's the long version of "DICK" isn't it?
(SausageWarrior destination Zululand, come on boys jump in the van, Fri 13 Apr 2012, 7:56, closed)

He sounds
like a pissy little schoolgirl.

It's just a shame he wasn't sprayed with cowshit.
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