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General => Humour => Topic started by: Laverdaroo on April 24, 2023, 08:52:25 PM

Title: Funny because it’s ridiculous!
Post by: Laverdaroo on April 24, 2023, 08:52:25 PM: We’ve had holes in-the road by our front door for ages and finally they came today to fill them. Whoop whoop and indeed whoop. No more clunky suspension noises from cars banging over/into them.
They turned up dropping various rock hard piles of cold lay tarmac in and kept going. I thought, ok they’re going to the top of the hill, bout 150 yards, turn round and whacker plate the piles with the one in the back of their transit pick up and sweep up on their way down. They took a while and thought they must be doing a bit of car park at the top.

Weeeell.. they’d been a while as they’d reversed into my pals motor, taken the bumper off it and folded in the bonnet, driven down the hill at 3mph trying to run over all the piles to bed them down before buggering off!

Whhhaaaaat!

This what we’re left with………….

I’ve rung them.!
Firstly knackering my pals Audi, sayin nowt and driving off is bonkers but to leave anything like that is simply incredible. All on 4 different houses door cameras showing the van and the op pi’s and the reg plate..(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230424/b26a26f9f38a3178fd756947d8ad0255.jpg)

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Title: Re: Funny because it’s ridiculous!
Post by: Johnny4428 on April 24, 2023, 09:59:36 PM: They’ve actually gone above and beyond! Patched a bit that wasn’t marked.😳 or maybe there was a lump fell off the pick up and they couldn’t be bothered to shovel it back up and just rolled it in. Well almost rolled it in. Poor effort! And pity about your pals motor!😡
Title: Re: Funny because it’s ridiculous!
Post by: Laverda Dave on April 24, 2023, 10:03:17 PM: The 'skilled road maintenance engineers' who undertook the work were obviously on a 'job & knock' bonus scheme as we used to call it. A similar situation occurred with potholes outside Rod Stewart's house a few years ago. He got so fed up asking the council to fill them in he went and did it himself! He got into big trouble with the council for not complying with H&S guidelines!
Title: Re: Funny because it’s ridiculous!
Post by: Laverdaroo on April 25, 2023, 01:42:03 AM: I read all that in a paper whilst going somewhere, it was a mile or so he did. Good lad!

I’m awaiting a call back as there’s ‘job n knock’ and there’s ‘job n knock’ that’s not even deserving of the title ‘crap job’.

Great to know we have such skilled operatives mending our highways and byways. Terribly inspiring as a motorcycle rider

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Title: Re: Funny because it’s ridiculous!
Post by: Oddjob on April 25, 2023, 02:58:40 AM: It's possible they may have been doing what you suspected Roo, laid down the tarmac roughly, then worked out that the road was a dead end, not wanting to drive over the tarmac after they'd used the whacker plate they decide to turn the vehicle round, so they go to the top of the road, they hit your mates car and think oh bugger lets get out of here before anyone sees us, they then drive off without finishing the job.
Title: Re: Funny because it’s ridiculous!
Post by: andy120t on April 25, 2023, 08:44:48 AM: Similar level of skill witnessed in Hertford - jamming in tarmac, standing round to admire for a bit....not levelling it then moving on. The council will claim they are dealing with the holes.
Title: Re: Funny because it’s ridiculous!
Post by: Laverdaroo on April 25, 2023, 09:37:06 AM: Quote from: Oddjob on April 25, 2023, 02:58:40 AM
It's possible they may have been doing what you suspected Roo, laid down the tarmac roughly, then worked out that the road was a dead end, not wanting to drive over the tarmac after they'd used the whacker plate they decide to turn the vehicle round, so they go to the top of the road, they hit your mates car and think oh bugger lets get out of here before anyone sees us, they then drive off without finishing the job.
Apparently it’s the same all through the village. It’s how they’ve done it everywhere. Just crap no excuses

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Title: Re: Funny because it’s ridiculous!
Post by: SteveW on April 25, 2023, 05:03:23 PM: In Bucks we don’t get the luxury of the whacker plate. They turn up with a machine that spray fills the holes and then one whack with the back of a shovel.
Title: Re: Funny because it’s ridiculous!
Post by: Sesman on April 25, 2023, 06:55:04 PM: They can’t fill them all. I used to live in a hole in the road…..cue.😀
Title: Re: Funny because it’s ridiculous!
Post by: Athame57 on April 25, 2023, 07:38:10 PM: These guys remind me of the butcher dentist we had in Deptford back in the 1980s, those fillings will be out in no time, and they will get a new job filling them in again! ;D
Title: Re: Funny because it’s ridiculous!
Post by: Laverdaroo on April 25, 2023, 08:21:37 PM: Quote from: Sesman on April 25, 2023, 06:55:04 PM
They can’t fill them all. I used to live in a hole in the road…..cue.
You were lucky………….

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Title: Re: Funny because it’s ridiculous!
Post by: Laverdaroo on April 25, 2023, 08:22:48 PM: Had a great call from the hanger this morning, they’re coming tmrw to re do them

Should bloody think so too!

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Title: Re: Funny because it’s ridiculous!
Post by: Bryanj on April 26, 2023, 12:34:19 AM: What about the car Roo?
Title: Re: Funny because it’s ridiculous!
Post by: Sesman on April 26, 2023, 08:34:34 AM: They will probably do that again too😳
Title: Re: Funny because it’s ridiculous!
Post by: Laverdaroo on April 26, 2023, 10:25:10 AM: Quote from: Bryanj on April 26, 2023, 12:34:19 AM
What about the car Roo?
Don’t know,I’ve gone fishing as the lady ch add nice before m op on Friday and haven’t seen Fred my pal who owns it. I’ll ask the LHG when I spk to her later.

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Title: Re: Funny because it’s ridiculous!
Post by: Oddjob on April 26, 2023, 01:22:53 PM: You're reverting to Yorkshire speak again Roo, us normal folk in sunny old Lancashire (gods own country, don't you know) are having trouble reading what you wrote.
Title: Re: Funny because it’s ridiculous!
Post by: Laverdaroo on April 26, 2023, 03:01:47 PM: So am I looking at it again

No, wrong again it’s the other side of the hill to you Ken, as you really know but you’re just playing up and showing off in front of your friends.

I was trying to say…… I hadn’t heard from my pal with the car yet and left before I got to see what the score was. I’ll find out when The Long Haired General fills me in on goings on.

Soz bout that, ‘was very late and didn’t read it

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