Asbestos
When I was in college I landed a pretty crap job as a cable technician for my Brother-in-Laws company. They were a network engineering firm and they installed the networks they designed, so I was Joe Cable Guy and had to pull thousands of cat-5 and Coaxial cables from closets to the wall jacks. It wasnt too terrible, but some days it just sucked.

So, they send me out to a job that is running short on timing and its at the US Armed Forces Institute of Pathology just outside DC. We end up getting there and start pulling cables. Well, I am on a ladder, head poked up past the ceiling tiles and I see some interesting insulation breaking off a pipe because of the friction of the cables that we were dragging across it.

I didnt scream it, but I did state it was a basso, "THere is asbestos in this ceiling." I guess they all got the sincerity in my voice because they shut the job down IMMEDIATELY until it could be inspected. So I got PAID for the ENTIRE time!

And all we did was sit 'round, breathing the potentially asbestos filled air and talked about stupid shit.

As it turned out, it was fibreglass insulation, not asbestos...but one day I feel like we might find out that fibreglass insulation causes cancer too, so I am keeping an eye on the news. :)

Sic Semper Tyrannis!

Sean
( Citadel Because the world needs less morons, Tue 3 May 2005, 17:19, Reply)