jigsaw....pipe
Back when I was a drug dealing mayor in a wheelchair I decided I needed an indoor stash as well as my outdoor stash. So I removed all the books from a large bookcase, moved the bookcase, pulled up a couple of carpet tiles and dug out my trusty 9.99 aldis jigsaw. I then transferred from wheelchair to floor (this is a big move, if shit happens the floor to chair transfer required to gtfo is big, heavy and prone to bouncing off the florr style disaster) and attacked the thick mdf flooring with the jigsaw. Everything was going well until the water pipe occurred. I was on the floor, the pipe was giving up it's life blood like it really didn't want it no more and the stop cock was two rooms away in the bathroom. I dragged myself like crazy to the bathroom suffering multiple carpet burns in the procss and managed to get to the stopcock. I then dragged back to my hole and cut out the board to reveal the damaged pipe. It was damaged. Proper damaged. Who to call? Hello this is mayor twunty, can you come and fix my busted pipe please, yes I cut through it while constructing an underfloor stash for several 9 bars, silly of me wasn´t it.
That wasn't going to work.
Luckily next door neighbour( alcholic van driver) had just got home and knocked on the door for a friendly spliff. He ran up to the local diy bin and returned with plumbers repair tape. Job done. The stash worked perfectly for some years and the pipe never leaked. If it ever does go the new tenants are going to wonder why the hell there is a sawn through pipe under a section of flooring that is apparently secured by screws that are sawn off underneath. If I left a stray bar under there they are going to get really stoned while wondering all that.
The outdoor stash btw was a spaghetti storage tub buried under a foot and a half of earth that was easily removed by the simple expedient of pulling what appeared to be a bit of old carrier bag.
Damn I was good!
(godisdove I like cheese, Sat 5 Apr 2008, 18:43, Reply)