Years ago
I worked in a warehouse. I once saw a guy drive a forklift carrying three stacked pallets of TVs through a two metre high door.

I emulated him when I was trying to put a pallet of eight top of the range cookers in the racking. At the time I was under an archway in the opposite racking thinking I could just drive forwards. I raised the forks and the pallet rose into the air... where it hit the pallet on the racking above me which then fell onto the pallet I was lifting knocking that from the forks. Everything fell to the ground leaving me surrounded by some very expensive twisted metal and glass.

I topped it a few months later. I had been working with a diesel fork lift loading a lorry in the yard when the fork lift started smoking. I lifted up the seat and saw flames so I ran inside and called the fire brigade. Whilst I was waiting for them, someone from the warehouse ran out with a water filled fire extinguisher.
"You can't use that," I said, "It will just spread the flames and everything will be much worse"

The fire brigade turned up and sprayed water on the forklift but by this time it was burnt out.

Yeah, they spray water on it. And then one of them sees the fire extinguisher and asks
"Why didn't you use that? You could have saved it"

"erm..."
(bald old git was bemused and befuddled on, Thu 25 Oct 2007, 13:37, Reply)