Expensive Mistakescoopsweb asks "What's the most expensive mistake you've ever made? Should I mention a certain employee who caused 4 hours worth of delays in Central London and got his company fined £500k?"
No points for stories about the time you had a few and thought it'd be a good idea to wrap your car around a bollard. Or replies consisting of "my wife".
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chthonic, Thu 25 Oct 2007, 11:26)
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Labmeth CouncilThis should probably have gone in the Council Cnuts thread a few weeks back but it's quite recent and hadn't happened then.
To keep it short: I parked my own car (taxed, insured, parking permitted, MOT'd, 100% legal) outside my own house. I didn't notice the small, unclear sign stating that 2 parking bays had been suspended, despite the fact that the bays aren't even defined. I leave my house the next day less than half an hour after the suspension came into force and the car has been towed. Bstards charged me £260 to get it back, with no right of appeal prior to handing over the money, one day before my g/f's birthday (meaning I couldn't afford to take her out) AND I had to take the day off to go and collect the car, admittedly something I only did once I had gone down the parking offices and doorstepped the swines, though without success. Feck, and indeed, -ers.
(, Tue 30 Oct 2007, 13:48, Reply)
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