he would have got the chop anyway
as he was the one who turned a blind eye while we were playing with the pipes!
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Thu 10 Feb 2011, 18:13, 1 reply)

Fair point.
Actually, he wasn't a very good security guard at all was he. Probably deserved to get fired.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 10 Feb 2011, 18:33, closed)

maybe
but he came forward when he didn't have to.
to spite his employers or not, he did me a favour
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Thu 10 Feb 2011, 19:15, closed)

i have to agree with althegeordie on this.
fair play, you kids were having your fun, that's a given.
had many similar japes myself as a bairn, building sites are cracking playgrounds.
however (HOWEVER!) they are seriously fucking dangerous places, especially for kids!
you were lucky it was only your foot that got squished, a pal of mine got a broken left femur and crushed pelvis in the summer of '76 when he unwittingly caused a stack of timber to collapse on himself on a site we
we were fucking around on.
christ, it gives me the chills just thinking about it now! i don't know how i didn't kill myself one way or another.
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Thu 10 Feb 2011, 22:58, closed)

i feel you may have missed the point slightly
we weren't playing on a building site, we were in a carpark. the pipes were left in the carpark overnight, when they should have been chained up in the compound out of our reach. we were simply playing where we normally played.
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Fri 11 Feb 2011, 13:55, closed)