Lurid Work Stories
"I know a railwayman of 40-odd years' service," says Juan Quar, "and he tells me a new gruesome yarn each time we meet. Last week's was of checking the time on the wristwatch of a severed arm he'd just collected after a track fatality."
Tell us the horrible stories you tease the new hires with, or that you've been told.
NB By definition, these are probably all made up. Roll with it
( , Thu 5 Sep 2013, 17:33)
"I know a railwayman of 40-odd years' service," says Juan Quar, "and he tells me a new gruesome yarn each time we meet. Last week's was of checking the time on the wristwatch of a severed arm he'd just collected after a track fatality."
Tell us the horrible stories you tease the new hires with, or that you've been told.
NB By definition, these are probably all made up. Roll with it
( , Thu 5 Sep 2013, 17:33)
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empty jacket
Friend of mine is a coastguard officer. He got called out to a potential jumper off a local bridge (the Hull-Scunthorpe one, quite high, popular with depressives).
Got there to find an off duty fireman had got there first, and was stood holding an empty jacket over the edge of the railing...
( , Fri 6 Sep 2013, 15:50, 8 replies)
Friend of mine is a coastguard officer. He got called out to a potential jumper off a local bridge (the Hull-Scunthorpe one, quite high, popular with depressives).
Got there to find an off duty fireman had got there first, and was stood holding an empty jacket over the edge of the railing...
( , Fri 6 Sep 2013, 15:50, 8 replies)
( , Fri 6 Sep 2013, 15:52, closed)
Nice story.
But the bridge has got fuck all to do with Scunthorpe. It was built for us travellers from the east coast.
( , Fri 6 Sep 2013, 16:22, closed)
But the bridge has got fuck all to do with Scunthorpe. It was built for us travellers from the east coast.
( , Fri 6 Sep 2013, 16:22, closed)
it does
they built it so Hull people could visit Scunthorpe and Grimsby to feel better about their lives
( , Fri 6 Sep 2013, 17:57, closed)
they built it so Hull people could visit Scunthorpe and Grimsby to feel better about their lives
( , Fri 6 Sep 2013, 17:57, closed)
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