Whacko of the Year

I fail to see how this whacko could be surpassed this year:

A soldier who lost a leg fighting the Taliban was told he didn’t qualify for a disabled parking badge because he might “get better”.

The 27-year old, whose heart stopped twice when he injured in Afghanistan, has now had more than £800 in parking fines for leaving his car in disabled bays.

I give you, the whacko of the year, Nottinghamshire County Council Service Director, Mr Paul McKay, who said ‘We will urgently assess whether Mr Lee meets the eligibility criteria for a disabled parking badge as laid down by the Department of Transport. We will progress this matter as quickly as possible.’

He’s lost a freakin’ leg you bureaucratic moron.

Story here.

Shoedown at Horseless Gulch (August C/W2)

The beautiful brunette was sashaying down the street oblivious to the stir she was creating: men were falling off ladders, walking into lampposts, filling in crosswords wrong; the smokers outside The Draughty Lum were toppling like dominoes; bin men, dumbfounded, found that they had lost their inherent ability to whistle. The lady’s journey took her past two young men who went by the aliases of Dutch and Beandance.

“She fancies me.” said Dutch. Continue reading “Shoedown at Horseless Gulch (August C/W2)”

Some Question to Ask

I found the attached diagram with an article in Le Figaro. The diagram helps one to understand the situation of the trapped miners a little better. It shows that this is a walk-in mine, not one with a shaft and winder. There are two roof falls in the access tunnel, one of which has also blocked a ventilation shaft that might otherwise have been used as an escape route. Questions remain though. I still do not understand why they are drilling from the surface, rather than clearing a way through the blockages. The article says that the tunnel was weakened by recent earthquakes, so that might explain the reluctance to go in that way, but why were the men working down there if the tunnel was weakened. Are we to understand that it was not inspected after earthquakes in the region? Also, why is there no escape shaft already in place? The mine owners have some explaining to do, in my view