this made me laugh.........

[toccatanfudge]

what a twit even my DS's would figure out that leaning a ladder against the branch that you're sawing off is a REALLY bad idea.

I thought so too - brightened my morning anyhow.

FFS

Funny, yes. But not funny that the hotel had to pay over £2000 because they had not done a risk assessment on the dangers of letting Laurel and Hardy prune a tree.

made me smile too

Oh deary me.

Apparently he worked for British Aerospace for 24 years - I seriously hope he wasn't involved in anything remotely technical beyond making the tea (and even then I expect he had to receive training on how to boil a kettle safely)

oh god, it gets worse -on re-reading the article it seems that there were 2 men involved. You'd think, by law of average, at least one of them would have an ounce of common sense and realise what was going to happen wouldn't you?

Yes, one of them held the ladder.

Lol at him being teaboy at British Aerospace.

I've done a similar thing. i was trying to cut a tree down and stood with one foot on a ladder and one on the branch. I sawed between my legs and of course the branch broke. I had a plater of paris on my arm for four weeks.

Kreecher -I think you should thank your lucky stars you never made the national papers.

(or got head-hunted by British Aerospace!)