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Thread #90921 Message #1728431
Posted By: Bert
26-Apr-06 - 09:38 PM
Thread Name: BS: Screw ups...
Subject: RE: BS: Screw ups...
This one wasn't MY screw up but Bobert's story has just refreshed my memory of the incident.
I was working in Bahrain building an offshore platform. There was this control room that was built in the States and shipped out by sea to the jobsite.
As part of my job I had occasion to go into this control room and noted that it came complete with a bathroom.
Now the natives there, seeing this, had used the pot, not knowing (or caring) that it was not hooked up. So it was filled to the brim with the most obnoxious looking and smelling mess you could imagine. Seeing as several forms of dysentry were endemic there.
All went well 'till the plumber had to hook it up to the module. There he was underneath the control room removing the 4 inch plug (or cap, I can't remember which) which was situated above his head.
Of course he got the lot all over him.
The person who told me what had happened was expecting some sympathetic response. All I said was 'He opened a line not checking what it was - He was lucky it wasn't a steam line'