I used to work for Yorkshire Television and in the late seventies we televised the Christmas church service from Lincoln Cathedral with the usual brass bands and choirs. The king of some Scandanavian country had sent his usual gift of a sixty foot Christmas tree to decorate the church and the television company got the job of decorating the tree. Fork lift trucks and ladders were used by the props department and after about two days the tree was finished. When the director arrived to set up the shots he decided that the tree was about six feet too tall and could it be lowered. Television carpenters lead by their foreman, were called in to lower the tree. Now anyone with any sense would have lowered the tree and cut six feet off the bottom, not the television carpenters, the dozey buggers went up on the fork lift truck and cut six feet off the top of the tree so it had a flat top instead of a pointy one. The director, the Dean of Lincoln, and even the King of wherever it was were furious. But that is why the tree had a flat top that year and Yorkshire Television were never asked back to televise the Lincoln Christmas service again.