Inspired by the very similar thread about school incidents.

  • ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I was supervising filling in a pit we had dug on the edge of a forest. We had dump trucks coming in dumping gravel. One particular driver wasn’t great at his job and there had been issues with him in the past.

    That driver came in and dumped his gravel, but then he drove off with his bed still raised and almost immediately smashed into electric lines that ran off into the forest. One telephone pole even snapped at the base and fell over.

    Within 30 seconds multiple cops came speeding onto the job site. It turns out those electric lines ran to a radio tower in the woods that ran the police radio. The idiot in the dump truck had taken out the police comms for the whole town.

    • ayyy@sh.itjust.works
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      4 months ago

      Couldn’t they sell a few of their spare MRAPs to buy a backup generator and a redundant microwave link? Sheesh.