November 16th, 2006 at 10:08 pm
Here’s a few accident prone people that you wouldn’t want working on your property:
- Inspecting the Dukovany nuclear power plant in Moravia in September, an unnamed American official with the International Atomic Energy Agency wandered away from the group and fell into a water tank. I hope that water wasn’t tainted!
- In September, firefighters in Spokane, Wash., rescued a worker whose head had become stuck in a water meter enclosure for about four hours. How does one get their head stuck in a water meter enclosure?
- In October, when Turkey’s prime minister Tayyip Erdogan fainted from low blood sugar, his security team rushed him to a hospital but mistakenly locked him and the keys inside his fortified car; after they pounded on it for a while, a nearby construction worker with a sledgehammer saved the day. That could have been a life and death situation for the Prime Minister. I think he needs a new security team- don’t you?
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November 4th, 2006 at 11:57 pm
Are you a Do It your Self type of person? We are. We’ve been busy renovating our home since the very first day we moved in, I guess you’d call it a remodeling job. We got a lot done in the first year, but we’ve slowed down over the last two or three years. The last project that we finished together was the installation of a sunroof on our enclosed front porch. We did that so that a little bit more light might come into our living room since the front of our house where the living room is faces North.
It’s really saved us a lot of money by doing things ourselves. Of course we haven’t always known exactly what to do. I think our friends who are contractors and construction workers are sick of hearing from us because we’re always asking them- how do we do this, how do we do that? Or else we are researching techniques on the internet.
If you are like us – a DIY type person you might be interested in visiting this great site that I just found. It has a ton of information on home repairs. I only wish that we’d discovered this site a few years ago. It would have really helped us out.
I know it’s going to help us with the projects that we started a while back and haven’t finished yet, and also for the projects that we hope to start in the next few years such as redoing our kitchen and our basement too. Those will be big jobs.
This site is full of helpful tips for the DIY type of person whether you be a renter as we once were, or a home owner. There’s even tips for automobile owners there too. There are several categories to choose from such as carpentry, cleaning, decks, painting and flooring just to name a few.
Oh yes I also wanted to tell you that while I was visiting the Handy Household Hints site I discovered that they are having a $50,000 Extreme Home Makeover Contest. Naturally I entered. I’m a DIY renovator but I’m not stupid. If your home could use a makeover you might be interested in entering too.
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May 15th, 2006 at 6:32 pm
Dog wanting snack burns down kitchen
Illinois – A pet dog caused 30,000 of damage when it turned on its owner’s cooker and burnt down the kitchen.
Skylar, a three-year-old ‘goldendoodle’, apparently started a kitchen fire when she tried to jump on the stove to get left-over pizza.
The designer pooch, a cross between a golden retriever and a poodle, is believed to have switched on a hob which ignited the cardboard underneath the pizza.
The flames spread to a nearby plastic cutting board, and then to the cabinets above the stove, Naperville fire officials said.
Haines, 32, said he had been running five minutes late: “I didn’t do my typical sweep through the kitchen to make sure Skylar couldn’t get at anything,” he admitted. Firefighters broke down a door after neighbours raised the alarm and rescued the unconscious Skylar.
Man on horse and cart escapes 5 different police teams!
Leeds – A man on a horse and cart escaped four police motorbikes, a patrol car, a video van, two cycling constables and a helicopter.
The combined efforts of modern policing were outwitted in a low speed chase through Leeds, reports the Guardian.
The 34-year-old man, who has not been named but is wanted for serious assault, was first spotted by a police cycle patrol.
The suspect jumped on to a rag-and-bone cart with a friend and trotted off – followed eventually by a convoy of police vehicles.
Locals in Chapel Allerton described “a bizarre procession” along a dual carriageway, with the horse and cart weaving to frustrate its pursuers. West Yorkshire police said that officers had got as close as they could but were anxious not to frighten the horse.
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