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    Man dies after falling from lamppost putting up Union Jack flag


    Man dies after falling from lamppost putting up Union Jack flag

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    1. YOU_CANT_GILD_ME on

      And people wonder why it costs councils a lot of money to pay for proper equipment and safety gear to put stuff like this on lampposts, instead of “just get a man with a ladder, it will be alright”.

    5. A_Swan_Broke_My_Arm on

      This feels like Covid again, when it swung round and all the normal people were all “oh I hope they developed a vaccine” but the ‘others’ were all “NAR! No vaccine 5g nano bots for me!”

      And then they died of Covid.

      This time, Councils are telling that same group of people “don’t climb the lampposts to put your flags up, because it’s dangerous”

      And they’re all “CANT SILENCE ME!”

      And then they fall off the lampposts (and die).

    9. Usagor on

      “He was believed to be amongst the first individuals nationwide to be issued a football banning order upon their introduction, serving multiple prison sentences during his youth for violence connected to football”

      “he reflected that whilst he harboured no regrets about his involvement with the CSF, he had evolved into a more mature individual with family responsibilities”

      Just a flag shagging thug with no regrets about his previous violent life.

    13. Anonymous-Cows on

      One for the darwin awards. Death by flagshagging. Sad for whoever had to pick him, and remove his flags.

    15. InteractionHairy6112 on

      Football hooligan, “patriot”, probably described by his associates as “a diamond”.

      Although I have sympathy for his loved ones, it’s a case of FAFO, which is why the council’s advised them not to do this in case they got injured.

    19. lordsmish on

      Family – Paul was a loving family man

      Paul himself in his own books – Right so this guy looked at me funny and so i bashed his head in and the police had the cheek to throw me in jail so i punched one of them for being a Bristol Rovers fan.

    20. Turbantastic on

      Flag shagging inbred takes a tumble, is it really a great loss?

      RIP IN PIECE HUN UR WIV DA ANGLES NOW XXX

    21. Hikaze3 on

      As a tradesman who uses this kind of equipment all the time, and considering the sheer number of flags you see up lampposts on every street corner, I am actually surprised this didn’t happen sooner

    23. Antique_Historian_74 on

      Oh dear, how unfortunate.

      Anyone up to anything interesting this weekend? Think I’ll be taking advantage of the unseasonable warmth to paint some window frames.

    24. Reverend_Vader on

      I was in a room with some council managers last week and the highways manager who deals with lamps was in there

      His exact words were “we’ve just decided to leave em up in our town until they fall down or one of these guys falls and dies to avoid abuse of our staff, currently the public are still under the impression tying shit on lampposts with a ladder is perfectly normal and need to see why we have all the equipment we do, and why the public shouldn’t be going up there”

      For anyone in the industry, this Darwin award was only a matter of when, not if

      I’ve no doubt my company will recieve a HSE bulletin within a week covering this with the reminder of “this is why WAH needs careful planning”

      His death will be used as a training tool by the safety sector, he just entered the dumb ways to die hall of fame