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Failures

I became popular for a week in a busy Athletics Club dressing room when my older mentor / coach was musing how he was going to manage transporting a strong ladder across town on the bare roof of his tiny (Morris) Mini in 1979.
All talking stopped for a second when I spoke up casually, without thinking :

"Well, take it _ _ _ _ _ "

(Yeh, you got it)
 
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olbriar said:
The example doesn't match the real control board. The numbers are also in braille for the impaired but not the notice to push two buttons is not. Why two buttons. Why aren't they in some logical order? Why is that so extremely messed up????
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True. Good points. They don't match here.
All I can think of is some budget chain Hotels and other buildings similarly have a staff entrance / exit on the opposite side of the elevator hence 1 - 4 twice, but the rest IDK.
This is a real hospital though don't know which one in Sussex here.
Maybe a temporary fault and the manufacturer sent them a workaround with a photo they never checked.

Added :
NHS lift is so complicated it comes with instructions

www.dailymail.co.uk

Hospital visitor baffled over complicated lift control panel

Gabriel Kanter-Webber, 41, was visiting patients at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton, East Sussex, when he came across the unusual lift buttons.
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When the city I live in was just a town, they always had the volunteer fireman set off fireworks for a public 4th celebration. Due to a similar occurrence, we enjoyed a very short but intensive firework display. Only one fireman received some minor burns and nobody in the stands was injured. It was the last year the volunteer guys did the fireworks. They have been professionally
set off by a pyrotechnics company since.
 
olbriar said:
When the city I live in was just a town, they always had the volunteer fireman set off fireworks for a public 4th celebration. Due to a similar occurrence, we enjoyed a very short but intensive firework display. Only one fireman received some minor burns and nobody in the stands was injured. It was the last year the volunteer guys did the fireworks. They have been professionally
set off by a pyrotechnics company since.
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I have some friends in Colorado who own and operate a successful pyrotechnics company. Many years back when I went to visit the area (I used to live in Fort Collins) they asked if I wanted to help on a show, so I rearranged my schedule and submitted my sub-license request to ATF (it’s always good to be in another government database, right?).
It was a day I’ll never forget. Many hours working in the heat, really with very little shade, and as I worked (supervised) they entrusted me to set and wire a water-effects display (the show was next to a lake) and then to man it during the show with a radio (so I could notify the boss and he could kill the effect in case any idiots with boats ignored the sheriff and putted across the lake).
The show went off without a hitch, including the work I did. Some of my strongest memories (literally and figuratively) are of being in a real danger zone during the show (so I could monitor the lakeside effect area), only about 50-75 feet from the firing line that shot all of the aerial charges. I heard as well as felt the WHUMP from every one of the lift charges, and was grateful there were no misfires that probably would have meant diving in the lake for cover.
It was about ten hours of work (including walking the area for an hour after the show, looking for unexploded shot remnants) for roughly twelve minutes of actual show. But it was so totally worth it.
 
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