And the one about the diligent security guard who checked every barrow of sand leaving the site for contraband only to find out later barrows and sand were being purloined.
SW
You jest - but, when I worked on a 33 storey tower block by Blackfriars Bridge (subsequently, recently extended to 44 storeys
) we had a 'heavy lifting gang' to winch up the 3-phase power cables to the plant room on the roof.
When they came down at night, their transit van was backed up near the gate of the passenger hoist. Each man climbed into the back of the van and his foot landed heavily on the floor at the back - STOMP!
.................and as he did so, he dropped the 18" length of 4 core, HV cable on the floor of the van that had been concealed beneath his Donkey Jacket.
Sadly, we didn't intervene as they were employed by the electrical sub-contractor who was supplying the cable