Kamikaze Chicken
Once upon a time when I used to be in the Navy, we were loading stores onboard ship
this is always done by hand by the old human chain system.
On this fateful day we were loading up the freezer and I happened to be at the top of a hatch passing boxes down
to another bloke standing halfway down the ladder (think very steep narrow stairs rather than a conventional ladder)
The box of frozen chickens I was passing down fell apart as it was all soggy from having sat around far to long to
be refrozen (but refrozen it would be.) one of the chickens managed to slide between the rungs of the ladder and
fell down another hatch directly below all up a fall of over 4 metres.
I hear a big yell from down the bottom and ask "you alright mate?"
to get a reply from a dockyard worker "no I'm fucking not!"
At which point I was laughing like a loon..whilst it must of been like getting a brick dropped on you
and his head was well and truly split open all I could think of was this poor bugger going home to his Missus
who would no doubt ask "what happened to you" and having to explain "a chicken fell on me"

as a side note when I got hauled up in front of the XO as part of the inevitible health and safety investigation
there were lots of chicken flying coop remarks that made me feel a bit better as he was trying as hard as I not to laugh, and I
got off scott free.

The supply officer however was a cunt who reckoned it was my fault that he had so much paperwork as a result.
( Jimocles I post therefore it is, Fri 18 Dec 2009, 1:12, 1 reply)

flying chickens
"a chicken fell on me" - i can't stop laughing
(thebarkingdog, Mon 21 Dec 2009, 5:45, closed)