and you thought YOU had a bad day

cowtime · Post by **cowtime** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 8:37 pm

These poor guys dropped an $88,000 Bosendorfer piano..

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007160453,00.html

djm · Post by **djm** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 8:49 pm

Too bad it didn't happen in Wales. Then we could make jokes about A flat minor.

djm

crookedtune · Post by **crookedtune** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 8:58 pm

Mrs. Leverlilly: "But that's a priceless Steinway!!!!"

Clouseau: "Not any more!"

fel bautista · Post by **fel bautista** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 9:49 pm

Hey, my day started bad as well-poofed on a response on engineers being able to write. See Dale's urology thread, pg2

fel bautista · Post by **fel bautista** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 9:50 pm

djm wrote:Too bad it didn't happen in Wales. Then we could make jokes about A flat minor.

djm

or the welsh army, b flat major

sorry...really sorry

Congratulations · Post by **Congratulations** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 9:51 pm

fel bautista wrote:Hey, my day started bad as well-poofed on a response on engineers being able to write. See Dale's urology thread, pg2

That was a pretty classic moment. I am unashamed to announce that I rightly guffawed.

s1m0n · Post by **s1m0n** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 1:52 am

Here's a few extra images from another story.

So far, so good: the moment before the grand piano was irreparably wrecked

Delivery men look on in horror as the Bosendorfer, the Rolls Royce of Pianos, comes to rest amid tufts of grass and daffodills

Delivery men try to salvage the wreckage

It looks like this extra-long piano was so long that even when the dolly was at the far edge of the liftgate, the other end of the piano was still in the truck, and when the gate went down, it caught on the back of the truck and tipped the piano.

Cynth · Post by **Cynth** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 8:30 am

I feel sorry for those guys, although I'm not sure that bulldozer is the right machine to try to salvage a piano with

. It does sort of make you wonder.

Scott McCallister · Post by **Scott McCallister** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 8:44 am

£45,000!!?!? Sheesh that's almost 23 tons!

I had no idea that pianos were so heavy!

I.D.10-t · Post by **I.D.10-t** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 8:48 am

Q. What is the difference between priceless and worthless?
A. About six feet.

gonzo914 · Post by **gonzo914** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 9:20 am

cowtime · Post by **cowtime** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 4:48 pm

OH!!!! one of my favorite Laurel & Hardy movies. (I also like the one where they were delivering ice, up, I'd guess, those same stairs.)