When you know you shouldn't laugh, but

[Lorcan]

Blackpool Tower 'fire' was fluttering orange netting

Oops.

 

[piggieminder]

Oh dear! It was good practise for the emergency services!

 

[Lorcan]

Oh dear! It was good practise for the emergency services!

Six engines, a drone team, a rope rescue team, and a police helicopter.

I mean, I really shouldn't laugh, it's not funny at all. But I can just imagine the looks on their faces when they find netting, of all the things.

 

[piggieminder]

It sounds like a case of someone needing a trip to Specsavers.

 

[Roselina]

It’s like those times the police are called out to a Lion or Tiger roaming free and it turns out to be a soft toy
Escaped tiger alert turns out to be soft toy Escaped tiger alert turns out to be soft toy

 

[Qualcast&Flymo]

It sounds like a case of someone needing a trip to Specsavers.

I did hear that Specsavers were pretty quick off the mark with their response to the incident...

 

[teddymouse]

It reminded me of a news story a few years ago of rescuers trying to get a bear down for a very tall tree, we're they thought it was stuck, only to find out ,it was a black bin bag.

 

[Lorcan]

It reminded me of a news story a few years ago of rescuers trying to get a bear down for a very tall tree, we're they thought it was stuck, only to find out ,it was a black bin bag.

In that sort of vein I remember standing outside my front door for a smoke or a vape once, when I was waiting for the microwave to finish with the Snugglesafes, and seeing what looked like a plastic bag caught on the branches of a nearby tree. Cue an immediate disgust "ugh people dumping their litter at their backsides like tha...wait, is that a bag?"

It was not. It was a massive wood pigeon roosting for the night.