Saturday, 10 July 2010

Standing room only?

Sometimes reporting errors can make you smile.

From this BBC report about a fire near Heathrow, where "50 firefighters are containing the scene". The report tells us that
More than 200 people were evacuated from the area
Mrs Rigby thinks they must have been living in remarkably cramped conditions because
A five metre exclusion zone is in place
Five metres?

That's about, oh, (5x3) +10% = 16ft 6 inches.
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1 comment:

  1. Quiet_Man10 July 2010 at 13:30

    About the size of an average east London postal voting flat, and about the same amount of residents (allegedly)

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