.... and then the inevitable happens .....

[Fab Foodie]

We've lived at Foodie Towers for around 12 years or so and I've parked my car in the same place pretty much every time I'm home ... just next to that drain grid where I get out. I've often thought that one day I'd drop something important down that grid and today I did .... my keys.

By modifying a Trout landing net I managed to retrieve them. I really must put some netting under it ....

 

[Fab Foodie]

[QUOTE 3292689, member: 45"]I was working at a youth club in West Ham years ago. Another worker threw me the minibus keys. He was an awful throw, they missed me and disappeared down a drain. We retrieved them by dangling one of the lads down the drain by his ankles.[/QUOTE]

 

[vernon]

That's akin to the thought process: 'I've got a sharp instrument in my hand and I really shouldn't be cutting, paring towards mysel...bollox!!!' shortly followed by 'Where are the friggin' sticking plasters when you need them?'

I thought that the incident would be a learning process but the lesson has still not been learned many similar incidents later.

 

[jefmcg]

Other precious things can go down a drain


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bnkcsIKUDg

 

[Brandane]

We've lived at Foodie Towers for around 12 years or so and I've parked my car in the same place pretty much every time I'm home ... just next to that drain grid where I get out. I've often thought that one day I'd drop something important down that grid and today I did .... my keys.

By modifying a Trout landing net I managed to retrieve them. I really must put some netting under it ....

Next time you are in a car spares shop, or Maplins, or any sort of DIY shop, get yourself one of these telescopic magnets; they have a million and one uses....including retrieving keys from drains .

 

[ColinJ]

[QUOTE 3292689, member: 45"]I was working at a youth club in West Ham years ago. Another worker threw me the minibus keys. He was an awful throw, they missed me and disappeared down a drain. We retrieved them by dangling one of the lads down the drain by his ankles.[/QUOTE]

The son of a friend of my brother-in-law died trying something like that. He was drunk and appeared to have dropped his phone down a drain. He was found trapped upside down in the drain, drowned.

 

[Fab Foodie]

The son of a friend of my brother-in-law died trying something like that. He was drunk and appeared to have dropped his phone down a drain. He was found trapped upside down in the drain, drowned.

 

[alicat]

Thanks for that cheerful tale with much detail at bedtime, Colin.

 

[jefmcg]

Thanks for that cheerful tale with much detail at bedtime, Colin.

Have a look at the duck video above, that should soothe.

 

[TheDoctor]

More of the fluffeh, please, FF!

 

[Haitch]

Went to a festival with friends and as I was locking my bike up I said to myself, "The keys are going to fall in the canal! The keys are going to fall in the canal. Don't let the keys fall in the canal!!" They fell in. Bike, house and work keys. In the canal.