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More Men In Sheds - That Forklift, That Warehouse, That Collapse - Continental Telegraph
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More Men In Sheds – That Forklift, That Warehouse, That Collapse

From the Daily Mail – yes, we know – comes this:

Never, ever, forget the ability of human stupidity to cause chaos.

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  • Is anyone going to comment that the designer of that stacking system should take a good share of the blame, for creating a system which completely collapses with a small nudge from a forklift? Which should be an expected accident at some stage....

    Remind me again how the EU was designed...

  • Yes, agree with DG (partially) - that is, clearly, negligently fragile.

    I disagree that there was a ‘designer’ as opposed to some over-qualified (MBA, Tim N?) idiot, who told some experienced warehouse manager something along the lines of “I don’t care what you think you know, do it my way!)

    • We can take that opinion further in the field of 'intelligent design' - the attempt by Southern US fundamentalists to argue in favour of direct creation by a deity rather than evolution. In many ways Man could be seen as a rather poor design - prone to wars and all kinds of sin...

      I recall J L Mackie's point in the 1970s, addressing the Problem of Evil by stating that Man could have been designed better....

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