*ouch*
From
CNN/World News comes this story of an accident in a Hong Kong bank during renovation:
bq. Safe boxes from a bank branch were taken away and crushed as scrap metal, leaving customers shocked and angry at the loss of their most valued possessions, executives acknowledged Wednesday.
bq. Embarrassed bosses at Singapore-based DBS Bank (Hong Kong) Ltd. said they would repay customers whose valuables were ruined or vanished when 83 boxes were removed Saturday by a contractor during renovations, then dumped and compressed in a junkyard.
What was going on:
bq. The 83 boxes were removed, along with 837 empty ones, as the bank was expanding the size of a local branch and replacing older, small safe boxes with new, larger ones.
A mistake I am sure but still, someone should have checked the plans a little more carefully before starting the demolition. Another idea would have been to spray-paint the doors of the empty boxes to be removed. Sheesh!
Posted by DaveH at October 6, 2004 11:31 AM