many years ago when just a labourer i was working with an older scaff and we were striking a newsagents shop front - the standards were dropped down though a canopy over the doorway which was to be replaced later in the refurb ,after all the lifts wers struck just leaving the stds coming up through the canopy and my mate steve was pulling them up & out to me to put on the lorry.
whilst loading the lorry with my back to him he started shouting that the std wasn't coming out and was stuck ," there must be a fitting underneath it stopping it, i can feel it bumping under the canopy."and i could hear him struggling and F ing & blinding - as i turned around i saw a woman come out of the newsagent shouting and screaming pointing up at him,
thinking he was in trouble or about to drop the tube i ran back to him, just in time to see the ladies small yorkie terrier's head busrt through the canopy half frightening my mate to death,making him drop the tube,-closely followed by the yorkie back to the payment with a thud - it seems that the little old lady popped into the shop quickly and tied her dog to the rather strong looking pole for security and as she left the shop all she could see was the dog yo-yoing in the window before it ended up above her, it wasn't a fitting stopping the tube it was the dogs head.
you really had to be there to beleave it
,my mate steve was a real legend who unfortunately passed away last year of cancer,at 59 yeards old and worked daily till days beforehe died putting many of the young lads to shame,
there are loads of old school stories like this that always get repeated on company piss ups