The dangers of keeping yachting magazines!

[Laurin]

OK, so who was it?????

Essex man, 79, trapped in bed after ceiling collapse

A 79-year-old man from Essex was trapped in his bed after 50 boxes of magazines in his loft caused his bedroom ceiling to collapse.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-16166722

 

[Lucky Duck]

Named and shamed

More details here http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2073768/Essex-pensioner-Richard-Phillips-spends-11-HOURS-pinned-bed-ceiling-collapsed.html

 

[MoodySabre]

Would this be a good time to ask him if he has an article from the June 2003 PBO? Maybe not.

 

[ChattingLil]

Would this be a good time to ask him if he has an article from the June 2003 PBO? Maybe not.

I liked the comment on the Daily Mail site (hope it hasn't saved in my cookies!) "at least he had something to read"

poor thing!

 

[ex-Gladys]

That reminds me, anyone want a full set of PBOs from about mid 2003?

 

[reginaldon]

That should be a lesson to all of us. Earlier this year took a whole bunch of old PBOs & STs to my son.

 

[tillergirl]

I feel tempted to comment that the advantages of an on line yachting magazine are now obvious to all but that would be naked advertising and unfair to YBW. So I won't say that.

Whoops

 

[Seakindly]

Might he be an author?

An Essex pensioner has spent 11 hours pinned to his bed after his ceiling collapsed under the weight of 7,000 yachting books.

Richard Phillips, 77, had stored 150 boxes of Traditional Sail - A Panorama of Heritage in his loft and firefighters found him buried under them but unhurt, after he was discovered by his next-door neighbour in Goldhanger, near the River Blackwater.

Firefighters believe the ceiling collapsed under the weight of the books which had been stored there for ten years.

The neighbour, Tony Piercy, said: 'He was almost crushed to death. He was lucky, if one of the ceiling beams landed on his head he could have died.

'I went into his home, just to check on things because his carer had not heard from him.

'When I got to his room I called out and he just said "I'm stuck", so I tried to open the door but it was jammed pretty tight and he just kept shouting "I can't move, I can't move".'

Ian Smith from Essex Fire Service said: 'Firefighters formed a chain to remove the boxes from the man as quickly as possible.

'A paramedic then assessed the gentleman and he was placed in the care of the ambulance service

 

[tillergirl]

Traditional Sail - A Panorama of Heritage - not a magazine at all then. Another triumph for journalism.

 

[Seakindly]

One hundred and fifty boxes of this (at £5 a book). Ouch! Thank goodness he survived.

 

[Lucky Duck]

Another triumph for journalism.

I followed one of the links at the bottom for the page http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-16171784. Having been on the white water course earlier this year I am confident it is not on the River Lee as reported

 

[tillergirl]

I followed one of the links at the bottom for the page http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-16171784. Having been on the white water course earlier this year I am confident it is not on the River Lee as reported

We don't need to worry, the BBC run courses on truth and accuracy. I am sure we are mistaken.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/journalism/ethics-and-values/

In fairness I emailed a local journalist after a piece in the local rag about exceptional spring tides in the course of which she said that 'spring tides were caused by global warming'. Got a nice answer where she said that she hadn't a clue about spring tides and knew it and as a result had a long discussion with someone from the Environment Agency who had told her that!

I once read a quote from myself in a national broadsheet. I phoned the journalist concerned and protested that he hadn't even spoken to me. He said, 'I thought I would save you the bother; you couldn't have given me the information could you' 'No' quoth I. 'But it is what you would have said if you could have spoken isn't it?' 'Er yes, but I'm not sure that's the point'.

 

[Lucky Duck]

We don't need to worry, the BBC run courses on truth and accuracy. I am sure we are mistaken.

We must be as the article now makes no references to the nearby white water rafting course and was apparently last updated yesterday evening