Family piano given to RAF base burnt in military ceremony by mistake

[Dan_Brown]

Family piano given to RAF base burnt in military ceremony by mistake

A mahogany piano given by a couple to a secretive military base was wrecked in a ceremonial fire “by mistake”.Retired diplomat Saleh Rebdi, a father of six, and his wife Suzanne “thought it would be nice for the officers” to have a piano in the mess at Boscombe Down, an aircraft test site with t

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[ninjarabbi]

‘By mistake’. Yeah. More jolly japes by our low IQ officer class. I recollect one of my junior officers having to be signed off work due to burning both her feet whilst drunkenly jumping over a burning piano. Since she was a doctor that resulted in cancellation of clinics and a huge ‘knock-on’ effect to patient care. Her punishment? Nothing. Nada. Zilch. Bunch of f**king dumbasses.

 

[muttywhitedog]

That's awful. She should have been put on unpaid leave for the period she wasn't able to do her job through her own stupidity. Over my life, Ive found that the only way folk really learn a lesson is when it hits them in the pocket.

 

[ninjarabbi]

That's awful. She should have been put on unpaid leave for the period she wasn't able to do her job through her own stupidity. Over my life, Ive found that the only way folk really learn a lesson is when it hits them in the pocket.

Officer, enough said.

 

[Kryten]

I seem to recall a similar incident at a secret Norfolk flying base in the 90s, where a piano was alledgedly incinerated by someone doing a rendition of Jerry Lee Lewis's "Great Balls of Fire"......

 

[Downsizer]

I don't get all the moaning here.

It's a tradition, who cares. It wouldn't be for me, but at least someone is having fun!

 

[Cornish_Pikey]

We had a request one year from one of the mess members as to how he might wire up a canberra starter cartridge to go off inside a piano to get the fire started.

F*ck off sir you f*ckin' b*llend I believe was the response from our plumbers.

Showed the mentality of some of the clowns in charge of the circus.

 

[muttywhitedog]

I don't get all the moaning here.

It's a tradition, who cares. It wouldn't be for me, but at least someone is having fun!

Totally agree with this - as long as the piano is not bought using public funds and no public funds are used to put the fire out, nor clean up the mess. That includes the free use of fire extinguishers, firemen or stewards.