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london, england The lights are on but nobody’s
home as the Metropolitan Police pay £100 to change a
lightbulb
The Metropolitan Police spend up to £100 each time a
lightbulb needs changing, according to new figures.
A maintenance firm is paid the dazzling sum every time
a bulb needs changing ‘urgently’ while in ‘non-urgent’
cases they receive £26.
The figures were brought to light by barrister Jessica
Learmond-Criqui after she was tipped off by disgruntled
officers frustrated by the ‘current’ state of police
finances. With budgets being cut across the force and
up to 65 police stations across London facing closure,
many have criticised the apparent waste of money spent
on such a simple task.
‘It’s utterly crazy that the Met would even consider
wasting so much money on changing a lightbulb,’
Jonathan Isaby, chief executive of the Taxpayers’
Alliance, told the Sunday People.
‘This sounds like the punchline to a bad joke yet the bill
to taxpayers is no laughing matter,’ added Mr Isaby, who
seems to be quite switched on about the subject.
The bright sparks at the force also admitted that the
charge they pay to contractors Interserve is determined
by the position of the light fitting and the type of bulb
used. So it turns out it takes more than just a couple of
coppers to change a light bulb.
belgium Maths teacher threatens Game of Thrones
spoilers instead of detention for naughty students
Remember spending ages writing lines on the blackboard,
or sitting in detention?
A maths teacher apparently decided to up the ante by
threatening to reveal Game of Thrones spoilers to his
misbehaving students.
One day while teaching in a noisy classroom, the
educator asked who watched Game of Thrones, to
which the majority raised their hands.
‘Well, I’ve read all the books,’ he told them. ‘If there is
too much noise, I will write the name of the dead on the
board. They are enough to fill the whole year and I can
even describe how they die,’ reports nieuwsblad.be.
Those troublemakers who took it as an empty threat
soon found themselves living to regret it when the
teacher proceeded to write the names of those killed
off in the third series on the board.
Unsurprisingly, the class got back pretty sharpish to
working on long division and the like in silence after
that.
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