WOODIES

espinolman

I was up in the park , carrickmines this evening and as i was walking past woodies DIY superstore a sign blew over in a freak breeze , this was a fairly high sign , over 4 foot high on a heavy metal frame , the base of it was metal but not very wide , and the sign was standing freely except for a few cobble bricks which were on the base , i presume to prevent the sign from blowing over , well it blew over and the bricks were not enough to hold it , if the sign had have hit me as it fell over onto the footpath i feel i would have been severely injured , because the metal frame of this sign is heavy .

I was going to leave it and not complain , however i did go into the shop and complain as i was concerned that this sign could fall over onto a child and i think it could kill a child , so i went in and told the lady at reception/queries desk , she quickly waved her hands up in the air and called someone up , so i thought ok they are going to handle it , so i left the shop .

About five minutes later i walked past woodies again after being in another shop , the sign was back up with the cobble bricks under it , ready to fall again in a freak breeze , :mad:

I think that sign should be securely bolted to the ground or else tied securely at the top .

The reason i am posting this here is that i am concerned that someone is going to be seriously injured because this sign on a heavy frame is not secured except with some little cobble bricks at the base which obviously are not working .

I tried explaining to the staff in woodies about the danger this sign could be to children walking past the shop , but i feel they are not taking this seriously.

My name is URL

Jaysus, that's a terror

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Moved from After Hours.

SV

Nah they're not taking it seriously.. But what can ya do!

Tell someone American, they'll go and get hit by it and make a nice sum for themselves!

Jay D

espinolman wrote: »

The reason i am posting this here is that i am concerned that someone is going to be seriously injured because this sign on a heavy frame is not secured except with some little cobble bricks at the base which obviously are not working .

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God it's good to see humour on the boards as the actual humour section has been complete crap in recent months...

John Mason

OP you should try consumer issues or the south dublin forum, its not really a dublin city issue

NedTermo

Didn't someone get killed in a DIY yard sometime in the past year by stuff falling over?

spadder

NedTermo wrote: »

Didn't someone get killed in a DIY yard sometime in the past year by stuff falling over?

Hit by a falling price?

Cookie_Monster

NedTermo wrote: »

Didn't someone get killed in a DIY yard sometime in the past year by stuff falling over?

yeah, in B&Q. Something fell off the top of one of the storage shelves above the normal shelves.

Think it was a Dublin branch, possibly Tallaght?

ian_m

Yes it was Tallaght. This thread is going nowhere.

Cookie_Monster

ian_m wrote: »

Yes it was Tallaght. This thread is going nowhere.

+1, bigtime!

Agent Smith

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