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Old 8th Feb 2001, 02:18
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Ali Crom
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Not so many years ago at a certain large airline there was a manager called Norton who thought he could run the hangar like a Stalag Luft by fear & intimidation to the extent that the guys in the hangar had even set up an escape committee.
He was known to frequently watch the engineers at work down below from his office & would often pounce on an individual going about his day to day business and acuse him of 'walking without purpose '.
But one day after a busy day secretly photographing individuals who had successfully escaped ( trapped off ) he thought at last he'd caught the Head of the escape committee.
So next day he summoned the red faced individual to his office & gave him a severe bollocking hoping to set an example of him to the other would be escapees.Unfortunately for Norton this chap just happened to be one of biggest practical jokers around & of course eventually it was the inmates , err Engineers who eventually had the last laugh .I can just picture the full size dummy of Herr Norton complete with suit , tie & binoculas tied with a noose round its neck from the hangar ceiling slowly rotating in the gentle breeze as if scanning for unsuspecting prey.
But if this wasn't upsetting enough for poor old Norton then maybe it was the numerous fake cameras that some individual had erected ( one outside his office window ) painstakingly fashioned from small cardboard boxes , coffee cups & a lick of black paint with the sign 'BEWARE NORTO VISION IN OPERATION'.


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AC.