Insufficient thinking.
The accident investigator visited an accident claimant who was recovering in a local hospital. After he had asked most of the standard questions he asked the insured what he thought was the actual cause of the accident.
The claimant answered without hesitation, “Insufficient thinking.”
“How do you figure that?” asked the investigator.
“Well”, He said, “Let me tell you the whole story. I live in a three-story house and it needed a new roof. I didn’t want to spend the money to have the work done professionally so I decided to do it my self. I knew I had to strip all the old shingles off the roof before I could put the new stuff on.”
“Now, the house is surrounded with flowers and shrubbery and as I did not want to damage them by just shoving the old shingles off the roof, I took a large wooden barrel up to place the old shingles in. I rigged a rope and pulley system so I could get the barrel up and down.”
“I filled the barrel up clean to the top with the old shingles I had ripped off the roof. I didn’t think of how much the barrel was going to weigh when it was full like that. Anyhow, I went down to the yard and was going to lower the barrel. I gave a pull on the rope but the barrel didn’t move. Well, I wound that rope around my arm a few times and gave it a healthy jerk with all my might. Now, that barrel must have weighed seven or eight hundred pounds with all them shingles in it. Anyway, the barrel tipped a bit, wiggled some and finally slipped off the edge of the roof. Down it came and up I went, because the rope was wrapped around my arm and I couldn’t get loose.”
“I crashed into the barrel about midway and the impact with it broke my right hip. The barrel smashed into the ground at the same time my arm smashed into the pulley, which broke my right wrist.”
“When the barrel hit the ground it smashed the bottom out releasing all the shingles and seeing as how there was no weight left in the barrel, up it went and down I came. I got hit by the barrel again and that broke my other arm. I crashed into the pile of shingles and broke my left leg. At the same time, the rope finally came off my arm and what was left of the barrel came back down, landed on my head and gave me this concussion.”
“So, you see, the whole thing was due to insufficient thinking.”
The accident investigator visited an accident claimant who was recovering in a local hospital. After he had asked most of the standard questions he asked the insured what he thought was the actual cause of the accident.
The claimant answered without hesitation, “Insufficient thinking.”
“How do you figure that?” asked the investigator.
“Well”, He said, “Let me tell you the whole story. I live in a three-story house and it needed a new roof. I didn’t want to spend the money to have the work done professionally so I decided to do it my self. I knew I had to strip all the old shingles off the roof before I could put the new stuff on.”
“Now, the house is surrounded with flowers and shrubbery and as I did not want to damage them by just shoving the old shingles off the roof, I took a large wooden barrel up to place the old shingles in. I rigged a rope and pulley system so I could get the barrel up and down.”
“I filled the barrel up clean to the top with the old shingles I had ripped off the roof. I didn’t think of how much the barrel was going to weigh when it was full like that. Anyhow, I went down to the yard and was going to lower the barrel. I gave a pull on the rope but the barrel didn’t move. Well, I wound that rope around my arm a few times and gave it a healthy jerk with all my might. Now, that barrel must have weighed seven or eight hundred pounds with all them shingles in it. Anyway, the barrel tipped a bit, wiggled some and finally slipped off the edge of the roof. Down it came and up I went, because the rope was wrapped around my arm and I couldn’t get loose.”
“I crashed into the barrel about midway and the impact with it broke my right hip. The barrel smashed into the ground at the same time my arm smashed into the pulley, which broke my right wrist.”
“When the barrel hit the ground it smashed the bottom out releasing all the shingles and seeing as how there was no weight left in the barrel, up it went and down I came. I got hit by the barrel again and that broke my other arm. I crashed into the pile of shingles and broke my left leg. At the same time, the rope finally came off my arm and what was left of the barrel came back down, landed on my head and gave me this concussion.”
“So, you see, the whole thing was due to insufficient thinking.”