Has the world gone mad? (From This is Hampshire)

Has the world gone mad?

6:00am Saturday 23rd July 2011

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CONTRACTORS re-arranging desks in our office were forced to wear high-visibility jackets.

I thought those yellow monstrosities were only worn by lunatic cyclists as a sighting aid for lunatic car drivers determined to leave a tangled mess of broken bones and bloodstained mudguards in the gutter of the A27.

Did Health and Safety bods - who, I must say, definitely do err on the side of madness - believe a university-educated engineer carrying a cup of coffee might fail to notice two hulking six-footers shifting a wooden desk across an open-plan office?

Or perhaps it was to assist the driver who routinely reverses his articulated lorry around the Xerox machine. (OK, I made the last bit up.)

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