# My Favourite Quote this week/month

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-favourite-quote-this-week-month/675245>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 1, 2013, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-favourite-quote-this-week-month/675245 "2013-12-01T23:37:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2013, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-favourite-quote-this-week-month/675245/1 "2013-12-01T23:37:32Z")

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From the co-owner of the pub in Glasgow into which a police helicopter crashed on Friday evening:

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> He [Saverio Petri], got down on his hands and knees, checking for survivors along the perimeter of the pub. “I was concerned that people had been injured and wanted to make sure,” he said. **“I don’t want to sound flippant, but I have a 350-page health and safety manual in the pub, and it doesn’t give me a contingency for the roof being hit by a helicopter.”**

> **[Glasgow unites to support helicopter crash families](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/dec/01/glasgow-helicopter-crash-families)**
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> Owner of Clutha Vaults pub describes moment of crash and praises 'bewildering' response

Well no, I daresay it does somewhat fail in that respect.

Hell, I know it is not a laughing matter, but it’s rather a nice line. Of all the bad stuff that only just _might_ ever happen, a police helicopter crashing into the bloody roof, destroying the place and killing people is somehow not the first thing one thinks of. :eek:

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**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2013, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-favourite-quote-this-week-month/675245/2 "2013-12-02T12:00:56Z")

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Now that’s what I call a documentation-conscious guy… “the pub’s gone down and damnit, we hadn’t documented this process!”
