It’s the middle of the night and Carl hears noises in his kitchen downstairs.
He immediately rings the police and urgently whispers down the phone:
‘Theres a murderer in my house, come quick!”
The police arrive in a whirling mess of flashing lights, screeching tires and wailing sirens.
They kick down the door and search the entire downstairs of Carl’s house and find no one.
No clues either.
Not even signs of forced entry.
Carl tiptoes down the stairs in his fluffy robe and even fluffier slippers and relief spreads through his body at the sight of the police.
But the reassuring feeling had not yet spread to his toes when mortification seared Carl’s insides as he realised the noises that he had assigned to a crazed serial killer was actually the sounds of his new dishwasher working away.
Now Carl is facing a $3,000 fine for obstruction of justice and you have to wonder – could all the embarrassment, hassle and punishment have been avoided if Carl had run a tiny check, just to confirm he wasn’t jumping to conclusions?
For more stories like these ask Ian to tell you his regrettable ‘the computer is definitely on‘ encounter with IT or beg Davina to recount how she confessed her mistake after persistently reassuring the team she sent the invoice.
Thomas Duggan 