30.06.2007

Stranded in the air

A painter working on the outside of the Wheatsheaf pub in Ewell near Epsom, Surrey, was left stranded in the platform yesterday when a youth pulled up in a white van, went up to the boom lift the painter was working in switched the machine off and walked off with the keys.
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The locked machine after the operator had been rescued

The first that the landlord of the Wheatsheaf knew of the situation was when a passer-by walked in and announced that there was a man outside the pub swearing his head off.
The operator was eventually rescued with a ladder and a set of spare keys eventually arrived allowing the lift to be brought down.