"dmc" wrote in message ...
In article ,
Steve Walker wrote:
On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 08:45:17 GMT, John wrote:

My mother-in-law was in hospital, terminally ill and immobile, with only
about a week to live. She was shoved on a three bedded ward with a broken
TV and no phone and basically left to brood. We suggested us buying a
brand
new TV, but they insisted that it would have to be tested and that would
take at least a week!

A friend was in hospital for a couple of weeks and stuck in a ward with
5 other people with only a broken TV that wouldn't tune to anything for
more than 2 mins.

I took in the kids little DVD player that they use in the car and a scart
adaptor and a Fawlty Towers box set.

Apparantly they were told to turn it off and unplug it as it hadn't been
tested. 6 very bored, ill patients quickly suggested otherwise (using
just a couple of choice words apparantly) and it was left alone and not
mentioned for the rest of his stay

Darren


And they can always fall back on the emotive statement - "It could set fire
to the hospital and you wouldn't like that would you?"