Gas works burnt a hole through my shoe!

TechMinerUK

TechMinerUK

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Today I was walking in the town where I live (as I usually do) when I came to a road where they were performing maintenance on the gas lines.
I continued to walk on the path as there were no signs saying not to or encouraging me to walk on the road. As I was walking I began to feel a sharp pain in my foot as if I had stepped on a nail. A gas worker saw me in pain and told me to walk on the road as the path wasn't finished (I add again that there were no signs to show this).

Anyway I walked halfway down the road and looked at my shoe to find a hole burnt through it and through my (BRAND NEW) socks due to the tarmac on the path being too hot.

I'm now at home and quite annoyed as I liked these shoes and my socks :mad:
 
russell664 said:
What shoes and magical socks are these?
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They are my trainer/hiking shoe Karrimors and some spotty socks. They are the comfiest shoes I own dammit :mad:

doofer said:
You should hot foot it straight to your Solicitors for compensation.
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But it wont bring back my socks though :(

rhysduck said:
If you're that attached to your socks you need serious psychological help
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I defy you not to become attachted to such a comfy combination

Also keep the shoe puns coming :D
 
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Hot mix asphalt concrete (commonly abbreviated as HMAC or HMA) is produced by heating the asphalt binder to decrease its viscosity, and drying the aggregate to remove moisture from it prior to mixing. Mixing is generally performed with the aggregate at about 300 °F (roughly 150 °C) for virgin asphalt and 330 °F (166 °C) for polymer modified asphalt, and the asphalt cement at 200 °F (95 °C).
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Baring in mind those are the mixing temperatures, unless you dipped your foot into freshly mixed tarmac I'm struggling to see how it would be hot enough to burn though a shoe sole and a sock also considering your foot is not in constant contact with the floor.
 
tom_e said:
Baring in mind those are the mixing temperatures, unless you dipped your foot into freshly mixed tarmac I'm struggling to see how it would be hot enough to burn though a shoe sole and a sock also considering your foot is not in constant contact with the floor.
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Not sure to be honest but the hole wasn't there when I left the house (I would have known, same goes for the hole in my sock in the same point as my shoes hole) :confused:

koolpc said:
Take a step in the right direction and complain?
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I'm genuinely thinking about emailing Northern Gas, just on the point of the principle of some signs that say "Tarmac is hot, no steppy" :D
 
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