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Who's Facing the Music Now?

01 April 2016 | Updated 01 January 1970
 

Radio station Pirate FM is to be prosecuted for a blatant disregard for safety signage and for generally taking the micky out of the whole health & safety thing.

The Sun and the Daily Mail would also have been up before the beak for inventing H&S stories 'that you couldn't make up' but as their top Johnnies all live in foreign tax havens, plans have been shelved.

Meanwhile, here are a couple more signs that made the TWinFM team giggle.

Picture: Courtesy of Pirate FM

Article written by April Bouffon | Published 01 April 2016

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