On 06/09/2012 15:04, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 14:31:42 on Thu, 6 Sep
2012, Tim Roll-Pickering remarked:
At some point someone somewhere will have to split the hair on what
constitutes "full working order" if Joe Public can't work the controls
as well as the TOC technician who gives the machine a clean bill of
health.

Or as I once found, a machine that was probably working, but roped off
because it was in the middle of a large puddle caused by a leaking roof.

Maybe that qualifies as "no machine"?

At least you could take a photo on your cam-phone to show to any
grippers you may subsequently encounter.

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Graeme Wall
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