Occupational Hazards!

I have a great job where I just sit at a desk in my home office and work from there!

Not so these two guys, who have very different jobs, and very different problems!

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A drunk cabbie who passed out in the driver’s seat of his taxi while waiting for the light to change has lost both his job and his licence.

Dominique McFadden, 47, was arrested June 10 after Timmins police found him hunched over behind the wheel, his taxi idling at an intersection.

Police found he had close to triple the legal limit of alcohol in his system.

McFadden pleaded guilty in Timmins provincial court Tuesday to impaired driving.

He lost his driving privileges for a year, was fined $1,700 and placed on probation for a year.

Court was told he was off-duty at the time.

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A United Airlines flight was diverted to Toronto's Pearson Airport late Monday night after the pilot spilled a coffee, Transport Canada reports.

The coffee interfered with the plane's navigation and communication system and sent out distress signals including code 7500 — unlawful interference, or a hijacking — and code 7600, which means the plane has lost communications.

"With the help of their company dispatch staff, the flight crew was confirmed the problem to be a NAV(navigation)/communication issue and not a valid code 7500. The flight crew initially diverted to return to Chicago but subsequently declared an emergency ... and diverted to Toronto," the report on Transport Canada's civil aviation daily occurrence reporting system says.

"Staff reported that the United Airlines, Inc. corporate office had indicated that the pilot in command had inadvertently squawked a 7500 code after spilling coffee on the aircraft's radio equipment."

After the communication issues, the flight crew made the decision to land the Boeing 777 in Toronto around 10 p.m. Monday.

United Airlines sent a second plane to Toronto, which picked up the 255 passengers and took them back to Chicago. The passengers were able to board a fight to Frankfurt, Germany on Tuesday.

A United spokesman said a review is underway and it was too soon to comment on what happened.

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This last story hit close to home because back in the 70's when I was working at a radio station in Toronto one of the other DJ's spilled a coffee into the control board of the main studio.

It knocked the entire station off the air for a couple of hours until they could transfer operations to a back up control room!

(It took them about a week to clean the switches in the board since the sugar in the coffee screwed up all the contacts.)

Needless to say, after that drinks were not allowed near any electronics!