Hell - I've personally done nearly as well as that. 4 high, 2 wide block stack of pallets of VB 750ml bottles (64 boxes per pallet) - 22 rows deep. So that's 176 pallets or 11264 boxes of VB.
I pulled the top pallet down and I am reversing out of the row when I hear a horrible noise and see the rest of the stack falling towards me - I stamp on the accelerator trying to get away, nearly make it and only wear about half of the very top pallet, which makes me veer a bit and I take out the bottom pallet of the front row of the next stack by reversing through it, and the other 7 pallets from the front 8 promptly try to fall on me too.
It turns out that over the weekend the roof had leaked during a storm and all the carboard boxes were soaked through - the whole dam 176 pallets of beer was basically just sitting there one bottle balanced on top of another. I gave it a little shake pulling off the top pallet and the whole damn thing fell over like a house of cards. Somewhere close to 150 of those 176 pallets physically broke, the rest had to be crushed because they were full of spilled beer and broken glass. And aside from the 8 pallets in the next row I actually drove into... half of the pallets in the two adjoining rows had to be crushed because of spilled beer and glass. All in all nearly 200 pallets of stock had to be destroyed.
I got a little cut on one of my knees, got to spend the next hour or so in the tea room calming down... then the next three days with a shovel and broom cleaning up the damn mess. I was unpopular for some time, even though the investigation (oh you can bet there was one) found it wasn't my fault at all.
TB
