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Not exactly firing, because they weren't employed, but I used to have guys come along and have 2-way radios fitted in their cars to work as cab drivers: the ones who didn't pay their fees or were totally useless had to be "taken off-circuit".
Which was usually quite routine. I talked to the guy for a few minutes, long enough for someone to discreetly get the radio back. Except this one time the guy blew up almost as soon as I started talking, stormed out to his car and burned rubber out of the warehouse... with my assistant manager lying on his rear floor, half-in and half-out of the car.
It was one of those situations which could have been anything but funny. Fortunately, he wasn't hurt and the picture of his legs flailing around as the car shot away has stuck with me for years.
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