It was red Mike and so was the floor around it after Jim nutted it. There is a fire hose reel on about every 6 columns at the end of the aisles, at head height (I’d have been fine) and the open/shut valve sticks out a fair bit which is what he collided with - not ergonomically ideal really.
He’s fine but as you can imagine with a bunch of mates on a day out, we ripped the piss out of him on the way home. Funny thing is, in France when you call an ambulance/paramedics, it’s the Fire Brigade that turn up - maybe they put those hoses there to drum up business