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chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

Jerry Cotton posted:

How the gently caress does single file block a doorway?

They were inside the doorway. The instructor wouldn't allow them to break ranks even when other people needed to get through.

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3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

chitoryu12 posted:

They were inside the doorway.

Reminds me of when I tried to make a game with Inform 6 and created the toilet seat of no return.

gnarlyhotep
Sep 30, 2008

by Lowtax
Oven Wrangler
There was this one time where my really stupid dog was trapped behind the broom and the mop



So I had to move the broom and mop to release her

Carbon dioxide
Oct 9, 2012

There was a rather big fire in a club in my country 15 years ago. That got them to make stricter OSHA laws.

It's a shocking story. On new year's, someone lighted a bunch of sparklers inside the club, which made the christmas decorations (that should've been protected by a fire retardant, but weren't) hanging from the very low ceiling catch fire. It was in the top floor of a building and the only way out was a narrow staircase. Many people were wearing synthetic clothing that burned easily. The windows were actually barred. 14 young people died, 241 went to hospitals, including to Belgian ones because there wasn't enough capacity for burn victims in the Netherlands. No more than 80 people were allowed to be inside at one time according to safety standards.

This is a picture of a pub on another floor of the same building. The club with the fire looked about the same. At the top, you see the christmas decorations which are dry spruce branches (covered in fake snow), held up by nylon netting.


If one report is to be believed, the local government had been very lax about building safety laws, because most people in the close-knit strongly christian community believed that God's laws were more important than people's laws. It also says that there weren't good procedures to deal with a disaster like this, leading to a chaotic non-organisation of firemen and first responders.

Here's an English language account. It's all rather shocking to read. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1097254.stm

IndianaZoidberg
Aug 21, 2011

My name isnt slick, its Zoidberg. JOHN F***ING ZOIDBERG!
This isnt stricly OSHA.jpeg, but I think you Goons will like it if you got 2 hours to kill.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOzrJjdZDRQ

Its one of those hacker convention panels and its all about elevators from people that work with elevators. Very interesting and worth your time if you into how weird systems. They talk about how elevators are NOT OSHA.jpeg and alot of the bullshit that goes into elevators.

KoRMaK
Jul 31, 2012



IndianaZoidberg posted:

This isnt stricly OSHA.jpeg, but I think you Goons will like it if you got 2 hours to kill.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOzrJjdZDRQ

Its one of those hacker convention panels and its all about elevators from people that work with elevators. Very interesting and worth your time if you into how weird systems. They talk about how elevators are NOT OSHA.jpeg and alot of the bullshit that goes into elevators.

They did this talk at def-con last year. It's good.

Tony Homo
Oct 30, 2014

by zen death robot

gnarlyhotep posted:

There was this one time where my really stupid dog was trapped behind the broom and the mop



So I had to move the broom and mop to release her

Your dog is uuuuuuugly. Leave him behind the broom and mop and never post a pic of it again please.

Proteus Jones
Feb 28, 2013



KoRMaK posted:

They did this talk at def-con last year. It's good.

One thing I love about DefCon is the sheer strangeness of some of the talks. Plus, the presenters tend to be real passionate about what they've researched which can make the most uninteresting topic (elevator, really?) really drat interesting.

Of course don't get on the WiFi at DefCon without PPE (i.e. VPN) :)

goatsestretchgoals
Jun 4, 2011


i hope the driver of that bus died and no one else

KoRMaK
Jul 31, 2012



bitcoin bastard posted:

i hope the driver of that bus died and no one else
:getout:

goatsestretchgoals
Jun 4, 2011

if that bus had people sitting on the left side near the middle, theyre dead as gently caress because the bus driver is too stupid to stop for trains

so i stand by my original comment

Megillah Gorilla
Sep 22, 2003

If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.



Bread Liar

gnarlyhotep posted:

There was this one time where my really stupid dog was trapped behind the broom and the mop



So I had to move the broom and mop to release her

Edmund Sparkler
Jul 4, 2003
For twelve years, you have been asking: Who is John Galt? This is John Galt speaking. I am the man who loves his life. I am the man who does not sacrifice his love or his values. I am the man who has deprived you of victims and thus has destroyed your world, and if you wish to know why you are peris


That dog is obviously lurking, waiting for the right moment to pounce and kill that poor roomba.

IPCRESS
May 27, 2012

FIRST TIME posted:

That dog is obviously lurking, waiting for the right moment to pounce and kill that poor roomba.

So, you're suggesting dog-proof PPE for robotic vacuum cleaners?

Sassafrasquatch
May 7, 2007

That is a pose of fear and panic at that which moves but has no smells.

Edmund Sparkler
Jul 4, 2003
For twelve years, you have been asking: Who is John Galt? This is John Galt speaking. I am the man who loves his life. I am the man who does not sacrifice his love or his values. I am the man who has deprived you of victims and thus has destroyed your world, and if you wish to know why you are peris

dr_rat
Jun 4, 2001

Roomba proof dog-ware.

Should be mandatory to protect the safety of all this worlds most precocious mutts.

kremlins
May 9, 2009


woohoo

Code Jockey
Jan 24, 2006

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Call me crazy but that doesn't look too safe to me!

Nth Doctor
Sep 7, 2010

Darkrai used Dream Eater!
It's super effective!


Code Jockey posted:

Call me crazy but that doesn't look too safe to me!

They at least highlighted it in red to make it stand out.

goatsestretchgoals
Jun 4, 2011

Bonus points if that screw goes all the way through the cable into the box behind it.

dr_rat
Jun 4, 2001
Professional stunt expert drunk footy fan fall 17 stories. is sort of okay

Moral: if you're planning to accidental fall from great height, ensure great drunkenness first.

Also try to bounce off a tin roof and car on the way down.

JFairfax
Oct 23, 2008

by FactsAreUseless

goatsestretchgoals
Jun 4, 2011

New Fast and Furious movie looking good.

Forer
Jan 18, 2010

"How do I get rid of these nasty roaches?!"

Easy, just burn your house down.

IndianaZoidberg posted:

This isnt stricly OSHA.jpeg, but I think you Goons will like it if you got 2 hours to kill.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOzrJjdZDRQ

Its one of those hacker convention panels and its all about elevators from people that work with elevators. Very interesting and worth your time if you into how weird systems. They talk about how elevators are NOT OSHA.jpeg and alot of the bullshit that goes into elevators.

I saw this a while ago and I absolutely loved it and I hope everyone here watches it.

C.M. Kruger
Oct 28, 2013

Dr. Woofkins, PHD in Barkochemistry and director of animal testing.

fisting by many
Dec 25, 2009




The hook is the wrong way.

Three-Phase
Aug 5, 2006

by zen death robot

That's certainly one way to tap power... :stonklol:

Don't try that with cables that are shielded.

Mikl
Nov 8, 2009

Vote shit sandwich or the shit sandwich gets it!
Today, visiting a feed mill for work, I witnessed a truck driver who, while standing in the middle of a very combustible dust cloud (thanks to feed loading operations) popped a cigarette in his mouth and pulled out a lighter :stonk:

The feed mill's manager is a kind, soft spoken man. It was the first time I heard him raise his voice, and what he screamed at the guy was along the lines of "what the gently caress are you doing you motherfucker".

(Before anyone asks: there are several NO SMOKING and NO OPEN FLAMES signs posted in the area the driver was standing in, dude just ignored them.)

Cheez
Apr 29, 2013

Someone doesn't like a shitty gimmick I like?

:siren:
TIME FOR ME TO WHINE ABOUT IT!
:siren:
You have to let go of the drift or you don't get the boost. Newbie mistake.

Knitting Beetles
Feb 4, 2006

Fallen Rib

Three-Phase posted:

That's certainly one way to tap power... :stonklol:

Don't try that with cables that are shielded.

TVs Ian
Jun 1, 2000

Such graceful, delicate creatures.

That reminds me of these little guys. I never had to work with them (oldest I dealt with was 10 base 2), but I had to learn about them when I was studying networking years ago. Much less dangerous, fortunately.

Say Nothing
Mar 5, 2013

by FactsAreUseless

bitcoin bastard posted:

i hope the driver of that bus died and no one else

No, eleven dead. The bus driver ignored flashing lights and barriers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJJFc773lgA

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/argentina/8760977/CCTV-captures-train-ploughing-into-bus-in-deadly-crash.html

surebet
Jan 10, 2013

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chitoryu12 posted:

School evacuation drills always seemed like the absolute worst idea, because they're focused around gathering everyone in a single large place (or several places) to wait out the danger. It makes the assumption that anyone planning on doing damage to the student body would just attack the school building itself and either set off a bomb in an empty classroom or mill about with their gun wondering where everyone had gone until the police came and/or they commit suicide.

Fire exit chat: a place I studied at was really, really bad. The cafeteria was batshit insane:



#1-5 are the exits, all identified properly.

#2 was mostly inaccessible in ideal conditions because maintenance left enough rolling garbage bins to blockade the door up to the main corridor, conveniently taking a fire extinguisher out of the equation. In a panic there's no way #2 is usable.

A & B are the seated areas. They have a legal capacity of 726 people combined, but had seating for twice that and on peak hours held 4x that if you add foot traffic.

Black is the work space of the cafeteria itself, which removes what could've been door #6&7. Orange leads back to the rest of the campus.

Door management was done via good old padlocks, and #1 through #5 were locked after 7PM, more on that later. You could argue that a padlock and brackets isn't really worse than a lock in the door itself, but if someone wants to lock the doors to commit a crime or whatever all they have to do is bring half a dozen locks and they effectively deny access to exits, versus having to tamper with a door lock or block the exits.

As I said, 7PM. Regular classes were held from 8 to 6, but iirc a couple thousand students were there from 6 to 11 at night, plus a decent contingent of maintenance staff and others. Of the 14 exits for the entire campus 12 were padlocked from 7PM onwards. Of course all 14 are still identified as exits, so good luck figuring out where to go if you're not familiar with what's what.

Oh, and instead of dropping a couple hundred thousand on a proper redo of the door management, they kept burning literal millions of dollars chasing the LEED dream (despite portions of the building being over a century old, and anything behind the walls being a mess of spaghetti logic piping which haemorrhaged energy and heat) by doing multi-year reno projects like replacing the HVAC system with a sealed convection setup that was hilariously bad or waterless urinals, so of course there wasn't money left for actual critically urgent needs.

I could go on, but yeah the place was a loving death trap.

Flaccid Trip
Apr 29, 2008

FIRST TIME posted:

Supposedly that bouncer was a drunk and he never got charged with anything.

There's a good documentary about the disaster.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgR3Q4H7fMA

There's also a really good book about it those goes really in depth about everything that went wrong, how the place was more or less unintentionally designed as a death trap, and the court case aftermath. It's horribly depressing, don't try to read it all in one sitting.

gnarlyhotep posted:

There was this one time where my really stupid dog was trapped behind the broom and the mop



So I had to move the broom and mop to release her

Still better than Sailor getting trapped between 2 couches, a footstool and a chair.

tacodaemon
Nov 27, 2006



Drum posted:

There's also a really good book about it those goes really in depth about everything that went wrong, how the place was more or less unintentionally designed as a death trap, and the court case aftermath. It's horribly depressing, don't try to read it all in one sitting.

Doesn't that book just make you want to find where ex-fire marshal Larocque lives and blast the recordings of the screams of the dying through his windows all night every night?

Here are four pics from the stage area of the club during some other band's show. This is the stage area where Larocque stated to a grand jury that he never noticed any foam on the walls during his many inspections of the place:









And yeah, that last pic shows the door by the stage that the volunteer bouncers wouldn't let people exit through.

tacodaemon fucked around with this message at 04:38 on Jul 31, 2015

Three-Phase
Aug 5, 2006

by zen death robot

Is that a power/energy metering unit? The ones I've seen you connect line and load side, but you never do something like that where the insulator is punched through...

Nalesh
Jun 9, 2010

What did the grandma say to the frog?

Something racist, probably.

Zopotantor posted:

There's a guy across the street on the roof, doing something unspeakable to a chimney. I can't see any PPE. :stare:

lovely image because I don't want to be conspicuous:


I'm just reminded of this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG4hflV0fY4

Proteus Jones
Feb 28, 2013



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3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010


He's strong.

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