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Yeah, startle response is a pretty universal thing to do when WHAT OH GOD poo poo IS HAPPENING gently caress
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DrBouvenstein posted:Always check that a water tank is empty before you lift it with a crane: Points for effort to that one guy for leaping onto the foot of the crane to try and hold it down but what the gently caress was he thinking?? The same with the guys in the tree videos I posted who tried to manhandle the falling tree away from their house/car/fence, I guess it's also a type of startle response and they just reacted without thinking.
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Jun 30, 2016 16:32
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Mozi posted:I may not know how to fall a tree, but I think now I know how not to fall a tree.
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Jun 30, 2016 16:38
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DrBouvenstein posted:Always check that a water tank is empty before you lift it with a crane: Why didn't they stop when the boom started VISIBLY BENDING 
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One of the related videos had the same crane incident from a different angle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7czkZyhqzG8 Alereon posted:I think one of the most important and underrated skills is knowing how easy it is to gently caress something up, and thus how important it is to either hire an expert or pay very close attention to doing it right. I strongly suspect that a lot of these people grew up watching cartoons where cut trees slowly fell neatly and gracefully to earth with a resounding crash and they're completely unaware how insanely dangerous it can be. If someone had handed me a chainsaw 10 years ago and told me to have a go I have no doubt I would have jumped right in, if they asked me today there's no way I'd try unless it was a really small tree. Over in the PYF Schadenfreude thread we've seen a whole bunch of related phenomena, often based around youtube challenges. There's dozens and dozens of kids who have squirted oil all over their bodies and lit themselves on fire because they just weren't aware how incredibly dumb that is.
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DrBouvenstein posted:Always check that a water tank is empty before you lift it with a crane: If something had caught on fire they'd have had a perfect hat trick.
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DrBouvenstein posted:Always check that a water tank is empty before you lift it with a crane: So, say you're in that situation but you realize just as you pull the tank off the tower that you forgot to empty it. What do you do? Going up there to either open the tank valve or try to reattach it to the tower seems suicidal. But you can't swing it out of the way without tipping the crane. Would you try to shoot the tank with a machine-gun or something and let it drain overnight?
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Jun 30, 2016 17:47
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And this is why I don't stop to tie my shoes when walking.. you never know.
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Sagebrush posted:So, say you're in that situation but you realize just as you pull the tank off the tower that you forgot to empty it. What do you do? Going up there to either open the tank valve or try to reattach it to the tower seems suicidal. But you can't swing it out of the way without tipping the crane. You'd do whatever the boss tells you to because you live in a hell-hole without functioning labour unions and it's your livelihood on the line. You can't win.
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Jerry Cotton posted:You'd do whatever the boss tells you to because you live in a hell-hole without functioning labour unions and it's your livelihood on the line. You can't win. When the crane operator popped the tank off the supports and the boom started bending his very first thought was probably "Oh poo poo, I bet they're gonna take this out of my pay"
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I'm still loving with the dude that thinks.. OH this big rear end crane with outriggers and counterweights etc is starting to tip, let me try and haul it down and weigh it down with my puny human body.
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tater_salad posted:And this is why I don't stop to tie my shoes when walking.. you never know. But what if stopping to tie your shoes also stops you from walking under something like that?
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yes the startle response is pretty standard when one is startled, I find
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SpacePig posted:But what if stopping to tie your shoes also stops you from walking under something like that? oh god what have you done, now what do I do?
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:When the crane operator popped the tank off the supports and the boom started bending his very first thought was probably "Oh poo poo, I bet they're gonna take this out of my pay" Actually it's "I wish I had seized the means of production while I was still not dying!"
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tater_salad posted:And this is why I don't stop to tie my shoes when walking.. you never know. SpacePig posted:But what if stopping to tie your shoes also stops you from walking under something like that? My first thought as well. tater_salad posted:oh god what have you done, now what do I do? Dehumanize yourself and face to certain death.  
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This is Death just loving with this guy.
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Don't start nothing won't be nothing. 
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MariusLecter posted:This is Death just loving with this guy. Looks like right at the end the guy falls on the mattress. "You need to go to bed... NOW!"
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Burning_Monk posted:Looks like right at the end the guy falls on the mattress. Exactly. "Haha psyche! had you going there didn't I? Next time will be for real though lol."
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Holy poo poo that guys screams at the end. That's gotta be two broken legs.
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It still there? It's still there. I'll just hang around here for a while then.
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ugliest Sith Lord ever
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Karma Monkey posted:ugliest Sith Lord ever At least the Empire is taking OSHA seriously after the Death Star debacle.
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So what happens when a police department runs out of money to pay for workmans comp and whatnot? Absolutely nothing. Officer Brooks says he’s stuck with over a hundred thousand dollars in medical bills from his crash because Kinloch has no worker’s comp. He’s worried about drivers on the highway who could encounter a Kinloch police car. Kinloch’s police chief K.O. Williams says it’s just the way it is. I asked him, “The city has no insurance? (The chief nodded his head acknowledging that’s correct) “No workers comp?” I asked. Chief acknowledged, correct. I pointed, “Those vehicles aren’t insured?” He shook his head they are not. I asked, “Not registered?” The chief answered, “No, That’s the information that we have, yes sir.” I followed up, “What if there’s a family driving down I-70 and one of your vehicles popped a lug nut and caused a crash?” Williams answered, “I mean, I could ‘what if’ a thousand different scenarios. We hope nothing like that happens, but again when you throw scenarios like that anything’s possible.” I followed up, “But without insurance, that family could be devastated by injuries and not be able to recuperate any loss.” Chief Williams answered, “I guess that’s always a possibility.” Williams says Kinloch just doesn’t have the money because it was stolen by previous leaders. I asked, “So you could still hold somebody else to follow the law, but you can’t because you don’t have the money?” Williams: “Well, I think that it’s important that everyone follows the law, whether it’s the police department, whether it’s the citizen on the street, uhm, I think the policeman on the street always has judgment or discretion.” Chief Williams says they`re now asking for the public`s discretion to let them work with what they have. I've contacted four different state agencies to see who might enforce the law on Kinloch and so far found no one who said they would take action. We`ll stay on this story as we continue to demand answers about how a police department can work above the law in a way that appears to threaten the public. http://fox2now.com/2016/06/29/st-louis-area-police-department-has-no-insurance-no-registration-and-no-apologies/ Bonus civil rights violation : http://fox2now.com/2016/06/30/fox-2-reporter-placed-in-handcuffs-for-attempting-to-cover-city-meeting/
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Tourist dies in Machu Picchu taking photoquote:The body of a German tourist has been recovered from a ravine after he fell while visiting the ancient site of Machu Picchu in the Peruvian Andes. Darwin claims another victim.
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Mozi posted:I may not know how to fall a tree, but I think now I know how not to fall a tree. Anti-Schadenfreude re:OSHA. I hired a man to cut a tree last winter that was about 60 feet tall and 4 feet from my house. He did so safely, and went home at the end of the day without issue for about 1/2 what I expected to pay. Rare to find someone who just does a good job and nothing else. Apropos of nothing, I used to live and work around bears all the time up in Greaney, MN. The bears were always cool if you knew them but everyone I show this video to feels like it's unsafe. What can a guy do? I never had trouble... I used to have to weed-whip around a few of Vince's bears at a resort that I did grounds-keeping for as a kid. I was required to shoo or work around bears. They were all nice and were happy to get out of the way when asked. We never fed them, they just liked the resort. They had a pretty cool spot to sit on the canoes. Vince on WCCO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSz4Y-LVk4I Vince was a good guy and I miss him and I miss Duffy (if you know who that is, awesome!) Vince's bears were my friends back when I was in high school.
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mostlygray posted:Anti-Schadenfreude re:OSHA. I hired a man to cut a tree last winter that was about 60 feet tall and 4 feet from my house. He did so safely, and went home at the end of the day without issue for about 1/2 what I expected to pay. Rare to find someone who just does a good job and nothing else. That male commentator at the end...  
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Sticky Date posted:That male commentator at the end... What the gently caress... he just stares at his co-host for a good twenty seconds.
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Not going anywhere for awhile? Grab a Snickers!
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Worker dies in fall at UVM Construction site.quote:UVM Police Chief Lianne Tuomey later told the Burlington Free Press that the man had fallen from the top floor of the seven-floor structure — about 75 feet above the ground. The man had been wearing a harness, and it was removed before the man was brought to the University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington. The man was pronounced dead at the hospital, Tuomey said. Right, he was totally wearing a harness, we just took it of of him for no reason before he went to the hospital. I'm guessing that they might have even just brought him over to the ER themselves, considering it's literally across the parking lot from the construction site: 
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Deteriorata posted:Tourist dies in Machu Picchu taking photo The body has to go back on the passenger train since there are no roads from anywhere to Aguas Calientes, which is at the base of Machu Picchu.
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DrBouvenstein posted:Worker dies in fall at UVM Construction site. Wow, literally next to Fletcher. As crazy as Burlington is, I miss it everyday. I wish I had a better memory for the obviously unsafe/illegal poo poo I saw nearly everyday from college students as well as campus staff.
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DrBouvenstein posted:Worker dies in fall at UVM Construction site. Its also too common for people just to tie off to dumb poo poo that won't actually hold them if they fall.
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