OSHA: definitely bent in the straight places

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Ornamental Dingbat: Feb 26, 2007

Pyroclastic posted:

This is apparently at a Kanye show (he just did one in Sacramento where he showed up 90 minutes late, did two songs, went on a political rant, the dropped the mic and ended the show). How the hell is that platform even remotely legal?

Love the color scheme, it has a real Piss Christ aesthetic.

# ? Nov 21, 2016 19:58

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# ? May 17, 2024 00:03

oohhboy: Jun 8, 2013; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Kanye has cancelled the tour. That platform couldn't bear the weight of his ego.

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-38049884

# ? Nov 21, 2016 20:24

KoRMaK: Jul 31, 2012

Wow, trump's ego took out kanye's ego.

Hopefully he can rebound by 2019 in time for his 2020 presidential run

# ? Nov 21, 2016 20:26

jetz0r: May 10, 2003; Tomorrow, our nation will sit on the throne of the world. This is not a figment of the imagination, but a fact. Tomorrow we will lead the world, Allah willing.

ElBrak posted:

As one of the people who helped put that poo poo together when he was in Seattle: Nah that shits weighs a ton, its all steel truss with aluminum deck on top.

Yeah, it's a heavy deck with a poo poo ton of rigging involved. It's not a small impromptu setup. An insured tour of that caliber is going to do its homework on its gimmick stage.

Pyroclastic posted:

This is apparently at a Kanye show (he just did one in Sacramento where he showed up 90 minutes late, did two songs, went on a political rant, the dropped the mic and ended the show). How the hell is that platform even remotely legal?

Kayne's floating soapbox isn't the dangerous thing about those shows. Kayne pissing off the audience enough to start a riot is the real danger. He got close to inciting riots in both San Jose and Sacramento, to the point that people backstage were getting scared.. He would be pretty safe on his retractable platform, but everyone in the venue or backstage would be hosed.

# ? Nov 21, 2016 20:38

Meme Poker Party: Sep 1, 2006; by Azathoth

Kanye is a jackass.

# ? Nov 21, 2016 20:39

Neutrino: Mar 8, 2006; Fallen Rib

This just happened here in Milwaukee:

http://www.tmj4.com/news/local-news/farwell-ave-closed-after-building-falls-into-road

Luckily there aren't any cars that got smooshed but there is damage to the building across the road.

# ? Nov 21, 2016 21:05

BlankIsBeautiful: Apr 4, 2008; Feeling a little inadequate?

Collateral Damage posted:

The "funny house" at the Stockholm amusement park has moving stairs like that leading up to the entrance. They're really simple when you just follow the rhythm, but it's amusing to watch people gently caress it up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn10aErrE7M

Oh wow, if that were here in the States, the lawsuits would be incredible. I can imagine what would happen if one fat drunk at the top lost it and took out everyone down the line. We can't have cool things like that in the US because stupid people.

# ? Nov 21, 2016 21:07

Powershift: Nov 23, 2009

Neutrino posted:

This just happened here in Milwaukee:

http://www.tmj4.com/news/local-news/farwell-ave-closed-after-building-falls-into-road

Luckily there aren't any cars that got smooshed but there is damage to the building across the road.

Damnit, Milhouse. :argh:

# ? Nov 21, 2016 21:16

Pigsfeet on Rye: Oct 22, 2008; I'm meat on the hoof

oohhboy posted:

Kanye has cancelled the tour. That platform couldn't bear the weight of his ego.

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-38049884

drat, and here he had just reclaimed the Throne of Rap, too.

# ? Nov 21, 2016 22:09

GotLag: Jul 17, 2005; 食べちゃダメだよ

Collateral Damage posted:

The "funny house" at the Stockholm amusement park has moving stairs like that leading up to the entrance. They're really simple when you just follow the rhythm, but it's amusing to watch people gently caress it up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn10aErrE7M

Please tell me there's more footage like this. It slays me the way he finally gets one transfer right, only to immediately jump back on to the now-descending step.

# ? Nov 21, 2016 22:46

RabbitWizard: Oct 21, 2008; Muldoon

BlankIsBeautiful posted:

Oh wow, if that were here in the States, the lawsuits would be incredible. I can imagine what would happen if one fat drunk at the top lost it and took out everyone down the line. We can't have cool things like that in the US because stupid people.

http://i.imgur.com/h7So87K.gifv

# ? Nov 21, 2016 23:10

SLOSifl: Aug 10, 2002

I've been on something that used those man-engine type stairs. It might have been a carnival at the CA Mid State Fair, the kind with janky rides, unfair games and extreme carnies.

# ? Nov 21, 2016 23:13

Zesty: Jan 17, 2012; The Great Twist

RabbitWizard posted:

http://i.imgur.com/h7So87K.gifv

Serves the person behind her pushing her by the rear end in a top hat.

# ? Nov 21, 2016 23:14

LifeSunDeath: Jan 4, 2007; still gay rights and smoke weed every day

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# ? Nov 22, 2016 02:36

Tofu Terry: Oct 4, 2015; by FactsAreUseless

Chomp8645 posted:

Kanye is a jackass.

I've heard it as "old Kanye raps about new Kanye" which is becoming truer and truer.

Also it looks like a boss level were you run to one side to make the platform tip towards you.

# ? Nov 22, 2016 03:28

Railing Kill: Nov 14, 2008; You are the first crack in the sheer face of god. From you it will spread.

Tofu Terry posted:

Also it looks like a boss level were you run to one side to make the platform tip towards you.

Still, it's better than the setup at Nine Inch Nails shows:

# ? Nov 22, 2016 04:06

my girlfriend is Legos: Apr 24, 2013

GotLag posted:

Please tell me there's more footage like this. It slays me the way he finally gets one transfer right, only to immediately jump back on to the now-descending step.

I couldn't find any, but I did find this old video about a very OSHA cop doing an OSHA inspection of that amusement park: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MZWyA3xr30

:rip:

Svullo

# ? Nov 22, 2016 04:06

Zev: Apr 3, 2009

I heard osha passed some new rules about fall protection and some other ones to stop employers from having work rules or rewards that discouraged reporting incidents. Also the fines went up.

# ? Nov 22, 2016 05:36

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

Collateral Damage posted:

The "funny house" at the Stockholm amusement park has moving stairs like that leading up to the entrance. They're really simple when you just follow the rhythm, but it's amusing to watch people gently caress it up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn10aErrE7M

I told this story in the old thread, but it's worth repeating just to reinforce the fact that people are idiots.

We have alternating tread stairs at several points in our warehouse and storage areas to save space. They look pretty much like this:

And half the people I work with, from office drones to chemists to engineers just cannot use them without losing their minds like that guy in the video you linked. They'll walk huge distances out of their way to find 'normal' stairs rather than use them.

When they try to use them, they'll get to the point where they have both feet on the stairs and just freeze. You can see them thinking "Oh god, which foot do I use next? I want to lift my right foot, but that will put it on the left side of the stairs. Crap, now my left foot is wedged against the railing. What do I do?"

Like how some people simply cannot use starting blocks in foot races without getting themselves all confused.

I just don't see the issue. Honestly, I don't know how these otherwise very intelligent people manage to fail at something so simple. But it is funny to watch.

# ? Nov 22, 2016 05:59

Deteriorata: Feb 6, 2005

We all get sort of bumfuzzled when we suddenly have to think about something we have done automatically without thought about before. Sort of like if you've driven the same route to work every day for twenty years to where you can go on autopilot and just get to work without realizing you get there - and then having to explain the route in detail to a friend for some reason.

People in the habit of thinking deeply find it hard to suddenly think about very obvious and shallow things. They can do it, of course, it just takes a frustrating few moments to shift gears.

Einstein was famous for never being able to remember just where his house was in Princeton. He could walk to it absent-mindedly, but if he ever stopped to think about just where his house was he completely confused himself.

Deteriorata fucked around with this message at 06:15 on Nov 22, 2016

# ? Nov 22, 2016 06:11

VectorSigma: Jan 20, 2004; Transform
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Railing Kill posted:

Still, it's better than the setup at Nine Inch Nails shows:

that was the old setup

this is the new one:

taking industrial music to its logical conclusion

# ? Nov 22, 2016 06:36

Cocaine Bear: Nov 4, 2011; ACAB

Does it attach to any kind of vent reznor?

# ? Nov 22, 2016 06:58

mostlygray: Nov 1, 2012; BURY ME AS I LIVED, A FREE MAN ON THE CLUTCH

Arsenic Lupin posted:

Electric clock? Some of them ran on that voltage. In particular, master-slave clocks often ran at 24DC. Would he have had access to office/factory salvage?

He worked in a steel mill so definitely.

# ? Nov 22, 2016 08:55

Explosionface: May 30, 2011; We can dance if we want to,
we can leave Marle behind.
'Cause your fiends don't dance,
and if they don't dance,
they'll get a Robo Fist of mine.

There was an explosion in a small town in Kansas this morning. I'm sure there's a very OSHA reason behind it.

# ? Nov 22, 2016 15:39

xergm: Sep 8, 2009; The Moon is for Sissies!

Explosionface posted:

There was an explosion in a small town in Kansas this morning. I'm sure there's a very OSHA reason behind it.

They just had a spill a month ago that gassed out Atchison, now an explosion somewhere else?

As if their water slides weren't bad enough.

# ? Nov 22, 2016 18:05

Explosionface: May 30, 2011; We can dance if we want to,
we can leave Marle behind.
'Cause your fiends don't dance,
and if they don't dance,
they'll get a Robo Fist of mine.

xergm posted:

They just had a spill a month ago that gassed out Atchison, now an explosion somewhere else?

As if their water slides weren't bad enough.

And just wait in case Trump actually taps Brownback for budget tips. Then everyone can be hosed over by our terribleness!

As for the explosion, there's only one reported injury (out of ~40 employees, apparently) and the fires are still burning, despite help from neighboring fire departments.

e: oh, and there was fun a few years ago when Coffeyville flooded due to their oil refinery

Explosionface fucked around with this message at 18:22 on Nov 22, 2016

# ? Nov 22, 2016 18:17

Snowglobe of Doom: Mar 30, 2012; sucks to be right

http://i.imgur.com/trK31FM.gifv

Edit: the Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/tradiemayhem/ :nms:

is a fuckin' goldmine for building site OSHA fuckups:

.... but also for dozens and dozens of workplace injury photos so it's :nms:

for close up photos of fingers torn in half and legs torn open and poo poo like that :gonk:

Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 18:43 on Nov 22, 2016

# ? Nov 22, 2016 18:26

Warm und Fuzzy: Jun 20, 2006

VectorSigma posted:

that was the old setup

this is the new one:

taking industrial music to its logical conclusion

I want to FCU like an animal

# ? Nov 22, 2016 18:48

xergm: Sep 8, 2009; The Moon is for Sissies!

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

We truly are living in the future!

# ? Nov 22, 2016 20:08

Carbon dioxide: Oct 9, 2012

quote:

A court document says Walp was driving the load from Reynolds, Nebraska, to Hanover, Kansas, on Aug. 8 when he exchanged texts with his boss. The document says that soon after Walp read that he'd been dismissed, he stopped the truck on Nebraska Highway 8 near Odell, got out and opened the grain trailer's bottom hatch doors.

The document says Walp then drove down the highway, spilling out nearly 1,000 bushels of corn � nearly $3,100 worth.

# ? Nov 22, 2016 20:15