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ethanol posted:Thanks for asking but I have a gf The man is dying, ethanol! I'm sure your girlfriend will understand, just open his mouth and get up on it! E: the Zim building fire of 66' is pretty OSHA, but I'm posting it here because of an anecdote http://www.jta.org/1966/02/07/archive/tel-aviv-mayor-orders-probe-into-fire-of-five-story-zim-building http://news.walla.co.il/item/1640149 I was told that a Hungarian janitor called the fire dept. and reported the fire, but due to his unlucky choice of words gave the impression he was complaining of a burning sensation in his testicles. I can't find a primary source to corroborate . By popular demand fucked around with this message at 20:23 on Feb 28, 2017 |
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Horrible Lurkbeast posted:I was told that a Hungarian janitor called the fire dept. and reported the fire, The phrasebook claims another life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akbflkF_1zY
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While that story is unverified, the Zim building does sound almost identical to "nuts" in Hebrew (beit-zim vs. beitzim). It's not impossible that inexperienced hebrew speaker would make this mistake.
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Feb 28, 2017 20:46
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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39121997quote:A French police sniper has accidentally shot and injured two people during a speech by President Francois Hollande in western France. it would have been pretty anticlimactic if WW3 started because a policeman accidentally killed the president of a nuclear power
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Feb 28, 2017 21:16
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There's no such thing as an "accidental discharge". The term that article needs is negligent discharge. Guns don't go off unless you pull the trigger, unless they are so poorly maintained that they can go off if you drop them, which means it's negligent to be loading them in the first place. He's a police sniper so I'm going to assume a certain level of firearm competence in regards to knowing his rifle is broken to the point when it could go off from being dropped. So that idiot either had his finger on the trigger, or let it get caught on something sticking out, but either way the rifle going off is 100% his fault.
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Feb 28, 2017 21:29
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I think that it's a sign of things to come: Last year a policeman assainated a diplomat on purpose, this year the French president was almost shot by accident The omens say that all the bad poo poo that's about to go down will be unintentional.
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Feb 28, 2017 21:30
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Memento posted:There's no such thing as an "accidental discharge". The term that article needs is negligent discharge. Guns don't go off unless you pull the trigger, unless they are so poorly maintained that they can go off if you drop them, which means it's negligent to be loading them in the first place. So that idiot either had his finger on the trigger, or let it get caught on something sticking out, but either way the rifle going off is 100% his fault. By that logic there sure as hell have been very few accidents in the history of the world. Titanic sank? Why didn't they just go around the ice-berg. You? Daddy could've pulled out.
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Or they're made in Brazil. https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a84_1395261848
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Irradiation posted:Or they're made in Brazil. They actually had another problem with a similar gun from the same factory last year, where instead of going off by itself, it would go into uncontrollable runaway fire if you pulled the trigger, dumping the entire magazine at full auto. You could pretty easy make the case that Made In Brazil = poorly maintained. Jerry Cotton posted:By that logic there sure as hell have been very few accidents in the history of the world. Titanic sank? Why didn't they just go around the ice-berg. You? Daddy could've pulled out. Titanic sank because, among other stupid human actions, the guy with the key to the locker with the binoculars in it stayed home and didn't give the key to his replacement. Yes, a hell of a lot of "accidents" can be ascribed to human negligence. You though? poo poo, sometimes bad luck is a real thing. Memento fucked around with this message at 21:48 on Feb 28, 2017 |
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Jerry Cotton posted:By that logic there sure as hell have been very few accidents in the history of the world. Titanic sank? Why didn't they just go around the ice-berg. You? Daddy could've pulled out.
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Jerry Cotton posted:By that logic there sure as hell have been very few accidents in the history of the world. Titanic sank? Why didn't they just go around the ice-berg. You? Daddy could've pulled out. The Titanic was a series of bad decisions. Not calling it an “accident” is good.
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Jerry Cotton posted:By that logic there sure as hell have been very few accidents in the history of the world. Titanic sank? Why didn't they just go around the ice-berg. You? Daddy could've pulled out. The term "accident" implies that no one is at fault. It was just a mistake, or a miscommunication, or a wild random happenstance. Negligence on the other hand, is totally avoidable, and lays the blame precisely at the feet of the person who was responsible. Like, for instance, the chucklefuck with the rifle in that article, especially since he, of all people, should have known better. Loaded rifle, safety off, not pointed in a safe direction, finger on the trigger or near something it could catch on, he pretty much broke every rule there is.
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The Titanic literally sank because of (multiple instances of) negligence.
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I know this is from pages ago but gently caress those duck or hippo boat/buses. The have them in my town and they're ridiculously expensive and boring. For like $10 you can get a great water tour on some cute ferries and tour boats. For about the same you can get a land based tour in a comfortable bus. Or you can pay about 6x as much combined to get a lovely worst of both worlds experience. A really short water tour mixed with a bunch of boring driving because where they can go in and out of the water isn't near anywhere interesting. No one I've talked to said it was remotely worth doing. There's also of course all the safety issues as well, on and off the water. I've nearly been hit by the drat things a few times because they have such poor visibility and sit so high on the road they can't see pedestrians or bikes and the drivers have an aggressive schedule to keep.
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Jay_Zombie posted:The term "accident" implies that no one is at fault. It was just a mistake, or a miscommunication, or a wild random happenstance. Here, have some freaky PSAs on this very topic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwCyVku1HvI
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:This was JPM smashing into the jet dryer, right? Why he was still flying around the track under caution and hit his brakes to go sliding into the jet dryer, that knowledge will be lost to the ages. Or he did a dumb dumb
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Memento posted:There's no such thing as an "accidental discharge". The term that article needs is negligent discharge. Guns don't go off unless you pull the trigger, unless they are so poorly maintained that they can go off if you drop them, which means it's negligent to be loading them in the first place. He's a police sniper so I'm going to assume a certain level of firearm competence in regards to knowing his rifle is broken to the point when it could go off from being dropped. So that idiot either had his finger on the trigger, or let it get caught on something sticking out, but either way the rifle going off is 100% his fault. Was it a Remington 700?
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Memento posted:There's no such thing as an "accidental discharge". The term that article needs is negligent discharge. Guns don't go off unless you pull the trigger, unless they are so poorly maintained that they can go off if you drop them, which means it's negligent to be loading them in the first place. He's a police sniper so I'm going to assume a certain level of firearm competence in regards to knowing his rifle is broken to the point when it could go off from being dropped. So that idiot either had his finger on the trigger, or let it get caught on something sticking out, but either way the rifle going off is 100% his fault. Something something Taurus.
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CannonFodder posted:Was it a Remington 700? Vincent Van Goatse posted:Something something Taurus. I should have added "badly designed" to the section headed "poorly maintained" to cover these contingencies, true. I think that's why those Brazilian guns were such fuckups; they were Brazilian (poor manufacturing standards) copies of Taurus guns (poor manufacturing standards) which meant that instead of just being unreliable and poorly built, they were actively extremely dangerous. Memento fucked around with this message at 22:32 on Feb 28, 2017 |
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Horrible Lurkbeast posted:I think that it's a sign of things to come: We're still a ways from bomb-throwing anarchists.
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Powered Descent posted:Here, have some freaky PSAs on this very topic. Knew what this was before I even clicked on it  They still freak me out to this day but god drat if they didn't make me take a more critical eye to my workplace.
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Whoever allows their loaded, chambered, cocked weapon to ND while positioning really has no place in a professional security org.
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evil_bunnY posted:Whoever allows their loaded, chambered, cocked weapon to ND while positioning really has no place in a professional security org. Actually, it was an accident.
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CannonFodder posted:Was it a Remington 700? Owning a Remington 700 is negligent.
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Decrepus posted:Actually, it was an accident. He was hired and given a rifle by accident, happens all the time.
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holy poo poo everything in this article https://www.revealnews.org/article/this-tool-cuts-fingers-and-gashes-faces-but-shipbuilder-still-uses-it/ quote:This tool cuts fingers and gashes faces, but shipbuilder still uses it quote:But he also has blamed employees for their injuries. It’s “the employee who makes the tool unsafe not the tool (itself),” Blankenfeld wrote in an email to a group of company managers in 2011. 
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Wait, it’s a single tool (i.e. not a class of tools similarly modified) that injured fifty‐three different employees?
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Platystemon posted:Wait, it’s a single tool (i.e. not a class of tools similarly modified) that injured fifty‐three different employees? They keep handing it off to the next employee who has all his fingers.
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Platystemon posted:Wait, it’s a single tool (i.e. not a class of tools similarly modified) that injured fifty‐three different employees? It was a single type of tool, but not just one tool. It was a grinder where they modified a toothed blade onto it. Doing so results in nasty kickbacks from a hand-held tool.
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FCKGW posted:It was a single type of tool, but not just one tool. See, that’s what I was wondering. I was imagining one tool that has “Property of Kilroy / do not remove from dock A‐1” scribbled on it and has a blood stain that looks remarkably like Texas (and every other state + Guam, Puerto Rico, and D.C.).
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CannonFodder posted:Yep. Iirc he was the lucky pass and he had pitted during the caution so he was speeding up to catch up with the back of the pack and get in formation Also jpm lol u dumb
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FCKGW posted:holy poo poo everything in this article The proper tool for this, and likely the tool that blade is designed for is a counter-rotating saw, which acts more like a bunch of scissors. if it jams, it just stops instead of jumping in whichever direction the blade is spinning.  They're problematic if steel gets in between the blades and you can quickly destroy expensive blades if you're not liberal with the wax sticks, but you also get to keep all your fingers and facial flesh.
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FCKGW posted:holy poo poo everything in this article Austal is also the same company that hosed up half the Littoral Combat Ships because they figured they didn't need to isolate the steel waterjets from the aluminum hull, which has caused the hulls to have serious corrosion issues.
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C.M. Kruger posted:Austal is also the same company that hosed up half the Littoral Combat Ships because they figured they didn't need to isolate the steel waterjets from the aluminum hull, which has caused the hulls to have serious corrosion issues. A problem that was recognised in the loving eighteenth century.
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"In 1776 Alarm was resurveyed. It was soon discovered that the sheathing had become detached from the hull in many places because the iron nails which had been used to fasten the copper to the timbers had been ‘much rotted’. Closer inspection revealed that some nails, which were less corroded, were insulated from the copper by brown paper which was trapped under the nail head. The copper had been delivered to the dockyard wrapped in the paper which was not removed before the sheets were nailed to the hull. The obvious conclusion therefore, and the one which had been highlighted in a separate report to the Admiralty in as early as 1763, was that iron should not be allowed direct contact with copper in a sea water environment if severe corrosion of the iron was to be avoided." Cool stuff
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Platystemon posted:A problem that was recognised in the loving eighteenth century. wrong century bud
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Irradiation posted:Or they're made in Brazil. What happens at 50seconds? There's what sounds like a gunshot (though the gun is empty) and a small dimple appears on the side.
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Lutha Mahtin posted:wrong century bud Er, as opposed to....?
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