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Synthbuttrange
May 6, 2007

Dungeon guy upgraded his stairs I see

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ponzicar
Mar 17, 2008
I'm pretty sure it qualifies as a ladder.

FuturePastNow
May 19, 2014


Say Nothing posted:

Dammit, Grover!



When I was a kid, my grandparents' house had a cellar with steps like those. #Triggered

XenJ
Aug 1, 2014
I don't want go drunk up or down on this stair-steps haha

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

ponzicar posted:

I'm pretty sure it qualifies as a ladder.

But it’s a really lovely ladder where you can’t get a good grip on the rungs.

Dirt Road Junglist
Oct 8, 2010

We will be cruel
And through our cruelty
They will know who we are

Memento posted:

all your expensive gas is ar-gone.

Just wanted to point out that magnificence in case someone missed it.

now entering North Dakota
Feb 22, 2013


Fun Shoe

XenJ posted:

I don't want go drunk up or down on this stair-steps haha

Drunk? I don't even want to try it sober...

Kith
Sep 17, 2009

You never learn anything
by doing it right.


Memento
Aug 25, 2009


Bleak Gremlin

Say Nothing posted:

Dammit, Grover!



I've seen this poo poo in third world countries. Normally what happens is someone owns a shop with a storeroom at the top of it in a tiny alleyway. They decide that the storeroom could be rented out to a family or two, so they board up the trapdoor and put some of these "stairs" up to it because they can charge more rent than they could if it was just a ladder.

Wasabi the J
Jan 23, 2008

MOM WAS RIGHT
Guys I replaced more switches in my house and only made sparks once!

Dogs are wary of us reaching for the light switch now :c

hanales
Nov 3, 2013

Wasabi the J posted:

Guys I replaced more switches in my house and only made sparks once!

Dogs are wary of us reaching for the light switch now :c

Hey i did this last weekend! It's all the DIY I'm capable of. 100% shock rate :/ (Did 1)

Humphreys
Jan 26, 2013

We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule


hanales posted:

Hey i did this last weekend! It's all the DIY I'm capable of. 100% shock rate :/ (Did 1)

I have a self imposed ban on trying to test anything 240VAC and higher. Everytime I gently caress up and trip a breaker AND/OR blow the poo poo out of my DMM probes. I'm sticking to DC low voltage (yes yes 240VAC is technically low but you know what I mean).

Brute Squad
Dec 20, 2006

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human race


Ah, yes. For the rider who's legs bend up.

Mozi
Apr 4, 2004

Forms change so fast
Time is moving past
Memory is smoke
Gonna get wider when I die
Nap Ghost
It's the really, really handicapped seat.

Bloody Hedgehog
Dec 12, 2003

💥💥🤯💥💥
Gotta nuke something
How else would coffee tables get to their Olympic wrestling qualifier?

Bum the Sad
Aug 25, 2002
Hell Gem

Mozi posted:

It's the really, really handicapped seat.

Well yeah but if you could fit there you probably came in on your own chair.

Rough Lobster
May 27, 2009

Don't be such a squid, bro

Obviously not intentional but looks like a convenient baggage nook to me.

Kith
Sep 17, 2009

You never learn anything
by doing it right.


Brute Squad posted:

Ah, yes. For the rider who's legs bend up.

Nocheez
Sep 5, 2000

Can you spare a little cheddar?
Nap Ghost
Stumbled upon this today, and recognized my hometown's colors and police uniforms:
https://i.imgur.com/gkiHnUx.mp4

Sagebrush
Feb 26, 2012

what?

i imagine that's some kind of extremely poorly thought-out "scare kids straight" move, right?

Nocheez
Sep 5, 2000

Can you spare a little cheddar?
Nap Ghost
They volunteered for it. They're junior police academy students.

suuma
Apr 2, 2009
Apparently it's a junior police thing and in order to be allowed to carry pepper spray they gotta get sprayed first.

XenJ
Aug 1, 2014
Is that to remind them not to use it to often or unthinkingly or to make them harder?

RyokoTK
Feb 12, 2012

I am cool.

XenJ posted:

Is that to remind them not to use it to often or unthinkingly or to make them harder?

I'd think it's mostly just to get a grasp of how potent the stuff is and have a respect for the tool. Like, it's pretty easy to see how potent a gun is, but pepper spray just looks like "it hurts" but you don't really know how much.

Phuzun
Jul 4, 2007

You're likely to get hit with some of it, when spraying down idiots that deserve it. Need to be able to still function under the effects. (Or they just wanted to haze the freshman)

Imagined
Feb 2, 2007
They do the same thing in military basic training to emphasize how loving important it is to get your mask on.

KoRMaK
Jul 31, 2012



suuma posted:

Apparently it's a junior police thing and in order to be allowed to carry pepper spray they gotta get sprayed first.
same, but with guns

Rosemont
Nov 4, 2009
It's something they do in actual police academy. And as a previous poster said, it's so you have a good understanding of how potent that poo poo actually is.

MF_James
May 8, 2008
I CANNOT HANDLE BEING CALLED OUT ON MY DUMBASS OPINIONS ABOUT ANTI-VIRUS AND SECURITY. I REALLY LIKE TO THINK THAT I KNOW THINGS HERE

INSTEAD I AM GOING TO WHINE ABOUT IT IN OTHER THREADS SO MY OPINION CAN FEEL VALIDATED IN AN ECHO CHAMBER I LIKE

I'm pretty sure as other posters said, to carry pepper spray you have to be sprayed with it once. I believe the same also holds true for tazers, at least it did when my buddies dad was on the force, he said the tazer hurt like a motherfucker. I've been hit with a pretty tame stun gun before, it wasn't bad, just tensed up the muscles and hurt slightly at the point of impact, but those tazers the cops carry are no loving joke.

FCKGW
May 21, 2006

Hers the video

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

There's one girl that holds it together pretty well but another two lose their poo poo and squeak like pigs for two minutes

duTrieux.
Oct 9, 2003

this appears to be one of the few cases where it's actually a good idea to haze the gently caress out of somebody.

RyokoTK
Feb 12, 2012

I am cool.

MF_James posted:

I believe the same also holds true for tazers, at least it did when my buddies dad was on the force, he said the tazer hurt like a motherfucker. I've been hit with a pretty tame stun gun before, it wasn't bad, just tensed up the muscles and hurt slightly at the point of impact, but those tazers the cops carry are no loving joke.

Apparently TASER, the company, are not a fan of this at all.

Prav
Oct 29, 2011

FCKGW posted:

but another two lose their poo poo and squeak like pigs for two minutes

oh, too easy

drzrma
Dec 29, 2008

RyokoTK posted:

Apparently TASER, the company, are not a fan of this at all.

Given the not insignificant risk of complications up to and including death, I don't blame them. Less lethal means just that, and it's a crummy way to discover you have a so far undiagnosed cardiac condition.

Reminds me of the case where an attorney requested permission to demonstrate the actual effects of a flash bang in the courtroom, neither the judge nor the manufacturer were terribly enthusiastic. I believe the manufacturer's recommendation was an empty football field or something, definitely not an enclosed space.

3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

drzrma posted:

Given the not insignificant risk of complications up to and including death, I don't blame them. Less lethal means just that, and it's a crummy way to discover you have a so far undiagnosed cardiac condition.

Reminds me of the case where an attorney requested permission to demonstrate the actual effects of a flash bang in the courtroom, neither the judge nor the manufacturer were terribly enthusiastic. I believe the manufacturer's recommendation was an empty football field or something, definitely not an enclosed space.

And the lawyer who (overwhelmingly successfully) demonstrated how easy it was to accidentally discharge a certain firearm in a murder case by accidentally shooting and killing himself with said weapon.

chitoryu12
Apr 24, 2014

RyokoTK posted:

I'd think it's mostly just to get a grasp of how potent the stuff is and have a respect for the tool. Like, it's pretty easy to see how potent a gun is, but pepper spray just looks like "it hurts" but you don't really know how much.

Seems like it works! They just don't use pepper spray and shoot them instead!

RyokoTK
Feb 12, 2012

I am cool.

drzrma posted:

Reminds me of the case where an attorney requested permission to demonstrate the actual effects of a flash bang in the courtroom

:stonk:

Nocheez
Sep 5, 2000

Can you spare a little cheddar?
Nap Ghost

FCKGW posted:

Hers the video

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

There's one girl that holds it together pretty well but another two lose their poo poo and squeak like pigs for two minutes

Sweet! Thanks for sharing this ode to Purple Pride.

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

Jerry Cotton posted:

And the lawyer who (overwhelmingly successfully) demonstrated how easy it was to accidentally discharge a certain firearm in a murder case by accidentally shooting and killing himself with said weapon.

:stare:

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CollegeCop
Jul 11, 2005

You're right. I'm not a real cop. Those are imaginary handcuffs. And in a minute, we'll be going to the make-believe jail.

FCKGW posted:

Hers the video

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

There's one girl that holds it together pretty well but another two lose their poo poo and squeak like pigs for two minutes

That video is some Grade A theatrics.

I had to do this when I went through the academy, then again three years later when my agency finally authorized us to carry OC spray.

The idea behind getting sprayed as part of the training is that you are going to get blowback when you deploy. It is just going to happen. You have to be able to work through the effects and finish the interaction.

Our certification process went like this: Get sprayed, call on radio that spray was deployed and ask for backup. Run 50 feet to next station and perform baton strikes to dummy. Run 50 feet to next station and handcuff suspect. When that all was done, they had a hose you could use to rinse your eyes out.

It wasn't fun, but it did prove that OC spray is not debilitating, and you can fight through the pain.

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