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BattleMaster posted:Another cool way to die also included getting stuck and crushed between the floor/ceiling of the car and the ceiling/floor of the floor they were on due to faulty door sensors ... or evil computers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGy02Exgw44
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BattleMaster posted:yikes I got you mixed up with Tei because of the mouse avatar and briefly wondered why this post isn't written in broken schizophrenic English. On topic - err, I rode a paternoster once. it was mildly scary
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Horrible Lurkbeast posted:Smartphones. This - I know a guy who saw someone who was on their phone almost walk into the elevator shaft when the car wasn't there and was only saved because someone else grabbed them. And yes, it was in North America, not one of those countries where you expect elevators to be death traps 
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Horrible Lurkbeast posted:Smartphones. 
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Tumblr of scotch posted:I avoid elevators because they make me motion sick. I've gotten stuck in the elevators at my work for over an hour before. Twice. Once in each. (that's what she said)
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VectorSigma posted:wherever there's a sign like this, it means it has happened before 
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25kV is pretty serious for a pantograph cable. (See also: 1man1trainroof.mov)
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Three-Phase posted:25kV is pretty serious for a pantograph cable. It's for the bullet trains.
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Mr. Fix It posted:It's for the bullet trains. I thought they were maglev trains which I think, and please do say if it's not the case, run on some magic in the track.
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Boiled Water posted:I thought they were maglev trains which I think, and please do say if it's not the case, run on some magic in the track. They're only just testing maglev trains in Japan. Tokyo-Nagoya won't open until 2027, and they won't get the rest of the way to Osaka until 2045.
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Tinypic and Photobucket are both garbage sites that nobody should use ever.
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GotLag posted:FYI that doesn't embed, use imgur or something instead of tinypic To put a finer point on it, it looks like tinypic can't handle browsing our dead gay forums using SSL. Can't be letting Julian Assange steal our hilarious bytes now, can we.
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Rehosted: 
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Perestroika posted:Rehosted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX7vKQ5TLOA
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Perestroika posted:Rehosted: Typing up a document, printing it, having it framed, and hanging it on the wall is always an easier and more sensible approach than calling an electrician. (Especially when there's an electrocution risk involved.)
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Going by the lightswitch gonna say there's no electrical code wherever that sign is posted.
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http://i.imgur.com/cKgrNeT.mp4 I was trying to think up a joke to go with this but then I realized I'm actually incredibly interested in learning about wind-related OSHA rules.
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:I've gotten stuck in the elevators at my work for over an hour before. I worked building management briefly at a university that rented its dorms out for summer events. We were given the elevator key, and then told never to use it, because you can't be sure the elevator that's stuck won't unstick itself with someone in the threshold. That said, when a dozen 14 year old volleyball camp girls are yelling at you from the other side of an elevator door for over an hour in 105F+ heat, dismemberment is all but guaranteed anyway. My dismemberment. So I let them out.
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I would assume the first step to freeing someone from a stuck elevator was to shut it down.
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Power Bottom posted:http://i.imgur.com/cKgrNeT.mp4 Well on the subject of OSHA and wind, there's the big blue crane that collapsed due to wind on the load. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbP4Z0Ni3SI
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Carecat posted:due to wind on the load. And here I thought that having a little too much wind on my load was a personal accident and not regulated by Big Gov.
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Power Bottom posted:http://i.imgur.com/cKgrNeT.mp4 I remember watching the Weather Channel during some hurricane, probably 20 years ago, and the guy was trying to stand in the wind and report. Then a big piece of sheet metal flew by his head like a murder frisbee. He moved indoors real quick.
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FuturePastNow posted:I remember watching the Weather Channel during some hurricane, probably 20 years ago, and the guy was trying to stand in the wind and report. Then a big piece of sheet metal flew by his head like a murder frisbee. He moved indoors real quick. Yeah, at high wind speeds pretty much anything can become fairly dangerous, particularly when large surface areas are involved. Back when my family was building our house, the cyclone Kyril swept across the construction side. While that was going on, it picked up a piece of improperly secured isolation. This was basically a chunk of hardened polyurethane foam, so picture something like styrofoam except more dense. The piece was about 1x1 meter in size with a thickness of ~30cm, but even then it couldn't have weighed more than two, maybe three kilos or thereabouts. So after the storm we went to look for it, and found it across the field wrapped around a metal fencepost. The post embedded into it more than halfway along its length, which was already quite an achievement. The stuff actually is pretty solid and hard, and takes some effort to take apart even with a saw. But the real kicker was the post itself: It was a solid iron bar, and a pretty chunky thing with a diameter of perhaps 2cm. And it was bent at a ~30° angle from the impact. 
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Perestroika posted:Rehosted: Nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope
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Perestroika posted:Yeah, at high wind speeds pretty much anything can become fairly dangerous, particularly when large surface areas are involved. Back when my family was building our house, the cyclone Kyril swept across the construction side. While that was going on, it picked up a piece of improperly secured isolation. This was basically a chunk of hardened polyurethane foam, so picture something like styrofoam except more dense. The piece was about 1x1 meter in size with a thickness of ~30cm, but even then it couldn't have weighed more than two, maybe three kilos or thereabouts.   
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Collateral Damage posted:I would assume the first step to freeing someone from a stuck elevator was to shut it down. One would think, but that required calling the elevator tech, who apparently lived two towns over and drove a minimally functional tractor, what with how long it took him to arrive.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt9Lvi7-W8Y approx 48 seconds in.
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Dexo posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt9Lvi7-W8Y Lime Tonics posted:Baltimore crews destroys wrong building.
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If it's good enough for the troops in Iraq, it's good enough for everyone. Several US troops were electrocuted by shoddy wiring in shower facilities during the occupation of Iraq. http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/124863
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https://www.liveleak.com/view?i=434_1495438376 Gas station facade falls on firefighter, trapping him. Takes a bit of frantic work to free him, but he's OK. Don't be afraid cause it's Liveleak, nothing bad.
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Since we're on wind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHhZwvdRR5c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPOtDPHjW-Y Last one, this one with commentary from the tower. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_WmjWAGkLI nomad2020 fucked around with this message at 01:24 on May 24, 2017 |
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nomad2020 posted:Since we're on wind. gently caress, they're alive and tired of our poo poo!
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Now I kinda wanna make some kind of hilarious potato cannon and fire increasingly unlikely objects at poo poo to see how well they penetrate things. Gotta recreate that picture of a chunk of wheat straw that was driven through an oak tree.
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Is anyone else a little skeptical of the hose through the tree?
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JB50 posted:Is anyone else a little skeptical of the hose through the tree? Very.
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In retrospect, I'm sure the rubber hose would have melted from the friction before making it all the way through the tree unscathed.
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Dillbag posted:In retrospect, I'm sure the rubber hose would have melted from the friction before making it all the way through the tree unscathed. It's deceptive. It looks like the hose didn't go through the tree end on, it was yanked down lengthwise at the crook of the branch. The branch then flexed back up and snagged it. Another view: 
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