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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:https://i.imgur.com/H3bfxPI.mp4 quote:The master and third officer left the wheelhouse by the starboard navigation bridge wing. As they proceeded down the external bridge access ladder, the span of the bridge struck the vessel in way of the wheelhouse front windows, subsequently destroying the vessel’s wheelhouse and funnel. The helmsman remained at his station in the wheelhouse and lay down on the deck as the bridge span passed overhead. He freed himself from the debris and descended by the deckhouse stairwell alive.
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I guess I'm glad to hear he descended by the deckhouse stairwell alive, it would be kinda  if he did so in an undead state?
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Schadenboner posted:I guess I'm glad to hear he descended by the deckhouse stairwell alive, it would be kinda
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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:https://i.imgur.com/H3bfxPI.mp4 HOLY gently caress!!! I remember this poo poo. I've got pictures of the aftermath!! I was working midnights at a Denny's nearby, and a guy I worked with, who lived in Welland showed up first thing in the morning and was all "holy gently caress a ship hit the Allanburg bridge"!! I was just coming off shift and went home, got my camera and went to check that poo poo out. My cousin had some sort of internship with the Seaway, and he said that the bridge operators were always baked as gently caress..... Or drunk.. IIRC, this was one of the last bridges, or maybe the last to become remotely controlled.
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why are the quotation marks being auto corrected to hieroglyphs? there has to be some regulations against that poo poo too. lol it's not even for all posts. wtf
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schmug posted:why are the quotation marks being auto corrected to hieroglyphs? there has to be some regulations against that poo poo too. Radium.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Buy yourself one of these: do you know what they are called?
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Mozi posted:do you know what they are called? Women.
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^ lolMozi posted:do you know what they are called? Ladder barrels.
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some safety related things artisanally mined from the schadenfreude thread https://i.imgur.com/eI6kUbi.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/qdYwFOR.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/eqmCfJA.mp4 bike helmet airbag pops by itself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61Kb53DCeEc
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schmug posted:why are the quotation marks being auto corrected to hieroglyphs? there has to be some regulations against that poo poo too. Radium did not foresee the existence of iphones. Now all must suffer.
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Smart quotes are the work of the devil
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spankmeister posted:Smart quotes are the work of the devil Gospel truth.
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The Devil can script quotes for his purpose
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spankmeister posted:Smart quotes are the work of the devil Lol of course Apple has to have their own special apostrophes.
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ekuNNN posted:some safety related things artisanally mined from the schadenfreude thread "Is that Rossi livery? Yep, that's Rossi livery." spankmeister posted:Smart quotes are the work of the devil This can't be boosted enough.
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 Hey, at least the fire truck is exactly where it needs to be
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That guy's hosed, he just hit a ninja
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Facebook Aunt posted:Radium did not foresee the existence of iphones. Now all must suffer. Curly quotes (and a bunch of other characters) displayed fine for years.
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HappyKitty posted:
The fire crew in that very picture posted this on their own Facebook as a joke 
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Kibayasu posted:The fire crew in that very picture posted this on their own Facebook as a joke Hahah
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Kibayasu posted:The fire crew in that very picture posted this on their own Facebook as a joke Not this derail again.
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Lazyhound posted:Not this derail again. Well you see it wasn't actually a derail, because the tracks
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:Well you see it wasn't actually a derail, because the tracks 
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Yeah, so I'm glad for content blablabla but I think this thread should be more about accidents at work. Not about people doing a burnout. I'm sure the person doing the burnout probably works somewhere, but meh. This isn't directed at you personally, it's just a trend I don't like in this thread. Great content from my side, but I neeeeeded to say it.
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Oh, y'all want a derail? Let's get literal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Helena_train_wreck I lived less than a mile from the wreck, as the crow flies. I also slept through it, but my parents were jolted out of bed and said they ran to the window only to see a nuclear-style mushroom cloud ascending into the sky. I woke up a few hours later, when the -30F degree temps, plus the fact that the door between the house and the uninsulated garage had gotten dislodged by the blast, made the house cold enough to wake me. We weren't evacuated per se, but we ended up taking refuge with my aunt and uncle in East Helena, since the power was out and the house bled off too much heat with the door open. We had friends in a nearby neighborhood whose windows were blown out. Hell of a thing to happen when it's that loving cold outside. The college was mega-hosed for a while due to blast damage. The local TV station is just downhill from the college, and for a decade or so, the busted up hulk of one of the exploded train cars was displayed behind a fence next door. That no one died is kind of amazing. Even the explosion that tore apart downtown Bozeman in the 00s killed at least one person. Oddly enough, there was a much worse wreck that originated in a similar area in 1906. http://www.gendisasters.com/montana/5368/austin%2C-mt-train-wreck%2C-feb-1906 http://www.gendisasters.com/montana/5370/austin%2C-mt-train-wreck%2C-feb-1906-second-article Highlights, from a much more brutal time in journalism (bolding mine): FIVE KILLED IN AWFUL WRECK posted:The passenger train preceded the freight out of Austin about eight miles west of Helena. At Austin the engine was detached from the freight. There is a heavy grade from Austin to Helena and the freight got loose. The passenger train was waiting at a crossing when the freight came thundering down. Before it could get out of the way the freight crashed into it throwing all the passenger cars into the ditch. Austin is now a ghost town northwest of Helena. I went exploring up there one night, trying to find a dirt road route over the Continental Divide (don't judge my weird hobbies), got stuck when my car couldn't negotiate the forest service roads, and turned back. As I passed back through Austin, a train went by across the valley from me, and it was the eeriest thing. Nearly silent trains at night seem different from the ones going thru town in the daylight. Anyway, that's what prompted me to try and research the Feb 2, 1989 derailment from my childhood. That's when I ran across the stories from the Feb 6, 1906 derailment Details of the Wreck on the Northern Pacific Near Helena in Which Five Passengers Lost Their Lives posted:DISASTROUS WRECK ON NORTHERN PACIFIC "It is hard to lie here and burn to death," and that bit about the man with burned off stumps for arms, holy loving poo poo.
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:That no one died is kind of amazing. Pff only like 12 people live in montana. Statistically it's amazing that anyone dies at all.
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Facebook Aunt posted:Pff only like 12 people live in montana. Statistically it's amazing that anyone dies at all. Yes, but you're talking about the American equivalent of Australia. The wildlife wants you dead. The plants want you dead. The ground itself wants you dead. If you have neighbors, they surely want you dead.
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Meredith Baxter-Burnout posted:This one's kind of horseshit. The guy decides she's right and that he should let her drive and he dies anyway? I get the point it's trying to make but it comes across as moralizing that he drove high so he deserves to die no matter what. also because gold-standard studies have consistently shown that for regular smokers driving high is no more risky than a bunch of things that people regularly do while driving, like eating or using gps or trying to adjust the volume in new cars since apparently some moron car designers thought it would be a good idea to hide normal things under 5 different menus. delivery drivers are a good case study in this because they are nearly guaranteed to be high as balls 24/7 and their accident rate is better than the average population.
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Driving high is as bad as driving drunk. Don't do it, idiots.
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The Lone Badger posted:Driving high is as bad as driving drunk. Don't do it, idiots.  it's demonstrably not, but still, that doesn't make it a good idea.Don't drive with any kind of mind-altering substances on board is a good rule of thumb though.
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ekuNNN posted:bike helmet airbag pops by itself: Not really 'by itself' he slips, and could have easily gone down. If your head jerked like that on a bike, that's a wreck.
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Sigourney Cheevos posted:Not really 'by itself' he slips, and could have easily gone down. If your head jerked like that on a bike, that's a wreck. I assumed it was an accelerometer detecting that he was momentarily freefalling when he foot slipped out from under him.
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Zipperelli. posted:
Any significant dose of marijuana (i.e. not the tiny doses some people take to control nausea etc) fucks your reaction time and motor control to hell. That's not really arguable. It doesn't make you make incredibly stupid decisions like alcohol does so you're less likely to try and drive, but you definitely shouldn't. If studies show that adjusting the stereo is just as bad then that is evidence we should ban car stereos, not that driving high is ok.
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Potheads: "I once waited five minutes for a stop sign to turn green." Also potheads: "I driver safer when I'm high."
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The Lone Badger posted:Any significant dose of marijuana (i.e. not the tiny doses some people take to control nausea etc) fucks your reaction time and motor control to hell. That's not really arguable. It doesn't make you make incredibly stupid decisions like alcohol does so you're less likely to try and drive, but you definitely shouldn't. Besides the subjectivity of cannabis intoxication, a lot of research (so far) supports the argument that driving drunk is more dangerous than driving high (this does not include driving with THC and alcohol in your blood). According to The Marshall Project, a majority of studies find that driving high is about the same as driving with .01 to .05 blood alcohol content, which is legal in all 50 states. One researcher went as far as to say the increased crash risk from driving under the influence of weed is "so small you can compare it to driving in darkness compared to driving in daylight." And, it goes without saying, people are still allowed to drive in the dark. Still, don't drive intoxicated.
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Speaking of explosions, the Roseburg blast in Oregon in the 50s was a massive explosion. A truck full of 6.5 tons of explosives was left parked unattended, near a building that caught fire in the middle of the night. (The vehicle's owners had told the driver not to park the truck in the explosive storage depot but to leave it downtown so nobody could steal it.) The aftermath was studied by Civil Defense as to what would happen in a nuclear attack. My father-in-law lived there at the time but doesn't remember much about it, you'd think a 50-foot crater in town would be more memorable...
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