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OrthoTrot posted:If anyone is still awake I can write a bit about why after passing the signal the route was set into the path of another train.  Your posts are imo the best content this thread has had in a while
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:Yes please Completely agree, would love to read more.
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spiny posted:Well, I guess I was on the safer side at the time ... Did you, like, report it to a fire marshal?
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Oct 25, 2018 17:38
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Renegret posted:This was actually done on the block where I grew up. It was decided that it was easier to install the sewer, raise the street, and give a stipend to the homeowners to remodel their houses, than bury everything they needed. Pretty much all of old Seattle did this, too. The original city was built at sea level, and partly burned down in a massive fire in 1889; when they rebuilt, they regraded the entire downtown core to be two stories higher. Some of the basements are still accessible, with underground tunnels between buildings. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Underground#History
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Hispanic! At The Disco posted:This is so stupid, they could have saved a lot of effort by putting just one crate on top of the ladder. 
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I'm enjoying these. It's a bit terrifying how frequently parts end with "But we don't really know because everyone with first hand information was extremely dead"
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OrthoTrot posted:Sorry for the delay for those interested. I was writing about how driver Michael Hodder managed to pass the supremely dodgy SN109 signal at danger, taking his train into the path of an oncoming HST travelling nearly 100mph at Ladbroke Grove. I wrote about how SN109 was a real hotspot signal, and I think people get why it had been passed so many times after seeing the photos. The other issue is Hodder himself. I think I saw a TV documentary about this. Wasn't there also an issue that, at the time of day the sun was from behind the train and it would have been difficult to tell which signal light was lit.
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Saukkis posted:I think I saw a TV documentary about this. Wasn't there also an issue that, at the time of day the sun was from behind the train and it would have been difficult to tell which signal light was lit. Yep. Also a factor. Something like 8am in October. Low sun is always an issue. He may have disregarded the red as it was not in the usual place and thought the yellow was lit because of the sunlight. From a rulebook point of view if you can't see an aspect you are required to treat it as a red. But then we come back to him being new. Maybe he'd never had a situation like that before. All his practical training was in the summer.
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Yesterday I was walking from the station to the office when I suddenly saw a huge scaffold collapse. I was underneath some cover luckily so I didn't get hit by any debris. I immediately called the emergency services and was kind of just standing there shocked at what I just saw, until the police and the firefighters started to show up five minutes later and I realised there was nothing I could do besides be in the way, so I started to head to the office. Checking the news later I saw that a bricklayer was killed and another one seriously injured.  While I was waiting for my train home today, I passed by the site again and I noticed something. At the spot where the scaffold first buckled and collapsed, there are two unfinished columns of bricks, with exposed insulation that look like they were being pulled off the wall. Maybe it's my overactive imagination but I can't help but think that's where the workers were during the incident and they grabbed the insulation in vain before they fell seven stories. 
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Oct 25, 2018 19:35
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Oct 25, 2018 19:46
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If that were my job, there's a 100% chance I would skewer my thumb on my first day on the job. And every consecutive day after that.
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Renegret posted:If that were my job, there's a 100% chance I would skewer my thumb on my first day on the job. It's definitely a "nope" thing.
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Oct 25, 2018 19:59
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OrthoTrot posted:If anyone is still awake I can write a bit about why after passing the signal the route was set into the path of another train. Never stop posting.
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Renegret posted:If that were my job, there's a 100% chance I would skewer my thumb on my first day on the job. Also see nightmares of that every night. That procedure looks  even without having your sausages in the way of a high speed needle.
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Oct 25, 2018 20:12
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I need high speed footage of this so I can be suitably  ’d
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https://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/adL6RrQ_460svvp9.webm
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Fragrag posted:Yesterday I was walking from the station to the office when I suddenly saw a huge scaffold collapse. I was underneath some cover luckily so I didn't get hit by any debris. I immediately called the emergency services and was kind of just standing there shocked at what I just saw, until the police and the firefighters started to show up five minutes later and I realised there was nothing I could do besides be in the way, so I started to head to the office. Checking the news later I saw that a bricklayer was killed and another one seriously injured. That's terrifying. I'm glad you weren't injured, at least.
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Oct 25, 2018 21:25
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Well I’m not sure if this is actually going to be OSHA in the end but 4 cop cars and cops just pulled up to my work because the larger recycling company we rent a space from for our smaller recycling company just had a dead person tumble out of one of their cardboard drop-offs into their warehouse. Probably another case of someone being in a dumpster (out of all the dumpsters a cardboard one would be the most pleasant I guess?) when the truck came by and compacted
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Oct 25, 2018 21:36
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look on the bright side, maybe it was a murder
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Kibayasu posted:Well I’m not sure if this is actually going to be OSHA in the end but 4 cop cars and cops just pulled up to my work because the larger recycling company we rent a space from for our smaller recycling company just had a dead person tumble out of one of their cardboard drop-offs into their warehouse. Probably another case of someone being in a dumpster (out of all the dumpsters a cardboard one would be the most pleasant I guess?) when the truck came by and compacted he'll never be chairman of the cardboard
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Oct 25, 2018 21:51
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He'll never be the corpse of a major corporation
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Oct 25, 2018 22:03
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Are they allowed to use to boat horn in traffic?
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Oct 25, 2018 22:07
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speed 4 lookin weird
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El_Elegante posted:Are they allowed to use to boat horn in traffic? Is it
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MF_James posted:speed 4 lookin weird otoh fitzcarraldo 2 is shaping up nicely
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Oct 25, 2018 22:12
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American RVs are always excessive.
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Oct 25, 2018 22:23
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This reminds me of someone in AI who had a big boat and a big caravan When he’d go on trips he have to make the trip three times: pulling the caravan, unladen, and pulling the boat. And of course he’d have to do the same thing a few days later. This wasn’t just to the local lake, but for drives that were several hours long each way.
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Oct 25, 2018 22:30
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please play this over a loudspeaker for them (start at 1:15) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaC0vNLdLvY
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Platystemon posted:This reminds me of someone in AI who had a big boat and a big caravan You'd think at some point they'd just get a second car.
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Jesus; Betsy DeVos will do anything to get attention
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Oct 26, 2018 03:49
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Now, this is what I call a shipment.
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Oct 26, 2018 06:36
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 There are two vehicles on the bridge.
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Jabor posted:You'd think at some point they'd just get a second car. I've been paid to do this by a family member, he paid for my gas and parking to tow his boat with my camper van and I basically got to hang out at the coast for a week while he fished. Good deal for everyone.
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SelenicMartian posted:
gently caress that's pancake city. injuries not compatible with life.
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I don’t turn my car off when pumping gas. I like to tell people not to worry it’s an internal combustion engine 
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Oct 26, 2018 09:30
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SelenicMartian posted:
Oh, I see that they rebuilt the Groverpass.
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SelenicMartian posted:
Nah, 1.1 at most. I also guess the rest of the car is hanging by the squashed trunk, but probably not.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEXdkA5sF3w There doesn't seem to be much room to hang. One of the reports said "There's one fatality in the car, but we don't know whether it's the driver or a passenger"
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Oh.... Oh dear. No I think you're right there.
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