OSHA: definitely bent in the straight places

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Son of Thunderbeast: Sep 21, 2002

Zipperelli. posted:

Why does it matter that they're teenage volleyball players? Wouldn't you do the needful for anyone stuck in that situation?

extremely depends on what they mean by "do the needful"

# ? Jan 17, 2019 01:13

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# ? Jun 7, 2024 03:08

Burt Sexual: Jan 26, 2006; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS; Switchblade Switcharoo

Zipperelli. posted:

Why does it matter that they're teenage volleyball players? Wouldn't you do the needful for anyone stuck in that situation?

It doesn�t it was an example of a fully loaded elevator?

# ? Jan 17, 2019 01:14

Platystemon: Feb 13, 2012; BREADS

Occupational hazards: U.S. Marshal edition

# ? Jan 17, 2019 01:25

El_Elegante: Jul 3, 2004; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS; Biscuit Hider

Platystemon posted:

Occupational hazards: U.S. Marshal edition

Woah

# ? Jan 17, 2019 01:32

Complications: Jun 19, 2014

Platystemon posted:

Occupational hazards: U.S. Marshal edition

Jurisdictional intersects are so fun. To read about.

# ? Jan 17, 2019 01:47

Cable Guy: Jul 18, 2005; I don't expect any trouble, but we'll be handing these out later...; Slippery Tilde

Synthbuttrange posted:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-16/jason-challis-death-army-inquest-coroner-mount-bundey/10719132

A reconstruction of the shooting incident during Exercise Tigers Run

0:45 huh...oooooooh.

History doesn't repeat but it rhymes...?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exercise_Tiger

quote:

Exercise Tiger, or Operation Tiger, was the code name for one in a series of large-scale rehearsals for the D-Day invasion of Normandy, which took place in April 1944 on Slapton Sands in Devon. Coordination and communication problems resulted in friendly fire deaths during the exercise, and an Allied convoy positioning itself for the landing was attacked by E-boats of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine, resulting in the deaths of at least 749 American servicemen.[1][2] Because of the impending invasion of Normandy, the incident was under the strictest secrecy at the time and was only nominally reported afterwards

quote:

The first practice assault took place on the morning of 27 April[6][7] and was marred by an incident involving friendly fire. H-hour was set for 07:30, and was to include live ammunition to acclimatize the troops to the sights, sounds and even smells of a naval bombardment. During the landing itself, live rounds were to be fired over the heads of the incoming troops by forces on land, for the same reason. This followed an order made by General Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander, who felt that the men must be hardened by exposure to real battle conditions.[8] The exercise was to include naval bombardment by ships of Force U Bombardment Group fifty minutes prior to the landing.[9]

Several of the landing ships for that morning were delayed, and the officer in charge, American Admiral Don P. Moon, decided to delay H-hour for 60 minutes, until 08:30.[8] Some of the landing craft did not receive word of the change. Landing on the beach at their original scheduled time, the second wave came under fire, suffering an unknown number of casualties. Rumours circulated along the fleet that as many as 450 men were killed

# ? Jan 17, 2019 02:49

Bad Munki: Nov 4, 2008; We're all mad here.

https://i.imgur.com/pFRRNNK.gifv

# ? Jan 17, 2019 04:29

Trabant: Nov 26, 2011; All systems nominal.

Now that's some serious fuckling!

# ? Jan 17, 2019 04:42

Proteus Jones: Feb 28, 2013

Bad Munki posted:

https://i.imgur.com/pFRRNNK.gifv

I�m not entirely sure what�s going on here. Are they basically having a demolition derby, but with bucket loaders?

# ? Jan 17, 2019 04:43

Phanatic: Mar 13, 2007; Please don't forget that I am an extremely racist idiot who also has terrible opinions about the Culture series.

During mating season, the bull loaders become highly aggressive and engage in ritual combat.

# ? Jan 17, 2019 04:47

an AOL chatroom: Oct 3, 2002

Proteus Jones posted:

I�m not entirely sure what�s going on here. Are they basically having a demolition derby, but with bucket loaders?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/18/bulldozers-battle-it-out-hebei-province-china

quote:

An argument between construction workers escalated into a demolition derby-style clash of heavy machinery that left at least two bulldozers flipped over in a street, say police in northern China.

# ? Jan 17, 2019 04:56

PainterofCrap: Oct 17, 2002; hey bebe

Phanatic posted:

During mating season, the bull loaders become highly aggressive and engage in ritual combat.

Time, again, for, "Life of a digger"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozdXIdkWn_4

# ? Jan 17, 2019 05:05

Nenonen: Oct 22, 2009; Mulla on aina kolkyt donaa taskussa

sneakyfrog posted:

i thought pyramids were for grain

see, someone like you should brief the POTUS: after building the United Nations, you don't need the Great Wall.

# ? Jan 17, 2019 05:06

McSpanky: Jan 16, 2005

PainterofCrap posted:

Time, again, for, "Life of a digger"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozdXIdkWn_4

I've never seen that before, that was great.

# ? Jan 17, 2019 05:45

Burt Sexual: Jan 26, 2006; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS; Switchblade Switcharoo

Proteus Jones posted:

I�m not entirely sure what�s going on here. Are they basically having a demolition derby, but with bucket loaders?

This was page 269 of this thousand page thread, dumb rear end!

# ? Jan 17, 2019 05:51

Larch: Dec 20, 2004; BEE LOVER

FogHelmut posted:

In 1991, we moved into a fixer upper. It was largely original and unmaintained, but it was in a town with a good school district. There was a large rotting and sagging deck on the back of the house that had to be torn down. The carpenter ant damage was evident, but the tear down went with little fanfare. It turns out that the ants had moved on to greener pastures to the ledger board inside the wall of the house. I will never forget standing there as my dad drilled holes along the exterior wall and sprayed poison deep into the wood cavities, while thousands and thousands of ants came spilling out and falling dead on the ground below, their writhing corpses forming small mounds upon the earth.

Great post.

I lived on a ranch in Hawaii when I was a teenager. We had a small mixed herd of cattle, like maybe 150 head, and we raised quarter horses.

The guy that owned the place was a Mormon bishop, he had like 6 kids and he was old as poo poo. But I guess he was frisky. He bred these quarter horses and had this whole string of young women who would ride them in competitions. Like jumping and barrel racing and that kind of poo poo. Lots of fun.

So every Saturday morning we would sell some beef, (there was a whole Friday roundup, then cutting out all the steers from the little pasture into the arena, then cutting out all of the saleable steers into the corrall), and every now and then he would sell a horse, but that was rare.

The main source of income on this patch was the trail rides. We had a string of maybe 40 horses ranging from young and dumb to old and worthless, and we would saddle up about 25 of them on a given day and take groups of mostly tourists out on rides up into the mountains and back.

So anyway the 2:30 ride was the long one. Like 2 hours or more depending. Incredibly beautiful this ride, like just in general, but specifically because there were a few spots where you'd be like winding up next to this ridge under the trees and then you'd suddenly come out into the sun and see the ocean, and Maui in the distance, looking down the whole mountain side. Sometimes you'd hear the tourists, even locals sometimes, gasp or laugh or make some kind of noise as the came into the clearing, just caught unawares by this sudden vision.

Anyway it developed one day that a big loving group of bees had taken up residence in a dead tree right next to the trail. And so we went up there with propane flame throwers, I think 3 of them, and set to burning them out.

They came pouring out in their millions. Then immediately lost their wings. They did indeed pour out just like water.

And then, just when we started unwrapping the shirts from our faces, the first stings came, from this seething mass of angry bees crawling, crawling everywhere around us.

It was too late to run, but we ran anyway.

They were all dead the next day.

# ? Jan 17, 2019 07:07

AzureSkys: Apr 27, 2003

drunkill posted:

This belongs here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xiBu9AkmcA

Raining ants and logs.

# ? Jan 17, 2019 08:56

Coxswain Balls: Jun 4, 2001

Platystemon posted:

Occupational hazards: U.S. Marshal edition

Aren't DoE security dudes mostly hired from private companies and are basically upgunned security guards with the authority to kill? He tries to make them sound like the cool badasses and portrays the US Marshal as the bad guy, but everyone seems to come across as a dickwaving rear end in a top hat. The whole part in Wind River where they get to the drill rig and everyone starts pulling guns on each other seems less out-of-nowhere now.

# ? Jan 17, 2019 09:08

Watermelon Daiquiri: Jul 10, 2010; I TRIED TO BAIT THE TXPOL THREAD WITH THE WORLD'S WORST POSSIBLE TAKE AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS STUPID AVATAR.

I'm thinking less 'Paul Blart' and more 'Blackwater'

# ? Jan 17, 2019 09:25

Jabor: Jul 16, 2010; #1 Loser at SpaceChem

Blackwater is basically a bunch of Paul Blarts :ssh:

# ? Jan 17, 2019 09:31

McSpanky: Jan 16, 2005

Platystemon posted:

Occupational hazards: U.S. Marshal edition

The linked story about an April Fools prank gone wrong with the hazardous spills response team is great.

[Futurama announcer voice]
DON'T
PRANK
FIRST
RESPONDERS!!

# ? Jan 17, 2019 09:33

evil_bunnY: Apr 2, 2003

LifeSunDeath posted:

I had 2 patients, husband/wife, that both broke their legs when their personal elevator failed and dropped them some 15 feet. Made getting on the lovely often broken elevators at the hospital extra exciting. Additionally, said lovely hospital elevators have trapped me 2 different times, where I had to call for help and was stuck in there for 10 minutes, then suddenly the it opens up and I jump out because i'm not sure if the thing is going to try and guillotine me. gently caress elevators, take the stairs if you can.

This is, as usual, 100% down to management skimping on maintenance.

# ? Jan 17, 2019 09:56

tactlessbastard: Feb 4, 2001; Godspeed, post; Fun Shoe

McSpanky posted:

The linked story about an April Fools prank gone wrong with the hazardous spills response team is great.

[Futurama announcer voice]
DON'T
PRANK
FIRST
RESPONDERS!!

Yeah, but he also drags a bunch of other people in who weren't the ones that pranked him. It was just a petty power trip.

# ? Jan 17, 2019 11:56

3D Megadoodoo: Nov 25, 2010

Krabboss posted:

The Fat Lizard IPA or whatever brewed in Espoo was hyped up to me and it was better than all the other IPAs I've had here but still not good

It was made of ES and poo :mmmhmm:

# ? Jan 17, 2019 12:01

Dirt Road Junglist: Oct 8, 2010; We will be cruel
And through our cruelty
They will know who we are

Zipperelli. posted:

Why does it matter that they're teenage volleyball players? Wouldn't you do the needful for anyone stuck in that situation?

It's a detail that hopefully gets across the number of people and their basic disposition, which was crying panic. Which is why I had to debate bending the (very logical and justified) rules in the moment.

# ? Jan 17, 2019 12:49

GotLag: Jul 17, 2005; 食べちゃダメだよ

Dirt Road Junglist posted:

poo poo like that is why they tell you never to get on/off an elevator that's not aligned with its floors.

When the door opened and he started walking it was aligned.

That aside he's a dick for just walking in the door without looking up from his phone to see if there's anyone about to get off.

# ? Jan 17, 2019 14:02

bring back old gbs: Feb 28, 2007; by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

GotLag posted:

When the door opened and he started walking it was aligned.

That aside he's a dick for just walking in the door without looking up from his phone to see if there's anyone about to get off.

fyi tho some people sustain themselves on the energy generated by shoulder checking dumb mother fuckers

# ? Jan 17, 2019 14:06

Ghostnuke: Sep 21, 2005; Throw this in a pot, add some broth, a potato? Baby you got a stew going!

Larch posted:

Great post.

I lived on a ranch in Hawaii when I was a teenager. We had a small mixed herd of cattle, like maybe 150 head, and we raised quarter horses.

The guy that owned the place was a Mormon bishop, he had like 6 kids and he was old as poo poo. But I guess he was frisky. He bred these quarter horses and had this whole string of young women who would ride them in competitions. Like jumping and barrel racing and that kind of poo poo. Lots of fun.

So every Saturday morning we would sell some beef, (there was a whole Friday roundup, then cutting out all the steers from the little pasture into the arena, then cutting out all of the saleable steers into the corrall), and every now and then he would sell a horse, but that was rare.

The main source of income on this patch was the trail rides. We had a string of maybe 40 horses ranging from young and dumb to old and worthless, and we would saddle up about 25 of them on a given day and take groups of mostly tourists out on rides up into the mountains and back.

So anyway the 2:30 ride was the long one. Like 2 hours or more depending. Incredibly beautiful this ride, like just in general, but specifically because there were a few spots where you'd be like winding up next to this ridge under the trees and then you'd suddenly come out into the sun and see the ocean, and Maui in the distance, looking down the whole mountain side. Sometimes you'd hear the tourists, even locals sometimes, gasp or laugh or make some kind of noise as the came into the clearing, just caught unawares by this sudden vision.

Anyway it developed one day that a big loving group of bees had taken up residence in a dead tree right next to the trail. And so we went up there with propane flame throwers, I think 3 of them, and set to burning them out.

They came pouring out in their millions. Then immediately lost their wings. They did indeed pour out just like water.

And then, just when we started unwrapping the shirts from our faces, the first stings came, from this seething mass of angry bees crawling, crawling everywhere around us.

It was too late to run, but we ran anyway.

They were all dead the next day.

please don't kill bees, friend.

# ? Jan 17, 2019 15:43

Piggy Smalls: Jun 21, 2015; BOSS MAKES A DOLLAR,
YOU MAKE A DIME,
I'LL LICK HIS BOOT TILL THOSE MOTHERFUCKERS SHINE.

Ghostnuke posted:

please don't kill bees, friend.

# ? Jan 17, 2019 16:01

Nerses IV: May 4, 2007; by FactsAreUseless

Larch posted:

Great post.

I lived on a ranch in Hawaii when I was a teenager. We had a small mixed herd of cattle, like maybe 150 head, and we raised quarter horses.

The guy that owned the place was a Mormon bishop, he had like 6 kids and he was old as poo poo. But I guess he was frisky. He bred these quarter horses and had this whole string of young women who would ride them in competitions. Like jumping and barrel racing and that kind of poo poo. Lots of fun.

So every Saturday morning we would sell some beef, (there was a whole Friday roundup, then cutting out all the steers from the little pasture into the arena, then cutting out all of the saleable steers into the corrall), and every now and then he would sell a horse, but that was rare.

The main source of income on this patch was the trail rides. We had a string of maybe 40 horses ranging from young and dumb to old and worthless, and we would saddle up about 25 of them on a given day and take groups of mostly tourists out on rides up into the mountains and back.

So anyway the 2:30 ride was the long one. Like 2 hours or more depending. Incredibly beautiful this ride, like just in general, but specifically because there were a few spots where you'd be like winding up next to this ridge under the trees and then you'd suddenly come out into the sun and see the ocean, and Maui in the distance, looking down the whole mountain side. Sometimes you'd hear the tourists, even locals sometimes, gasp or laugh or make some kind of noise as the came into the clearing, just caught unawares by this sudden vision.

Anyway it developed one day that a big loving group of bees had taken up residence in a dead tree right next to the trail. And so we went up there with propane flame throwers, I think 3 of them, and set to burning them out.

They came pouring out in their millions. Then immediately lost their wings. They did indeed pour out just like water.

And then, just when we started unwrapping the shirts from our faces, the first stings came, from this seething mass of angry bees crawling, crawling everywhere around us.

It was too late to run, but we ran anyway.

They were all dead the next day.

thx for post of bee holocaust

# ? Jan 17, 2019 16:03

The Locator: Sep 12, 2004; Out here, everything hurts.

Coxswain Balls posted:

Aren't DoE security dudes mostly hired from private companies and are basically upgunned security guards with the authority to kill? He tries to make them sound like the cool badasses and portrays the US Marshal as the bad guy, but everyone seems to come across as a dickwaving rear end in a top hat. The whole part in Wind River where they get to the drill rig and everyone starts pulling guns on each other seems less out-of-nowhere now.

No idea if that's the case now, but some 20'ish years ago when I had a friend involved in that line of work (on the HR side), it was basically impossible to be hired as armed security at a nuke plant without being ex-military (and the rare ex-police), and it was competitive enough that only the guys with really good service records were even considered. Certainly it's possible that it's changed since then.

# ? Jan 17, 2019 16:05

GotLag: Jul 17, 2005; 食べちゃダメだよ

Larch posted:

And then, just when we started unwrapping the shirts from our faces, the first stings came, from this seething mass of angry bees crawling, crawling everywhere around us.

It was too late to run, but we ran anyway.

They were all dead the next day.

You are what's wrong with the world, and I hope it hurt

# ? Jan 17, 2019 16:16

Croatoan: Jun 24, 2005; I am inevitable.
ROBBLE GROBBLE

Larch posted:

I killed bees because?

Cool, you're a dick

# ? Jan 17, 2019 17:10

Queen Combat: Dec 29, 2017; Lipstick Apathy

Ghostnuke posted:

please don't kill bees, friend.

. I had beehives for years with only one sting average per year. If it was a dead tree, they were just swarming and would have moved on within three days or so.

# ? Jan 17, 2019 18:29

Platystemon: Feb 13, 2012; BREADS

~~Hawaiian honeybees are often a hybrid of the European and African subspecies, which makes them aggressive.~~

Platystemon fucked around with this message at 18:49 on Jan 17, 2019

# ? Jan 17, 2019 18:34

Queen Combat: Dec 29, 2017; Lipstick Apathy

Platystemon posted:

Hawaiian honeybees are often a hybrid of the European and African subspecies, which makes them aggressive.

As of 2017, Hawaii had no Africanized bees, so ???

# ? Jan 17, 2019 18:40

Platystemon: Feb 13, 2012; BREADS

I was lied to.

Have some true facts about Hawaii�s native bees: https://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/uhmg/news/V9-Magnacca-NativeBee.pdf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQiOv4MMeps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2aPyGgG2ag

# ? Jan 17, 2019 18:52

Rad-daddio: Apr 25, 2017

Queen Combat posted:

As of 2017, Hawaii had no Africanized bees, so ???

pshh, what has science ever done for anybody?

# ? Jan 17, 2019 19:09

20 Blunts: Jan 21, 2017

Platystemon posted:

~~Hawaiian honeybees are often a hybrid of the European and African subspecies, which makes them aggressive.~~

Woah don't even try to ruin the high horse everyone is on. Out of the dozen bee species on the islands it was definitely a bunch of wild honey bees

# ? Jan 17, 2019 19:11

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# ? Jun 7, 2024 03:08

20 Blunts: Jan 21, 2017

slight OSHA, at least something interesting I encountered on the job site:

Here is a bee nest that scared the living gently caress out of a coworker, when he made the cut that revealed it:

'twas sweet

Bees were found and identified as wild honey bees back in August, we left the spar for months until the bees peaced out...im sure they found another dead rear end tree around that neighborhood.

# ? Jan 17, 2019 20:12

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