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Son of Thunderbeast posted:https://i.imgur.com/fYLKJXW.gifv That looks staged but it's still funny.
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Jenny Agutter posted:The"doors" were the exact same color and texture as the surrounding sidewalk because they actually are sidewalk. Absolutely should have been cordoned off Yeah, not everyone has great eyesight, and I'd think if you have problems with depth perception, it would be easy to happen to check your phone or otherwise get distracted at the wrong time and not notice something like that.
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Sep 20, 2019 18:12
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I'm just amazed she fell over something above knee-height while moving so slowly.
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Sep 20, 2019 18:14
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:https://i.imgur.com/fYLKJXW.gifv That should have red danger tape and/or a little snow fence going. You can't just leave open poo poo around like that without OSHA climbing up your rear end.
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Sep 20, 2019 18:16
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Nuclearmonkee posted:That should have red danger tape and/or a little snow fence going. You can't just leave open poo poo around like that without OSHA climbing up your rear end. REally? My town has these and I’ve never seen tape or stuff. Maybe a cone or two.
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Sep 20, 2019 18:18
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Burt Sexual posted:REally? My town has these and I’ve never seen tape or stuff. Maybe a cone or two. For manholes and stuff in the street you can just slap down some cones to redirect traffic around. A spotter and some cones for this kind of work on a sidewalk would probably do it but they've got no anything and no spotter.
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Sep 20, 2019 18:29
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Nuclearmonkee posted:For manholes and stuff in the street you can just slap down some cones to redirect traffic around. A spotter and some cones for this kind of work on a sidewalk would probably do it but they've got no anything and no spotter. Because it's probably just some restaurant or store. Not city maintenance.
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Sep 20, 2019 18:30
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Nuclearmonkee posted:For manholes and stuff in the street you can just slap down some cones to redirect traffic around. A spotter and some cones for this kind of work on a sidewalk would probably do it but they've got no anything and no spotter. Right, usually I see another dude up top while the other is unloading under. But $ I guess
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Sep 20, 2019 18:30
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Cojawfee posted:Because it's probably just some restaurant or store. Not city maintenance. The guy with the hardhat in there should know better at the very least, regardless of who he works for.
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Sep 20, 2019 18:33
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Should have used concertina wire, it's the only way to be sure.
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Sep 20, 2019 18:40
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Nenonen posted:No, I think that was an electric explosion. You can tell by how quickly they grounded themselves. 
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Sep 20, 2019 18:42
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Catastrophe posted:Well, you go to your kitchen like any other day and just try to like heat up some soup. You're probably not thinking about watching for karate chops from your fridge immediately after having to turn and run for your life from a sudden exploding stove attack. I read this in the voice of Wayne from Letterkenny and just wanted to say I appreciates that about you.
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Sep 20, 2019 19:30
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ColonelDimak posted:I read this in the voice of Wayne from Letterkenny and just wanted to say I appreciates that about you. Really ColonelDimak, that's what you appreciate about him?
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Sep 20, 2019 19:42
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Slingin' pots and broilin' meats is a hard life but sure as God's got sandals it beats fightin' household appliances
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Sep 20, 2019 19:48
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She missed the big gaping hole in the ground and the large metal door halfway up her leg.. Do people really think a bit of red/yellow/orange plastic tape and/or cones are going to make a difference when her face was firmly plastered to her phone?
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Sep 20, 2019 19:50
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Nuclearmonkee posted:The guy with the hardhat in there should know better at the very least, regardless of who he works for. There probably isn't a guy with a hardhat in there, it's just a staircase. That store was just getting a delivery or something, they weren't doing any work.
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Sep 20, 2019 19:51
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stevewm posted:She missed the big gaping hole in the ground and the large metal door halfway up her leg.. Do people really think a bit of red/yellow/orange plastic tape and/or cones are going to make a difference when her face was firmly plastered to her phone? What's weird is that she isn't even looking at her phone the whole time. Just the last second. It's like she lacks object permanence.
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Sep 20, 2019 19:54
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Nocheez posted:Sounds like a great way to win a hefty lawsuit. The grand prize is stepping on an access panel that's become electrified https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sidewalk-shocks-kill-walker-dogs/ quote:After the electrocution in New York, Con Ed tested about 260,000 underground structures, manholes, metal plates and service boxes and found less than 1 percent of them had stray voltage, company spokesman Joe Petta said. Less than 2600? I like those odds!
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Sep 20, 2019 19:57
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Nuclearmonkee posted:That should have red danger tape and/or a little snow fence going. You can't just leave open poo poo around like that without OSHA climbing up your rear end. I've never once seen one of them with any safety barricades when open. You're just expected to be paying attention when walking.
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Sep 20, 2019 20:12
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chitoryu12 posted:I've never once seen one of them with any safety barricades when open. You're just expected to be paying attention when walking. You can't tell me how to walk in 'Murica, land of the free, it's my god given right to fall into a hole and sue your rear end.
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Sep 20, 2019 20:41
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Well this was informative: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hv4uVWccEys
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Sep 20, 2019 21:04
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Sep 20, 2019 21:52
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stevewm posted:She missed the big gaping hole in the ground and the large metal door halfway up her leg.. Do people really think a bit of red/yellow/orange plastic tape and/or cones are going to make a difference when her face was firmly plastered to her phone? Do you really think if she ran into a caution tape barrier she’d walk through it into the hole?
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Sep 20, 2019 22:08
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Sep 20, 2019 22:13
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This just happened close to me. Drilling accident. My boss knows the owner of the company personally, and I've met him a few times too. I'm not sure what happened, but from the little bit in the article, the impression that I get is that there were power lines preventing the tower from being raised at the bore location, so they put the tower up, moved the drill forward, did their work. Then they were putting the tower down while the truck was being backed up, and the tower went down faster than the truck was being moved and hit the power lines. https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2019/09/20/woman-26-killed-in-industrial-accident-in-vaughan.html
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Sep 20, 2019 22:14
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Hixson posted:Do you really think if she ran into a caution tape barrier she’d walk through it into the hole? People don't give a gently caress about caution tape, or pylons or any other type of barrier typically.
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Sep 20, 2019 22:15
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Hixson posted:Do you really think if she ran into a caution tape barrier she’d walk through it into the hole? Absolutely. Probably wouldn't even feel it.
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Sep 20, 2019 22:37
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wesleywillis posted:This just happened close to me. Drilling accident. My boss knows the owner of the company personally, and I've met him a few times too. This is why OSHA requires cranes to have a signalperson guiding the operator within a certain distance of power lines.
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Sep 20, 2019 22:40
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chitoryu12 posted:I've never once seen one of them with any safety barricades when open. You're just expected to be paying attention when walking. This is what I've always seen too, though my hometown DC doesn't have this convention at all. There are probably tens of thousands of these in NYC; sometimes the doors open up to create a barrier, but not always, and otherwise everybody just has to try not to kill themselves too willingly. 
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Sep 20, 2019 23:12
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glynnenstein posted:This is what I've always seen too, though my hometown DC doesn't have this convention at all. There are probably tens of thousands of these in NYC; sometimes the doors open up to create a barrier, but not always, and otherwise everybody just has to try not to kill themselves too willingly. when it rains, doesn't water just pour into the basements of places?
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Sep 20, 2019 23:22
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glynnenstein posted:This is what I've always seen too, though my hometown DC doesn't have this convention at all. There are probably tens of thousands of these in NYC; sometimes the doors open up to create a barrier, but not always, and otherwise everybody just has to try not to kill themselves too willingly. I watch this guy Louis Rossman on YouTube and he has a store like this and keeps thousands of dollars worth of his equipment in a basement like this. I always assumed it was a freight entrance or fire exit kinda thing but in a recent video he showed it off, and yeah its just the loving staircase to his building's basement outside with lovely metal doors. Zero entry to the rest of the unit but you have to go outside to get to your storage. And I'm sure some people just live in basements and that's like their front door. Seems to strange, but now that Ive been looking I caught a few in some old Toronto buildings too
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Sep 20, 2019 23:25
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LifeSunDeath posted:when it rains, doesn't water just pour into the basements of places? Ya the guy I was watching has 2 giant dehumidifiers down there running 24/7
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Sep 20, 2019 23:26
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I'm in Galveston, and the water got over the sidewalks last few days during a tropical storm....thankfully basements are impossible here, but it would be comical if we did.
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Sep 20, 2019 23:37
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On this note, for a couple weeks I'd been having a real hard time with a coworker who has no concept of proper following distance while driving a truck at freeway speeds. I actually had to start describing scenarios in detail before he began to get it, and I think the one that finally clicked was the possibility of prison time if he squashed that minivan full of kids 20 feet in front of us. I also pointed out that he should pay no heed to any car tailgating us, because if they want to die, more power to them. All we'd feel is a bump. He's now doing a lot better than he was, but needless to say, I do the driving as much as I can.
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VectorSigma posted:On this note, for a couple weeks I'd been having a real hard time with a coworker who has no concept of proper following distance while driving a truck at freeway speeds. I actually had to start describing scenarios in detail before he began to get it, and I think the one that finally clicked was the possibility of prison time if he squashed that minivan full of kids 20 feet in front of us. I also pointed out that he should pay no heed to any car tailgating us, because if they want to die, more power to them. All we'd feel is a bump. I’ve forced drivers to stop tailgating. I once had a friend driving us downtown and she was so close that she’d never avoid a collision. She got snippy when I asked her to slow down and I told her “You may be fine with killing yourself, but I’m not. When I’m in this car you will not endanger me.” I’m already a paranoid driver. Don’t do dangerous poo poo and then get annoyed when I don’t want to do.
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stevewm posted:She missed the big gaping hole in the ground and the large metal door halfway up her leg.. Do people really think a bit of red/yellow/orange plastic tape and/or cones are going to make a difference when her face was firmly plastered to her phone? Shame on her brain for being inattentionally blind to an unmarked hazard that's the same color as the ground and is blocking the bigass hole in the sidewalk that opened front of her.
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ATP_Power posted:Shame on her brain for being inattentionally blind to an unmarked hazard that's the same color as the ground and is blocking the bigass hole in the sidewalk that opened front of her. Do you often have trouble seeing completely obvious stuff right in front of you?
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chitoryu12 posted:I’ve forced drivers to stop tailgating. I once had a friend driving us downtown and she was so close that she’d never avoid a collision. She got snippy when I asked her to slow down and I told her “You may be fine with killing yourself, but I’m not. When I’m in this car you will not endanger me.” If you follow at the "proper" distance people will just swerve into the large gaps you leave unless you are in one of the very few places that aren't basically perma congested now
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