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Gobbeldygook posted:You're thinking of Federal Pacific Electric's stab-lok breakers. Instead of tripping like they're supposed to they often don't, so your house burns down. For even more fun, they deliberately defrauded Underwriter's Laboratory by sending them breakers that actually worked. And everyone forgets about Zinsco, which had an inadequate buss securing mechanism, and burned a poo poo ton of houses down. They weren't particularly good at tripping either.
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Someone posted a flaming zamboni machine in the Trump thread and I feel like that's pretty OSHA. https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1317232099938611201
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This from a week or two ago in Toronto. https://toronto.citynews.ca/2020/11/24/sinkhole-causes-a-crane-to-collapse-in-midtown-toronto/ A mobile crane working on the Eglinton Crosstown LRT collapsed into the ground on Monday evening. The incident occurred at Eglinton Avenue East and Mount Pleasant Road around 6 p.m. Toronto Fire said the crane operator was not injured, while another worker suffered a minor injury. On Tuesday, Metrolinx spokesperson Anne Marie Aikins said the injured worker slipped and bruised his knee and has been released from hospital. Fire officials said it is believed that water erosion caused the ground to crumble.
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StandardVC10 posted:Someone posted a flaming zamboni machine in the Trump thread and I feel like that's pretty OSHA. Its not a zamboni.
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StandardVC10 posted:Someone posted a flaming zamboni machine in the Trump thread and I feel like that's pretty OSHA. For the love of god don't call it a Zamboni, do you want Jeremy to get sued because you defamed Zamboni on his forums?
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Zamboni makes a fine product damnit!
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Bum the Sad posted:Zamboni makes a fine product damnit! Most of the early ones are VW powered. They might have moved to Yanmar now. CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 21:21 on Dec 6, 2020 |
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Atticus_1354 posted:Its not a zamboni. No, it's a flamboni shamelessly stolen from the last time this was posted
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Uthor posted:I posted here last year about finding a pair of these that my dad made for connecting Xmas lights that I cut up and threw away. As he can't do stuff around the house and I've been handling the decorations, I didn't think he'd notice. My mom is putting up the lights herself this year (because of everything) and he called asking where his extension cords are. Told him that "Everything *I* used last year is in the box." This was my contribution last time these things came up in the thread. Might as well mention again since it’s so  EPICAC posted:Preventing your children from watching unauthorized television. A former coworker’s dad replaced the end of their television’s cord with a female connector, and had one of these that he used to control access to television.
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This is why performers request venues prepare odd things like "69 blue M&Ms mixed with 420 red M&Ms in a bowl outside the bathroom." Means the venue takes this seriously and hopefully isn't skimping safety on the stage.
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Mustached Demon posted:This is why performers request venues prepare odd things like "69 blue M&Ms mixed with 420 red M&Ms in a bowl outside the bathroom." Means the venue takes this seriously and hopefully isn't skimping safety on the stage. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/brown-out/
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Mustached Demon posted:This is why performers request venues prepare odd things like "69 blue M&Ms mixed with 420 red M&Ms in a bowl outside the bathroom." Means the venue takes this seriously and hopefully isn't skimping safety on the stage. Ah that never worked. They just spent so much time counting M&M's the ended up spending even less time on safety. This is literally how all the 80's hair rock band members died. Every. Single. One.
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dr_rat posted:Ah that never worked. They just spent so much time counting M&M's the ended up spending even less time on safety. This is literally how all the 80's hair rock band members died. Are you sure they didn't get hair cuts and timewarped to dancing with the stars?
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Mustached Demon posted:Are you sure they didn't get hair cuts and timewarped to dancing with the stars? you expect me to believe that someone got a haircut and went to ground for thirty years, instead of they died and were replaced by a hologram so they could appear on dancing with the stars. get a brain moran
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From David Lee Roth himself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IxqdAgNJck
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This happened in a petrol station outside Cape Town sometime in the 2000s. Dude in a BMW came screaming in at high speed, and had his brakes fail. He killed the clerk and one customer.
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Fastest police response I've ever seen was when I was walking across the road from a 7-11 where an old dude started his car, floored it and put it straight through the plate glass windows, knocking over an ATM. I stopped to watch, as you do, and about a minute later there was a police car pulling up, lights and sirens going. Old mate hadn't even gotten out of his car, he had the door open and the attendant was talking to him. In every one of these cases they will tell you that the accelerator got stuck and they were on the brakes as hard as they could be. In every one of these cases, they were actually hitting the accelerator.
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Lead out in cuffs posted:This happened in a petrol station outside Cape Town sometime in the 2000s. Dude in a BMW came screaming in at high speed, and had his brakes fail. He killed the clerk and one customer.
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Memento posted:Fastest police response I've ever seen was when I was walking across the road from a 7-11 where an old dude started his car, floored it and put it straight through the plate glass windows, knocking over an ATM. I stopped to watch, as you do, and about a minute later there was a police car pulling up, lights and sirens going. Old mate hadn't even gotten out of his car, he had the door open and the attendant was talking to him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2i4C1bG-8w https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-43006191 quote:Reading Crown Court heard how Senghor, a bus driver for four years, was driving the number 17 service when he entered a chicane into Gun Street "quickly" and "lost control" of the vehicle.
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A few years ago my mechanic hosed something up with my fuel line, and the morning after when I pulled out of my driveway to go to work the second I hit the accelerator it got stuck in full throttle. I could hit the breaks to slow down a little but I was still steadily moving forward. I'm really glad that my place at the time was on the very end of the block because it took me going 3/4ths of the way down the street like this before in my haze of panic it occurred to me I could just throw the thing in park, turn it off, and pull the parking break. Had I been closer to an immediate obstacle, I probably would have plowed into it before this thought occurred to me and been left a babbling mess swearing to the cops the accelerator got stuck.
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Probably been posted, but tis the season.
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hemale in pain posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2i4C1bG-8w You left the best part out: hemale in pain posted:Senghor went to the aid of Mr Smith, who had got up from the pavement and walked into a bar.
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Letmebefrank posted:You left the best part out: It's amazing what what our bodies can ignore when we are under shock.
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Sydin posted:A few years ago my mechanic hosed something up with my fuel line, and the morning after when I pulled out of my driveway to go to work the second I hit the accelerator it got stuck in full throttle. I could hit the breaks to slow down a little but I was still steadily moving forward. I'm really glad that my place at the time was on the very end of the block because it took me going 3/4ths of the way down the street like this before in my haze of panic it occurred to me I could just throw the thing in park, turn it off, and pull the parking break. Had I been closer to an immediate obstacle, I probably would have plowed into it before this thought occurred to me and been left a babbling mess swearing to the cops the accelerator got stuck. Something like this happened to me when I was 18. The oil change guy at the Quick-E-Lube somehow managed to jam my throttle cable after checking the air filter in my lovely Ford Taurus but it only got jammed at full bore after I pulled out of their garage and directly into a 5 lane road. I was able to shift it into neutral fast and pull into the next driveway but I thought my heart was gonna leap out of my chest.
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Lead out in cuffs posted:This happened in a petrol station outside Cape Town sometime in the 2000s. Dude in a BMW came screaming in at high speed, and had his brakes fail. He killed the clerk and one customer. Every petrol station in Australia has bollards across the whole front of their store. People driving into stores through alcohol, drugs or general stupidity has always been a thing, but I think what finally got everyone to install bollards was when the pre-filled propane bbq bottles started appearing everywhere.  Ram raids have always been a slow-but-steady thing, but they never caused mass evacuations due to clouds of propane.
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The thing about the “I pressed the brakes and I kept going” is that any car with functional brakes is going to be able to easily put out more braking force than the engine can deal with - especially when it’s always some generic 150hp sedan.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Every petrol station in Australia has bollards across the whole front of their store. Stores in the US do that too. 
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Artemis J Brassnuts posted:The thing about the “I pressed the brakes and I kept going” is that any car with functional brakes is going to be able to easily put out more braking force than the engine can deal with - especially when it’s always some generic 150hp sedan. Yeah but at wide open throttle, you get about 2 brake presses before you lose vacuum assist. Brakes without assist "feel broken" as people are only used to pressing with their toe. That, and not knowing what the other letters in PRNDL stand for, means they're just along for the ride. This is really only the case for events like the state trooper in his Altima (?), not gramps who buckles up and is through the plate glass storefront 0.25 seconds later.
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So, assuming the gas does get stuck and the brake is non responsive, is the correct move to slam the car into neutral and activate the e-brake?
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Leon Sumbitches posted:So, assuming the gas does get stuck and the brake is non responsive, is the correct move to slam the car into neutral and activate the e-brake? Yes. The engine will bounce on the rev limiter but you should keep it on until you come to stop so you keep power steering.
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Artemis J Brassnuts posted:The thing about the “I pressed the brakes and I kept going” is that any car with functional brakes is going to be able to easily put out more braking force than the engine can deal with - especially when it’s always some generic 150hp sedan. That's true if you have the presence of mind to slam the brakes on fully. It's not true if you apply partial braking and let your pads overheat and your brake fluid (which you probably haven't changed according to the maintenance interval and which probably has a lot of water in it) start boiling.
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glynnenstein posted:Yes. The engine will bounce on the rev limiter but you should keep it on until you come to stop so you keep power steering. *a fact taught by the defensive driver teacher in the course required to get my license many years ago.
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