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We had a crane operator at Bender Shipyard that used to like to dunk people in the river every now and then when he was swinging them onto the drydock in a personnel basket. Wrong person eventually saw it and that's all she wrote. He had tried it on me once; I climbed all the way up to the headache ball with my tool bucket over my shoulder and was standing on the hook right over the water before he relented. While I doubt he could hear me up there, I was screaming at him that if my tools went in the river he was going in there after them. Messed up thing is, I was the one that caught poo poo from everyone over that, too. Like I was a poor sport. "Aw cmon, he was just gonna get your feet wet" At the beginning of a 12 hour shift?
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GD_American posted:We had a crane operator at Bender Shipyard that used to like to dunk people in the river every now and then when he was swinging them onto the drydock in a personnel basket. Wrong person eventually saw it and that's all she wrote.
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withak posted:I think after the first bounce off the building he is like "gently caress it I'm going to have to quit anyway." Nah, he wasn't in control at all at that point. Obviously letting the thing hit the structure was issue #1, but if you watch the movements on the ball, the operator did some weird poo poo in his attempts to mitigate the gently caress up. I dare say just letting off the controls for a second would've been an improvement. There's a moment where the load is actually somewhat resting on the structure it hit, which then turns to a spin, and so the operator puts some slack on it - I think that was where he REALLY hosed up. Because then the load "falls off" the structure right into that slack he let out, which ultimately leads to the more violent spinning. He did the perfect dance to spool that thing up and then unleash its power. I'm not a crane operator but i've been under em enough. Kind of like that "how to avoid large ships" book, there are a lot of less-than-intuitive aspects to being on the sticks of a crane, where a series of slight alterations of course lead to trouble. This clip was a wonderful illustration of the powers of torque and spinning loads and what not.
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Ror posted:I mean, who cares? A dead body is like a piece of trash. I mean, shove as much poo poo in there as you want. Fill me up with cream, make a stew out of my rear end. What's the big deal? Bang me, eat me, grind me up into little pieces, throw me in the river. Who gives a poo poo? You're dead, you're dead. https://legacy.npr.org/programs/death/readings/stories/sante.html ... "So give my eyes to the eye bank, give my blood to the blood bank. Make my hair into switches, put my teeth into rattles, sell my heart to the junkman. Give my spleen to the mayor. Hook my lungs to an engine. Stretch my guts down the avenue. Stick my head on a pike, plug my spine to the third rail, throw my liver and lights to the winner. Grind my nails up with sage and camphor and sell it under the counter. Set my hands in the window as a reminder. Take my name from me and make it a verb. Think of me when you run out of money. Remember me when you fall on the sidewalk. Mention me when they ask you what happened. I am everywhere under your feet." ...
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Otteration posted:https://legacy.npr.org/programs/death/readings/stories/sante.html 
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https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_qpgw0cI19q1s1ddrj.mp4 https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_qpiq653lAP1s1ddrj.mp4
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Never been a fan of Amazon’s packing methods, always so much wasted space
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Mar 7, 2021 01:50
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Goddamn, that's some Dad Reflex
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Mar 7, 2021 01:51
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Mar 7, 2021 02:26
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I'd leave this on mute
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Mar 7, 2021 02:49
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Conflicted between wanting my body detonated and not wanting to help the MIC.
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Mar 7, 2021 03:28
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Slugworth posted:Conflicted between wanting my body detonated and not wanting to help the MIC. Some are used in crash tests by the auto industry. Maybe you'll get lucky.
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Mar 7, 2021 03:31
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I’d leave my body to the military for something that loving cool for a lot less than $6000.
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MrYenko posted:I’d leave my body to the military for something that loving cool for a lot less than $6000. Your family doesn't get the money.
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Testing in his attic  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsvpU7G5IJg
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Pacra posted:Testing in his attic
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MrYenko posted:I’d leave my body to the military for something that loving cool for a lot less than $6000. There's gotta be some itchy recruiters reading that.
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Mar 7, 2021 04:15
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Slugworth posted:Conflicted between wanting my body detonated and not wanting to help the MIC. I wanna donate my body to a corpse farm to be left out to rot and be picked at be scavengers while college students have to take detailed notes.
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Mar 7, 2021 04:38
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Gonna donate mine to pagans for a ritual to piss off the catholics in my family.
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Definitely thought you were saying "for pagans to piss in"
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Mar 7, 2021 05:26
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I'll be dead, and I'm not familiar with their rituals, but renounced catholic spite is something I'm quite familiar with, and I'm sure I won't care what they do with me anyhow.
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There's a great book about what happens to your body after you donate it to science. Stiff is the name. I have the subtitle wrong but it's something line Stiff: the secret lives of cadavers. Testing armor shoes for removing landmines. Car crash tests. Airplane crash tests. Cadaver farms. Crucifixion tests. But not bomb tests, as your primary injury in an explosion is your lungs get damaged, and that only happens when inflated.
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Mary Roach's Stiff: http://maryroach.net/stiff.html Read Mary Roach. All of it is a treat. I'm donating my body, and it very likely could end up as an ordnance pinata. I'd prefer a body farm, but whatevs.
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Donating my body only on the condition that footage of it being yeeted across a government test facility is sent to my next-of-kin.
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Roach makes the specific point that once you're dead, you're out of it. You don't get a say about it, and it's probably best that way.
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Mar 7, 2021 07:51
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MrYenko posted:I’d leave my body to the military for something that loving cool for a lot less than $6000. Just sign this waiver here, here and here, and the army will arrange your family an unforgettable gender reveal party 
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Mar 7, 2021 11:00
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I've been looking into donating my brain because I'm pretty sure I've developed CTE from playing American football 
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gleebster posted:Roach makes the specific point that once you're dead, you're out of it. You don't get a say about it, and it's probably best that way. How does one reconcile that with the existence of Wills?
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Cthulu Carl posted:I wanna donate my body to a corpse farm to be left out to rot and be picked at be scavengers while college students have to take detailed notes.
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Serephina posted:How does one reconcile that with the existence of Wills? That's about money which everyone cares about more than the dead person.
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Serephina posted:How does one reconcile that with the existence of Wills? I thought that you couldn't specify what your body was being used for so as not to influence the study that is being done (you don't want a self selecting sample but a random one). But I was looking at it and various institutions do let you to donate directly to them. But, however, I guess they can sell your body on a market for these things anyway?
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Mar 7, 2021 13:53
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Just chuck my body into a volcano when I die. Or before I die, idc
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Atticus_1354 posted:That's about money which everyone cares about more than the dead person. The solution must be to make it easier to commoditize corpses.
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Serephina posted:How does one reconcile that with the existence of Wills? If the codicils in your will take primacy and are obeyed, then it's referred to as a triumph of the will.
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New superhero pushing broken lorries.
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Dumb Sex-Parrot posted:The solution must be to make it easier to commoditize corpses. Corpse blockchain technology, so your loved ones will be able to follow the progress of your corpse as it changes hands from the ventriloquist, to the scientist, to the military ballistics tester with links to the videos done at each stage and you can see how the corpse value rises.
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holy poo poo. Warning: The person does not survive this. https://nypost.com/2021/03/06/woman-found-dead-in-street-may-have-been-hit-by-car-cops-say/ ------ Heartbreaking video obtained by The Post has solved the mystery of what happened to a woman found crushed to death Friday on a Brooklyn street — she was struck by a backhoe whose driver apparently never even saw her. The video shows the yellow construction vehicle striking 61-year-old Estelle Davis with its shovel before running her over and dragging her along the corner of New Lots and Van Sinderen Avenues in East New York. Neither the driver nor a worker nearby appears to notice as Davis falls and then disappears under the vehicle. ---------- There was even a spotter for the backhoe and this still happened.
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Some Guy From NY posted:holy poo poo. spotter wasn't spotting anything when he was backing up, he only comes into view to stop traffic once he's moving forward again. so kind of defeats the purpose I think
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complete loving idiot driver and spotter. gently caress them and their careers
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Serephina posted:How does one reconcile that with the existence of Wills? Wills are about land and money. A corpse is a big piece of rapidly-rotting flesh.
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