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As usual, don't be stupid when suspending something. A guy died when working on a riding lawn mower: According to the Hillsborough Township Police Department, Levinski was “working underneath (the) commercial lawn mower which was hoisted in the air by a cable attached to a Kubota tractor.” The cable broke and fell on Levinski, who died at the scene, police said in a statement. An investigation into the incident is ongoing. A suck way to die that didn't have to happen. https://www.nj.com/news/2021/04/nj-man-dies-after-lawnmower-falls-on-top-of-him-police-say.html
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I hope they investigate and find out he was also fighting dogs and beating his wife and kids. What the gently caress are they investigating
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Apr 19, 2021 19:39
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I don't know what they might investigate. Maybe the cable strength, or was it swinging along a sharp edge and abraded until it snapped? Maybe someone that didn't want to pay for repairs cut the cable? Who knows.
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Apr 19, 2021 19:44
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:As usual, don't be stupid when suspending something. A guy died when working on a riding lawn mower: According to the Hillsborough Township Police Department, Levinski was “working underneath (the) commercial lawn mower which was hoisted in the air by a cable attached to a Kubota tractor.” The cable broke and fell on Levinski, who died at the scene, police said in a statement. An investigation into the incident is ongoing. A suck way to die that didn't have to happen. Dude was 74. Darwin took his time finding this guy.
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Apr 19, 2021 19:45
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Mental JSA should always evaluate any energy sources, kinetic or potential. Watched my boss at my last job fling a pipe wrench off the top of a 100ft bucket elevator after he broke a tooth on the reverse brakes by putting his full weight on the end of a pipe he was using as a breaker bar for the pipe wrench. When the tooth snapped the half of the buckets holding beans decided they had no reason to stay up high anymore and dumped probably a thousand pounds of beans out the bottom, the shaft that the wrench was on started spinning like mad and threw the wrench off onto the top of the building nearby. It was a good thing the guy messing around at the bottom of the elevator had taken his hands out a few moments earlier.
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Apr 19, 2021 19:46
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Sports PPE working well: Russian traffic can be a bit chaotic sometimes, it seems: https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_qrssvdUUDC1r0uzl6.mp4
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Apr 19, 2021 19:49
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ekuNNN posted:Sports PPE working well: Is the batter out in this scenario?
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Apr 19, 2021 19:52
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Bad Munki posted:Is the batter out in this scenario? Depends, I think that's a foul ball?
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Apr 19, 2021 19:54
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I don’t baseball but if you catch a foul, they’re out, right? And it looks pretty, umm, caught?
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Apr 19, 2021 19:55
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Bad Munki posted:Is the batter out in this scenario? Nope. A legal catch has to be with the hand or glove. Getting lodged in the catcher's equipment doesn't count.
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Apr 19, 2021 19:56
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:Depends, I think that's a foul ball? That's a foul tip, which is different from a foul ball, and always counts as a strike, so he could be out e: I'm wrong, baseball is more rules lawyery than I thought: quote:The fielder must catch the ball with his hand or glove. If the fielder uses his cap, protector, pocket or any other part of his uniform in getting possession, it is not a catch. Therefore, a foul ball which directly becomes lodged in the equipment of the catcher (other than his or her glove) is not considered a catch and hence not a foul tip. So I guess that would count as an uncaught foul ball and could not lead directly to being out haveblue fucked around with this message at 20:00 on Apr 19, 2021 |
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Apr 19, 2021 19:57
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Bad Munki posted:I don’t baseball but if you catch a foul, they’re out, right? And it looks pretty, umm, caught? Just a foul. It'd be comparable to a ball wedging itself in the fence. Didn't catch it with his hands.
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Apr 19, 2021 19:58
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Sjs00 posted:What the gently caress are they investigating "Welp this was obviously an accident. Better not waste any time making sure nothing suspicious happened."
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Apr 19, 2021 19:59
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haveblue posted:That's a foul tip, which is different from a foul ball, and always counts as a strike, so he could be out A foul tip has to go into the catcher's hand or glove e: https://www.mlb.com/glossary/rules/foul-tip
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Apr 19, 2021 19:59
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Huh, okay. Never really cared about cricket or whatever, thanks.
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Apr 19, 2021 20:00
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Also you don't foul out unless it's caught. Strike count stops at 2 no matter how many fouls you hit after, as long as no one catches them. This guy hit a shitload of foul balls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6FTg1XwLfg
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Apr 19, 2021 20:03
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Clearly that rule in MLB came out of someone showboating and catching a ball in their hat. 
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ekuNNN posted:Russian traffic can be a bit chaotic sometimes, it seems: This one is a real rollercoaster.
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EvenWorseOpinions posted:Mental JSA should always evaluate any energy sources, kinetic or potential. Watched my boss at my last job fling a pipe wrench off the top of a 100ft bucket elevator after he broke a tooth on the reverse brakes by putting his full weight on the end of a pipe he was using as a breaker bar for the pipe wrench. When the tooth snapped the half of the buckets holding beans decided they had no reason to stay up high anymore and dumped probably a thousand pounds of beans out the bottom, the shaft that the wrench was on started spinning like mad and threw the wrench off onto the top of the building nearby. It was a good thing the guy messing around at the bottom of the elevator had taken his hands out a few moments earlier. And children, that is why you take the key out of the lathe chuck.
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DelphiAegis posted:Clearly that rule in MLB came out of someone showboating and catching a ball in their hat. It actually did, at least according to my Dad (he was a big fan as a kid and talked a lot of lore with my grandfather who was also a big fan). An outfielder threw his hat at a ball over his head he couldn't reach and actually hit it. The ball then dropped down to where he could catch it. There was no rule against it at the time, but the umpire ruled interference and no catch regardless. There was a big furor and the new rule defining a catch as being only with the glove or hand entered the books. I have no idea what year or teams were involved, though. Edit: Additionally, throwing your hat, glove, or anything else at a ball in play is an automatic three bases for all runners (including the batter). Deteriorata fucked around with this message at 20:14 on Apr 19, 2021 |
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Apr 19, 2021 20:08
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ultrafilter posted:
I'm glad you reposted that; I would have missed it otherwise.
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DelphiAegis posted:Clearly that rule in MLB came out of someone showboating and catching a ball in their hat. I feel like I've seen someone (possibly in a cartoon?) use their hat to get slightly more reach to catch a ball that was going into the stands.
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Cat Hatter posted:I feel like I've seen someone (possibly in a cartoon?) use their hat to get slightly more reach to catch a ball that was going into the stands. I'm just gonna say it was in Angels in the Outfield. I don't even remember the last time I watched that and don't plan on doing any further research.
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I wondered why half the police force sped past my house last night, with lights and sirens, then stopped at the corner. Dude DUI-ed right into the front door of the gas station. Jumped two curbs and smacked the window out of the door, bending the frame. Good thing the window shattered, there was a man exiting the station at the same time. He got smacked by the door opening bar and got a bruise instead of taking the whole door to the face. GG, Florida. Wide fuckin' open down the shittiest road in America.
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Mr. Fall Down Terror posted:e: i really enjoyed this article on elon musk lmao I had missed this one quote:Much of it seems to center around colonizing Mars, where Musk has vowed to send millions of people. Like Jeff Bezos, he appears to believe in a future of privatized corporate space colonies. He has said that on Mars, SpaceX will be subject to its own laws and free of international jurisdiction (legal experts call this “gibberish”). He has even suggested a kind of indentured servitude program whereby people take on debt by going to Mars and then work it off.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Also you don't foul out unless it's caught. Strike count stops at 2 no matter how many fouls you hit after, as long as no one catches them. A bunt that goes foul is a strike no matter what.
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Cat Hatter posted:I feel like I've seen someone (possibly in a cartoon?) use their hat to get slightly more reach to catch a ball that was going into the stands. Someone does it in A League of Their Own, but I don't think it was to get reach, it was when they were all showboating to drum up publicity.
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https://i.imgur.com/q8JIeEp.gifv
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Phanatic posted:A bunt that goes foul is a strike no matter what. Yeah, but bunts are for advancing runners anyhow, batters aren't expected to make it to base on a bunt. Sometimes they do, but that's usually because the infielders are staring at the sun or whatever. This all just reminded me MLB The Show 21 is on gamepass today. Xbox finally has a baseball game again that isn't bobbleheads fake name teams.
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Tired of following the exploits of Bobson Dugnutt?
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Sleve McDichael will remember this.
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My primary school had a house rule that catching a ball in your hat was of equal value to catching it onehanded before it hit the ground - which is to say, better than a twohanded catch. Don't ask me to try and map Norwegian playground ball games to US equivalent, but it was vaguely in the baseball family.
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McGavin posted:Tired of following the exploits of Bobson Dugnutt? Cojawfee posted:Sleve McDichael will remember this. past iterations of this game on PS4 have had these names available for your career mode player
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As long as it's not cricket. No one has successfully explained that sport to me. I have a cricket bat, found in the University of Memphis student parking lot. Friend of mine has one he found in the MTSU student parking lot. I don't know what's going on that cricket bats are turning up abandoned in Tennessee university parking lots either. I'm kind of hoping a third person found one in Knoxville or Chattanooga. Maybe there's a low level conspiracy to expose americans to cricket going on, but just giving us bats isn't going to inspire us to learn anything about the game.
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Computer viking posted:My primary school had a house rule that catching a ball in your hat was of equal value to catching it onehanded before it hit the ground - which is to say, better than a twohanded catch. is the player like double put and has to sit out the rest of recess or something?
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Azathoth posted:is the player like double put and has to sit out the rest of recess or something? IIRC - and it's been literally thirty years - there were two ways to get to an infield/outfield swap: either the normal way of running out of possible batters, or by the outfield getting enough fancy no-bounce catching points. I think the outfield needed to hit a running player by throwing the ball at them to stop them, but a fancy catch ... probably also counted? As I said, it's been a while. Computer viking fucked around with this message at 01:26 on Apr 20, 2021 |
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:As long as it's not cricket. No one has successfully explained that sport to me. Cricket exists for two reasons: so that middle aged fat men can refer to themselves as athletes, and so that you can have something on in the background while you put yourself into a food and beer coma on Boxing Day Which I understand is basically the same reason Baseball is the "national pastime" in the USA
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no that's old cricket, new cricket exists to give india a sport with the spectacle of pro wrestling, the cheerleaders of college basketball, and a version of the NFL draft cranked to 11 where all the players are on 1-year contracts and the movie stars who own the teams have a straight up auction for all the players every year
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Memento posted:Cricket exists for two reasons: so that middle aged fat men can refer to themselves as athletes, and so that you can have something on in the background while you put yourself into a food and beer coma on Boxing Day Ah, like ski jumping. E: Well, the second half. Fat middle aged men do not, in general, take up ski jumping. Computer viking fucked around with this message at 02:07 on Apr 20, 2021 |
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Memento posted:Cricket exists for two reasons: so that middle aged fat men can refer to themselves as athletes, and so that you can have something on in the background while you put yourself into a food and beer coma on Boxing Day I thought that was Golf. Or is Golf the international sleep aid rather than national one?
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