Kesper North posted:

I can't really tell what's going on here, other than that it looks like something bad happened.

EMILY BLUNTS posted:

it has awoken

flosofl posted:

Warehouse concrete is like ice. That slip he had made me clench.

Angela Christine posted:

Why?

I Greyhound posted:

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/mar/25/kayak-firm-fined-200000-over-death-of-employee-in-industrial-oven

quote:

They and their friends dipped their hands and arms into it. They poured it on their bedroom floors to see it wobble and flow. They showed it off at school and handed it out in jars and vials. One youth dipped a cigarette in it and smoked it.

Say Nothing posted:

Goiania Accident

FrankeeFrankFrank posted:

I always seriously thought they should just shoot nuclear waste into the sun.

Say Nothing posted:

Just act nonchalant.

uPen posted:

Better than working at the Hanford site and dying of cancer when you're 50 because management told you to throw that cardboard box full of radioactive waste in a ditch.

Angela Christine posted:

lol he left them to die

Phanatic posted:

Or if you're driving an old manual in the winter and it wants to stall out you can keep the brake pushed down with your heel so you don't roll down the hill into the car in front of you at a red light while still giving it enough gas pedal with your toe to keep the engine turning over.

I miss that car.

C.M. Kruger posted:

quote:

CALAIS, Maine - One young Maine man is dead after he put a fireworks mortar on his head and set it off, according to officials.
Devon Staples, 22, died instantly, said Maine Public Safety Spokesperson Steve McCausland.

McCausland says Staples had been drinking with friends at a home in Calais, Maine, Saturday night. The incident occurred at approximately 10 p.m. EST.
Officials say this is the first death attributed to fireworks since Maine legalized them two years ago.

Investigators said there were non-fatal injuries from private fireworks incidents in the Maine towns of Friendship, Lebanon, Jefferson, Woodstock and a separate incident in Calais. McCausland said those injuries consisted of burns and eye injuries.

Alereon posted:

I'm really curious what kind of mortar this was, whether it malfunctioned, and what his injuries were. I can't imagine any of the fireworks I can buy commercially, even the illegal ones from the Indian reservation, would have enough recoil force to cause more than a headache unless the mortar exploded in the tube.

Edit: The Journal of Pyrotechnics investigated mortar firework recoil, as far as I can tell the largest commercially sold mortars are 3" so yeah this should not have been instantly fatal unless he had a professional firework or it failed, or both. But either of those are easily possible!

quote:

On October 12, 1984, the cast and crew of Cover Up were filming the seventh episode of the series, "Golden Opportunity", on Stage 17 of the 20th Century Fox lot. One of the scenes filmed that day called for Hexum's character to load blanks into a .44 Magnum handgun. When the scene did not play as the director wanted it to play in the master shot, there was a delay in filming. Hexum became restless and impatient during the delay and began playing around to lighten the mood. Apparently, he had unloaded all but one (blank) round, spun it, and in what would appear to be a game of Russian roulette, at 5:15 p.m., he put the revolver to his right temple and pulled the trigger.

Hexum was apparently unaware that his actions were dangerous. Blanks use paper or plastic wadding to seal gunpowder into the cartridge, and this wadding is propelled from the barrel of the gun with enough force to cause injury if the weapon is fired within a few feet of the body should it strike at a particularly vulnerable spot, such as the temple or the eye. At a close enough range, the effect of the powder gasses is similar to a small explosion so although the paper wadding in the blank that Hexum discharged did not penetrate his skull, there was enough blunt force trauma to shatter a quarter-sized piece of his skull and propel the pieces into his brain, causing massive hemorrhaging.

Hexum was rushed to Beverly Hills Medical Center, where he underwent five hours of surgery to repair his wounds.On October 18, six days after the accident, Hexum was declared brain dead.

THC posted:

You're a truck driver. As you make a right turn, a small car driven by an idiot enters your blind spot and collides with your truck. Do you:

A) move your truck to the side of the road
B) contact authorities
C) exchange info with the idiot

The answer obviously is to D) abandon your vehicle where it is and gently caress off to God knows where, blocking all eastbound traffic on Hastings street for 20+ minutes during rush hour.

VelociBacon posted:

What if you're a trucker in Vancouver probably using a cousins license?

IndianaZoidberg posted:

The word "friend" is not what I would call him.

Mak0rz posted:

These things are an example of something I always wanted to try, but never ever will:

Carbon dioxide posted:

According to a youtube comment of the clip in the post above you (yes yes, yt comments, I know), one of the people in that ball broke their leg when that cable snapped.

So, yeah. Not that safe.

TMonsta posted:

Re-posting from another thread,

much closer video of the explosion.

http://sendvid.com/i7pcfexm

because there is no way the person taking the video made it out

VendaGoat posted:

He might have made it out, but he isn't hearing poo poo from now on.