OSI bean dip posted:

Hey. What happens when you freeze gasoline and light on fire inside of your house?

https://youtu.be/TNjOaAIz_ZY

He nearly sets his house on fire.

MF_James posted:

That guy should not be allowed to carry firearms or even be around firearms, jesus christ.

MausoleumExtremist posted:

All the firefighters' gear got covered in human grease

MF_James posted:

v--- my father was a commercial airline pilot and was not retarded with guns (he grew up on a farm) and is the reason I am not retarded with guns.

dis astranagant posted:

Is noted Youtube reckless endangerment charge waiting to happen King of Random getting booked on felony explosives charges for filming himself setting off some kind of incendiary powder in his backyard and then having to call the fire department when the inevitable happened OSHA?

Kibayasu posted:

Wasn’t there a short lived TV series about a nuclear train?

ATP_Power posted:

Yeah, even shallow, open water recreational diving has a lot of hazards that are invisible to the untrained, any penetration dive has all those risks, coupled with a ton more new hazards - and that's when nothing goes wrong. Add to that the risks and challenges of deep water diving on compressed air, and you've got a situation that can kill even highly experienced divers. On air, at those depths, you have to drop down multiple secondary 'stage bottles' of air, and you still only have about 20 minutes of bottom time on the air in your tanks, those stage bottles are for the hours of decompression you have to do going back to the surface to avoid getting the bends. Additionally, while you're down there, you're also dealing with nitrogen narcosis loving up your perceptions and judgement, in addition to entanglement hazards, and an errant flipper kick could stir up muck that reduces your visibility to zero. The Shadow Divers expedition claimed the lives of two highly experienced cave divers.

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It's not an easy thing to watch a person die, especially if that person is a friend. Less than an hour after the helmet cam was removed from Shaw's head, as Hiles made a copy of the video for the police at the top of the crater, Herbst watched the film of Shaw's last dive. Later, he and Shirley (who calls it "a snuff tape") examined it frame by frame, backward and forward, multiple times, to try and understand every nuance of Shaw's death.

The picture is dark, and sometimes hard to see. But along with the sounds of Shaw's breathing, picked up with perfect clarity by the camera in the stillness of the cave, the video tells the tale of Shaw's final moments. When Shaw reaches the body of Deon Dreyer, he is 12 minutes and 22 seconds into the dive, and he's been on the bottom for just over a minute. He pulls the body bag out and starts to try and work it over Deon's legs. As he does, a cloud of silt obscures the picture. When it clears, Deon's body, its head having fallen off, is floating in front of Shaw.

This was totally unexpected. Deon, as it turned out, was not completely skeletal, and he was no longer stuck in the silt. Instead of decomposing, his corpse had mummified into a soaplike composition that gave it mass and neutral buoyancy. And for some reason—no one has an explanation—the body had become unstuck from the mud as soon as Shaw started working on it. "The fact that the body was now loose, and not pinned to the ground, was not one of the scenarios that we had thought about," Shirley sighs. "The body was not meant to be floating." It's a lot easier to slip a bag over an immobile body than a body floating and rolling in front of you at 886 feet.

Shaw starts fumbling and, for the first time, lets out an audible grunt of effort.
Herbst, listening intently through headphones, heard the steadily increasing distress in Shaw's breathing and knew there was trouble coming. "Breathe slower, man, breathe slower," he urged out loud. Watching the video with a clear head, it is hard not to wonder why Shaw didn't just turn around right then and abandon the dive. In October, he had turned for the surface as soon as his breathing rate increased. Now he was panting, and Deon, who was attached to the cave line, was floating free. The body could have been pulled up. "All the options involved putting the bag on," Shirley explains. "He's sticking with his plan. Which is what you've got to do." Still, when Shirley first saw the video, he couldn't stop himself from pleading, "Leave it, leave it, leave the body now. It's loose and can come up."

Shaw, however, is responding only to the pounding of his narcosis and his determination to finish the job. He keeps working to control the body, letting go of his cave light so he can use both hands. Deon is rolling and turning in front of him, resisting Shaw's efforts to get him into the bag. Shaw has been at it for two minutes, and the cave line is seemingly everywhere. It snags on his cave light, and Shaw pauses to clear it.
At this, Shirley and Herbst bridled. A cave diver should never let gear float loose. "It's a recipe for disaster," says Shirley, who will always regret not being present when Shaw told Hiles he would put the light to the side at times. "Do not do that," he would have warned him.

Now Shaw is acting confused. He is working at the torso, instead of the feet. His movements have lost purpose. After more than two and a half minutes of work—and three minutes and 49 seconds on the bottom—Shaw pulls his shears out, fumbling to open them. The plan was for him to cut the dive tanks away as he rolled the bag over Deon. Shaw's breathing rate continues to increase. Suddenly he loses his footing on the sloping bottom. He scrambles back to the body in a cloud of silt. The grunts of effort, hateful little bursts of sound, are painfully frequent.

Shirley and Herbst guess that Shaw's narcosis was then closer to six or seven martinis. "You focus on the one thing. You don't focus on the dive anymore," Herbst says. "The one thing becomes everything. And I think with Dave it became the body, the body, the body."

Still, Shaw keeps checking the time on his dive computer. After five and a half minutes on the bottom, he's aware enough to know he has to leave, but he doesn't get far. The video shows the bottom moving beneath him. Then Shaw's forward progress stops. His errant cave light has apparently snagged the cave line tied to Deon's tanks. Shaw knows he has caught something and turns awkwardly. His breathing starts to sound desperate. He pulls at the cat's cradle of cave line, as if trying to sort it out. Every breath is now a sharp grunt. Shaw struggles to move forward again but is anchored by the weight of Deon's body. The shears are still in his hand, but he never cuts anything. The pace of his breathing keeps accelerating, and there is a tragic, gasping quality to it, so painful to listen to that Herbst and Shirley will no longer watch the video with sound.
Twenty-one minutes into the dive, the sounds finally start to fade. Dave Shaw, with carbon dioxide suffusing his lungs, is starting to pass out. He is dying. It's heartbreaking to watch. A minute later there is no movement.

Platystemon posted:

I think you’re talking about the Station Square collapse, but the Algo Centre Mall collapse isn’t that far off.

Canada sure knows how to build ’em.

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At 9AM on the morning of April 23, 1988, customers were let into the store as part of a grand opening sale for senior citizens. Within 10 minutes an employee noticed water spraying from an overhead pipe that had burst. It was buckling under pressure from a roof beam that was twisting out of shape above a steel column. The 4.5 minute-long structural failure was heard and witnessed by many of the store occupants, including several who took photographs of the twisting and crushed beam. Evacuation alerts were issued through the public address system and the store was emptied in less than 5 minutes. The mayor of Burnaby, Bill Copeland, who presided over the opening ceremonies, assisted in directing the evacuation of approximately 600 customers and 307 employees.[2]

Four structural bays of the roof, measuring 27 by 23 meters (87 by 75 feet), collapsed into the produce section. One store employee was trapped under the debris and was removed by first responders using forklifts; he suffered a crushed pelvis. Several people were blown off their feet by the rushing air from the collapse.

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Kibayasu posted:

The fire crew in that very picture posted this on their own Facebook as a joke

Say Nothing posted:

spiny posted:

Well, I guess I was on the safer side at the time ...

Sagebrush posted:

Hey now -- let's be realistic. The organism most commonly implicated in cruise ship gastrointestinal outbreaks, norovirus, can survive on hard surfaces for weeks, is transmissible by aerosol, and is so contagious that as few as three individual viral particles can start an infection. You absolutely don't have to be making GBS threads on your hands to transmit it. Just walking through a bathroom where someone was making GBS threads or puking explosively in one stall is enough to get you. In one case, a woman threw up at a table in the corner of a restaurant and within three days 52 other people who were in the dining room at the time had also contracted the illness.

It is truly a miracle of efficiency

Wingnut Ninja posted:

Strictly speaking, any aircraft will have parts come off if you fly it wrong enough.

bring back old gbs posted:

This happened to a friend. 30 years old and he developed a loving peanut/general nut allergy, has to be insanely careful now.

cuz i bust everywhere

seriously though its insane that it can happen so late in life

Cojawfee posted:

PIV

Blindeye posted:

penetrating lubricant.

chitoryu12 posted:

hot dame

Lazyhound posted:

Workplace accident claims life at Vancouver Lawn Tennis and Badminton Club

I mean… how? The only thing that I can think of is electrocution.

WorkSafeBC posted:

Injury: Fatal (1 worker)
Industry: Tourism & Hospitality - All, Tourism & Hospitality - Leisure Services
Core Activity: Sports and entertainment facility
Location: Lower Mainland
Date of Incident: 2019-Apr

A worker was standing in the basket of a vertical mast lift at a height of 29 feet. Four workers below were trying to move the mast lift. The lift tipped onto its side and the basket struck the ground, ejecting the worker. The worker sustained fatal injuries.