Humphreys posted:

More Paleas!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-qYZPFqXko

He kinda sounds like the developer of "Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy"

shame on an IGA posted:

Orthopedic surgeons are Gods.

This parachute accident victim from February recovered and got to go home this week

3D MRI
https://i.imgur.com/T6ydVrL.jpg

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Officials in Wyandotte County, Kansas, where it was to be built, were delighted when the company announced the plans in 2005, seeing Schlitterbahn's plan as the culmination of efforts to draw residents of the Kansas City metropolitan area to spend their disposable income in Kansas rather than Missouri. State legislators from the area passed a law allowing Schlitterbahn to "self-inspect" its attractions as it did in Texas, unlike all other amusement parks in Kansas, which were subject to state inspection.

quote:

Engineers who inspected the ride also commented that the ride's netting, used in areas where riders travel up to 70 miles per hour (110 km/h), "posed its own hazard because a rider moving at high speeds could easily lose a limb if they hit it". Their findings revealed that the use of the metal brace and netting system in the design, along with the use of hook and loop straps to restrain the riders, went against guidelines set by ASTM F-24 Committee on Amusement Ride and Devices. According to the guidelines, Verrückt should have incorporated the use of a rigid over-the-shoulder restraint for riders, and an upstop mechanism to prevent the rafts from going airborne.

Cojawfee posted:

I just really don't want to be strapped into something that goes really fast on water and ends in a big pool. With my luck, it ends up upside down and the teenager from Lithuania can't get the restraint release to work.

"Thunder River Rapid Ride posted:

On 25 October 2016, a malfunction of the Thunder River Rapids Ride resulted in the deaths of four people.This is regarded as the worst accident at an Australian theme park since the 9 June 1979 ghost train ride fire at Luna Park Sydney. For reasons yet to be determined, one of the rafts, which was also occupied, became stuck at the bottom of a conveyor belt that transports the rafts to the area where passengers disembark. Another raft carrying six people then collided with it, bouncing two of the first raft occupants into the conveyor belt that transports the raft from the bottom of the ride to the boarding area and dragging the other two under the ride's conveyor belt.

Queensland Police Forensic Team investigate an accident on the Thunder Rapids River Ride that claimed the lives of four people.
Park operators stopped the ride and started draining the river, over 7 paramedic crews responded to the 000 call along with firefighters and police. The recovery of the bodies went on into the early hours of the next morning with some paramedics requiring counselling due to the trauma of the scene.

Cojawfee posted:

Why does a water slide need to go 70mph?

EvilJoven posted:

Pumped Up Dicks is a catchy tune until you listen to the lyrics, then its a song about blowing your dick up like its a little air mattress.

Kazak posted:

Woodjumping is an advanced home milling strategy

Cojawfee posted:

Imagine the Russians have launched an ICBM at us and the last thing you see is this before you're vaporized.

Icon Of Sin posted:

Charges filed on Oct 29th.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/29/us/grandfather-cruise-ship-death.html

Pissed Ape Sexist posted:

They're a bit more expensive but can get into place faster since you can just drive directly up to the dump location without guidance and they have chutes that can be positioned by the driver via hydraulic controls. This makes it more efficient in both loads-per-day gained and by elimination of the need for a 'chute man'.

Humphreys posted:

It's been a while since an Aussie Dashcam compilation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8Q3SjBwCjU

haveblue posted:

The article posted earlier said that the unloaded trailer alone is probably about 140% of the truck's rated capacity.

George H.W. oval office posted:

Dunkirk but for fire. Wild

Humphreys posted:

Oh and Sydney is still going ahead with it's $6 Million New Years Eve Fireworks even though there is a total fire ban across much of the country.

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/fire-authorities-give-sydney-s-new-year-s-eve-fireworks-the-green-light

Why not spend that money on getting in more equipment to fight the bushfires?


Ah! That's Capitalism!

Platystemon posted:

EvenWorseOpinions posted:

How long do I have to watch before the bowl shatters from heat shock?

koshmar posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HC7jvo0W8Ps

CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:

https://i.imgur.com/xUJ4ygT.mp4

Mustached Demon posted:

No shoes.

thatbastardken posted:

also a friend of mine ran a hire truck into the next bridge along last week (my friend not pictured):

Methylethylaldehyde posted:

Anything involving high vacuum and plasma/ion guns are a magical land of things that will kill you. Like an Australian tarantula wasp, which is also somehow on fire.

"wikipedia posted:

The sting is famously agonizing. Ernie Rider, who was slapped in the face and torso with the foliage in 1963, said:

For two or three days the pain was almost unbearable; I couldn’t work or sleep, then it was pretty bad pain for another fortnight or so. The stinging persisted for two years and recurred every time I had a cold shower. ... There's nothing to rival it; it's ten times worse than anything else.

"Curiosity posted:

One ex-serviceman, Cyril Bromley, fell into one of the plants during WWII training exercises, and he ended up strapped to a hospital bed, "as mad as a cut snake." Bromley also told a story of an officer who unknowingly used a leaf as toilet paper. He ended up shooting himself. Botanist Ernie Rider was whacked in the face, arm, and chest in 1963, and it wasn't until 1965 that he was finally free of the pain.

If you're stung by the plant, you can't just pluck the needles out with tweezers. They're too fine and too dense — one of the best solutions is to rip them all out at once with hot wax, like the world's worst Brazilian. But be careful. If any of the hundreds of stingers stuck in your skin breaks off, you're in for years of pain. Researchers have even reported being stung by dried leaves stored away for a century.

Hurley's three years in the Australian rainforest (which she spent in heavy protective clothing and welding gloves) ended in hospitalization, a severe allergic reaction, and a medical recommendation to never come into contact with the plant again. She was happy to oblige.

Ornamental Dingbat posted:

RandomPauI posted:

No, no, no; that's all wrong. It's lower the road, not lower the bridge!

stealie72 posted:

All this time travel talk and nobody is going to take a side trip to stop Steely Dan?

starkebn posted:

Boogalo posted:

First catch of the year. They must have been really moving.

VectorSigma posted:

LifeSunDeath posted:

If you like threw a hand full of screws at these people what would happen?

Splode posted:

So, uhh, what happened here? Corrosion? I'd love to read more.

Cartoon Man posted:

https://i.imgur.com/qkgPlU7.mp4

Stanky Bean posted:

Also the vertical scale on that highway interchange gif is distorted which is why it looks so cartoonish. Similar to that oil rig in high seas that was posted like last month. Interchange is still crazy but having it be 2x as tall as it should be doesn't help. Look at how all the vehicles look like penny racers

looks slightly more reasonable though still insane here

Whooping Crabs posted:

Cameroonian groverhaus

ekuNNN posted:

Memento posted:

the word "sloughed" has never been involved with fun at all

Cable Guy posted:

+

=

https://i.imgur.com/d8WuX9K.mp4

[Sound on]

Nenonen posted:

When did O.J. get a pilot license?

Ornamental Dingbat posted:

Taste test video in case you have a bunch of cesium chloride laying around:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJh9yTIBY48

CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:

https://i.imgur.com/F7Fe4T2.mp4

zedprime posted:

Gender reveal getting weirder every day.