FalloutGIRL'S DAYWAS PRETTY GOOD WHILE THEY LASTEDRegistered Userregular
edited August 2007
Throughout the world, execution via electric shock has widely been regarded as inhumane.[citation needed] Other than the United States, only the Philippines used this method for a few years. It remains a legal means of execution in some states of the USA.[5] It is reportedly one of the most grisly forms of modern execution to witness, with smoke or actual flame visible, coming from the prisoner's garments or cap.
After 8 years with this company, including internships, the fact I have all my toes, fingers, and both eyes still working is a bit of a miracle. While I'm smart and do use my PPE, the stuff I work with is basically fire, lots of electricity, pinch points, and dangerous chemicals.
After 8 years with this company, including internships, the fact I have all my toes, fingers, and both eyes still working is a bit of a miracle. While I'm smart and do use my PPE, the stuff I work with is basically fire, lots of electricity, pinch points, and dangerous chemicals.
You need to figure out a way to get chainsaws involved with your work, Hunter.
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HunterChemist with a heart of AuRegistered Userregular
edited August 2007
Nothing is more American then electrocution of criminals. Where a simple bullet, a noose, or a cocktail of drugs would do the trick, we decided that strapping you to a chair and surging large doses of electricity through your body is the best method of telling you "ha ha fuckhead, you shouldn't have done that".
You need to figure out a way to get chainsaws involved with your work, Hunter.
I do work with Ribbon Blenders. I have received instructions like "while this batch is mixing, go in and grab a quick sample or two and run chemistry on them". A lesser man would turn it off.
I've seen a bunch of Firefighter safety videos, including guys working on a roof accidentally backing up against high voltage lines, guys falling halfway through a roof, a guy climbing up a ladder truck not wearing his Bunker jacket (just bunker pants and gloves) he gets to the top, and a wall collapses and 800+ degree fire gases vent directly in his face. He survived, with 2nd and 3rd degree burns to his exposed skin.
One of the worst for me was a video on firefighting liquid fires, where some firefighters are foaming a pool of burning fuel about 2 feet deep, from a catwalk a couple feet above. Everything's going well until one of them looses his balance and falls in, breaking the foam film that prevents the fuel from igniting, and all of a sudden he's struggling through 2 foot deep fuel towards the edge and anywhere he goes he breaks the foam causing more fuel to ignite, falling and struggling and splashing and surrounded by flames, and you just know he's soaked in fuel now and probably can't breathe very well (even our latest SCBA's aren't designed to work in liquid). That was the most agonizing 30-45 seconds of video I think I've every watched.
After 8 years with this company, including internships, the fact I have all my toes, fingers, and both eyes still working is a bit of a miracle. While I'm smart and do use my PPE, the stuff I work with is basically fire, lots of electricity, pinch points, and dangerous chemicals.
That's what I do right now, but there's only a week of it left. Then I go back to college to work toward a permanent career of danger.
Old friend of mine in Montana blew the back of his eye ball out. He was doing a cable locate and backed his head in to an electric fence. You can't notice it though. I didn't know he was blind in one eye until he told me.
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"What you had there is what we refer to as a focused non-terminal repeating phantasm or a Class 5 full-roaming vapor."
After 8 years with this company, including internships, the fact I have all my toes, fingers, and both eyes still working is a bit of a miracle. While I'm smart and do use my PPE, the stuff I work with is basically fire, lots of electricity, pinch points, and dangerous chemicals.
That's what I do right now, but there's only a week of it left. Then I go back to college to work toward a permanent career of danger.
We recently had a 600 gallon sulfuric acid spill.
SIX HUNDRED GALLONS!
That goes in the "oops" pile.
Industrial Chemistry...loads of dangerous fun and hot, dirty grunt work for people who thought college = desk job.
Funny, the first thing I thought of after having asessed the situation was the comic where Gabe "got these powers for a reason."
But PennyPacker won't find it for me.
Really, maybe I got powers. Or maybe I'm like, psychically linked to my Wii now.
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HunterChemist with a heart of AuRegistered Userregular
edited August 2007
Actually, the only thing that has ever scared the hell out of me in my job was working at our Texas plant when there were tornado warnings all over the place. We didn't have a true bunker, so the next best thing was climbing down into the rail car unloading pits. Tiny space, lots of people, horrible natural events, and seeking protection in a spot that isn't specifically designed to protect you. SIGN ME UP!
Being in a fine marble mine that's nearly 3 miles underground was tough too. Once you get to the actual stone site it's not bad, but the ride down was fucking intense.
Actually, the only thing that has ever scared the hell out of me in my job was working at our Texas plant when there were tornado warnings all over the place. We didn't have a true bunker, so the next best thing was climbing down into the rail car unloading pits. Tiny space, lots of people, horrible natural events, and seeking protection in a spot that isn't specifically designed to protect you. SIGN ME UP!
Being in a fine marble mine that's nearly 3 miles underground was tough too. Once you get to the actual stone site it's not bad, but the ride down was fucking intense.
"Quick! Everyone down to the pits! Don't worry, what are the chances of a Tornado and a dangerous chemical spill occuring on the same day?
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Actually, the only thing that has ever scared the hell out of me in my job was working at our Texas plant when there were tornado warnings all over the place. We didn't have a true bunker, so the next best thing was climbing down into the rail car unloading pits. Tiny space, lots of people, horrible natural events, and seeking protection in a spot that isn't specifically designed to protect you. SIGN ME UP!
Being in a fine marble mine that's nearly 3 miles underground was tough too. Once you get to the actual stone site it's not bad, but the ride down was fucking intense.
"Quick! Everyone down to the pits! Don't worry, what are the chances of a Tornado and a dangerous chemical spill occuring on the same day?
That thought crossed my mind when they made me practice getting down into the pit. Then the guy I was with cracked a huge fart down there, laughed, and said "we're fucked if a tornado hits, aren't we". He is the plant safety manager.
For real. There was like an inch of water down there this morning. I woke up to a really bad thunderstorm, but it wasn't anything we hadn't seen before. For some reason the basement flooded, nothing like this has ever happened before.
I wanted to save my Wii, since I had just spent a load of money on it and had been looking for one for a while, and like I'm going to let that go waste. Only the plug was submerged (in a surge protector), and I shocked myself unplugging it. I wasn't sure what was going on at first, but my arm started shaking and tingling. It was crazy.
I haven't tried it yet, but I think it should be fine. I'm more worried about my TV, which was on the floor. I'm supposed to take it to school in a few weeks, it would suck if my roommate and I had a Wii and PS2, but no TV.
So now the rest of my day will be spent cleaning the entire basement. Getting rid of water, Swiffering the dirt that has collected, throwing out old soggy Pokemon cards and pictures. At least I was already off work for the day.
You guys have any similar experiences? Amusing comments to add?
When I ran my field, I had to run 220v out to another shed. I have a underling hop in the tractor and I jump in the bucket and he raises me up with a dead cable. I hook it to the feed coming in at the first building and cap the end of the cable.
it's perfectly safe now... right? right?
No. Halfway across the parking lot it contacts the bucket and arcs.
"Shit! Shit! Stop the fucking tractor!"
Now I'm about 12 feet up or so, so apparntly he heard:
"Shit! Shit! Drop the fucking bucket!"
Does he do it gently? Does he do it even remotely safely? No. He cuts the hydraulic power completely and slams the bucket down, releasing the cap off the cable completely and dumping me and the cable onto the ground. Hard. As I get up I guess I must have come into contact with the business end becaue I don't remeber anything except waking up in the hospital with some wicked burns on my thighs and calves. My employee apparntly drug me me off the cable with something or other, but he said it looked like I was lit up for at elast a couple seconds.
Also I'm amazed no one has used "Flooded Basement" as a double-entendre.
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WeaverWho are you?What do you want?Registered Userregular
edited August 2007
Stale, were you about to board a plane once but then had a vision of the plane exploding, so you caught a later flight but the plane that you were supposed to be on exploded on take-off?
Stale, were you about to board a plane once but then had a vision of the plane exploding, so you caught a later flight but the plane that you were supposed to be on exploded on take-off?
No, but once I did start to get onto the freeway, and at the last second for no reason let my foot off the gas, only to see a tanker trailor jack-knife in front of me spilling milk everywhere and totalling the 3 cars I was travelling next to.
That was kinda nifty. Except for the guy in the car in front of me, he died. Overdose of truck axel to the windshield.
Stale, were you about to board a plane once but then had a vision of the plane exploding, so you caught a later flight but the plane that you were supposed to be on exploded on take-off?
No, but once I did start to get onto the freeway, and at the last second for no reason let my foot off the gas, only to see a tanker trailor jack-knife in front of me spilling milk everywhere and totalling the 3 cars I was travelling next to.
That was kinda nifty. Except for the guy in the car in front of me, he died. Overdose of truck axel to the windshield.
Milk. Does a body CRUSHED.
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After 8 years with this company, including internships, the fact I have all my toes, fingers, and both eyes still working is a bit of a miracle. While I'm smart and do use my PPE, the stuff I work with is basically fire, lots of electricity, pinch points, and dangerous chemicals.
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pee on the electrical fire to put it out
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I do work with Ribbon Blenders. I have received instructions like "while this batch is mixing, go in and grab a quick sample or two and run chemistry on them". A lesser man would turn it off.
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I have to work on motors and PLCs this year. its going to be rough.
I've been trying to reach you, but your extension cord doesn't reach that far.
One of the worst for me was a video on firefighting liquid fires, where some firefighters are foaming a pool of burning fuel about 2 feet deep, from a catwalk a couple feet above. Everything's going well until one of them looses his balance and falls in, breaking the foam film that prevents the fuel from igniting, and all of a sudden he's struggling through 2 foot deep fuel towards the edge and anywhere he goes he breaks the foam causing more fuel to ignite, falling and struggling and splashing and surrounded by flames, and you just know he's soaked in fuel now and probably can't breathe very well (even our latest SCBA's aren't designed to work in liquid). That was the most agonizing 30-45 seconds of video I think I've every watched.
That's what I do right now, but there's only a week of it left. Then I go back to college to work toward a permanent career of danger.
We recently had a 600 gallon sulfuric acid spill.
SIX HUNDRED GALLONS!
That goes in the "oops" pile.
Industrial Chemistry...loads of dangerous fun and hot, dirty grunt work for people who thought college = desk job.
Secret Satan 2013 Wishlist
Funny, the first thing I thought of after having asessed the situation was the comic where Gabe "got these powers for a reason."
But PennyPacker won't find it for me.
Really, maybe I got powers. Or maybe I'm like, psychically linked to my Wii now.
Being in a fine marble mine that's nearly 3 miles underground was tough too. Once you get to the actual stone site it's not bad, but the ride down was fucking intense.
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"Quick! Everyone down to the pits! Don't worry, what are the chances of a Tornado and a dangerous chemical spill occuring on the same day?
That thought crossed my mind when they made me practice getting down into the pit. Then the guy I was with cracked a huge fart down there, laughed, and said "we're fucked if a tornado hits, aren't we". He is the plant safety manager.
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ha ha
ha ha duder
man i am debating buying a 360 now that the price is dropping again
man
it would mean no mgs4
but man
the 360 might be in my future
it's perfectly safe now... right? right?
No. Halfway across the parking lot it contacts the bucket and arcs.
"Shit! Shit! Stop the fucking tractor!"
Now I'm about 12 feet up or so, so apparntly he heard:
"Shit! Shit! Drop the fucking bucket!"
Does he do it gently? Does he do it even remotely safely? No. He cuts the hydraulic power completely and slams the bucket down, releasing the cap off the cable completely and dumping me and the cable onto the ground. Hard. As I get up I guess I must have come into contact with the business end becaue I don't remeber anything except waking up in the hospital with some wicked burns on my thighs and calves. My employee apparntly drug me me off the cable with something or other, but he said it looked like I was lit up for at elast a couple seconds.
i am pretty sure something is trying to kill you
Cripples, amputees, horribly disfigured faces....
This is why I'm hot.
Literally 6 heart attacks and 3 strokes between them.
Cancer in one, replacement knees and probably alzheimer's in the other.
Still kicking.
Huh, I haven't talked to them in a while.
No, but once I did start to get onto the freeway, and at the last second for no reason let my foot off the gas, only to see a tanker trailor jack-knife in front of me spilling milk everywhere and totalling the 3 cars I was travelling next to.
That was kinda nifty. Except for the guy in the car in front of me, he died. Overdose of truck axel to the windshield.
but then
Milk. Does a body CRUSHED.
Don't leave us hanging.
Then I came flying in with my superpowers and saved you and built the pyramids, right?
I swear, the shock gave me powers. For a reason.