Lurid Work Stories"I know a railwayman of 40-odd years' service," says Juan Quar, "and he tells me a new gruesome yarn each time we meet. Last week's was of checking the time on the wristwatch of a severed arm he'd just collected after a track fatality."
Tell us the horrible stories you tease the new hires with, or that you've been told.
NB By definition, these are probably all made up. Roll with it
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chthonic, Thu 5 Sep 2013, 17:33)
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The danger isn't getting your hand zappedit's having the current pass through your chest. If your hand is in the middle of a massive arc it will get fried, but you'll probably survive. If it goes in one hand and out the other, you're toast.
Just don't whiz on the electric fence.
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The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Thu 5 Sep 2013, 20:32,
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I've read a horrendous story of a copper thief robbing substations, getting electrocuted, and then going home while still burning from the inside.Bloke's skin was peeling off his face as he walked in through the front door. Brrr.
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In that instance he was groundedthrough his feet, and I would guess that the electricity went along his skin more than through him or his nervous system would have been fried and his heart stopped. Probably fatal anyway.
Sounds like a good Darwin award.
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The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Thu 5 Sep 2013, 21:55,
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Oh yes, he made it to hospital and lived a couple of days though.A horrible death. Happened a few years ago Oop North.
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