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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I've heard various gory stories...In addition to the classic the OP speaks off (we called it de-bagging, but meh) there was a guy who was standing next to an electric deck winch, whilst wearing baggy trousers. So, yeah, his trousers got sucked in, then his ankle. The winch was in low gear (slow but very powerful) and there was no kill buttons anywhere. Idiot.
Another was a guy who was by the rig when the shackle holding a block at the base of the rig broke. The halyard (I think it was the kite) immediately snapped to a straight line between the sheath and the clutch on the deck, snapping this guy's leg off like a twig. I know that he was airlifted off, and I think he lived, don't think they managed to get it back on.
Ah, found a link to the first one. Can't find t'other. www.yachtingworld.com/supersail/news/417697/shipman-cup-marred-by-accident
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kappynitty doubled your entendre on, Tue 10 Sep 2013, 7:41,
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The first one was an interior designer?I guess it's true what they say about women on ships being bad luck.
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BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Tue 10 Sep 2013, 10:34,
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Was in an inshore race in the Solent with the kite upand the girl on foredeck duty stood up to see the sail shape better and shout something back to guy flying it. Just as the forestay broke at deck level. How it didn't cut her in half I have no fucking idea.
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the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 10 Sep 2013, 10:50,
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