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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Bit tenuousA while back I was talking to a mate of a mate who works in strip mining - I was wondering whether it was possible to make a short film set on a Bagger 288 - and we got talking about the other machinery they employ. He got on to a story about the enormous trucks they use to cart away all the stuff they've mined, which have suitably enormous tyres. Apparently* if you're standing next to one of these tyres when they burst, the force of it is enough to practically vaporise you - he said he'd seen it happen and there "wasn't much left of the guy to bury".
*obligatory use of "apparently"
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emvee cruor deo cruoris, Tue 10 Sep 2013, 13:14,
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That's like this one time when I got a puncture but luckily I had run on flats so I didn't have to worry although it cost me nearly a hundred quid for a new tyre the next day.Your story was good too though.
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BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Tue 10 Sep 2013, 13:24,
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A short, erotic, film?*obligatory insinuation that "strip mining" is a euphemism for something seedy, in connection with your photo-erotica endeavours*
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monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Tue 10 Sep 2013, 13:35,
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HahahaAlso: blimey, look at the size of his tool!
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skullfunkerry In case of implosion do not look into implosion, Tue 10 Sep 2013, 14:08,
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Thats a very big chopper he has there(, Tue 10 Sep 2013, 16:43, closed)
A quick google...makes it clear that a catastrophic tyre blowout can certainly kill you, via flying debris or simply pressure-wave damage.
But vapourise? Nah. Not gonna happen without high explosives.
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I said "apparently"what more do you want?
[edit] Having done a bit of googling myself, he must have been talking about something like this - www.vannattabros.com/truck28.html
And I reckon that one of those fuckers bursting would spread you very thinly over a wide area
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emvee cruor deo cruoris, Tue 10 Sep 2013, 15:28,
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