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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Owch. I was putting together some speakers a few years ago, bastarding up some old stereos into a large bass cab I "inherited" from school.
Went downstairs to do something, and ended up leaving the house for an hour or so...
Got back, went upstairs, and saw the soldering iron there. So to test if I'd left it on, I tapped my toe on it.
There was a crack as the soldering iron broke due to the sudden temperature change, which was even audible above my agonised scream.
I'm such a clueless twat sometimes.
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As an old enough to know better child,I stuck my palm onto the middle of a recently extinguished gas hob, to see if it got hot. Pretty dense behaviour.
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monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 11 Sep 2013, 15:27,
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After working on a complicated mains junction boxAs I was packing up, I thought to myself, "Now, I did turn it off, didn't I?" and without thinking stuck my fingers onto the exposed contacts to check.
50Hz - they certainly do!
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