
"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
( , Thu 5 Sep 2013, 17:33)
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I stuck my palm onto the middle of a recently extinguished gas hob, to see if it got hot. Pretty dense behaviour.
( , Wed 11 Sep 2013, 15:27, 1 reply)

As 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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