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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Electrocution daisy chainAs mentioned before I grew up in a small Asian country where health and safety is interpreted slightly differently (i.e. broken plugs that are repaired by removing the plug altogether and sticking the bare wires straight into the wall socket, for example, all very 'there, I fixed it' kind of things).
The handyman in the factory where my dad worked was repairing something that involved a live wire in the pouring rain and obviously within seconds he was doing a funny dance with his hair sticking straight up. His colleague grabs him and ends up doing a funny dance too. So HIS friend goes to help him etc...
Four people were hospitalised in the end.
Also not an isolated incident as a few years later an entire family in our street was wiped out the same way!
(, Thu 12 Sep 2013, 10:32, 2 replies)
I have been in a few daisy chains with violet wands and such like. Most stimulating.(
d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Thu 12 Sep 2013, 10:42,
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Yes!My dad used to work in Bangladesh, and has heard a similar story of a family getting fried by trying to tap electricity from the overhead power lines after trying to help each other, one at a time, eventually doing the "20,000 Volt Conga"
Technically not Darwin Award material, as they didn't know the consequences.
But you think you'd learn after the first two...
(, Thu 12 Sep 2013, 11:49, closed)
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