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2003-12-17 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Chuck Simmins 2003-12-17 2:14:14 PM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Somebody is taking this recycling bit way too seriously. It's funny until somebody loses an eye.

Posted by Dar 2003-12-17 2:23:32 PM|| 2003-12-17 2:23:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Makes a hell of a chalk line, though -- one snap and it marks the line and cuts through in one easy step.

Posted by snellenr 2003-12-17 2:25:01 PM|| 2003-12-17 2:25:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 After the second explosion on Tuesday evening

Hello, the first one didn't get your attention?
"Damm, Herb, that looks like it hurts. Here, wrap this rag around it while I finish drilling.....Ouch!"

Posted by Steve 2003-12-17 2:27:09 PM|| 2003-12-17 2:27:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Primacord detonates at 20,000 ft/sec. Pretty heavy duty chalkline. I wonder where they got it and for what purpose. That stuff would be for quarries, or building demolition, or maybe seismic work. People usually don't leave rolls of primacord laying around.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-12-17 2:43:07 PM|| 2003-12-17 2:43:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Was the patio to code?

Posted by Super Hose 2003-12-17 2:45:38 PM|| 2003-12-17 2:45:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Makes a hell of a chalk line, though

LOL!

Remember the PSAs back in the 60s warning kids about blasting caps? I spent half my boyhood looking around construction sites for said devices... never could find any tho.

Posted by Shipman 2003-12-17 3:06:56 PM|| 2003-12-17 3:06:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Shipman: same here, except we palled up with some quarry guys who gave us caps, crimpers, fuse, and instruction. We were stupid, but we were pretty safe. And I guess lucky. Needless to say, I am not teaching my 8 year old son the trade, heh heh.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-12-17 4:30:36 PM|| 2003-12-17 4:30:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 After the second explosion on Tuesday evening

Steve - You beat me to it. I could not believe I was reading this line. I guess if they would have had a team of six "pest control engineers" on this job, no one would have been called until the sixth friggin' idiot tried his luck.

Watch this population for future Darwin Award winners. 'Just warmin' up, now.

Posted by Lone Ranger 2003-12-17 11:58:17 PM|| 2003-12-17 11:58:17 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Ship,I remember those PSA's,I grew-up in mining towns(hell I spent years living in company housing and getting school clothes from the company store,"What'll it be blue jeans or black,son".)All those years around open-pit and underground mines and not one blasting cap.

Posted by raptor 2003-12-18 8:20:33 AM|| 2003-12-18 8:20:33 AM|| Front Page Top

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