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Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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'Escape from the Planet of the Apes' remake looking good

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Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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FIRST TIME posted:

I'm assuming that the trucks lower for transporting the thing so the treads don't tear the poo poo out of the pavement?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMMmS2wNJ08

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Now look at this! The Liebherr experts show their skills: two mobile cranes LTM 1750-9.1 are mounted on the body of an LR 11000 crawler crane, and they are turning around of course. Looks like a beast from the Transformers movie!

So it's two of these:


Mounted on the body of one of these:


Here's a video of that multi-crane stunt photo Gorilla Salad posted earlier:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBj38Hyg6JY

Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 20:51 on Feb 26, 2016

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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He's got his tag so he's good to go

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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Mierenneuker posted:

Me too, that was their first full-color edition, right?

What's black and white and red all over?

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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DemeaninDemon posted:

Your managers seem like the "ARE FREEDUM" types. They are wrong. Laws set up to protect workers from that kind of crap. Bonus points since OSHA rarely comes unless someone dies, complains, or a bunch of dudes hurt themselves badly. They'll check up on previous violators too if they don't play along.

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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Note that hardly any of these snakes are actually 'angry' and they're just really hungry. Snakes are usually fed on a strict time scale so when feeding day comes around their little snake brain is pretty much focused only on grabbing something and swallowing it which is why pretty much all those snakes grabbed and held on rather than striking repeatedly. The little dudes at 0:30 and 5:00 were about the only ones that dropped the rat and fronted up to the handler.
Also note that even though the handler seemed pretty casual about the whole thing he was very careful to keep his body a certain distance from the snakes at all times and was really quick to change tactics if the snakes weren't going for the food.


Helios Grime posted:

Also in line to the cobra feeding video above, you also got to clean the cobra pit from time to time you know.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIMigVo1pyA

IIRC all those snakes have been de-fanged. :(

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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Wall Balls posted:

as long as he didn't jack off on it

Good lord no. That's reserved for Starbucks coffee.

Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 07:39 on Mar 13, 2016

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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This is why you don't hire witches as contractors, the fuckers build everything out of gingerbread

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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The poor bear looks so sleepy. "Wakeup call? I didn't ask for a wakeup call!"

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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Dillbag posted:

working at a saudi wedding is pretty osha i guess

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfSJpHaD9Lg

One of the related videos:nms: has a bunch of videos of guests at middle eastern weddings accidentally getting shot.
It turns out that firing an AK47 into the air one handed while you're dancing and not really paying much attention can sometimes have negative consequences!

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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It was probably a red headed mouse spider:


Mouse spiders look really similar to funnel web spiders, certainly close enough for people to go "Nope, ain't going anywhere near that fucker, goodbye!" Their venom is pretty darned toxic but there's no record of their bite ever causing a fatality in Australia.

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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EKDS5k posted:

Last Saturday a flatbed truck hauling a boom lift hit a bridge because the driver loaded it incorrectly

Most of the time these are hilarious:





Occasionally they're less than hilarious:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2712184/Giraffe-dies-hitting-head-low-bridge-owner-drives-open-truck-South-African-highway.html

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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DrBouvenstein posted:



I feel like cheeks shouldn't do that.

I'm okay with cheeks doing that, it's when they blow so hard that it also inflates their neck that I get freaked out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvIXzeDLpMw&t=125s

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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FIRST TIME posted:

My local news had a video clip where the sheriff from the area where that happened went out of his way to reassure people that he supports 2nd amendment rights before suggesting that people not do what that guy did to get his leg blown off. This loving country...

The right to bear arms and shed legs

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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FIRST TIME posted:

As a former retail safety supervisor, I would tell that guy "Look, here's the inside scoop. That was rad as hell but if you ever do that again, I will make sure you're fired so hard."

I'm reminded of Domino's 20+ year promotion "30 minutes or it's free" which came to an end when the company had to settle several multi-million dollar lawsuits after their drivers caused a bunch of accidents by running red lights and driving like maniacs in order to deliver the pies on time.
http://www.snopes.com/business/consumer/dominos.asp

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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AreWeDrunkYet posted:

It's worth noting that older planes were a lot more robust in a lot of ways (speed and power were far lower, lots of items had to be overengineered due to a lack of computer testing), and could still fly after the kind of damage that would turn a modern aluminium jet into a fireball.

Here's some photos of B17s that got a bit shot up but still managed to make it back home:







"A lot more robust" is a hell of an understatement. :v:

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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Jerry Cotton posted:

If you take off your shoe you might step on a sharp rock and hurt your foot :ohdear:

Unless he's wearing paper socks, because paper beats rock. But digger beats shoe so he's hosed anyway.

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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PhotoKirk posted:

I saw a guy try to shoot nails across a room by pressing the safety in with his thumb and finger. First nail took off a good chunk of his thumb and the thumbnail. Second one missed what was left.

Pretty much the perfect "Hey, hold my beer and watch this" moment

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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Private Speech posted:

Just ... how?

Pissweak firecracker that makes a loud bang and stings a bit but doesn't do any damage. There's a bunch of youtube videos of people doing the FIRECRACKER CHALLENGE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ymfta_ngvl8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt6kqX1yGb8

And then there's this guy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2L3U9c2d50

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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Well sometimes one isn't enough

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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E Equals MC Hammer posted:

Thought you were talkin about birds m8.

That happens as well

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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oohhboy posted:

I guess someone doesn't want to live or have limbs.:rip:

Limbs, just like maximum load capacities, are apparently underrated

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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Nonviolent J posted:

well im done with this thread.

Ambrose Burnside posted:

idk when people stopped treating this as anything other than "often-violent accident porn thread" but it sucks

I guess it was 35 pages ago if Nonviolent J's reaction is any indication.

Here's a close call!
http://i.imgur.com/Q2wJCTE.webm

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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tater_salad posted:

They should have put a board or something there to stand on thst wouldn't fall when the concrete did.

The fact that one of his buddies was filming him doing some otherwise mundane demo work suggests to me that this guy does dumb poo poo like that all the time and is pretty much a walking accident who's only benefit to the company can be measured in youtube hits.

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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tater_salad posted:

OR.. it was going to the scrap heap, and beers were drunk and someone said.. hey I have a cool thing we can do before it gets towed.

Pretty much this, there's several similar videos online

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBVmXukx_Gk

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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dr_rat posted:

....I've never wanted a hump a bridge more in my life.

I shall prove myself a better bridge humper then that fool that tried and so badly failed before me.

I dunno man, the standard is already pretty high :nws:

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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Pharmaskittle posted:

Maybe we're looking at this wrong, though. Maybe the bridge itself isn't the danger, but the madly jealous man who posted that warning/threat.

Nah, bridge humpers like to share. (See my previous post)

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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tater_salad posted:

That's what you do with the straps you just go...

Well it worked :colbert:

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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tater_salad posted:

Why did the machine run when open?
It seems to me that it shouldn't run with guard open or at least have a pedal that makes the press run so you can stop it from crushing your head.

There's a high likelihood that it did at one point but someone took the safety measures off because it slowed poo poo down

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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It wouldn't just be any post-apocalyptic mutant troglodyte, it'd be their society's equivalent of Indiana Jones. It'd be the cool caveman.

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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Leave it on on the curb with a sign taped to it saying "Do not steal". You don't even have to disguise it, just leave it in the barrels.

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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tater_salad posted:

right in the 40's and 50's it was just some empty field and no one was ever going to use it.. now it's a strip mall.

About 6 or 7 years ago some developers cleared a whole bunch of factories and built a massive amount of apartment buildings in my town. Then someone realised the ground was toxic as gently caress so they had to demolish and remove all the buildings and they then excavated the entire site (which was roughly an acre) and removed about 4 or 5m of dirt, treated everything that was left for several years and then refilled the site and built a whole bunch more apartment buildings. God knows where they took 5m x 1acre worth of toxic dirt.

Immediately next to the site is a children's playground and the carpark to the supermarket where I've been shopping almost every day for the last 15 years. :waycool:

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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Visit beautiful Dzerzhinsk! Come stroll along the beach of the picturesque White Sea!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvqiSqXvrQo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gl1VXHckZW8

The 'White Sea' is a chemical waste dump that covers 92 hectares.

Note all the lakes and rivers riiiiiiiight next to it.

Edit: it's seeping into the Volga river :psyduck:

Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 19:06 on Jun 2, 2016

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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Of course the Soviets weren't reckless enough to just dump all their dangerous waste in their cities. They dumped a fair amount of the really dangerous poo poo in foreign countries like Kyrgyzstan instead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2QWiBiaqCQ

Here's thousands and thousands of tons of missiles just left in piles in Georgia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMEs2DQdlZM

Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 19:19 on Jun 2, 2016

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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Zopotantor posted:

What superpowers did it give you?

Well you know how Dr Bruce Banner can grow extremely large and strong? Pretty much exactly the same as that except on a really really tiny localized scale inside his organs.

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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Imagined posted:

Everything is out of your control so you just have to try not to think about it.

Once you start thinking about the near infinite amount of ways you could be killed/maimed in random incidents you'll realise that you're potential in mortal danger every second of your life. Some airline mechanic in Cairo might have been having a bad day and forgotten to properly bolt together the engine frame on the 747 which is currently flying 20,000 feet above you. A renovator might have done a lovely DIY job removing the asbestos in that hotel you spent a night in 20 years ago. The factory which prepared the canned salmon in the sandwich you're about to eat might have left a bone in it which will get lodged in your throat and make you choke to death. The real estate agent may have lied about that Indian burial ground underneath your house.

Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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Imagined posted:

The last guy to die this way before him was strapped into his front loader, so presumably the front loader went into the poo poo. Imagine that feeling, trapped in the cabin, watching the poo poo water rapidly filling the cabin, thinking not like this...

I wonder if drowning in other people's poo poo is better or worse than drowning in your own poo poo. I mean, you're dead in both cases but people still have to make speeches at your funeral and think of something to write on your tombstone.

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Snowglobe of Doom
Mar 30, 2012

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They didn't hit a bison with their stick, did they? :ohdear:

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