I've worn my beard long like that more times than not, and anytime I was working around machinery, power tools or conveyors, I'd tie it off and tuck it into my shirt.
Did a project in a paper box plant in Abilene years ago. We got talking about industrial accidents. Turned out that a female employee got her hair caught in the rollers of a press a month prior to my visit. Took her scalp right off.
They said you could hear her screams back in Dallas.
We had to take a BS Course in College. I was a wildlife Biology major. So I took stage craft. and hanging on the wall a a hank of hair about a foot long or so. .When asked the instructor said that's what happens when you get your head to close to the belt sander.
I am too old and naive. I tend to believe all pictures are real. Even if they look like they could not be physically possible. And #10 with the beard, I never saw anyone with a long beard caught in any moving tool, but I saw a guy with a slightly shorter beard catch a face full of molten steel, which normally would just bounce off a clean shaven face. With the heavy beard, it caught in the hair, and stuck, burning most of his beard off, and a lot of his skin as well. He was not hurt very bad, looked like a severe sunburn, but it smelled like someone burned bacon, along with their entire head of hair. When we saw he was ok, we of course did not laugh at him. Very much. Or make jokes in poor taste about his wife not being happy until he healed. I could not have been much over 20 years old at the time. But even I knew that some people are not meant to work in factories or shops. I had several friends who came and went, from my place of work, who just were not safe in a labor type environment. They were good workers, just not safe workers.
If you're stupid enough to have a beard that long around power tools, you are stupid and not as cool as you pretend to be.
ReplyDeleteI've worn my beard long like that more times than not, and anytime I was working around machinery, power tools or conveyors, I'd tie it off and tuck it into my shirt.
DeleteDid a project in a paper box plant in Abilene years ago. We got talking about industrial accidents. Turned out that a female employee got her hair caught in the rollers of a press a month prior to my visit. Took her scalp right off.
DeleteThey said you could hear her screams back in Dallas.
We had to take a BS Course in College. I was a wildlife Biology major. So I took stage craft. and hanging on the wall a a hank of hair about a foot long or so. .When asked the instructor said that's what happens when you get your head to close to the belt sander.
Delete#5 - A face fulla bees - oh Hell No !!
ReplyDeleteI had a bee hive when I was a kid. When they are swarming, they are docile. Nevertheless, I would never want a face full of them.
DeleteI have 9 colonies currently. Been keeping bees 6 years.
DeleteThat is a 3# box of bees w the big hole (feeder goes there) - bee package meant for a nuc (smaller hive until established).
Not sure what happened to get to this point... even mad as hell coming out of that box wouldn't = the pic. Looks like they were dumped onto her...
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Yeah, when I was a kid I had an ant farm… and bees still suck…
DeleteWhat kind of simple minded troglodyte loads charcoal briquets INSIDE the vehicle? Serves them right to suffer.
ReplyDeleteYeah, it can always be worse, and these made me smile a little.
ReplyDelete#10 I worked with a welder that had the long beard. He used coconut oil to "condition" it until a spark burned it off.
ReplyDelete#1 - testing of the equine ejection seat continues.
ReplyDelete#1 Talk about horsepower, it took off so fast it ran out from under the saddle and rider.
Delete#8 looks like a descending round perhaps fired into the air in jubilation. Or he missed the drone.
ReplyDeleteOr driving through Chicago. Bullet looks like it hit with some velocity behind it
DeleteDaryl
#10 should have known better.
ReplyDeleteMidwest Chick
You'd think, huh?
DeleteHe does now! He's lucky he doesn't have a bald spot from that.
DeleteIf that's the Kingsford with the fluid already impregnated in it that should make the seat smell nice too!
ReplyDelete#2. Obvious photoshop
ReplyDeleteJust can't sit back and enjoy the post as was intended, can ya?
DeleteI am too old and naive. I tend to believe all pictures are real. Even if they look like they could not be physically possible.
DeleteAnd #10 with the beard, I never saw anyone with a long beard caught in any moving tool, but I saw a guy with a slightly shorter beard catch a face full of molten steel, which normally would just bounce off a clean shaven face. With the heavy beard, it caught in the hair, and stuck, burning most of his beard off, and a lot of his skin as well.
He was not hurt very bad, looked like a severe sunburn, but it smelled like someone burned bacon, along with their entire head of hair. When we saw he was ok, we of course did not laugh at him. Very much. Or make jokes in poor taste about his wife not being happy until he healed.
I could not have been much over 20 years old at the time. But even I knew that some people are not meant to work in factories or shops. I had several friends who came and went, from my place of work, who just were not safe in a labor type environment. They were good workers, just not safe workers.
Not even, my brother knows the guy that was driving the truck...
Delete#5. is that shit or bees?
ReplyDeleteAs I gaze at #7, if I'm seeing it correctly, somebody's already bad day will get a lot worse if his hands get too busy for Mr. Policeman...
ReplyDelete#5 doesn't look good.
ReplyDeleteFor #8 I was wondering, thanks!