#1 Forty-five years in the can so far. She aint a skinny kid anymore. Prison chow must be good. It's hard to believe they have not released her. I hope she rots there.
In my experience, having known plenty of both, when men go to jail/prison they get ripped and in shape, and when women go to jail/prison they just pack on the pounds.
If those are steel handle bolt cutters, then yeah, I bet that was a Darwin. Probably some tweaker idiot trying to steal copper from an empty house.
Klein cable cutters have fiberglass arms which insulate very well. I was working as an electrician on a new house install in the 80s. The master electrician was outside installing the main panel. I was indoors installing plugs and fixtures. The power company had accidentally swapped a 120V leg at the transformer from a nearby finished house. So they had left a live 120V 400A wire laying on the ground at the house we were finishing. I had been walking and digging around that wire all morning. When my boss went to cut the main wire from the transformer to final length...KAZAAM! It shot an arc about 10 feet into the air, welded the cable cutters, and scared the living crap out of him. He never got any juice though. He went to the hospital just be safe, but he was okay. No burns, no heart de-fib, etc. Just needed a new pair of underpants.
Great story, thank your sir! Around 1983 I was working in Houston Texas for Lone Star Laser. Was about to fire up a large argon laser, which uses a water jacket around the plasma tube for cooling, a 3/4" line at 70 PSI. The main power in was 640 VAC at 3 phase 100 amps per leg, converted to around 500 VDC to sustain the plasma reaction, The starting pulse around 1000 VDC. The damn boss had left me with no help to get ready for an upcoming show, he told me to hire labor off the street, I did. Found a couple black guys, cautioned them GREATLY not to drop the laser in the padded case. Well the one guy did, on purpose, because fuck the white man amiright? So there's 3 of us there fixing to fire the laser, water is going, amps are climbing, BANG ONE of the 100 amp 640 VAC blows leaving two still energized as the water rushes around our feet! The boss was Vietnam vet, I swear to god I have never seen anyone jump so far from a standing position! Thank God I was standing next to the panel disconnect, I quickly threw the large knife switch and killed the power just as the rushing water didn't quite make it to all our feet. That's something I will never forget.
Brenda Spencer looks like she IS on those "lock-up 'fem butches'". https://thoughtnova.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Copy-of-THOUGHTNOVA-2000x1070-49-scaled.jpg
4. Probably told him at the yard it was a little over, go easy on starts and stops. 8. Absolute failure of the metric system. If it said 17' driver wouldn't have been trying to figure out what 5.2 means and would have know he wouldn't make it
“Tell me why!” Now I’m gonna have that song stuck in my head all day…
ReplyDeleteThe boomtown rats, “I don’t like Mondays” A song about Brenda https://youtu.be/8yteMugRAc0
DeleteI had no idea of the song’s origin.
Delete#1 Forty-five years in the can so far. She aint a skinny kid anymore. Prison chow must be good. It's hard to believe they have not released her. I hope she rots there.
ReplyDeleteIn my experience, having known plenty of both, when men go to jail/prison they get ripped and in shape, and when women go to jail/prison they just pack on the pounds.
Delete#10 Darwin Award nominee?
ReplyDeleteIf those are steel handle bolt cutters, then yeah, I bet that was a Darwin. Probably some tweaker idiot trying to steal copper from an empty house.
DeleteKlein cable cutters have fiberglass arms which insulate very well. I was working as an electrician on a new house install in the 80s. The master electrician was outside installing the main panel. I was indoors installing plugs and fixtures. The power company had accidentally swapped a 120V leg at the transformer from a nearby finished house. So they had left a live 120V 400A wire laying on the ground at the house we were finishing. I had been walking and digging around that wire all morning. When my boss went to cut the main wire from the transformer to final length...KAZAAM! It shot an arc about 10 feet into the air, welded the cable cutters, and scared the living crap out of him. He never got any juice though. He went to the hospital just be safe, but he was okay. No burns, no heart de-fib, etc. Just needed a new pair of underpants.
Great story, thank your sir! Around 1983 I was working in Houston Texas for Lone Star Laser. Was about to fire up a large argon laser, which uses a water jacket around the plasma tube for cooling, a 3/4" line at 70 PSI. The main power in was 640 VAC at 3 phase 100 amps per leg, converted to around 500 VDC to sustain the plasma reaction, The starting pulse around 1000 VDC. The damn boss had left me with no help to get ready for an upcoming show, he told me to hire labor off the street, I did. Found a couple black guys, cautioned them GREATLY not to drop the laser in the padded case. Well the one guy did, on purpose, because fuck the white man amiright? So there's 3 of us there fixing to fire the laser, water is going, amps are climbing, BANG ONE of the 100 amp 640 VAC blows leaving two still energized as the water rushes around our feet! The boss was Vietnam vet, I swear to god I have never seen anyone jump so far from a standing position! Thank God I was standing next to the panel disconnect, I quickly threw the large knife switch and killed the power just as the rushing water didn't quite make it to all our feet. That's something I will never forget.
DeleteBrenda Spencer, 10/22, my home town, Monday...shake my head.
ReplyDeleteRecent photo of Brenda looks like she has enjoyed the company of other lock-up "fem butches" over the last 45 years.
ReplyDeleteBrenda Spencer looks like she IS on those "lock-up 'fem butches'".
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4. Probably told him at the yard it was a little over, go easy on starts and stops.
ReplyDelete8. Absolute failure of the metric system. If it said 17' driver wouldn't have been trying to figure out what 5.2 means and would have know he wouldn't make it
#8 - Not for people who use metric by default. That speed sign for 70kpmh and license plates look European to me.
Delete#1 I don't like them either, but I haven't gone that far, yet. Great song though.
ReplyDelete#2 I thought I had a spare tire.
Starker was here
#2 Hell of a Dunlop.
ReplyDelete#4 I didn't know cement trucks ate at Taco Bell.
ReplyDelete#4 - Premature concretulation?
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#1 - That was always a weird Boomtown Rats song.
ReplyDelete#2 - "They said it was ribbed for pleasure."