Re: OT -Are we teaching our kids NOT to pay attent

Posted by andy b. on August 31, 2004 at 09:36:15 from (192.19.194.27):

In Reply to: OT -Are we teaching our kids NOT to pay attention? posted by NC Wayne on August 30, 2004 at 20:22:31:

this thread (and the two previous ones that spawned it) have been interesting reading. one summer during college i worked at a warehouse and became good friends with the manager, Mike. he had this story to relate to me during a discussion of "safety features":

Mike worked for a metal fabrication place that had many large stamping machines to form whatever it was they were making. one of the machines was a huge press with several "safety" features. there was a large guard that came down between the operator and press, as well as a pair of cables that connected to heavy gloves the operator wore. as the hydraulic ram came down, these cables were pulled over a set of pulleys and pulled the operator's hands out from under the ram and back behind the guard. Mike said the guy who normally operated this large press would place the piece of metal under the ram, and relax his arms and the cables would pull his hands out as the ram came down. the operator had been doing this for months (if not years i guess). can any of you see where this is going????
one day the safety cables jumped off the pulleys and instead of pulling the operator's hands out like they had untold times previously, the guy's hands were left under the ram and crushed with about 50 tons of pressure. Mike said when he went over and they pulled the guy out his hands were basically two piles of mush.
there is only one true safety device. it is a plain shade of gray and is contained in an off-white colored vessel made of calcium resting between your shoulders. you have a brain for a reason, and it isn't to keep your eyes from rolling back into your skull.

andy b.

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