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Ridiculous Accidents

Eyespy said:
Either there has been another Shhep costume incident or this has been mis-reported, but I dealt with one event involving Army personnel where one chap set his cotton wool clad buddy alight. Alcohol may have been a factor, dressing up is very popular among certain branches of the armed forces.
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As you dealt with Army personnel and the RAF case is set out in detail, they must be two different incidents.

Not asking you to disclose anything confidential, but would the costume in the unfortunate Army mishap have been the inside of a duvet made into a sheep disguise? In which case, that's four blazing sheep costume occurrences!
 
Many moons ago I was working on a running machine, it was accepted practice in those days
people were expected to look after themselves, I had long hair as opposed to now having no
hair, anyway hair got caught and I had two choices let it winde my face into the machine or
pull and hope, I pulled and lost a fair bit of hair and scalp, next day I was in work sporting
a short back n sides and a big plaster, wasent having any more of the hair in machine nonsense.
 
Mythopoeika said:
Why was anybody wearing a tie anyway?
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Manager/supervisor uniform at the time. The UK tie was a sort of red and grey scribble design, I can't find any photos online at all.

Thank god I didn't work in the US - look at this monstrosity.

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Mythopoeika said:
Why was anybody wearing a tie anyway?
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Yup, surely every workplace now issues clip-on ties and has for decades? Even my kids wore them for school. Nobody had regular ones.

Once saw the late great Professor Heinz Wolff on TV explaining that he wore the bow tie to prevent experiment-related accidents, including not only strangulation but also chemical/burn-related damage.

Can remember first learning that the police were wearing the clip-ons as a tie can be grabbed in an assault. This may have been some time after bouncers took them up.

Eeeh, the day may come when nobody can tie a tie any more! It's a dying art.
 
escargot said:
Yup, surely every workplace now issues clip-on ties and has for decades? Even my kids wore them for school. Nobody had regular ones.

Once saw the late great Professor Heinz Wolff on TV explaining that he wore the bow tie to prevent experiment-related accidents, including not only strangulation but also chemical/burn-related damage.

Can remember first learning that the police were wearing the clip-ons as a tie can be grabbed in an assault. This may have been some time after bouncers took them up.

Eeeh, the day may come when nobody can tie a tie any more! It's a dying art.
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This was in the 1990s, at school in the 80s and early 90s we had real ties. First time I saw a clip-on tie was when I got a Saturday job at Sainsburys, back when the men wore long brown work coats and the women wore...

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Eyespy said:
Either there has been another Shhep costume incident or this has been mis-reported, but I dealt with one event involving Army personnel where one chap set his cotton wool clad buddy alight. Alcohol may have been a factor, dressing up is very popular among certain branches of the armed forces.
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CarlosTheDJ said:
A related pizza oven accident....

In a previous life I was manager of a number of branches of a popular high street pizza establishment.

One morning we received a shipment of clip-on ties for all supervisors, with an instruction to immediately cease wearing the traditional ties we had used previously.

A chap somewhere else on the country had got his tie caught in the top conveyor belt oven when switching it on, which proceeded to slowly pull his face to the metal casing.

Which gradually heated to 240 degrees.

The belts had a slipping mechanism which meant it carried on pulling him towards the oven until a cleaner found him an hour or so later. The belt is at chest level and his arms were pinned underneath which meant he couldn't reach either the tie or the off switch.
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That sounds like a failed scene from a James Bond movie.
 
@maximus otter please please tell me they caught that idiot, if i miss a junction i drive on till the next one, its no biggy i love driving, he could have killed someone, and no doubt he definately hurt them

@Yithian I think i have seen something similar to that a long while ago, but it may have been deliberate the shop will be insured, but still sooo embarassing lol Hands up all those who cant walk into an electrical shop without touching
 
Shady said:
@maximus otter please please tell me they caught that idiot, if i miss a junction i drive on till the next one, its no biggy i love driving, he could have killed someone, and no doubt he definately hurt them

@Yithian I think i have seen something similar to that a long while ago, but it may have been deliberate the shop will be insured, but still sooo embarassing lol Hands up all those who cant walk into an electrical shop without touching
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Sorry, l don’t know: it’s Yithian’s video.

maximus otter
 
Today's Loose Ends on R4 had an interesting item about Tony Iommi, the Black Sabbath guitarist.
Techy often mentions that Iommi's fingertips on one hand are plastic. Just that, no backstory or detail. I generally roll my eyes and carry on flying' me whippets.

However, this morning's Loose Ends had a discussion about Black Sabbath's early career, and how Tony Iommi was working his final shift on a metal press when he somehow caught a hand in it and lost the tips of some fingers...

Iommi's foreman told him that the guitarist Django Reinhardt could still play after losing fingers in a fire and had in fact developed a new technique.
This inspired him to improvise some fingertips with Fairy Liquid bottle tops. They hurt so he loosened the guitar strings. This gave a lower tuned, deep-vibratory effect which ultimately contributed to Sabbath's recognisable new sound.

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So, a silly accident (on his last day) with a good outcome.
 
escargot said:
Today's Loose Ends on R4 had an interesting item about Tony Iommi, the Black Sabbath guitarist.
Techy often mentions that Iommi's fingertips on one hand are plastic. Just that, no backstory or detail. I generally roll my eyes and carry on flying' me whippets.

However, this morning's Loose Ends had a discussion about Black Sabbath's early career, and how Tony Iommi was working his final shift on a metal press when he somehow caught a hand in it and lost the tips of some fingers...

Iommi's foreman told him that the guitarist Django Reinhardt could still play after losing fingers in a fire and had in fact developed a new technique.
This inspired him to improvise some fingertips with Fairy Liquid bottle tops. They hurt so he loosened the guitar strings. This gave a lower tuned, deep-vibratory effect which ultimately contributed to Sabbath's recognisable new sound.

Loose Ends

So, a silly accident (on his last day) with a good outcome.
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escargot said:
Today's Loose Ends on R4 had an interesting item about Tony Iommi, the Black Sabbath guitarist.
Techy often mentions that Iommi's fingertips on one hand are plastic. Just that, no backstory or detail. I generally roll my eyes and carry on flying' me whippets.

However, this morning's Loose Ends had a discussion about Black Sabbath's early career, and how Tony Iommi was working his final shift on a metal press when he somehow caught a hand in it and lost the tips of some fingers...

Iommi's foreman told him that the guitarist Django Reinhardt could still play after losing fingers in a fire and had in fact developed a new technique.
This inspired him to improvise some fingertips with Fairy Liquid bottle tops. They hurt so he loosened the guitar strings. This gave a lower tuned, deep-vibratory effect which ultimately contributed to Sabbath's recognisable new sound.

Loose Ends

So, a silly accident (on his last day) with a good outcome.
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Yes, it was his last day because his band were finally successful, so he didn't need to work there anymore, but just went in to complete his shift! Conscientious worker, but what a price.
 
GNC said:
Yes, it was his last day because his band were finally successful, so he didn't need to work there anymore, but just went in to complete his shift! Conscientious worker, but what a price.
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Not only that....he didn't normally use that type of machine, and was covering the shift for someone else.
 
This accident wasn't ridiculous, just horrific and sad, but I can't find anywhere else to put it; the car crash that killed the up-and-coming indie band Viola Beach and their manager, Craig Tarry, who was driving.

It's just over five years since the accident and this came up on the BBC News website:

Viola Beach: 'We should have seen them headlining the biggest festivals'

On 13 February 2016, Viola Beach were on the cusp of stardom.
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The four-piece band were in Sweden, having just played their first international gig.
Everything was just starting to fall into place, with sold-out shows and slots at some of the UK's biggest festivals.
But in the early hours of the morning, Jack Dakin, River Reeves, Kris Leonard, Tomas Lowe and their manager Craig Tarry were killed in a car crash in Stockholm that was described by the coroner as an "awful tragedy".
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Tarry was not drunk or drugged and there was no evidence he was suicidal.

There are numerous theories about it. One is that after crashing the first barrier Tarry thought he was already on the bridge and sped up to clear it, only to collide with the edge of the bridge as it rose. He'd be familiar with swing bridges in his home town and may have thought he had time to do it.
 
A woman was seriously injured when filming a 'life hack' video showing how to turn a glass bottle into a vase by cutting it in half.

Strictly star AJ Pritchard's girlfriend admitted to intensive care after online video stunt

Strictly Come Dancing and I'm A Celebrity star AJ Pritchard's girlfriend has been admitted to intensive care after she suffered third-degree burns during an online video stunt gone wrong.

Abbie Quinnen, who is also a professional dancer, was filming when a wine bottle exploded in her face setting her hair and clothing on fire.
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The source told The Sun on Sunday: “AJ and Abbie were stuck at home during lockdown and, like many people, started making social media videos to pass the time.

“But this tutorial went horribly wrong. Abbie’s whole upper body went up in flames."
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Edit - seems this happened in January.

Strictly star AJ Pritchard breaks silence about girlfriend's online video stunt accident

Strictly Come Dancing and I'm A Celebrity star AJ Pritchard has broken his silence to thank fans for their messages of support after his girlfriend's horrific accident.

Abbie Quinnen, who is also a professional dancer, was filming back in January when a wine bottle exploded in her face setting her hair and clothing on fire.


AJ, originally from Nantwich and who recently featured on I'm A Celebrity, is believed to have been with Abbie at the time and was said to have sprang into action by smothering the flames and calling the emergency services.

Abbie, 23, was admitted to intensive care and then transferred to Chelsea and Westminster Hospital's specialist burns unit the next day.
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Mythopoeika said:
I'm trying to work out how that would have happened.
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In the war, my dad knew of a method. Apparently, you fill the wine bottle with oil up to the desired level, then plunge a hot poker into the oil. l suppose that the rapid expansion and thermal shock produces an annular crack around the circumference of the bottle.

Usually.

maximus otter
 
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