Have you ever siphoned gas?

[JIPJOBXX]

Well here a story that might just make you think when you get that hose out to get some gas for another project.

This is a true story and remember this guy is a member of the human race.

>> When a man attempted to siphon gasoline from a motor home parked on

a

>> Seattle

>> street, he got much more than he bargained for. Police arrived at

the

>> scene

>> to find a very sick man curled up next to a motor home near spilled

>> sewage. A

>> police spokesman said that the man admitted to trying to steal

gasoline

>> and

>> plugged his siphon hose into the motor home's sewage tank by

mistake. The

>> owner of the vehicle declined to press charges saying that it was

the

>> best

>> laugh he'd ever had.

>>

[oldmopar]

maybe he had a natural gas powered vehicle and was trying to get some methane

[randroid]

I wonder if he'll get the Darwin award he so richly deserves?

One man, one vote!

-Randy

[Young Ed]

Here's another contender

[Merle Coggins]

Some people should be culled from the herd.

They'll soon be joining this guy.

[Heavy Flat Head]

I never thought I would see the day, but the last two post have left me speechless.

Did I hear OSHA!!!

Ed.

[62rebelP23]

geeeezz-US...... and my wife thinks I'm stupid. Hooonnneeyyy come look at THIS....

[BeBop138]

Natures way of weeding out the dumb ones----what happened to common sense???

[John Mulders]

Guess that that sort of 'usage' was not clearly excluded on the safety labels.....

[48Dodger]

I've worked in an Emergency Room for 20 some odd years......this is why we're open 24 hours a day.....

48D

[Merle Coggins]

  BeBop138 said:

----what happened to common sense???

I try not to use that phrase any more. I have come to realize that if "sense" was "common" more people would have it.

These guys certainly don't.

[anthonyb]

Stultus Est, Sicut Stultus Facit! - F.G.

[BobT-47P15]

That scaffolding in the back of a truck reminds me of this stuff....in

Jamaica or one of the other Caribbean countries we've been to. Guess

it works for them as they use it every day. Some was even more shakey

looking than this, using small tree trunks.

[Young Ed]

How about this?

[Norm's Coupe]

In my line of work I've had to use a lot of different methods of getting onto a company's roof that were not always conventional, but worked.

Some Examples:

1) Standing on the fork or forks of a lift truck and being raised to the roof, then walking the fork to the roof. Have to get down the same way.

2) Ladder too short to extend past the parapet wall or roof top surface, requiring you to pull your self up and over. Then trying to find the ladder top rung when you come back down.

3) Standing on a skid and having the lift truck lift you up. Have to get down the same way.

4) Putting the ladder in the back of a truck so it will reach high enough to get on the roof.

5) Get into a wire metal cage/box that is hooked onto the hook of a crane and lifted onto the roof by the crane.

6) Remember one company you had to crawl out the window, walk a parapet wall for about 10 feet, then get on the roof from there.

And countless other ways, like crawling through a crawl space at the top of a building, and out the window. Another one you had to walk the steel beam inside the building then climb out the window. In each case, you got back down the same way.

Thats why I got out of roofing products about 8 or 9 years ago. Can't do that with my arthritis anymore. I won't even go on my own roof now because I never know when my knees will give out.

[Don Coatney]

Once, on a job interview, I was asked to "tell me about a time you comprimised safety to get a job done". Without skipping a beat I said "I have never done that". Even though that was the correct answer I did not get hired:mad:

[Merle Coggins]

  Don Coatney said:

Once, on a job interview, I was asked to "tell me about a time you comprimised safety to get a job done". Without skipping a beat I said "I have never done that". Even though that was the correct answer I did not get hired:mad:

Maybe you should have just told the truth, Don.

[Norm's Coupe]

Don,

Merle has a point. As soon as you said you always follow all safety rules to get the job done, they probably knew it wasn't true. After all, to follow all the safety laws today a worker has to look like a Knight of King Arthur's Round Table in full body armor. No one can work with all that garbage on.

[JIPJOBXX]

When I was working for Uncle Sam we could not be on a superstructure more than five foot high and not have a safety belt on. Can you imagine the engineering that went into some our jobs just to keep us safe. Kind of overkill but we got paid hourly and so we would just go with the flow-no matter how stupid it sounded.