The Sideshow

[Diabolical Boids]

The forklift video.

OMG. As I rule I generally don't watch forklift accidents...lol. I occasionally drove one at work, not as much laterly as in the past but when you drive one you are always thinking about stuff like that in that video. Knocking something over that brings something else down. Or hurts someone. You often can't see what you are picking up or setting down. It's like you have eyes all over when you are driving heavy equipment. Which means you avoid asshole disasters like that because that's all you think about is avoiding them. Unless you're an asshole.



In forklifting training class we have to watch graphic accidents like that. But way worse. That one was bad though. I wonder if the cage kept him from getting crushed.

[Aragorn]

In forklifting training class we have to watch graphic accidents like that.

I've driven a forklift too, back in the late 1980s. But there never was any forklift training class. I just got behind the wheel of the thing, fired it up — it was a Toyota, with a 4-cylinder petrol/gasoline engine — and started unloading a semi full of Europallets with it.

I did however get injured a few times. The Toyota was for unloading trucks, but inside the warehouse, I had to use a smaller electric forklift for stocking the pallets on the racks or taking them off of there — the Toyota was too big to maneuver in there.

The electric forklift was the kind that you walked behind of, with a motorcycle-like handlebar — it had no cabin — but it had this nasty thing where if the motor was engaged, it would sometimes not switch off by itself when releasing the lever, especially when making a turn, and on a few occasions I got my wrist caught between the forklift and a pallet in the racks.

[Fred Steeves]

That's a different point of view:


Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Pp04uDVPng

[Diabolical Boids]

The electric forklift was the kind that you walked behind of, with a motorcycle-like handlebar — it had no cabin — but it had this nasty thing where if the motor was engaged, it would sometimes not switch off by itself when releasing the lever, especially when making a turn, and on a few occasions I got my wrist caught between the forklift and a pallet in the racks.

Oh those nasty things. They are called super stackers here. Or walk behinds. Built with an automatic hitch and / or fall off of electricity manufactured into them!

[Emil El Zapato]

I've been around a couple of forklift incidents...Two crushed skulls, one pretty horrific and I was glad that I wasn't at work the day it happened.

[Diabolical Boids]

I've been around a couple of forklift incidents...Two crushed skulls, one pretty horrific and I was glad that I wasn't at work the day it happened.

baaad. Hence the graphic work place safety training movies. In the US anyway.

That's what the FL accidents result in, there aren't any minor accidents when lift meets person. I didn't have any hands on training either like you do learning to drive a car. Either a company has a comprehensive PIT training program or you go pay a thousand dollars at a trade school. . Knowing how to drive a car does little good. The forklifts don't steer like cars, you have no clear line of sight unless driving backwards, there's basically a lethal cattle guard built into the front, a counterweight that makes even the smallest lift a tank, the turn signal is the transmission lever and there's 3 or more random gear shift sticks that you have no idea what for until you practice with them. You push them down to go up.

Alternately cheesy yet horrifying workplace safety films.


Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWZQ0JPmEzc

[Fred Steeves]

That was pretty damn graphic.

You know in 30 years of building houses and being on major construction sites, the worst injury I ever saw was a painter who clean broke his arm falling off a 6 foot step ladder. Situational awareness and common sense go a long way towards going home unscathed, and it didn't require the Safety Sallies from OSHA running around chirping "do this, don't do that can't you read the sign!"

Every now and zen you'd see someone who was low on the awareness scale, it's real easy to spot the kind of reckless way of doing things that can get someone killed, and they weren't tolerated.

We did have regular safety meetings, but that was just code for time to smoke a joint.

[Fred Steeves]

Dude, next time make double sure it's really a Basking Shark!


Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD5xGTpZ4mc

[Fred Steeves]

The most amazing structure/s I've ever seen. My wife dragged me the several hour drive from Central Florida down to South Florida to see this place back in the early 2000's, a few years before I started getting into this stuff and researching in 2008.

LOL I thought it was just going to be some cutesy type thing someone threw together made of coral, like a throwback to other old school Florida tourist attractions that were scattered about before The Mouse came in and shut most of them down, but once stepping through the entrance I was like "I had no idea it would be something like this, this must be the same technology that built the damn pyramids!"

Especially having been in construction my whole adult life building big custom homes, it takes a crew to build big things, and cranes, and... but one little five foot tall world class genius built this by himself? That just blew me away, especially the 9 ton door, I stared and stared at that thing trying to imagine how he did it.

Anyway, I might be heading for a week's worth of warm water and sun down in the Florida keys this winter, and Ed's place is right on the way as you exit South Florida, heading south.

I think this guy Cort who did this very well done video, was a member of PA for some time back in the day, he did videos about ley lines under a different username but his name was Cort, this is what he did, and the timeline loosely matches so it's probably him.

If anyone is ever in that neck of the woods, or even somewhat close, you have to see it for yourself:

(13 minutes)

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCUr7QCsz78

[Octopus Garden]

Nobody's figured out coral castle yet and many have tried. Here's another sideshow entry:

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgwGUNnf2Rc

[Octopus Garden]

Another 'Swallowed by a Whale' story. Apologies if it's been posted before.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saZCz01WSO4

[Emil El Zapato]

This was really well done, when I first saw it, I was like, "Wow, that's shocking" It's told in a very compassionate way towards the Orca and the victims.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GccaqWlLz2g


Notice that they made it a 'black' fish. No one appreciates my humor...


If you haven't seen it, this really is a compelling story.

[Diabolical Boids]

I watched Black Fish. I can't stand it, I thought I'd bawl all the way through it. The idea of keeping those creatures locked up for our entertainment just horrifies me, I've never seen anything that pained me so. I met dolphins in captivity as a child and I refrained from ever seeing them in captivity every again although I'd dearly love to see them in their own environment. It was compassionately handled but it's all cause and effect. The trainers were neither assbags or cruel people, I think they truly loved their animals. It's just so obvious that the unnatural life given to those creatures makes them 'turn' just like it does any abused animal domesticated or otherwise. If not on themselves or each other, then on their trainers. Or people for that matter when squashed into the wrong environment. Just like people it's the environment, its not the intention or the care or the love or the 'feeling' given to the creatures. None of that is their environment, not us, not the tanks, the shows whatever. And that sagging dorsal fin that is the hallmark of every captive whale, that sad droopy fin isn't just screaming "I'm hurt, I'm in distress, I'm dying inside." That isn't a signal, a sign, an obvious cry for help?

This is where this old hack most applies.

If you love something, set it free.

[Aragorn]

And that sagging dorsal fin that is the hallmark of every captive whale [...]

Just nitpicking, but technically, orcas are not whales — and they're definitely not fish either. They are dolphins, and the currently largest living species of such.

If you love something, set it free.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NU8HC1YUBA

[Diabolical Boids]

I can see how your ego could get really engaged working with such large powerful killer animals and seemingly gentling them, commanding them--like commanding the forces of nature--and doing all these marvelous athletic feats ...you'd probably not be so quick to examine your motives or think other than "Those orcas want to be here with me."

It doesn't make them bad people. It makes them human. And unconscious.