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RE: Accidents. They happen, you know?

in STEMGeeks6 years ago (edited)

I could talk about all the many close calls and and direct hits I have seen in my 15 year career as a Lineman. Some of them were just people being stupid. Others... well let me find this YouTube video. This happened to some good Lineman Brothers of mine that I worked next to for years. You can’t make this crap up!!

https://youtu.be/ckfBGdZoR_0

The dude pinned between the crazy dude car and the back of the bucket truck was Rayshawn. Just last year he had lost his wife while she was giving birth to their 8th child... maybe it was 10th... When I first heard what happened I was like... Wha Wha What happened to who and where?? This is nuts!!
There are more videos about the incident that you gotta watch. It’s flat out CRAZY!!!

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 6 years ago 

I just watched that clip on 2x and good gosh...lol

So much crazy everywhere!

I think your personal experience would be really cool to share on posts. That is, if you are comfortable in sharing.

A lot of them are so directly related to Linework most people wouldn't understand the lingo. I am talking some seriously funny sh!t!! Like "I think that guy has more lives than a cat, I have tried to kill him twice!" When the actually meaning is, they have been in some serious sh!t together and then the story goes on about how they cause an explosion and they both survived.

I have been on a pole and completely engulfed in a ball of fire with just me feet showing. It got really hot really fast!!! My wife didn't appreciate me telling her about that one. Hey, she asked why my pants were all burnt up. 😜😜

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 6 years ago 

Dang, that's almost something straight out of the cartoons.

We didn’t have the fancy smartphones then but there was a drunk in his backyard that may or may-not have given us a all a beer after the incident 😜😜

Oops 😜😜