Originally Posted by
Mott the Hoople
Was driving by where they were building a new galvanizing mill. A crane was picking up and lowering a big electrical box when the crane operator lost control of the load, the boom swung wildly wide and the box fell on two electricians.
One was killed out right as he was caught flush and crushed like a bug. The other guy was pinned from the hips down. He was rescued and had his legs amputated at the hips but died a few days later.
Gods. How do you ever get a thing like that out of your mind? I saw a teenager get hit by a train once. He tried to beat it across the tracks and didn't make it. Wrapped his car right around the front of the first locomotive. Horrible.
"Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals." -- Mark Twain
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