Stupid Guest Tricks

Snow White is the worst for non-sitting behavior. The doorway out of the last scene is very low, and stupid people are always reaching up to touch it. I realize that Snow White does not go fast, but if your ring gets caught and the mine cart keeps moving, guess what is going to happen? This thing is a machine, and it does not stop.

EeyoresButterfly wrote:I realize that Snow White does not go fast, but if your ring gets caught and the mine cart keeps moving, guess what is going to happen? This thing is a machine, and it does not stop.

I had a chance to spend some time at the United Airlines maintenance base at SFO. They rebuilt everything there. When engines came in for disassembly they were stood on their nose and temporary platforms were set up around them. There were stairs up to the higher level. We were told no rings were allowed in the shop.

The story they told was about a mechanic was on one of the platforms and started down the stairs. He slipped and his wedding ring caught on a stud holding the stairs together. We were then shown a 8X10 glossy of a hand, a ring and a finger. The finger had been separated from the hand when the mechanic fell and caught the ring.

hobie16 wrote:I had a chance to spend some time at the United Airlines maintenance base at SFO. They rebuilt everything there. When engines came in for disassembly they were stood on their nose and temporary platforms were set up around them. There were stairs up to the higher level. We were told no rings were allowed in the shop.

The story they told was about a mechanic was on one of the platforms and started down the stairs. He slipped and his wedding ring caught on a stud holding the stairs together. We were then shown a 8X10 glossy of a hand, a ring and a finger. The finger had been separated from the hand when the mechanic fell and caught the ring.

Reminds me when I was in the Navy. Those married usually took of their rings when at sea, or taped them up with some tape. Several ways to cause injury!!

The first is getting it caught on a hatch coaming. On navy ships, any ladder way (metal stairs for landlubbers) going from deck to deck has a metal ridge around it that, when the watertight hatch is lowered, fits into the gasket and creates a seal. When going "down" a ladder, it was common to "fall" feet first, grab the coaming just as you were about to hit, and stop yourself, then let go and "drop" that last foot or so. AS you might imagine, sometimes people miss, and the ring gets caught on the coaming edge, and your whole body weight, plus the acceleration of dropping, comes to a focus on where the ring and finger are!! usually only one guy losing a finger reminds everyone to use the ladeer and handholds!

The second way is to be working on electronic equiptment without powering it down, and learning about arc welding with a ring and a power source!!

Ouch!!!

GRUMPY PIRATE wrote:The second way is to be working on electronic equiptment without powering it down, and learning about arc welding with a ring and a power source!!

Ouch!!!

Yeah, an HVAC service tech who does work in my building has scars on his neck from getting a massive electrical shock.
The story (as told to me by our building operations manager) was that while working on a piece of equipment a few years back (not in our building), he leaned over and the chain he wore around his neck swung forward and contacted a live wire. He's lucky to be alive.

-Rob

Rob562 wrote:Yeah, an HVAC service tech who does work in my building has scars on his neck from getting a massive electrical shock.
The story (as told to me by our building operations manager) was that while working on a piece of equipment a few years back (not in our building), he leaned over and the chain he wore around his neck swung forward and contacted a live wire. He's lucky to be alive.

My story is no where as bad but it still hurt. I worked for the phone company and climbed poles for a few years. I was working aloft in a terminal that had connections on both sides of the cable. I had my hands on some screw down connectors and my neck on the steel cable that holds everything in the air when the line I was touching got an incoming call (phones are rung by the switching system sending 105 volts of AC current @20 Hertz). The ringing current went through my fingers and out my Adams apple into the steel cable. I couldn't talk for ten minutes.

Big Wallaby wrote:Please remain seated at all times on the safari.

Okay, you've decided not to remain seated, so I am going to get past the animals so you will sit down.

You wouldn't believe how mad that makes the other guests on the safari, when you go past the giraffe at full speed so they can't get their picture. It's the last time it happens. Somehow, if they can't speak English, the other guests *help* them. Actually had one guest grab another and pull him down hard today.

Overheard on Safari once...

"Over there is the African Elephant, you can tell it is SIT DOWN YOUNG MAN! an African Elephant by..."

ktulu wrote:Overheard on Safari once...

"Over there is the African Elephant, you can tell it is SIT DOWN YOUNG MAN! an African Elephant by..."

That is so funny! :D:

EeyoresButterfly wrote:Snow White is the worst for non-sitting behavior. The doorway out of the last scene is very low, and stupid people are always reaching up to touch it. I realize that Snow White does not go fast, but if your ring gets caught and the mine cart keeps moving, guess what is going to happen? This thing is a machine, and it does not stop.

Wow, that would be something I would not want to see!

My friend Jasmine on Safari has "princess voice" while she is spieling and as soon as someone stands up she loses it. It's hilarious hearing her try to get back into it!

Hey Wallaby: Twende in the Jog!

hobie16 wrote:My story is no where as bad but it still hurt. I worked for the phone company and climbed poles for a few years. I was working aloft in a terminal that had connections on both sides of the cable. I had my hands on some screw down connectors and my neck on the steel cable that holds everything in the air when the line I was touching got an incoming call (phones are rung by the switching system sending 105 volts of AC current @20 Hertz). The ringing current went through my fingers and out my Adams apple into the steel cable. I couldn't talk for ten minutes.

YEEEEEOOWWWWWTCH!

ktulu wrote:Overheard on Safari once...

"Over there is the African Elephant, you can tell it is SIT DOWN YOUNG MAN! an African Elephant by..."

If standing up on Safari is such a problem, why don't they put seatbelts on 'em? The kind you can't undo like on Soarin'...