When I was doing my industrial year at university, I was working at Llanwern steelworks, and some bloke decides to commit suicide by jumping into a ladle containing 250 tons of molten steel…
Suffice to say there was nothing left of him except a slight increase in the calcium level of the mix analysis!
Shit, I bet that stung. For a second or two.
That’s positively Terminator.
Well steel being much denser than flesh would have meant he wouldn’t have penetrated the liquid surface, so he would have fizzed across the surface for a few secs!
I wonder what he was thinking when he realised it was really fucking hot.
Probably something along the lines of…‘Have I done the ri…fffsshhhhhhh’
Fuck me, that is horrible.
Along the same lines, this popped up on Facebook just now…
Elf n safety gone mad I tell you.
A chap on an escort rib fell overboard and went through the propulsor of the submarine being escorted.
A few chaps, well a few dozen, got caught up in a turret explosion involving the ready use cordite charges for 16 inch guns, all they found were their shadows on the bulkheads.
Oo cordite burns hard, that’d get mighty hot in there
Excellent.
Though this made me laugh
nothing of the man remained – not even his flip flops.
Implying that the dubious open-toed footwear has some built-in defence against superheated acid-baths that the human body and other items of clothing don’t :D.
Who the fuck is even wearing flip-flops around a boiling, corrosive spring?
I assume because they’re plastic - many acid don’t attack plastic.
When I worked for a steam powered chemical company plant in the NE, a lagger (somebody who fits lagging on the pipes), put a tool through one of the pipes (he wasn’t supposed to be working on that pipe) carrying super heated water at 50 atmospheres and that was the last people saw of him, as the rapidly expanding water turned to steam at 3,000c and he was disolved and cooked in a couple of seconds.
Later that year a fan in a 150ft tall reactor chimney went off centre (the sensors spotted this), the fan weighs 3.5 tonnes and is 2.5m across running at 3,000 rpm. The engineer went to check it at the same time it took off from the bearing, cutting through 2" thick high quality stainless steel pipe and salami slicing the engineer next to the pipe.
Nice.
I regularly see people get really bad paper cuts.
One of Mrs VB’s cousins works on installing and maintaining power station water circulating pumps - relatively crude but very effective things. Checking on them involves working very close to the pipework which runs at unbelievable pressures. He’s normally fine with it, but a few years ago he was in the bowels of a station in the far east when an earthquake struck. He described the pipework flexing as the building changed shape. Fortunately nothing opened up. He reckoned that if it had, given the relatively slow speed at which nerve signals travel, he would never have known about it.
VB
Sooo, where is Bmtell? Who has disposed of the body, is he banged up somewhere?
Either his dalliance with the opposite sex has been successful (alcohol and poor judgement for the win) and he is too busy shagging to post on here or he has gone into hiding after disposing of the body.
Or he’s busy with a puncture repair kit trying to fix her.
Put his back out lifting the patio flags?
It could of course be that she is burying his body…