Ick. The severing a guy into two thing is freaky-deeky. I think any industrial industry (did I just say that?) is ripe for injury or worse.

Ever been to a meat rendering plant or a slaughterhouse before? Holy cow.....hey, I've got an idea. Let's give everyone a REALLY massive and sharp knife, more like a sword or machete, really. And then lets have them stand, oh, I don't know, roughly a foot or two apart.

Then start swinging at the sides of cow that come by you. See you long it takes for you to mess up and take a guy's arm off, or accidentally catch his knee cap in windup.

I guess your post made me think of dangerous jobs.

I work in Big Media. If Schadenfreud (sp?) required metal blades half the people in my office would be piles of bloody meat. As it is, no whirring blades, just whirring word processors, live microphones, the usual...

I'd forgotten about Bayou Canot. When it happened I tried to imagine being a hapless passenger awakened from my sleep to find my train car underwater, on-fire, dark, screams, trying to swim through critter infested swampwater and diesel fuel to dry (!) swampland. A horror for the ages. Didn't that one all come down to a barge pilot who got lost, hit the bridge and then tried to mumble his way out of it?

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