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From: John R Walliker <jrwalliker@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: electrical deaths
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2024 19:43:20 +0000
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On 01/12/2024 19:24, Joe Gwinn wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Nov 2024 19:06:47 -0800, john larkin <JL@gct.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, 30 Nov 2024 16:21:59 -0700, Don Y
>> <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> On 11/30/2024 4:13 PM, Joerg wrote:
>>>> I regularly visit a guy in a care home who is there because of a fall from
>>>> great height. A former neighbor in Europe wasn't so lucky. He only lived, to
>>>> some extent, another four days in the hospital.
>>>
>>> My Math teacher in JrHigh was changing the lights on the ceiling
>>> of the gymnasium (some 30 ft above the hardwood floor) with another
>>> person (I don't recall who -- nor why a math teacher was doing something
>>> that a maintenance person should have!)
>>>
>>> To save time, instead of climbing down the scaffolding to unlock the
>>> wheels, move it 6 ft, relock the wheels, and reclimb it, they would
>>> pull themselves along by grasping the I-beams that supported the
>>> ceiling.
>>>
>>> Of course, the scaffolding eventually fell.  Must have been an interesting
>>> experience, clinging to the I-beams in the hope that someone would
>>> discover your folly and re-erect it before your grasp failed.
>>>
>>> He spent months in a body cast (broken back) -- but, was in reasonably
>>> good spirits (realizing that he was the source of his own problem).
>>>
>>
>> In 6th grade, a guy came into our class with a lader to change a
>> fluorescent tube. Miss Denton wisely decided to take the class for a
>> walk. Before we were all out of the room, the giant fixture collapsed
>> onto a row of desks. Kids would have been killed.
>>
>> Even worse, some kid brough in a swolen can of something as some sort
>> of science demo, and put it on a windowsill in the Louisiana sun. It
>> exploded and splattered insanely putrid stuff, mostly on the Student
>> Council President.
> 
> Surströmming?
> 
> .<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surstr%C3%B6mming>

Very likely.  I have eaten it many times.  With mandelpotatis & vodka
as required by tradition.

John


> 
> Joe Gwinn