2014 Darwin awards

These construction workers who decided to cut up an old bomb with torches! :eek:

http://bangkok.coconuts.co/2014/04/03/world-war-ii-bomb-buried-70-years-kills-7-when-scrap-worker-cuts-it-torch
When what seemed a 70-year-old bomb from World War II was dug up by a construction crew, it wasn't taken for disarming and study. Instead, someone saw a lot of valuable American steel and took it to sell for scrap.
Apparently the bomb was not a dud, as seven people died yesterday when a worker at a Bang Khen district recycling yard cut into the 500-pound bomb with a welding torch.

An appropriate name for the recycling facility.

AndonHandon

In their defence they may not have known it was a bomb. Real life bombs do not look the way cartoons portray them.

dodderangler

Gobsh!tes.

Banjo String

and took it to sell for scrap.

Wonder if they like Dags?

fleet_admiral

Banjo String wrote: »

Wonder if they like Dags?

i like caravans better

Czarcasm

dolanbaker wrote: »

These construction workers who decided to cut up an old bomb with torches!

Sounds like something my old man did when he tried to make a sandblaster with two "empty" yellow gas cylinders. "Just in case", he decided to use an angle grinder instead of a gas cutters to cut open the bottles...

Turned out the only bright spark in the workshop that day was the one from the angle grinder that the minute it came in contact with the gas, made QUITE the explosion!

Only for he'd such a thick skin protected by an even thicker beard, he'd have melted the face off himself! As it was, he just about got away with full blackface!

Banjo String

Czarcasm wrote: »

Sounds like something my old man did when he tried to make a sandblaster with two "empty" yellow gas cylinders. "Just in case", he decided to use an angle grinder instead of a gas cutters to cut open the bottles...

Turned out the only bright spark in the workshop that day was the one from the angle grinder that the minute it came in contact with the gas, made QUITE the explosion!

Only for he'd such a thick skin protected by an even thicker beard, he'd have melted the face off himself! As it was, he just about got away with full blackface!

Was he wearing cor blimey trousers

zetalambda

AndonHandon wrote: »

In their defence they may not have known it was a bomb. Real life bombs do not look the way cartoons portray them.

Cartoon bomb:

http://media.kclr96fm.com/media/bomb.jpg

Real World War 2 bomb:

http://www.nebraskaaircrash.com/images/nacbomb1.gif

jane82

Banjo String wrote: »

Was he wearing cor blimey teousers

Did he live in a council flat?

Banjo String

jane82 wrote: »

Did he live in a council flat?

Phew. Someone else remembered it. :P

Dyr

Banjo String wrote: »

Was he wearing cor blimey trousers

this is the second time today I've come across some using the expression cor blimey trousers

the planets must be aligned at last

Banjo String

Bambi wrote: »

this is the second time today I've come across some using the expression cor blimey trousers

the planets must be aligned at last

Premature ejaculating again?

Czarcasm

Banjo String wrote: »

Was he wearing cor blimey trousers

I wasn't far off thinking that was a Dick VanDyke reference (chimney sweep in Mary Poppins)

jane82 wrote: »

Did he live in a council flat?

Nah, big fcuk off house but the workshop was a separate building again. He was actually a qualified fitter/turner by trade, and just now I remembered another one -

He for god knows what reason had to raise a BMW up on a forklift to do some welding or some such underneath it, and the brother was supposed to keep an eye on the forklift... Soon as the old man was under the car, the brother fcuked off into the house for a drink of water.

Of course, Murphy's law in full effect - forks slapped down, old man trapped underneath! They managed to get him out anyway, relatively none the worst for wear! Hardy old bastard so he was in all fairness, he had to be to have survived the number of near misses that should've killed him!

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy

Czarcasm wrote: »

He was actually a qualified fitter/turner by trade

Sure he wasn't a dustman?

Son Of A Vidic

Czarcasm wrote: »

Only for he'd such a thick skin protected by an even thicker beard, he'd have melted the face off himself! As it was, he just about got away with full blackface!

And that's why us men must always be in possession of a proper man beard. Now if your dad was one of those moisturising nancy boys, he'd probably now be saving up to buy a new face.

Rosy Posy

Duracell Bunny wrote: »

Sure he wasn't a dustman?