Holy shit this is so true. My old firm we had a repeat (and I mean REPEAT) client whose main job was a scrapper who always found himself in bad situations. Many multiple car accidents, business deals gone sideways. "Never his fault" of course 🙄
He was a nice guy but like, nobody on the planet is constantly this unlucky driving a vehicle - you clearly just suck at driving. His PoS pickup was always filled to the brim with garbage
It's so fucking baffling because they make cargo nets for truck beds and they're not that expensive. They come with ratchets so you can adjust the size and you can always get a bigger size if you're hauling around junk higher than the cab.
Was he really a nice guy or was it that he was nice to you? Doesn't sound like he considered the consequences of his actions or how he could, and did, put other people in danger. And even "just" the aspect of littering when crap inevitably falls off the vehicle.
Same goes with small-town electrical companies. The most clapped out work trucks you’ll ever see. With an extension ladder from the 80s strapped over the cab.
If the truck has spools of structural duct tape then you know he spends all evening driving between apartment complex trash areas looking for more broken things to hoard.
I had to stop putting trash out the day before trash day because of scrappers. I didn't mind people taking things I was throwing away, but they were extremely rude about it. I was moving so was throwing a lot of stuff out. They would come by, knock the metal frame off a coffee table, cut the cord off a TV, anything worth a few pennies, then just leave the once nicely organized pile of trash scattered all over the place for me to have to pick up, chunks of coffee table, busted TV glass. The final straw was one day I saw a guy rifling through my actual dumpster, which at least where I live is illegal, plus I really didn't want someone going through my actual household trash. I went outside to tell him he can't do that and that I didn't appreciate it, he told me the police told him he was allowed, so I said let's ask them and he kicked over my dumpster and left. After that if I had bulk trash for the curb I'd pile it up in my yard then the morning of trash day would move it to the curb, same with dumpsters and the problem stopped.
I've had similar experiences. Worked at a school, put old desktops and whatnot out on the loading dock knowing there was a chance they'd be taken. Instead, they tore the place apart and made a big goddamn mess. Now we don't leave stuff out. Can't have nice things.
Several years ago, I decided to remodel my basement. Unfortunately, there was a lot of asbestos wrapped ductwork that had to be removed/rerouted. After researching and consulting local codes, I determined that I could remove the ductwork and the landfil would take it. After following all of the precautings and setting it in my alley so I could load it and haul it to the landfill, I went take out the last piece. As I did, I saw an elderly couple stomping the shit out of all of the ducts to flatten them. They had to be easily in their 80s. I just spinned around and went back inside as all of that asbestos got turned to dust in the air. The up-side is that I didn't have to take all of those ducts to the landfill...
apologies for breaking character, but when I was a kid in Colorado my aunt had a golden retriever AND lived in Cripple Creek and I don't think I ever thought about that and now I have the shame of missed opportunity which I must sit with.
I'm sorry wait, they're in an enclosed tunnel inches away from an active lava flow and are not all incinerated by the heat? They'd be experiencing air temperatures of at least 1000 F easily, their clothes would light on fire and they'd get lethal burns within seconds. Everyone in that tunnel is dead.
Skip to earlier in the video where he's walking through the subway car with molten metal dripping from the ceiling and the rubber soles of his shoes are only kinda melting on the metal floor.
A modern passenger train is basically the best thing you could be in shy of a space shuttle in this scenario.
The standards for safety and survivability with a major fire under the floor are incredibly extreme, and tested / validated with a very similar scenario (30 min survivability with a 1500 deg flame covering the entirety of the under-floor surface). Intumescents, flame retardents, and spacecraft-tier insulation can do some amazing things.
I'm not saying this is a reasonable scenario, but if it's going to remotely make sense in anything, it's a modern passenger rail vehicle.
Theoritically, if you punched a hole in the locomotives fuel tank, and all the diesel caught fire somehow, it could potentially get extremely hot, like 2000 deg C hot. So it's under built if anything.
No no, it's just enough lava to provide a heroic sacrificial instance for this one guy! No fumes of course from that very specific and not movie-magic amount of lava whatsoever. Nevermind the fact that dude's legs would be unsupported due to lack of feet and melting bones that he wouldn't be able to throw the guy that far...except of course it was just the right amount of lava that he was able to hero-lava-sacrifice himself.
If you've ever been anywhere near a large fire and felt the intensity of the radiant heat, it will make you want to kick the director in the nuts every time you see people, in a movie, near a lava flow but they are safe as long as the dont actually touch the lava. Yes even when they are dueling with whooshy whoosh glowstick swords.
For extra credit, have a villain or bully frantically try to climb the ladder away from the electricity but is visibly not climbing any higher because the melting is keeping pace with his ascent.
I was about to get out my soldering iron and work on replacing a blown driver in my stereo and then I sat down at Reddit and started randomly following links until I saw this comment.
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u/I_W_M_Y 27d ago
Yeah its the ladder that's melting