ElleCee
Blueblood
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Oct 19, 2005 21:09:38 GMT -4
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Post by ElleCee on Oct 3, 2020 13:33:15 GMT -4
I've seen this a couple of times recently cruising around online and had never heard about it before. It's about the caver John Jones who in 2009 was spelunking in the Nutty Putty cave system with his brother. He went in an uncharted portion of the cave and sucked in his chest to investigate a 10" fissure and when his chest expanded he got stuck and then kept slipping down and got wedged into an 8 1/2" portion of it. What even the fuck. He ended up upside down. He was located and they tried to rescue him for 27hrs but there were too many turns in the area he went to investigate. He ended up having a heart attack and died without them being able to remove his body. They sealed off the cave and it's his tomb. I went to look at images of the cave system and the route he took, it's my worst fucking nightmare. Spelunkers are a different breed.
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Post by tabby on Oct 3, 2020 16:45:15 GMT -4
Spelunkers are a different breed. I got claustrophobic just reading that description. Cavers are bonkers. Even more bonkers are the cave divers, who do the same thing, but under water as well as under several million tons of rock. |
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gremlin45
Sloane Ranger
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Dec 9, 2008 19:29:13 GMT -4
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Post by gremlin45 on Oct 4, 2020 5:04:36 GMT -4
Spelunkers are a different breed. I got claustrophobic just reading that description. Cavers are bonkers. Even more bonkers are the cave divers, who do the same thing, but under water as well as under several million tons of rock. Yep. It's like they just need to up the odds of dying in a bizarre fashion. There isn't enough money in the world to persuade me to do either but those lunatics do it for free. |
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Post by Alexis Machine on Oct 21, 2020 11:21:03 GMT -4
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Post by chiqui on Apr 12, 2021 13:01:48 GMT -4
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Post by Alexis Machine on Apr 23, 2021 8:59:37 GMT -4
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Post by mojogirl on Apr 23, 2021 14:36:41 GMT -4
Italian hospital employee accused of skipping work for 15 years Livin' the dream. It's a Reverse Milton! I read the article, and his first manager retired. But didn't his subsequent managers have to sign off on his hours? Did nobody notice there was an extra name in their direct reports? I work for a very large company, and every once in a while you hear an urban legend about somebody working two jobs (as in, two M-F 9-5 jobs) where they only show up part time for both of them, but I've never been able to verify it. But never just not showing up at all. |
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Post by Ripley on Apr 23, 2021 16:37:44 GMT -4
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Post by ladyboy on Apr 23, 2021 17:41:53 GMT -4
There was an IT guy at a job I had, and there were always rumors swirling that he had multiple other freelance jobs. He worked remotely - pre-Covid - and honestly, never seemed to get anything done, so I could believe it.
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gremlin45
Sloane Ranger
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Dec 9, 2008 19:29:13 GMT -4
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Post by gremlin45 on Apr 24, 2021 3:31:24 GMT -4
I heard about that! Who does that?! |
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