# For the love of god... (warning, disturbing) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 17, 2006, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-love-of-god-warning-disturbing/369050 "2006-08-17T04:16:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-love-of-god-warning-disturbing/369050/1 "2006-08-17T04:16:38Z")
…[…don’t put your foot in the wood chipper.](http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/W/WI_CHIPPER_DEATH_WIOL-?SITE=WIMIL&SECTION=STATE&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT) Seriously people, safety first. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-love-of-god-warning-disturbing/369050/2 "2006-08-17T04:18:21Z")
Should I be glad that the URL is null and cannot be parsed? Yes. Yes I should. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-love-of-god-warning-disturbing/369050/3 "2006-08-17T04:18:48Z")
Hey Mods, can someone fix that coding. Here’s the link [http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/W/WI\_CHIPPER\_DEATH\_WIOL-?SITE=WIMIL&SECTION=STATE&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT](http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/W/WI_CHIPPER_DEATH_WIOL-?SITE=WIMIL&SECTION=STATE&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT) ---
**Author:** ![raz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@raz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raz)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-love-of-god-warning-disturbing/369050/4 "2006-08-17T05:05:56Z")
Oh my god! They didn’t even include a picture? ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-love-of-god-warning-disturbing/369050/5 "2006-08-17T06:16:20Z")
Jesus, what a way to go. Here’s an eyewitness account from [another news article](http://www.todaystmj4.com/_content/news/topstories/story_3961.asp): > [@](#): > > Sanders’ nephew, Adam Sanders heard his uncle’s cries for help. “I had to hear him say help me, help me, come and help me and the sounds of him being chipped up.” > > Sanders’ co-workers desperately tried to stop the chipper and even put it in reverse, but it didn’t work. > > “As I was trying to hit the reverse I looked down and he (Sanders) was up to his ribs and I turned around, I couldn’t watch and listen no more, I had to get out of there,” Adam said. Just reading that makes me queasy. ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-love-of-god-warning-disturbing/369050/6 "2006-08-17T06:44:34Z")
What’s worse is that I’m sure he’s not the only one who nudges those logs with his feet to get them to go. They need to post that article on every wood chipper sold. Ick. ---
**Author:** ![Tikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5daacb/32.png) [@Tikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tikki)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-love-of-god-warning-disturbing/369050/7 "2006-08-17T07:13:49Z")
There’s people really that stupid? Man, I sure feel sorry for nephew and his co-workers. No one should depart this world like that or be around someone who does. ---
**Author:** ![peri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/67e7ee/32.png) [@peri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peri)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-love-of-god-warning-disturbing/369050/8 "2006-08-17T08:30:10Z")
From the first link: > [@](#): > > The owner of a tree services company was killed after being **pulled through a wood chipper** , police said Wednesday. > > :snippage: > > Sanders, the owner of J’s Quality Tree Service, died at the scene. I don’t think that last line was necessary. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-love-of-god-warning-disturbing/369050/9 "2006-08-17T08:56:17Z")
I’m sure this has happened before, in fact I’m sure last time it happened, someone posted a link to a report demonstrating that it happens with alarming regularity. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-love-of-god-warning-disturbing/369050/10 "2006-08-17T09:32:03Z")
Aoooooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaghhhh. Dear God. Isn’t there a dead-man’s switch (pun unintended) on those things? > [@](#): > > the sounds of him being chipped up I hope that’s not too recognisable a sound. ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-love-of-god-warning-disturbing/369050/11 "2006-08-17T10:57:27Z")
Didn’t anyone think to look around and see if Steve Buscemi was lurking about? I’m _so_ going to hell. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-love-of-god-warning-disturbing/369050/12 "2006-08-17T11:08:15Z")
> [@Mindfield](#): > > Didn’t anyone think to look around and see if Steve Buscemi was lurking about? > I’m _so_ going to hell. Don’t feel to bad, that’s the first thing I thought of too. “So dat’s yer friend der in da wood chipper” As for a dead mans switch. I was just thinking the same thing. There’s should be some sort of OFF/REVERSE switches all around the mouth of that thing. I suppose it could be an issue with branchs bumping them on the way in (they don’t want to get chipped either) but really, if he could have hit a switch himself, alot of this could have been prevented. ---
**Author:** ![Subway\_Prophet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@Subway\_Prophet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Subway_Prophet)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-love-of-god-warning-disturbing/369050/13 "2006-08-17T13:16:31Z")
> [@Joey P](#): > > As for a dead mans switch. I was just thinking the same thing. There’s should be some sort of OFF/REVERSE switches all around the mouth of that thing. I suppose it could be an issue with branchs bumping them on the way in (they don’t want to get chipped either) but really, if he could have hit a switch himself, alot of this could have been prevented. Emergency off switches break down, and they’re not often tested. I once had my right hand pulled into a dough-rolling machine, which should’ve stopped when the rollers were pushed so far apart, but didn’t. The problem? A piece of dough on the little lever measuring the gap between the rollers. It wouldn’t surprise me if, on a well-used wood chipper, that there was debris in the way of a kill switch (if there was one.) ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-love-of-god-warning-disturbing/369050/14 "2006-08-17T14:12:08Z")
Emergency stop switches are notorious for being abused, because they are often accidentally triggered, far more often than they are ever used in earnest; so they feel _inconvenient_, so people work around them, or hotwire them, or duct-tape cardboard over them, making them worse than useless. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-love-of-god-warning-disturbing/369050/15 "2006-08-17T17:02:33Z")
This reminds me of many farm machinery accidents I hear about. It seems invariably that they result from people taking shortcuts around equipment they use all the time. When you use it all the time, you don’t think about the dangers and you become complacent. So, guys do things like trying to unplug the intakes of combines without shutting the machines down, and then get sucked into them - though most of the time this results “only” in mangled limbs and not deaths. Carpenters and power saws have a somewhat similar relationship. Kids, when you’re playing with shit that can rip you apart with ease, never ever become complacent. Complacency kills you. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-love-of-god-warning-disturbing/369050/16 "2006-08-17T17:06:02Z")
Coincidentally, this item appears on the “What’s New” section at Snopes today. It’s about the danger to pets and kids of paper shredders in the house. Sadly, the verdict is _True_ in this case – there have been some heart-breaking accidents reported: > **[Paper Shredder Danger](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/paper-shredder-danger/)** > > Household paper shredders can pose a danger to children and pets. ---
**Author:** ![ILovCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e99b99/32.png) [@ILovCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ILovCoffee)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-love-of-god-warning-disturbing/369050/17 "2006-08-17T17:31:17Z")
At least the kitten last week survived–will link cite later. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-love-of-god-warning-disturbing/369050/18 "2006-08-17T20:14:26Z")
> [@Subway Prophet](#): > > Emergency off switches break down, and they’re not often tested. I once had my right hand pulled into a dough-rolling machine, which should’ve stopped when the rollers were pushed so far apart, but didn’t. Hey, how’s your hand? (Is it sick that I’m picturing a ping-pong paddle hand?) ---
**Author:** ![Sunrazor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sunrazor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunrazor)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-love-of-god-warning-disturbing/369050/19 "2006-08-17T20:54:16Z")
> [@Gorsnak](#): > > (snip)This reminds me of many farm machinery accidents I hear about. It seems invariably that they result from people taking shortcuts around equipment they use all the time. (snip) Here’s how fast that can change your life: Fifty years ago, my father-in-law was baling hay, on his last pass around the field just before lunch, looking forward to a half day off taking his wife and kids shopping. A bale got stuck in the feeder chute, where hay is packed tightly into the bale. If he’d stopped the machinery, he’d have had to pull most of a bale of packed hay out, scatter it in a windrow ahead of the baler, unsnarl and re-thread the twine, restart everything – a good 45 minutes of time wasted. Instead, he left the PTO running, jumped up on the baler and smacked the bale with his foot, hoping to dislodge it. It shot back into the baling chute, knocking him off-balance just as the packing arm whipped around and crushed his leg into the machinery. He managed to disengage the baler to ease the pressure on the packing arm, pulled his mangled leg out of the machinery, crawled into his pickup and made his way back to the house. He spent six weeks in the hospital and endured four operations to put his shattered leg back together. He has suffered leg cramps and tortured, aching muscles ever since. Now nearly 90, he occasionally talks about “the end,” and when he does, he always says, “Well, at least my goddamn leg will stop hurtin’.” ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2006, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-love-of-god-warning-disturbing/369050/20 "2006-08-17T21:36:19Z")
> [@Tikki](#): > > There’s people really that stupid? Man, I sure feel sorry for nephew and his co-workers. No one should depart this world like that or be around someone who does. Yes, there are. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-the-love-of-god-warning-disturbing/369050.md?page=2)