# How to stop an out of control machine **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 1, 2012, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-stop-an-out-of-control-machine/608038 "2012-01-01T14:23:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecd19e/32.png) [@cards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cards)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2012, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-stop-an-out-of-control-machine/608038/1 "2012-01-01T14:23:07Z")
This video of a construction site mishap (no injuries) made me laugh: > **[How to (try to) stop an out-of-control machine](https://gizmodo.com/how-to-try-to-stop-an-out-of-control-machine-5869152)** > > This video documents an unplanned experiment in engineering and human nature. Workers at a construction site contemplate how to arrest a machine that will not stop spinning. Then more workers join in the contemplation… Definately MPSIMS stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2012, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-stop-an-out-of-control-machine/608038/2 "2012-01-01T14:55:06Z")
“It’s now blinded and angry”, ha. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2012, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-stop-an-out-of-control-machine/608038/3 "2012-01-01T15:56:12Z")
That’s called a “whirlybird” and is used for concrete finishing. It takes some skill to manipulate it, much like a floor buffer, and can get away from you pretty quickly. At least with a buffer, you can just pull the plug. When I was a young man in the Navy, I plugged in a buffer without knowing that the switch on the thing was broken. It nearly destroyed the Chief’s desk before I got it unplugged again. ---
**Author:** ![UFC\_Is\_Sux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/46a35a/32.png) [@UFC\_Is\_Sux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UFC_Is_Sux)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2012, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-stop-an-out-of-control-machine/608038/4 "2012-01-01T16:07:48Z")
The comments on the page are all critical of the “narrators” for laughing about it. (Admittedly, I LMAO too, but they’ve got a point.) ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2012, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-stop-an-out-of-control-machine/608038/5 "2012-01-01T16:14:42Z")
> [@UFC\_Is\_Sux](#): > > The comments on the page are all critical of the “narrators” for laughing about it. (Admittedly, I LMAO too, but they’ve got a point.) Eh, as far as I can tell no one got hurt. Now, if someone had been hurt or killed and _then_ they were laughing at it, that would be different. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2012, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-stop-an-out-of-control-machine/608038/6 "2012-01-01T16:19:21Z")
I think that if we added a [techno-track](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRhPM2wMzH8&feature=related) and lost the narration, it’d be a lot better. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2012, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-stop-an-out-of-control-machine/608038/7 "2012-01-01T16:26:19Z")
I have no idea why, but every time my eyes pass across that threat title, it hits my brain as; _How to stop an out of control **Time Machine** _ ---
**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:** [January 1, 2012, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-stop-an-out-of-control-machine/608038/8 "2012-01-01T16:34:46Z")
This video begs to be sped up a couple notches and set to Yakety Sax. ---
**Author:** ![EmAnJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d2c977/32.png) [@EmAnJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmAnJ)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2012, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-stop-an-out-of-control-machine/608038/9 "2012-01-01T16:55:34Z")
That was hilarious! Thanks for sharing. ---
**Author:** ![Foggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foggy/32/1082_2.png) [@Foggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foggy)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2012, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-stop-an-out-of-control-machine/608038/10 "2012-01-01T17:08:17Z")
It was funnier when I posted it two weeks ago. 😃 [Concrete Buffer Gone Wild](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=635302) ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2012, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-stop-an-out-of-control-machine/608038/11 "2012-01-01T21:47:08Z")
Why didn’t they just drop a piano on it? ---
**Author:** ![that\_darn\_cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/59ef9b/32.png) [@that\_darn\_cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/that_darn_cat)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2012, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-stop-an-out-of-control-machine/608038/12 "2012-01-01T22:16:24Z")
I’m sure the guys trying to stop it were laughing just as hard, I know I would be. ---
**Author:** ![LightWithoutHeattttttttttttttt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bc8723/32.png) [@LightWithoutHeattttttttttttttt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LightWithoutHeattttttttttttttt)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2012, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-stop-an-out-of-control-machine/608038/13 "2012-01-02T13:58:45Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > I have no idea why, but every time my eyes pass across that threat title, it hits my brain as; > > _How to stop an out of control **Time Machine** _ My eyes did exactly the same thing!! ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2012, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-stop-an-out-of-control-machine/608038/14 "2012-01-02T14:50:59Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > I have no idea why, but every time my eyes pass across that threat title, it hits my brain as; > > _How to stop an out of control **Time Machine** _ Pull the 1.2 gigawatt fuse out of the fuse panel. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-stop-an-out-of-control-machine/608038/15 "2012-01-03T00:49:26Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > _How to stop an out of control **Time Machine** _ Ya gotta pour a can of Chernoblii on it, and hope Chevy Chase shows up. Tripler [sub] Great white buffalo… [/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2012, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-stop-an-out-of-control-machine/608038/16 "2012-01-03T02:36:10Z")
Heard a funny story about a belt sander for floors. Guy was using it and blew the circuit breaker, so he goes downstairs and turns the breaker back on, and hears the thing on the floor above taking off and crashing into a wall. Leaving the breaker on, he runs upstairs to find it has sanded itself a little pit into the floor before he can turn it off.