Attached Link: "Oops!" [a linear story in images]

Greetings, A colleague gave me this link to "Oops!" As you look at the series of images in "Oops!", consider how the story is told in linear fashion ... but not how it started, nor how it finally ended. Think of the passage of time as indicated by the changing sky in the images. ... and then sit down ... and reflect. MGD

Oops indeed. Almost in tears! Oh dear a rather embarrassing situation (for the poor driver) not to mention rather expensive! On reflection I had a good day at work and in comparison rather boring! Thanks for sharing this funny (or rather unfortunate moment) Hope it was only ego that got hurt.

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oooooooooops deleted what I was going to say - don't want to spoil it for others. Just to say the onlookers have an amazing lack of self preservation in where they are standing and walking.

I liek it. I wanted to do something like that BUT I really cant get a good storyline. Bsteph

Good for a laugh, thanks! Reminds me though of a local Crane company, flew in some clients from The Far East somewhere to demo their new crane. The operator forgot to lock down the supports and the crane toppled over and crashed into the convenice store, where they were changing the sign.

crane toppled over and crashed That reminds me of a shipping story ... I swear it's a true story because I heard it from the technician who was there. He related it to me in the early 1970s -- it probably happened early to mid 1960s. He was in Japan to install a hardware upgrade to a mainframe computer -- an additional tape drive controller. In those days, it would have been an object as large as 2 refrigerators. As the shipment arrived, he waited at the airport with a translator to accept delivery after the 100% import duty was paid. He knew from prior shipments this should take little more than 30 minutes. The clock ticked away and the time stretched out to over 2 hours. Several times the translator spoke with the customs official ... but still wouldn't tell him anything. Whenever the technician asked what was happening he was told to wait. Eventually he insisted on hearing an explanation of the delay. A forklift had rammed through the controller -- totally destroying it. The tech wasn't worried, "Send it back, ship another and let the insurance company sort it all out. He was told that couldn't be done because the import duty had been paid before the accident happened. They considered shipping a replacement backplane (somewhat equivalent to a PC motherboard, but much larger, with thousands wires to make all of the necessary circuit connections). such a replacement backplane would have been considered to be the entire unit by customs, and another 100% import duty would be charged. He stayed in Japan 9 months to build that replacement backplane one wire at a time using a wirewrap tool ... many thousands of wires ... no errors allowed. MGD

That can't be true!!! However in my forklift class. ( yes I took a forklift class. ) I asw pictures of people using THREE forklifts to lift a generator the required height because they didn't have a crane. So maybe it is! =:-P Bsteph

That can't be true!!! > I swear it's a true story because I heard it from the > technician who was there. He related it to me in the > early 1970s -- it probably happened early to mid 1960s. Even though I am not Hungarian, it must be true because I sneezed as I began to type his account of the damage and repair effort. Some day, I hope you will listen to the musical story of "Hy Jos" by Zoltan Kody. "Hy Jos Suite" http://jonathan.rawle.org/music/hary_janos.php "Prelude Hungarian superstition holds that, if someone sneezes, his or her next statement is guaranteed to be true. The orchestral sneeze at the beginning of this section sets the tongue firmly in cheek." This was quoted from ... http://shop.store.yahoo.com/boisephilharmonic/october2223.html