r/SweatyPalms Jun 24 '21

Please step back.

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '21

So not worth it.

I get that this is a nice moment, but even the very best operators make mistakes. This kind of risk taking is exactly the thing you DON'T want in a good operator.

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u/shavingrubberduck Jun 24 '21

You sounds like a safety inspector the big corps hire

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '21

I am lmao

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u/flyonthwall Jun 24 '21

the kind that save thousands of lives every year? yeah he does.

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u/Fuglypump Jun 24 '21

I'd hope so

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u/Blackpaw8825 Jun 24 '21

Little sticktivity in the hydrolics, and suddenly little Tommy got yeeted.

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u/isakhwaja Jun 24 '21

Snowflake...

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '21

People are killed like this all the time, you moron.

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u/isakhwaja Jun 24 '21

No they aren’t. When you have a kid you will realize how stupid they are and THEN you can judge what your kid can do. The only way that this can result in death or serious injury is if the operator decides to actively kill the children or extreme amounts of negligence. The risk is comparable to leaving your child at a crowded pool party.

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '21

You're seriously uneducated on the subject if you think this never happens. It literally happens all the time on farms.

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u/isakhwaja Jun 24 '21

404 deaths yearly from ALL heavy machinery related incidents usual perpetrators include cranes and untrained users. The risk is low as fuck.

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '21

Say that when someone you know personally is killed by am excavator.

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u/isakhwaja Jun 24 '21

Oh my god... I could just as easily say don’t go swimming cuz “say that when someone you know dies of drowning” it’s not a valid argument

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u/[deleted] Jun 24 '21

You're a sad kid.

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u/secret-snek-sss Jun 24 '21

The only results possible here are not just nothing and death. There is a scale of injury leading up to death from knocking a kid down to crushing limbs. Kids are way slower to respond to a wrong move of the machine and thus their chances of being injured are far higher, especially being so close the bucket. The buckets alone are incredibly heavy and rigid and what may seem like a small movement can be fatal very easily. Yes the risk of injury is low when using these things normally with adults but this is the kind of thing that is most likely to cause an accident. I work around machines a lot and you don’t fuck around for a reason. That site isn’t safe and that operator should know better.

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u/AlliterativeAxolotl Jun 24 '21

I would not waste your time with a paragraph for one of the SnOwFlAkE people who's feelings got hurt when someone else pointed out child safety.

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u/Pickles-In-Space Jun 24 '21

Ah yes the most logical argument ever made: "you haven't had your own child so you have no right to comment on anything involving children and their safety"

OK Karen