Mon May 22, 2006 8:04 pm
Originally posted by SavageParrot
20 or 30 lbs from that height will easily kill you. It's like having 2 bowling balls dropped on your head from height.
I was at a theatre a while back setting up for a show (I was just putting the programmes on seats that sort of thing nothing technical for me as I am a menace to society with that stuff) On the stage there were 2 stage hands checking the electrics and repositioning the lights using a mobile scaffold. They had one of the spotlights on a hoist, holding it in place at the top of the scaffold, which rather than tying off he'd opted to stand on (doh!) while his partner fixed the angle of the mounting and checked the electrics. Anyway he wanted a smoke but had left his lighter in his jacket and in a momment of madness he stepped off the rope and went to get his lighter. He must have realised what he had done right away because instead of carrying on to the jacket (which would have been expensive but safe) he made a grab for the rope, which was dumb as it left him right in the path of of the spotlight as it came down. It caught and effectively shattered his collar bone.
They carried him off in an ambulace and he was white as a sheet. He didn't look good at all. Anyway the point is I heard that thing hit him from way up in the nosebleeds in that theatre and it wasn't a nice sound like that one made. It was naaasty...
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Tue May 23, 2006 1:20 pm
Originally posted by Sabres
Good thing it wasn't Melissa Theuriau.![]()
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