Man eating lathe

QUICK CHANGE · Mar 25, 2011

I was flipping the tv remote trying to find even a tidbit of something besides those stupid reality shows, when I came across this man standing beside a nice looking lathe. He had placed the t-handle in chuck when the chuck began to turn. Instead of either pulling the handle out or at least letting go,he held on with a death grip. The lathe must have been in back gear because it was turning so slow. Before you could blink the young man was being pulled up and over the lathe. The last shot of the man was him lying on the wrong side of the lathe with his leg just above the ankle caught between the bed and the chuck. They didn't show who turned the power on or off. Maybe the young man should seek work that does't involve anything with moving parts.

Greg-NWO · Mar 25, 2011

This one? YouTube - I fought the Lathe and the lathe won

Phase · Mar 25, 2011

Greg-NWO said:
This one? YouTube - I fought the Lathe and the lathe won

I never seen anything quite so stupid. Jackass material

tailstock · Mar 25, 2011

I know kids do stupid stuff, and we all did, but that is just plain retarded. :wall:

eKretz · Mar 25, 2011

Yeah, back in the day I'm pretty sure he'd be the caveman who said,"That saber-toothed tiger is SOOO cute! It's so cruel that we kill them, I'm sure they only want to be friends," and was then promptly eaten while trying to pet, cuddle, hug and/or talk to one.

Tony Wells · Mar 25, 2011

Too stupid to be allowed to breed and reproduce. There ought to be a law....

ihbuilder · Mar 25, 2011

looks like he watched to much he-man :rolleyes5:

HWooldridge · Mar 25, 2011

That was on "Tosh 2.0". He pulls stupid crap off the 'net and shows it to a studio audience. My sons watch it occasionally and I saw that episode.

caracadon · Mar 25, 2011

ihbuilder said:
looks like he watched to much he-man

When I was in High School shop a kid caught another kid stooped over and decided it would be funny to give him a blast of compressed air - the victim nearly bled out before we could get him to the hospital. It literally exploded his colon.

Both cases are not just merely kids will be kids stuff - its criminal. :nutter:

gorrilla · Mar 25, 2011

caracadon said:
When I was in High School shop a kid caught another kid stooped over and decided it would be funny to give him a blast of compressed air - the victim nearly bled out before we could get him to the hospital. It literally exploded his colon.

Both cases are not just merely kids will be kids stuff - its criminal.

I saw the video of the kid and the lathe. Around here, we have a saying, "Watch out when you hear somebody say "Here, hold my beer, and yall watch this." Apparently, beer is not required. In the words of another home grown philosopher, "Stupid is as stupid does."

sadsak · Mar 26, 2011

My question is where is the adult that is responsible for these kids.

Kids do stupid stuff, they don't realize they can be hurt. It needs to be drilled and beaten into them how dangerous machinery can be, (and cars, people with weapons, etc.).

I am sure they all learned a good lesson that will stick with them a while.

caracadon · Mar 26, 2011

My question is where is the adult that is responsible for these kids.

Yeah right. Maybe someone should have counted to ten and gave him a time out :nutter:

Boris · Mar 26, 2011

There is an old saying that in any field of human endevour , that 50% of people are of below average ability.

And that ability when measured always forms a normal distribution or bell curve.

So just remember when admiring the soaring genuis of a Leonardo or a Michelangelo or an Enstein, that at the other end of the bell curve there are people who's last words were "hey y'all, watch this"

Boris

<<surrounded by an infinite number of work monkeys.... most of whom are intent on smashing my work :bawling:

Abom79 · Mar 26, 2011

I seen that video on Tosh.O. Although funny how Tosh pokes fun at the stupidity, I couldnt believe the kid did that. He was standing on top of the ways on the back side holding onto the wrench. :confused:

Norman Atkinson · Mar 26, 2011

Boris said:
And that ability when measured always forms a normal distribution or bell curve.

Boris

Normal distribution????

Do you mean DHL?

or a rather attractive bit of French crumpet?

sch · Mar 27, 2011

The really unfortunate aspect of such as this is it is likely to result in the demise
of multiple school systems shop programs if the legal repercussions one could
expect from the incident do indeed occur. Not just the one in the system where
this occurred but nearby systems as a "lesson learned" propagates out.
Everyone 'knows' kids will be utter idiots given any opportunity, lacking frontal
lobe functioning, but the legal system will insist adult supervision was clearly
lacking and liability is obvious.

Forrest Addy · Mar 27, 2011

Another miss for the Darwin award. Obviously the kid is too stupid to be allowed to breed. Too bad it wasn't his jewels hung up in the chuck.

Keelan · Mar 27, 2011

Tony Wells said:
There ought to be a law....

There is. They call it natural selection.

Dale Lusby · Mar 27, 2011

Keelan said:
There is. They call it natural selection.

Only we as humans protect other humans from natural selection and as such breed more stupidity. Not saying we should do otherwise or not but rather an observation. That boy was lucky the lathe was shut off when it was or it would have wrapped his leg around the chuck a few times. Ouch.

zach123 · Mar 27, 2011

you know farmers have these neet little ruber bands they use on calfs. cost about 10 cents apeace at most. i think these kids could befit from a couple.

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