[opendtv] Re: Most Dangerous Job in the World
- From: "johnwillkie" <johnwillkie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:46:51 -0700
Suicide bombing isn't a job, and to put it into the same sentence with an
antenna rigger is to be flip.
That said, when I built my LPTV station, I did EVERYTHING, with one
exception: I hired a guy who installs elevators (and a ham radio operator)
to actually climb the tower.
I'm not afraid of heights, but I am wary of them. Our roof top had no rails
on the edge, and a few months before, a local real-estate agent showing a
prospect a roof top was blown off, to her death, by a gust of wind.
The tower was a bit loose in it's mounting, and it wavered in the wind. I'd
get about 30 feet up the tower, and then it became clear that the roof top
was only slightly wider (by about 25f on the closest sides) than the base of
the tower. Up there, 30 feet above the roof, I realized that I was 240 feet
above the ground, and if the wind blew me off the tower, I would be lucky to
land on the roof.
I hired a local electrician who specialized in climbing to replace the
hazard warning lights a few years later. He told me what was important: if
you have a cold or any congestion, you don't climb for a few days. These
conditions affect the inner-ear's balance mechanism.
OTOH, the 'job' requirements for an islamo-fascist suicide bomber seem
quaint: be born in a non-democratic corrupt country, be a young Muslim male,
think you have no future, have little or no access to females, then enter
into one or more homosexual relationships for which you afterwards bear much
shame. What's left to do but kill yourself in 'service to Islam' and take
as many people as possible with you.
I apologize in advance if this scenario bothers readers. There have
actually been studies that have discerned this fact-pattern. They haven't
been widely covered -- if at all -- in U.S. media.
And, this is just another example why we should limit ourselves to the
discussion of digital broadcast media hereabouts.
John Willkie
P.S. The least safe job in the U.S. by mortality statistics -- released in
the last few days -- is driving a truck.
-----Mensaje original-----
De: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] En
nombre de Bob Miller
Enviado el: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 12:29 PM
Para: opendtv
Asunto: [opendtv] Most Dangerous Job in the World
When I was much younger I thought of making some quick money on the
Crab boats of Alaska and some of my cousins did at my suggestion. Now
we can watch it on TV. I got drafted. Cousins and brothers all worked
the Alaska pipeline from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez.
I also worked Coke Ovens in Detroit which was exceedingly dangerous
with at least one ambulance run a day (three shifts totaling 400 men
population) in the summer. One of the guys working my job, same
position, top coal car operator, was killed six months after I left
while working a straight 24 hour shift. 16 hour shifts seven days
straight were common.
But nothing can come close to the dangers of working the towers in
broadcasting except suicide bombing IMO.
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/07/11/ap3903486.html?partner=alerts
Bob Miller
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