tv Interesting documentary about phone company workers falling to their death.

[djdeeds]

Heya everyone , I just thought I'd link this here for anyone like me who is a little bit fascinated and intrigued by falling deaths. It's a documentary I stumbled across while browsing and it's kinda interesting - highlights the often unseen and not talked about apparently "Common" occurrence of telco workers splatting on the job.

 

[Iron Manchild]

Thanks, sounds interesting, I'll definitely check it out

 

[DokraOwl]

Imagine if a worker climbed a telecommunications tower and then once at the top had unrelenting explosive diarrhea. So he had no choice but to pull down his britches and shit into the wind, but it was so windy that the liquid shit went everywhere all over the metal above and below him. Then the droplets of shit rained down across the land becoming a fine mist coating the entire small town below.

Then when he went to climb down he slipped on the shit on the railing and fell. But then at the last moment a space ship, that had intercepted the radio signal from the tower, by sheer coincidence flew by at the precise moment the worker fell and he landed in the open air cockpit of the craft. And the craft was piloted by two sexy alien chicks on intergalactic spring break and they had huge tits and were super horny and attracted to sweaty smelly humans.

And they took him back to their planet and made him their king. And every day he fucked the sexy alien chicks and fathered millions of human alien hybrids, and then decades later they invaded Earth and conquered us all. That would be cool.

 

[Ellzibette]

It's a dangerous jobs. But there are lots of dangerous jobs.

 

[djdeeds]

Imagine if a worker climbed a telecommunications tower and then once at the top had unrelenting explosive diarrhea. So he had no choice but to pull down his britches and shit into the wind, but it was so windy that the liquid shit went everywhere all over the metal above and below him. Then the droplets of shit rained down across the land becoming a fine mist coating the entire small town below.

Then when he went to climb down he slipped on the shit on the railing and fell. But then at the last moment a space ship, that had intercepted the radio signal from the tower, by sheer coincidence flew by at the precise moment the worker fell and he landed in the open air cockpit of the craft. And the craft was piloted by two sexy alien chicks on intergalactic spring break and they had huge tits and were super horny and attracted to sweaty smelly humans.

And they took him back to their planet and made him their king. And every day he fucked the sexy alien chicks and fathered millions of human alien hybrids, and then decades later they invaded Earth and conquered us all. That would be cool.

OR maybe the two alien chicks with the big tits were actually well renowned teachers on their planet and they were conducting research into human behavior and interpreted the explosive liquid shit expulsion as a sign of bravery and so they took that information back to their planet and taught everyone and now to this day - the male species of their world go around spraying liquid shit everywhere in an attempt to attract alien girls.

 

[Bill Murray]

apparently "Common" occurrence of telco workers splatting on the job

Not to be overly pedantic but these aren't really telephone company employees. They're employees of sub-sub-sub-subcontractors to the telephone companies.

Inside & outside plant (the technicians) and clerical phone company employees have traditionally been very heavily unionized and as a result don't have terribly dangerous or hazardous workplace conditions. For the outside plant employees the diciest thing they'd usually face is getting stung by a bee or a splinter. High risk tasks like tower work is contracted out to dodgy outfits like shown in the video. They skirt the HSE and safe work policies found in the union collective agreements. Its sad and there are clearly tragic results.

 

[hawkesdale]

Imagine if a worker climbed a telecommunications tower and then once at the top had unrelenting explosive diarrhea. So he had no choice but to pull down his britches and shit into the wind, but it was so windy that the liquid shit went everywhere all over the metal above and below him. Then the droplets of shit rained down across the land becoming a fine mist coating the entire small town below.

Then when he went to climb down he slipped on the shit on the railing and fell. But then at the last moment a space ship, that had intercepted the radio signal from the tower, by sheer coincidence flew by at the precise moment the worker fell and he landed in the open air cockpit of the craft. And the craft was piloted by two sexy alien chicks on intergalactic spring break and they had huge tits and were super horny and attracted to sweaty smelly humans.

And they took him back to their planet and made him their king. And every day he fucked the sexy alien chicks and fathered millions of human alien hybrids, and then decades later they invaded Earth and conquered us all. That would be cool.

Good story, IMHO.