Unusual work incidents

[AndyG]

Who can beat this .

Security attended to an alleged sorcery issue at HD2/Area 8 yesterday at about 1700 hrs. The allegation first surfaced last week when employees mainly from Southern Highlands living within HD2 compound decided to use a traditional method of identifying a killer/or sorcerer. The practise came about after the death of Roselyn Joel who passed away 3 weeks ago whom the relative believes her death was caused by sorcery.

This particular practise/or method is commonly used in the highlands region whereby the practitioner which in most cases another sorcerer cast what's believed to be magic spell into a piece of bamboo. It is said that after the spell is cast, some natural force will cause the bamboo to move and eventually ending up pointing to someone/or alleged sorcerer.

We are aware of consequences faced by people who are signalled out by the so call magic bamboo to the sorcerer(the practise is commonly known in pidgin as; ?pulim mambu?. In most cases the suspected sorcerer are burnt alive, tied up , hot metal plates placed on them or chopped up alive etc etc to inflict maximum pain before dying.

[Tombie]

Thats right up there!!!

[Ausfree]

Pity the poor bugga that cops the blame!!:o

[AndyG]

It is a great of settling old scores, nothing to do with facts, if any.

[digger]

My advice? Dont be nearby when they do thr pointing bit!

[crash]

It is a bitlike back in the day when their was a belief in witches. if you were suspected of being a witch they threw you in the river - if you drowned you were not a witch - if you survived you were a witch and burned at the stake!

[Ausfree]

It is a bitlike back in the day when their was a belief in witches. if you were suspected of being a witch they threw you in the river - if you drowned you were not a witch - if you survived you were a witch and burned at the stake!

Crikey!!:o Not much chance of getting off on a technicality, then is there??:D

[digger]

Who can beat this .

Security attended to an alleged sorcery issue at HD2/Area 8 yesterday at about 1700 hrs. The allegation first surfaced last week when employees mainly from Southern Highlands living within HD2 compound decided to use a traditional method of identifying a killer/or sorcerer. The practise came about after the death of Roselyn Joel who passed away 3 weeks ago whom the relative believes her death was caused by sorcery.

This particular practise/or method is commonly used in the highlands region whereby the practitioner which in most cases another sorcerer cast what's believed to be magic spell into a piece of bamboo. It is said that after the spell is cast, some natural force will cause the bamboo to move and eventually ending up pointing to someone/or alleged sorcerer.

We are aware of consequences faced by people who are signalled out by the so call magic bamboo to the sorcerer(the practise is commonly known in pidgin as; ?pulim mambu?. In most cases the suspected sorcerer are burnt alive, tied up , hot metal plates placed on them or chopped up alive etc etc to inflict maximum pain before dying.

When I was in the northern area of our state working, we attended a prang where an Elder of one of the communities had died after barrell rolling his HQ down a track. Turns out he was drunk as 10 men and bringing some grog into the area (which is illegal).

So he had been seen by a number of people beforehand and it was known far and wide he was full when he took off.

It was decided that he shouldnt have died like that and because he was an Elder someone had to be responsible. After much to-ing and fro-ing it was decided that the bloke who sold him the car (6 months+ prior) must be responsible! He was 600+ kms away at the time getting some hospital treatment for his son.

He was told it had been decided it was his fault and that he was to be penalised for that! (a very intrusive penalty!!) and he accepted this as he had sold the Elder the car and if he hadnt then the Elder wouldnt have died in that car!!

There were a few unusual things we came across in East Timor but still doesnt equal your situation --but still it was unusual.

[carjunkieanon]

It is a bitlike back in the day when their was a belief in witches. if you were suspected of being a witch they threw you in the river - if you drowned you were not a witch - if you survived you were a witch and burned at the stake!

And ducks float, so witches are ducks! Or the other way around.

[Ausfree]

And ducks float, so witches are ducks! Or the other way around.

Yeah, something like this scene from Monty Python!!:)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp_l5ntikaU

[AndyG]

It certainly makes unfriending on Facebook seem pretty trivial re workplace bullying :o

[LandyAndy]

This is a 100% true story and it involves knowing how hydraulics works.
Spot,one of our better employees was steering a water truck.Spot likes his Bundy Cans and on this day he had partaken in 1 too many cans of the stuff the nite before.
Spot approached the standpipe having clenched his buttocks tight for the last 10KM.At this standpipe the 3Ft dia supply pipe is close to the truck,you open the door and can step onto the pipe.Spot pulls up under the standpipe and gets that message,this poo is about to happen.
Spot,not being the brightest crayon in the box leapt off the pipeline to find a place to poo.Here is where an understanding of hydraulics and gravity would be handy.
Spot's bowel opened upon contact with the ground,the poo was black and still liquid,infact he says it still had bubbles in it;);););););).
I was driving the other water truck on this day,I couldnt believe what I saw when I approached the standpipe,Spot only had his orange shirt on,he was stood on the back of the water truck washing his strides,sox and workboots out,cars were tooting their horns as they went by.
Apparently everything from the sphincter down was plastered and both boots were full:):):):):):):)
THIS IS A TRUE STORY.
Andrew

[V8Ian]

This is a 100% true story and it involves knowing how hydraulics works.
Spot,one of our better employees was steering a water truck.Spot likes his Bundy Cans and on this day he had partaken in 1 too many cans of the stuff the nite before.
Spot approached the standpipe having clenched his buttocks tight for the last 10KM.At this standpipe the 3Ft dia supply pipe is close to the truck,you open the door and can step onto the pipe.Spot pulls up under the standpipe and gets that message,this poo is about to happen.
Spot,not being the brightest crayon in the box leapt off the pipeline to find a place to poo.Here is where an understanding of hydraulics and gravity would be handy.
Spot's bowel opened upon contact with the ground,the poo was black and still liquid,infact he says it still had bubbles in it;);););););).
I was driving the other water truck on this day,I couldnt believe what I saw when I approached the standpipe,Spot only had his orange shirt on,he was stood on the back of the water truck washing his strides,sox and workboots out,cars were tooting their horns as they went by.
Apparently everything from the sphincter down was plastered and both boots were full:):):):):):):)
THIS IS A TRUE STORY.
Andrew
Spot,one of our better employees :o
What does that say about the rest of them? :D:p

[DiscoMick]

Not in the same league as Spot by any means, but I know of an incident in which all the people in a 12 storey office building had to be evacuated for three hours because one person put a sandwich wrapped in foil in a microwave and set off the fire alarms. He was not a popular chappy that day.

[austastar]

Hi,
Got a phone call from the lecture theater. "VIP lecturer is very unhappy with one of the TV monitors, the colours are all wrong"

One of the TVs had a known fault and a smart tap on the side would settle it down, must have been a dry joint some where.

Any how, I quickly run down to the theater, it is packed, max audience capacity and the lecturer if fuming.

Walking up to the TV, I grab a stethoscope from around the neck of one of the medical students, put it on, run the cup over the side of the TV very studiously, stop, and deliver a quick, precise tap to the side of the cabinet.

Bingo! Fixed.

Almost got a standing ovation for that bit of Tomfoolery.

cheers

[AndyG]

All,

? Relatives of late Jim Nick, who hanged himself last fortnight, without Pandi Management knowledge, employed a sorcerer to identify the people whom they alleged killed Jim Nick, using his bamboo. They trotted after the bamboo around the compound and pointed at Evelyn James and her brother Justine. Bruce Huba and I went to the compound after hearing them shouting and asked the Hela people to refrain from harming the suspects as they are on company land and the company does not recognise sorcery as a method of solving issues.
We attempted to call Navo police for assistance but could not get through due to network problems.
Evelyn James was later allowed to go and was escorted to her overseers house to spent the night while Justine remained at the Haus Krai. Before returning home at about 0200 hours this morning, we again asked the Taris not to do anything to Justine.
At about 0500 hours, it was said that Justine tried to escape but was chased and caught around the banks of Pandi river. Justine was badly beaten and received lacerations on his scalp and body. I saw that he had lost alot of blood and may possibly die, so took him on C95 and rushed him to Ulamona Health centre where he is being treated..
The matter has been reported to Navo Police and Justine will later be handed to them for safety reasons.
? Apart from the above it's quiet here.

i quite like the last line

[DiscoMick]

Gosh, that's serious. Hope Justine is OK and the people who did it get set right very quickly.

[Basil135]

SWMBO used to run a medical centre, looking after 20+ doctors.

Now, most doctors are good to very good at their job. But.... that is often where it ends.

1) Got a call one night (9:30pm) that the printer was not working. Go through the steps... it is out of ink. There is a new cartridge in the stationary cupboard. Nope. Can't figure out how to install it, so will write everything out manually.

2) Doctor decided to have a baked potato for his lunch. It wasn't cooked yet, so he put it in the microwave for 30mins to cook......... still wrapped in foil...

3) The staff fridge needed defrosting, so one of the doctors decided to help out. Using the largest knife he could find to pry off the ice. All was good, until the knife pierced the gas line. Rang the firies, and they told him to get everyone out, and they will be there shortly...

[AndyG]

Gosh, that's serious. Hope Justine is OK and the people who did it get set right very quickly.

He's ok , purge in progress.
Talk about multicultural l :o
But that's why I love it, never dull.
People pay to go to places like this

[DiscoMick]

That's good.

Had my first instance on Friday of interrupting two students kissing in the locker area. Quite passionate they were, too. I could have come over all serious, but it was Friday arvo and everyone just wanted to go home, so I decided to have some fun instead.
"Oh no, you're exchanging bacteria - how gross! Yuck!" I said loudly, as about 20 nearby students sniggered.
"Don't you know our mouths are the filthiest parts of our bodies? Do you really want to swallow each others' bacteria?"
By this stage the couple were looking at me like I had three heads and had just landed from Mars.
"Go on, take it away some where else," I concluded, and they disappeared quick smart.
Embarrassment can be a wonderful management tool, used appropriately.

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[AndyG]

Havent seen anyone breastfeeding a pig or dog for quite a while, seems to have gone out of fashion.

[AndyG]

? Security Guard assigned to the School truck, Manuel Moiga was threatened with a bushknife by a Magalona harvester ? Raymond Manda when the guard refused to allow him onto the school truck. The truck was allowed to take only parents to school closing up at Navo. This morning Raymond confronted Manuel again at the compound and physically assaulted him. Raymond has also been reffered to Police regarding the Tari sorcery case as, he burned Justine Buka and his sister Rosa with a red-hot iron rod.

? Apart from above, it was quiet.

[BMKal]

A few years ago, working at BHP's Yandi Iron Ore mine ....................

An empty iron ore train had arrived from Port Hedland and had commenced loading (train passes through a tunnel under a large stockpile of crushed iron ore, and iron ore flows into each wagon through chutes with "clamshell" gates).

One of the operators happened to look along the empty rake of wagons approaching the loadout chutes, and saw what he believed to be a person's head looking over the top of the wagon.

Train was stopped and a search conducted, and an illegal immigrant who had apparently recently arrived in Australia on a boat from Indonesia was found in one of the wagons. It was later discovered that he had made his way to Port Hedland from further north (nobody knows where) along the WA coast, and had then seen trains heading "south" and decided to jump into one of them.

Had he not been seen by the operator at the time, it would have been the end for him within a few more minutes. He could not have climbed out of the wagon without assistance - and when the wagon passes under the loadout chute and the clamshell gate opens, 120 tonnes of iron ore is dropped into the wagon in a matter of seconds.

Newman Police came out and collected him, and we heard later that he had been returned to Indonesia.

[scarry]

Not in the same league as Spot by any means, but I know of an incident in which all the people in a 12 storey office building had to be evacuated for three hours because one person put a sandwich wrapped in foil in a microwave and set off the fire alarms. He was not a popular chappy that day.

I emptied a large TAFE college of students and staff by blowing out a dirty condenser coil in the canteen with bottled nitrogen.Doing this set off the fire alarm.Then they tried to bill us for the fire trucks that turned up($1000).No way i told them,the smoke sensor that was set off must be faulty.We didn't get the bill.

[Blknight.aus]

I emptied a large TAFE college of students and staff by blowing out a dirty condenser coil in the canteen with bottled nitrogen.Doing this set off the fire alarm.Then they tried to bill us for the fire trucks that turned up($1000).No way i told them,the smoke sensor that was set off must be faulty.We didn't get the bill.

you can trick quite a few of the older smoke sensors with a lot of different oils if you can atomize it finely enough and get it to the sensor in the right quantity.

great for a half day off, ditto for using the old one shot flash bulbs to set of ignition detection sensors.

[scarry]

you can trick quite a few of the older smoke sensors with a lot of different oils if you can atomize it finely enough and get it to the sensor in the right quantity.

great for a half day off, ditto for using the old one shot flash bulbs to set of ignition detection sensors.

If we are going to make smoke,such as using the oxy set or grinder,we use a plastic glove over them.

The entrance to the glove stretches perfectly around them and seals well.:)

Or turn them off at the FIP,but some FIP's are that complicated we don't know how to isolate.

We don't fiddle to much with FIP's,as i know a guy who tried to turn off some smoke sensors once and set off the deluge system:(:(

[DiscoMick]

I explained to a young bloke that he couldn't go swimming because his arm was fractured and in a plaster cast. Sure, he said.
Half an hour later I'm informed he had gone in and got the plaster cast wet and then, when it swelled and became uncomfortable, ripped it off.
So off to first aid he is sent for a nurse to re-wrap it temporarily until he could go to hospital. Then he had to spend the day not going anywhere unless he was being supervised.


Another young bloke decided to impress his mates by punching a hole in a wall, to show how tough he was. Unfortunately, he forgot about the CCTV camera which recorded the whole incident. His mates, far from being impressed, now think he's a dumb idiot. They're right.

[Eevo]

Another young bloke decided to impress his mates by punching a hole in a wall, to show how tough he was. Unfortunately, he forgot about the CCTV camera which recorded the whole incident. His mates, far from being impressed, now think he's a dumb idiot. They're right.

we had a new starter who punch a hole in the wall in the toilets. no idea why.
no one saw it happen, but they deduced it was the new guy, asked him about it and he confessed.
he was terminated on the spot, walked to the front of the building where he pulled out a razor n cut his wrists.

[DiscoMick]

we had a new starter who punch a hole in the wall in the toilets. no idea why.
no one saw it happen, but they deduced it was the new guy, asked him about it and he confessed.
he was terminated on the spot, walked to the front of the building where he pulled out a razor n cut his wrists.

Wow that's taking it seriously. Sounds like he needed a long session with a counselor.

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[Eevo]

Wow that's taking it seriously. Sounds like he needed a long session with a counselor.

he's got plenty of time to talk to god.

[Disco Muppet]

One of the blokes I'm currently working with has done work in mineral exploration in PNG, going to work one day came across a severed female leg on the side of the road :eek: another time a regional manager came for a conference for 4 days, spent 3 nights in his hotel and on the fourth stayed in the mining camp. That fourth night, the rascals got into the hotel and killed the new occupant of his room...

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[Eevo]

probably a highlander

[ATH]

Not funny this incident but many moons ago when I worked on Bougainville Island on the concentrator maintenance crew, a new bloke, a German, arrived to be part of the production office lot, all white coats and full of self importance.
Anyway he'd only been there 10 days when there was blockage in the chute dropping ore onto the belt feeding ore into a ball mill so this bloke jumps onto the stopped conveyor and attempts to unblock the chute. He was successful.... 30 ton of ore dropped on top of him!
He got shipped out in a pine box.
On a lighter note I worked (mid 60s) on a big site in London installing/maintaining document conveyors and elevators in CEGBs (Central Electricity Generating Board) HQ complex of 3 new buildings. This was a long standing project going for many years and one room off one of the underground tunnels had long been used by lazy blokes as an alternative to walking to the bogs for a pee.
The job was coming to an end, build virtually complete and my offsider was given the job of washing this room out using a fire hose and he gallantly stood there, fag in mouth for about an hour flushing the walls and floor, quite oblivious to the mayhem upstairs he inadvertently caused.
The stink of years of urine being "reactivated" was so bad I shot through out of it and they had to evacuate 2 of the buildings of newly installed staff the smell was so sickening as it went up the elevator shafts and permeated the whole buildings. :D
AlanH.

[DiscoMick]

I once as a student had a job installing light fittings in an almost completed office building in Sydney CBD. Most of the guys in the crew used to sneak off for 3-4 hour lunch breaks. One day i was the only one at work when the big boss dropped in and asked where the others were. I said I thought they were upstairs so he went to look for them. Lotta rooms in a 60 storey building so they were back before he eventually reappeared.

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[scarry]

One of the blokes I'm currently working with has done work in mineral exploration in PNG, going to work one day came across a severed female leg on the side of the road :eek: another time a regional manager came for a conference for 4 days, spent 3 nights in his hotel and on the fourth stayed in the mining camp. That fourth night, the rascals got into the hotel and killed the new occupant of his room...

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How did he know it was female?

A bit off topic

Nothing to do with work or body parts,although i was in the work van.

Came around a corner the other day and there was a 6ft shark in the middle of the road.Certainly looked very life like.

Thinking it fell off a ute?

They are easily caught around here in the local rivers.