Some prime examples of scaffolding in Mexico.
I hope Falk doesn't see these.
I attended a presentation a month or so ago for a volunteer program in which U.S. families spend a couple of weeks building schools in rural Nicaragua. The slide show featured shots of last summer's crew. It was fine until they showed a group photo of about 2 dozen folks -- men, women and kids -- posing in the bottom of a sewer treatment pit they'd just finished digging. It was about 20 feet square and maybe 15 feet deep, with vertical sides. No shoring, no benching, just 15 or so feet of damp earth waiting to bury them all alive. That was followed by some video of the ride to the site they took every morning. A dozen or so volunteers standing in the back of a Toyota 4x4 with side racks as it lumbered slowly over a steep boulder-strewn dirt road. Every time one of the front tires climbed one of the boulders I expected the truck to overturn, which would result in someone (or many someones) getting crushed or otherwise subject to massive blunt trauma. The whole thing gave me the willies.
Man...Ruels pictures and your story Jim, REALLY make me appreciate the laws and rules we have implemented in the good ol' USA to prevent casualties like those unstable situations can cause. I'd get the willies too!! :-S
Laws can't protect you from being stupid.
> Laws can't protect you from being stupid.
Hahaha very true, Tommy. :good:
Perhaps there's merit to allowing natural selection just take its' course and let the stupid genes be killed off by such attrition.
Ooops... that would imply that evolution works.
😉
"I hope Falk doesn't see these."
Is he still in timeout?
yes, Natural Selection does work, but it takes too darn long for my taste... is there some retroactive clause?
PS: "the man on the street" in my neighborhood appears to be a bit more skilled at stepping over the cracks in the sidewalk.
> "I hope Falk doesn't see these."
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> Is he still in timeout?
No. 🙂
There's a few other users that aren't in time out anymore but they haven't figured it out yet. 😉 One is NOT ard so don't worry. 😉
Why did Ard get sent to timeout?
Anyone who has traveled around the "Second & Third World" has seen lots of that kind of stuff (and much-much worse). Of course you can find stuff like that right here in the good ol' USofA if you look close enough.
🙂
Loyal
In a downtown residential neighborhood here I saw a painter with an extension ladder on the roof of a house leaning up against the wall of the two story house next door. That didn't look very safe to me.
