I don't hold with pranks in the shop although Lakeside's might squeeze under the radar, but I worked with a guy who pulled an accidental prank. The guy was missing a foot due to a mishap with a wire rope on a tugboat so he became a machinist. One day he was pushing a large shaft out of a sprocket on a big vertical press with a big guy helping him. The shaft came out, hit the floor, fell over and crushed his prosthetic foot. He just said oh **** pulled his leg free and hopped over to his locker to put on his spare. When he got back to the press his helper was still out cold draped over the shaft on top of the foot; he did not know it was prosthetic! |