WTF? summer has come and gone. halloween passed without incident. new people join up every day, so where is everyone? have you all gotten old and careful? have you stopped playing with knives, pouring gasoline on beehives and setting your houses on fire? i am so disappointed in all of you. unless you are not posting because you died in a horrific fireball, or blew you arms off playing tennis with hand grenades. i know the world isn't any safer, liquor sales haven't been in a slump, so what gives?
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Re: an open lettre from your moderator
Mon, November 26, 2007 - 10:52 PMTruly stupid human tricks are worth waiting for.
Part of the problem could be lack of photographic evidence. This site is more reality based than a lot of others. As such, it's not easy to blow a load of crap up anyone's bloomers. I've witnessed, and been the victim of, many dire circumstances within the last year. Alas, the act of staying alive prevented any photographic endeavor. -
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Re: an open lettre from your moderator
Mon, November 26, 2007 - 11:05 PMPortland Santa Con is a mere 12 days away...
stay tuned
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Re: an open lettre from your moderator
Tue, November 27, 2007 - 8:53 AMOh ButterGirl, honored Moderator of this Safety Third tribe,
I am new and will apologize now. I have to admit, Gobo Joe said it for me. I have not been able to acheive evidence of my interesting Safety Third moments this year due to my attempts to stay alive. I will endeavor to acheive this goal for you, our honored moderator, in the next few weeks, so your year will end well. A friend and I are building a fire cannon this weekend. I will make sure my batteries on my cameras are charged and ready to go. Just for you.
My nickname is Danger, given to me by a special friend that knows to duck when I am working with him.
Here is one of the first Safety Third incident's I encountered this year that really doesn't need any pics:
One day whist I was sitting up about 6 feet off the ground on a lovely pole in a place called Thunderdome in Black Rock City, NV, there was this amazing announcer/mc guy that was just running through all the fighters with such passion and prose. He was a professional. You could tell. When a guy about 20 feet up slipped and fell within the fighting area while this announcer/mc was speaking, he never missed a beat, just adding in, "Here you go, folks, another fine example of Safety Third!" while the crew was dragging the poor kid out the opening and into the medical folks arms. The show never stopped.
I will send pics and maybe video link of the fire cannon when it is done and working. -
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Tue, November 27, 2007 - 11:32 AMStay tuned for "Fun with the SPUDZUKA" -
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Re: an open lettre from your moderator
Tue, November 27, 2007 - 12:04 PMThe Fire Arts Injuries tribe is going strong:
fireartinjuries.tribe.net/
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Re: an open lettre from your moderator
Wed, November 28, 2007 - 2:01 AMI died in a horrific fireball. :) -
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Re: an open lettre from your moderator
Wed, November 28, 2007 - 2:09 AMgood job. photos aren't required; liquor fueled tall tales will suffice. -
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it seemed no problem at the time
Wed, November 28, 2007 - 9:05 PMI'm less than six weeks away from having a baby.. that's at least safety seventeenth. The most grisly things I've seen lately were at that childbirth preparedness class. Do you know how far into your spine they stick that giant epidural needle? And I don't even get to be drunk!!! Agh! (I might have been a little drunk when I got pregnant) In fact I must have been, because I remember thinking that getting pregnant was a good idea. -
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Anyone else done anything lately?
Fri, December 14, 2007 - 1:55 AMOddly enough, I ended up in the hospital the very next morning after my last post and had my baby girl the following Tuesday with an emergency C- Section. They make you climb up onto the terrifying surgery table yourself and lie down for that. It was the scariest thing I've ever had to do in my entire life. I also didn't get to go to Santacon the next weekend... I had to learn to walk again and have my staples taken out.
My daughter is 3lbs, 14 oz. I feel like I'm going to break her every time I change her diaper. I won't be actively seeking safety third things for a while, I've just had enough adrenaline to last me at least until she starts crawling.
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Re: an open lettre from your moderator
Fri, December 14, 2007 - 7:56 AMI blew up my shoulder playing hockey. Six months later, had it repaired, though i continued playing hockey until the night before surgery. 2 weeks after surgery, i started building a whole lotta shit for burning man. Fell 16 feet of a balcony onto a concrete floor and walked away feeling invincible.
Went to burning man. Broke up with girlfriend. Drank a lot. Fought with fire swords. Drank More. Shoulder blew up again. Fell off a ladder. Fell off an art car with a friend because we both leaned back too far while we were taking shots of bourbon.
Got back to the real world. Stepped out of bed and my heal bone snapped, and took two metatarsals with it. Guess I'm not invincible after all. Built the event i am working now with cast on, and opened the show. Moved many, many kegs before the cast came off.
Slight possibility i will be playing hockey in China for 10 days in a couple weeks, getting back the day before my shoulder surgery is scheduled.
Busy year. This year, i am building propane cannons. -
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Re: an open lettre from your moderator
Fri, December 14, 2007 - 9:00 AMI will post a pic of the pretty safe fire cannoon my friend made over the weekend - I only financed and played with it. It was way more safe that I thought! Damn! But I did have an incident with an Altoid tin. Man! They are dangerous! I had it in my back pocket of my pants (you know for my cig butts) and sometime during the night, I went to pull ito ut and it was completely smashed! I had sat on it! Now, my ass has this huge tin shaped bruise on it! Pretty funny! I didn't think my skinny ass could do that! So careful of those altoid tins!
And BoyChaos, I got hurt on the playa this year too. I think no one should drink whiskey at dawn then try to drive a pink fuzzy bicycle through sand drifts in the road. I totally flew over the handle bars, which wrapped around my left leg totally bruising it, and landed on my face on the playa. I broke my nose in 2 places, my left eye orbit and cheek and my chin. My bottom lip was destroyed - friends tell me it looked like a filleted raw shrimp! Ugh! My chin was already held togethr already with staples from an accident 20 yrs ago so the dr said it was good they were still there becuz the fracture went right inbetween the staples! Wow. Scared the crap out this 42 yo girlie, that's for sure1 I did ride my bike again after the accident but only very slow and very sober in the am's before it got too busy to drive anywhere! So needless to say - no more whiskey for me on the playa and maybe not a bike! -
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Sat, April 26, 2008 - 5:23 PMI fell through a skylight while dancing on top of a roof. people.tribe.net/inspeyere...8dee4fd9a7
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Re: an open lettre from your moderator
Sat, April 26, 2008 - 8:38 PMI'm teaching myself to fell trees.
From a Book.
BIG Trees.
As in, 60+ foot firs.
Again, figuring how to do it from a book.
I am not very good at it.
Yet.
(and yes, I'm starting out with shorter 20 and 30' trees, working my way up. Still, eeep!) -
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Re: an open lettre from your moderator
Wed, April 30, 2008 - 9:47 PMHeidi, If you're in portland, my neighbor has this big dead tree in his backyard that he's itching to get rid of. Its at the top of a hill. Above a ratty apartment complex. He's too cheap to shell out to a real treetrimming business, but I'll betcha that he'd give you some money to drop this tree onto the neighbors. The OTHER neighbors, that is, not my house.
Anybody else volunteer?
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