*I’m in a strange mood. Happens after you’ve been working nearly twelve hours straight. It all started…no, I won’t bore you with the shenanigans of my life.
Suffice it to say, the longer I worked, the more paranoid I became about safety. I kept saying, “Be careful. Don’t do anything stupid!
Like these people did…
Scroll down to learn about some really freaky accidents.
Told you I’m in a weird mood. You’ve been warned.
The Bell Ringer and those Ropes…
Now let me just tell you up front. Ian Bowman, a Bell Ringer, didn’t die. He did, however, end up with a fractured back bone.
You’ve been in (or at least seen) a Cathedral, right? The ones with those huge ceilings and loud bells ringing. I remember being a kid in the Bronx and hearing those bells throughout our neighborhood. Well somebody was ringing those bells. Generally some little man standing at the foot of some heavy ropes with approximately 16 humongous bells up high…pulling them to make the bells ring.
Well this unfortunate man somehow got one of those ropes wrapped around his foot, and was hoisted upside down.
I’ll give you a minute to picture it.
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