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5 Aug 2005, 22:23
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Caveat Lector
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Tucson, Arizona
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Re: The Most Dangerous Jobs in the World
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Originally Posted by All Systems Go
traffic warden.
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5 Aug 2005, 23:34
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wild one
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: River Edge, NJ
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Re: The Most Dangerous Jobs in the World
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Originally Posted by berzerker
Parking officer (the guy that gives you a fine for illegal parking, wasn't sure of his real title)
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6 Aug 2005, 01:13
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NEWSBOT
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: The enby cave!
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Re: The Most Dangerous Jobs in the World
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Originally Posted by skiddy
Damn straight.
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oh rly?
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6 Aug 2005, 03:02
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Drink is Good
Join Date: Sep 2004
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Re: The Most Dangerous Jobs in the World
John Leslie
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6 Aug 2005, 04:58
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mmm.. pills
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Australia
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Re: The Most Dangerous Jobs in the World
Technical Support
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Originally Posted by Computer Stupidities Site
About a year ago, I was called out to do field service. When I got to the lady's house and was let in, the first thing I noticed was the smell of gunpowder. The second, the double barreled 12-gauge shotgun lying on the couch. Third, the big gaping hole in the side of her computer. (It was one of those Macs where the CPU and monitor are in the same housing.)
I looked at her. She was a little grey haired woman, around 60 or so. Had she? Not possible. Still, I had to ask.
- Me: "Did you shoot...?"
- Customer: "Yes, I got a little mad at it. They told me I couldn't hurt it, but I think they were wrong. Can you salvage anything?"
I mumbled something about not being a Mac tech and told her I would send one out as soon as I could. Then I burned rubber out of there.
About a month later, my boss called me in; he had the woman on hold. She had apparently complained that I was not competent and that I had lied when I said I would send out a competent Mac tech -- or perhaps I just hadn't been able to find anyone competent working for us. I filled him in. He paused for a second, picked up the phone, and said, "Ma'am? Did you put a shotshell into your computer? ... Uh huh...I'm sorry, ma'am, we really can't...well, no.... I'll try to send one out.... Nice doing business with you...." He hung up, looked at me, and said, "You think any of our Mac techs will go?" I shook my head. "Me neither."
We heard from her again last week, when my boss told me that the woman had called up to cuss me out, saying not only was I a "young whippersnapper" but also a liar, since one of our competitors had fixed her computer just fine, even fixing the little scratches and stuff on the monitor glass. That sounded fishy, so I went over and talked with the techs. After a case of canned drinks and a few bags of junk food, I wormed the whole story out of them. Apparently, about the only salvagable part was the hard drive (which the buckshot had missed), so they took it out, went out and bought a whole new computer, slapped the hard drive in, and presented it to the lady as her repaired computer -- of course charging her an arm and a leg.
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6 Aug 2005, 09:20
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cynic
Join Date: May 2000
Location: Bishop Auckland Co. Durham
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Re: The Most Dangerous Jobs in the World
that takes genius to a whole new level
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6 Aug 2005, 10:06
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Commodore
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Perth, Western Australia
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Re: The Most Dangerous Jobs in the World
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Originally Posted by Yahwe
A British Soldier in a war zone anywhere near armed American 'allies'
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Australian soldiers under British command, heh. (WW1 is an excellent example).
indeed, followed only by Australian soldiers under American command (Australian losses in the first three months of the Vietnamese war - when they were under yank command - was the same as the following 10 years of conflict under australian command).
Oh, the irony. :\
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6 Aug 2005, 14:22
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so f*cking zen
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Hitting Bottom
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Re: The Most Dangerous Jobs in the World
That guy in the horror movie who goes off on his own to find out what's wrong usually saying something like:
"i'll be fine"
as he walks off into the dark corridor/celler/abandoned *whatever*
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6 Aug 2005, 14:24
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so f*cking zen
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Hitting Bottom
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Re: The Most Dangerous Jobs in the World
Thai/South East Asian prostitute (HIV prevelence is at like 25% or something)
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On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
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6 Aug 2005, 15:45
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Registered Abuser
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Lincoln!!
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Re: The Most Dangerous Jobs in the World
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Originally Posted by Ultimate Newbie
Australian soldiers under British command, heh. (WW1 is an excellent example).
indeed, followed only by Australian soldiers under American command (Australian losses in the first three months of the Vietnamese war - when they were under yank command - was the same as the following 10 years of conflict under australian command).
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Operation Human Shield.
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