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The curse of the spinning statue at Manchester Museum

Started by Bu🤠ns, June 23, 2013, 03:51:31 PM

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Quote from: M. Nigel Salt on June 26, 2013, 07:25:12 AM
They could have just asked the Internet. I Googled it on the first day and found videos demonstrating why and how it was happening.

That, and the way it stops when the place closes and people stop stomping past it.  :lol:

QuoteNOT AS AWESOME AS IT WANTING BEAN BURRITOS AND BUD LIGHT, or whatever the inscription on the back says.

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Quote from: Cain on June 23, 2013, 04:46:49 PM
I'd like to point out that it didn't start spinning until it was brought to Manchester.

It's Manchester that is cursed, not the statue.

Also, the Manchester Mummy and the ghost bar hopper.

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Quote from: Doktor Howl on June 24, 2013, 06:11:01 PM
Quote from: Bu☆ns on June 23, 2013, 03:51:31 PM
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/video-curse-spinning-statue-manchester-4698583

:eek:

There's nothing mysterious here.  It's on the end of a center-supported shelf.  People are walking around it, there's probably vibrations in the building from HVAC, trucks going by, elevators, everthing else that goes on in a modern building.

Heavy statue + "Diving board effect" on shelf + time = rotation or sliding.

It might not even be that. It could just be some jackass museum employee turning it every so often. They said it was a time-lapse video, right? Plenty of time to not get caught on the film
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Quote from: Prelate Diogenes Shandor on May 13, 2017, 01:59:54 AM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on June 24, 2013, 06:11:01 PM
Quote from: Bu☆ns on June 23, 2013, 03:51:31 PM
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/video-curse-spinning-statue-manchester-4698583

:eek:

There's nothing mysterious here.  It's on the end of a center-supported shelf.  People are walking around it, there's probably vibrations in the building from HVAC, trucks going by, elevators, everthing else that goes on in a modern building.

Heavy statue + "Diving board effect" on shelf + time = rotation or sliding.

It might not even be that. It could just be some jackass museum employee turning it every so often. They said it was a time-lapse video, right? Plenty of time to not get caught on the film

I always bet on things like vibration from an outside source.  HVAC, again, is the most likely culprit.
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- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.