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Started by The Good Reverend Roger, March 02, 2016, 01:39:02 AM

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The Good Reverend Roger

3/1/16:  while doing the semi-annual utility line walk, found a smashed car 300 meters below the roadway.  The car brought a sizable portion of the cliff down onto itself.   No body inside, probably washed down a mile or so.  Call ADOT.  It's not on the highway, they don't give a fuck.  Next call to the Nation police force.  They send an officer out.  She's wearing shoes, not boots.  Her sergeant tells her to climb down anyway and inspect the wreck.  we spend an hour making a safe path for her.

Body is UNDER the car, carried out of the passenger compartment by critters.  Skull, half a pelvis.  Now the Nation is going to have to send people downhill for days until they find at least most of the bits.  They aren't happy.

Then some genius decides they have to recover the vehicle.  As I was leaving for the day, they had a tow truck driver scratching his head alongside 12 cops, trying to figure out how to winch the wreckage up 300 meters.  Good luck with that.

Worth mentioning:  the wreck had to have happened more than 2 months ago but less than 6 months ago, and nobody came looking for this person.  The license plate is missing, but the VIN comes back as never registered in Arizona.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- 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.

Junkenstein

Well, that's impressively horrific.

How long did they fuck about with it before:

A - Leaving it where it is
B - Pushing it down the rest of the way
or
C - (Unlikely) Actually getting the fucking thing back up?

Drive fucking carefully man.
Nine naked Men just walking down the road will cause a heap of trouble for all concerned.

The Good Reverend Roger

Quote from: Junkenstein on March 02, 2016, 10:31:40 AM
Well, that's impressively horrific.

How long did they fuck about with it before:

A - Leaving it where it is
B - Pushing it down the rest of the way
or
C - (Unlikely) Actually getting the fucking thing back up?

Drive fucking carefully man.

They did in fact manage to get most of the wreckage up, at the expense of 3 cables (before some bright boy got some heavy-gauge chain.  That was around midnight.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- 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.

The Wizard Joseph

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The Good Reverend Roger

Update:  Shocked to learn that the man has been down there since 2000.  The police are trying to find out if his wife is alive (he would be 75 years if he were alive today) to be informed.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- 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.

Q. G. Pennyworth

Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 03, 2016, 03:54:52 PM
Update:  Shocked to learn that the man has been down there since 2000.  The police are trying to find out if his wife is alive (he would be 75 years if he were alive today) to be informed.

Obviously the horrors were just waiting for you to show up.

Junkenstein

Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 03, 2016, 03:54:52 PM
Update:  Shocked to learn that the man has been down there since 2000.  The police are trying to find out if his wife is alive (he would be 75 years if he were alive today) to be informed.

So how does that work with the 2-6 month timescale previously mentioned?

I'm guessing someone didn't do their job for a fucking long time.
Nine naked Men just walking down the road will cause a heap of trouble for all concerned.

The Good Reverend Roger

Quote from: Junkenstein on March 03, 2016, 04:05:41 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 03, 2016, 03:54:52 PM
Update:  Shocked to learn that the man has been down there since 2000.  The police are trying to find out if his wife is alive (he would be 75 years if he were alive today) to be informed.

So how does that work with the 2-6 month timescale previously mentioned?

I'm guessing someone didn't do their job for a fucking long time.

Naw, the utility poles would have gone out if they hadn't been inspected for that long.  What it means is that people walked by without seeing it, or just assumed it was a wreck from the old days.  Either case beggars the imagination, but there you go.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- 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.

The Good Reverend Roger

Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on March 03, 2016, 04:03:25 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 03, 2016, 03:54:52 PM
Update:  Shocked to learn that the man has been down there since 2000.  The police are trying to find out if his wife is alive (he would be 75 years if he were alive today) to be informed.

Obviously the horrors were just waiting for you to show up.

God won't give me nice things until he craps on them first.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- 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.

The Good Reverend Roger

" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- 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.

Zenpatista

Cripes. I guess at least his son & family have some closure. Makes you wonder how many other wrecks there are on that road.

The Good Reverend Roger

Quote from: Zenpatista on March 12, 2016, 06:24:36 PM
Cripes. I guess at least his son & family have some closure. Makes you wonder how many other wrecks there are on that road.

Well, a bunch.  Happens all the time.  How this guy got missed is a mystery.

It's basically 12 miles of this:

" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- 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.

Q. G. Pennyworth

May I yoink that photo? It looks like it'd work really well as a background on a half pager.

The Good Reverend Roger

Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on March 13, 2016, 04:30:51 PM
May I yoink that photo? It looks like it'd work really well as a background on a half pager.

Sure.  I've got a pile of similar ones, too.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- 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.

Q. G. Pennyworth

Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on March 13, 2016, 10:29:16 PM
Quote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on March 13, 2016, 04:30:51 PM
May I yoink that photo? It looks like it'd work really well as a background on a half pager.

Sure.  I've got a pile of similar ones, too.

Thank you kindly :)