> -----Original Message----- > From: pic microcontroller discussion list > [mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of Dwayne Reid > Sent: Tuesday, 27 August 2002 12:07 PM > To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU > Subject: Re: [EE]: The joys of electronics > dwayne ROFLMAO, I have 2 stories to tell, about here in good ol WA (AU). #1 A Large City skyscrpaer was being built, It was time to finish off the Ground floor landscaping, so the site electrician was asked to run conduits for the outside lighting. As there are many services in a CBD street, Dial before you Dig was called, and the relevent service locations were furnished, Including Detailed plans. So they set to work, a few hours work, should be finished by 3PM (our construction site knock off time) Well things got held up, it seemed that someone had some excess concreate, and just buried it, so they had to break through this. As usuall the Aprentice gets the fun jobs and was using the jack hammer. All went well for a few hours, but around 5PM something strange happened, the aprentice was jackhammering, and broke through the concrete, but as he was starting to get tired, did not pull up as quick as before. There was a massive explosion, The poor guy was thrown 6 foot back, the people (mainly formen and the required number of union ppl) standing at the top of the trench were blown over. The Bang was heard at the other end of the CBD, all the FreeWay interchange street lighting went out, and so did all the buildings on that 11 Kv feed. When the accident was investigated, the cable had been laid on the wrong side of the street. The poor aprentice had is nylon undies melted by the flash. Luckily no one was critically injured. #2 A new quarrey was being setup in the hills of Perth. The time came for the switchboard to be switched on. When they did a Massive explosion destroyed the switch room and the entire board. It turns out that the aprentice was given the task of checking the touqe on all the buss bar bolts. He needed an extention to get to the ones on the main switch, but not the rest, so when he had finished the main switch, he placed the extention bar on the top of the main switch, it rolled back and rested on the buss bars. No one noticed it untill after power up. A few people were hauled over the coals about not doing proper tests. Regards, Kat. ********************************************** K.A.Q. Electronics. Electronic and Software Engineering. Perth, Western Australia. Ph +61 (0) 419 923 731 ********************************************** --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.384 / Virus Database: 216 - Release Date: 21/08/2002 -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.