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Now is it me of did the bloke set it off? He did not just "pick it up and it went off" -- Adam |
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On 13 Dec 2017 10:33:55 GMT, Huge wrote:
Naah. He was ****ing with it. Not at all surprising that such events are occurring given how difficult it is to legally dispose of time-expired flares these days. I just set them off in the back garden. It was worryingly hard to get some of them going - involving a blowlamp in at least one case. Hand helds are not too bad, just like holding a large firework. Parachute a bit more awkward , When Mother still had the farm I took a couple down there as it was well inland and unlikely to be seen as a vessel in distress. even so my brother and I thought it would be prudent to fire it pointing down slightly so it followed the ground and hopefully buried itself in the boggy area around the stream at the bottom of the hillside the field lay on. Sodding thing decided to behave like a miniature cruise missile and followed down the hillside across the stream then rose up again before landing in the neighbouring farms field where it glowed ominously while smoking like a large bonfire. Fortunately we had deliberately waited till the hay had been baled and collected and the neighbour knew us well enough to know that call saying "Sorry about the Fire in you field but we are dealing with it " was nothing to get too worked up about. "You be playing with rockets again?" G.Harman |
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On 2017-12-12, ARW wrote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-engl...cycling-centre Now is it me of did the bloke set it off? He did not just "pick it up and it went off" From watching the video, I guess he could have pulled "the pin out" or something like that, but it certainly doesn't look like he lit it. How do these kinds of flares work? |
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On Tuesday, 12 December 2017 20:11:05 UTC, ARW wrote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-engl...cycling-centre Now is it me of did the bloke set it off? He did not just "pick it up and it went off" -- Adam Here's another award winner, FF to about 3mins in . https://petapixel.com/2017/12/12/fam...tory-building/ |
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Adam Funk wrote:
On 2017-12-12, ARW wrote: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-engl...cycling-centre Now is it me of did the bloke set it off? He did not just "pick it up and it went off" From watching the video, I guess he could have pulled "the pin out" or something like that, but it certainly doesn't look like he lit it. How do these kinds of flares work? Pull a pin, break a seal, pull a trigger etc. Theyre not that easy to set off accidentally usually. Tim -- Please don't feed the trolls |
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On 2017-12-13, Tim+ wrote:
Adam Funk wrote: On 2017-12-12, ARW wrote: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-engl...cycling-centre Now is it me of did the bloke set it off? He did not just "pick it up and it went off" From watching the video, I guess he could have pulled "the pin out" or something like that, but it certainly doesn't look like he lit it. How do these kinds of flares work? Pull a pin, break a seal, pull a trigger etc. Theyre not that easy to set off accidentally usually. OK, thanks. Maybe he pulled something, but not if it required much effort (the way it looks to me). |
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Brian -- ----- - This newsgroup posting comes to you directly from... The Sofa of Brian Gaff... Blind user, so no pictures please! "ARW" wrote in message ... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-engl...cycling-centre Now is it me of did the bloke set it off? He did not just "pick it up and it went off" -- Adam |
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On Wed, 13 Dec 2017 15:24:29 +0000, Adam Funk
wrote: From watching the video, I guess he could have pulled "the pin out" or something like that, but it certainly doesn't look like he lit it. How do these kinds of flares work? Pull a pin, break a seal, pull a trigger etc. They’re not that easy to set off accidentally usually. OK, thanks. Maybe he pulled something, but not if it required much effort (the way it looks to me). They are designed to be used by people being thrown about in a life raft who's fingers may be stiff with cold ,frozen and numb and wet. usually it is a two or 3 stage process none of which take that much effort in themselves. Remove plastic cap , pull cord that is now exposed. Remove plastic cap, exposing a lever trigger with a safety clip , pull off safety clip , move lever. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txHUBUzGnP4 The one in the video seemed to go off too easily, I wonder if it had been deliberately nobbled as a "Joke". G.Harman |
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On 13/12/2017 14:01, whisky-dave wrote:
On Tuesday, 12 December 2017 20:11:05 UTC, ARW wrote: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-engl...cycling-centre Now is it me of did the bloke set it off? He did not just "pick it up and it went off" -- Adam Here's another award winner, FF to about 3mins in . https://petapixel.com/2017/12/12/fam...tory-building/ I actually felt sick watching that. I'm not happy above 6m. -- Adam |
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On Wednesday, 13 December 2017 18:40:11 UTC, ARW wrote:
On 13/12/2017 14:01, whisky-dave wrote: On Tuesday, 12 December 2017 20:11:05 UTC, ARW wrote: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-engl...cycling-centre Now is it me of did the bloke set it off? He did not just "pick it up and it went off" -- Adam Here's another award winner, FF to about 3mins in . https://petapixel.com/2017/12/12/fam...tory-building/ I actually felt sick watching that. It didn;t affect me like that, other ones have, it;s weird feeling as you know sitting on a chair in an office you are quite safe from falling. The moise in the background sound like someone hoovering/dysoning/henrying and just aftre the fall a thud is heard it canl;t be fronm the person falling as it's too far away. I'm not happy above 6m. I can manage 4 rungs on a ladder but after that. |
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On 14/12/2017 10:11, whisky-dave wrote:
On Wednesday, 13 December 2017 18:40:11 UTC, ARW wrote: On 13/12/2017 14:01, whisky-dave wrote: On Tuesday, 12 December 2017 20:11:05 UTC, ARW wrote: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-engl...cycling-centre Now is it me of did the bloke set it off? He did not just "pick it up and it went off" -- Adam Here's another award winner, FF to about 3mins in . https://petapixel.com/2017/12/12/fam...tory-building/ I actually felt sick watching that. It didn;t affect me like that, other ones have, it;s weird feeling as you know sitting on a chair in an office you are quite safe from falling. The moise in the background sound like someone hoovering/dysoning/henrying and just aftre the fall a thud is heard it canl;t be fronm the person falling as it's too far away. I'm not happy above 6m. I can manage 4 rungs on a ladder but after that. I wondered about the thud just after. Not long enough to have dropped 62 floors. -- Adam |
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"whisky-dave" wrote in message ... On Wednesday, 13 December 2017 18:40:11 UTC, ARW wrote: On 13/12/2017 14:01, whisky-dave wrote: On Tuesday, 12 December 2017 20:11:05 UTC, ARW wrote: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-engl...cycling-centre Now is it me of did the bloke set it off? He did not just "pick it up and it went off" -- Adam Here's another award winner, FF to about 3mins in . https://petapixel.com/2017/12/12/fam...tory-building/ I actually felt sick watching that. It didn;t affect me like that, Me neither. other ones have, Yeah, particularly the ones strolling along narrow beams hundreds of feet above the ground with body cams and nothing to save them if they trip or the wind blows. it;s weird feeling as you know sitting on a chair in an office you are quite safe from falling. The moise in the background sound like someone hoovering/dysoning/henrying and just aftre the fall a thud is heard it canl;t be fronm the person falling as it's too far away. I'm not happy above 6m. I can manage 4 rungs on a ladder but after that. I'm fine, its getting on and off the ladder onto the flat roof that gives me a bit of a pause. I still do it tho. |
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"ARW" wrote in message ... On 14/12/2017 10:11, whisky-dave wrote: On Wednesday, 13 December 2017 18:40:11 UTC, ARW wrote: On 13/12/2017 14:01, whisky-dave wrote: On Tuesday, 12 December 2017 20:11:05 UTC, ARW wrote: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-engl...cycling-centre Now is it me of did the bloke set it off? He did not just "pick it up and it went off" -- Adam Here's another award winner, FF to about 3mins in . https://petapixel.com/2017/12/12/fam...tory-building/ I actually felt sick watching that. It didn;t affect me like that, other ones have, it;s weird feeling as you know sitting on a chair in an office you are quite safe from falling. The moise in the background sound like someone hoovering/dysoning/henrying and just aftre the fall a thud is heard it canl;t be fronm the person falling as it's too far away. I'm not happy above 6m. I can manage 4 rungs on a ladder but after that. I wondered about the thud just after. Not long enough to have dropped 62 floors. Presumably he bounced off something on the way down. |
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On 14/12/2017 10:11, whisky-dave wrote:
On Wednesday, 13 December 2017 18:40:11 UTC, ARW wrote: On 13/12/2017 14:01, whisky-dave wrote: On Tuesday, 12 December 2017 20:11:05 UTC, ARW wrote: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-engl...cycling-centre Now is it me of did the bloke set it off? He did not just "pick it up and it went off" -- Adam Here's another award winner, FF to about 3mins in . https://petapixel.com/2017/12/12/fam...tory-building/ I actually felt sick watching that. It didn;t affect me like that, other ones have, it;s weird feeling as you know sitting on a chair in an office you are quite safe from falling. The moise in the background sound like someone hoovering/dysoning/henrying and just aftre the fall a thud is heard it canl;t be fronm the person falling as it's too far away. I'm not happy above 6m. I can manage 4 rungs on a ladder but after that. I have no real problem on ladders. I just don't like getting back on them from a roof. My wife on the other hand can only manage a few rungs on a ladder. Oddly, she did manage a tandem jump from a 4000ft cliff many years ago - which is something that would probably paralyse me with fear ... her ex-boyfriend (whose idea it was) had to be pushed off! SteveW |
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