I saw the SCARIEST thing today!!

[carolyn]

Today I was at the gym getting ready to do one last lap and my partner taps me on the shoulder and points to the folks next to us. the guy about to climb TIED a figure eight into some loop on the BACK of his harness!!!!!!!

Yes, for real!!!! It was a wild country harness.

 

We asked them about it before they started climbing and they told us that "Joe" said this was how to do it (Pat teaches classes at the gym). The woman insisted her friend standing next to her was on the climbing team and that is how she was told as well.

 

All I can say is Im sooooo grateful I was not witness to a fall....because he would of hit ground.

 

Of course when we mentioned it to the staff, we learned "Joe" never showed them to tie in this way.

 

Very scary!!!!!

[Bogen]

Joe told me that, too. Is that wrong?

[Dru]

as long as the haul loop is full strength it's no big deal

 

of course when you fall off you assume the "peter pan" position hanging from the rope, facing down and horizontal

[MisterMo]

This is into one of the little teensy gear loops or something? Yikes!

 

Interestingly enough with the monstrous WISHA approved full-body 'Kondike Klod' harnesses that is where the law insists you tie in: to a monster D ring in the middle of your back. Totally retarded but they insist you'll die instantly from a snapped spine or slowly and horribly from suffocation if you tie in any other way to any other kind of harness. No amount of examples to the contrary from an old, fat veteran of years of swami belt use will convince them otherwise.

 

You do get a cool 'Peter Pan' effect when thus suspended and hanging freely. Once in a while a careless, unsuspecting soul will get to close to the monorail hoist in our fab shop while wearing such a harness. They quickly find themselves helplessly suspended and zinging back & forth along the rail.

 

Nobody makes that mistake twice...

[Jason_Martin]

Regardless of whether or not the loop was full strength, to tie into that particular area is just plain stupid.

 

Jason

[Doug]

o.k., maybe this one isn't scary. But WTF? I ran in the St. Pat's Dash today. About 50 yds from the start there is a frickin' cell phone laying on Mercer St. Some dickhead running back to get it. Throughout this 3.3 mile jaunt through Seatle I think I saw atleast a half dozen people in this run TALKING ON THEIR FUCKING CELL PHONES!!!!!

 

Next year, I'm wearing a sign on my back that says: HANG UP AND RUN!!!!

[catbirdseat]

I saw some American Death Triangles on Three O'Clock Rock. Okay, they weren't THAT scary.

[faster_than_you]

Today I was at the gym getting ready to do one last lap and my partner taps me on the shoulder and points to the folks next to us. the guy about to climb TIED a figure eight into some loop on the BACK of his harness!!!!!!!

Yes, for real!!!!

 

Very scary!!!!!

 

Scariest thing? Can we say Hyperbole?

[Bill_Simpkins]

Yesterday I was on Mt. Sefrit and we got ourselves onto a iced up deathslab before we put our harnesses on.

I was able to get the rope out, but all we could do (because we were in the middle of a death slab, was wrap the rope around our wrist (you had to be there, please don't judge, it was the only option.) My partner climbed up with no pro on a 5.6 iced up slab and hip belayed me will standing on a solitary handhold. The rock only provide mostly down sloping holds. We were in stiff boots to top it off. We would of fell a couple hundred feet. THAT, was scary!

[Dru]

Today I was at the gym getting ready to do one last lap and my partner taps me on the shoulder and points to the folks next to us. the guy about to climb TIED a figure eight into some loop on the BACK of his harness!!!!!!!

Yes, for real!!!!

 

Very scary!!!!!

 

Scariest thing? Can we say Hyperbole?

 

Prepare to be very, very scared

[faster_than_you]

Today I was at the gym getting ready to do one last lap and my partner taps me on the shoulder and points to the folks next to us. the guy about to climb TIED a figure eight into some loop on the BACK of his harness!!!!!!!

Yes, for real!!!!

 

Very scary!!!!!

 

Scariest thing? Can we say Hyperbole?

 

Prepare to be very, very scared

 

Oh my god, predictable!

 

But you know what, you sure are right Nodder.

[Dru]

1t is b3tt3r t0 B th3 h4mm3r th4n th3 n0dd3r 0h m4 g0d

[faster_than_you]

1t is b3tt3r t0 B th3 h4mm3r th4n th3 n0dd3r 0h m4 g0d

 

Sure right nodder.

[fenderfour]

Kathy Bates has a full frontal nudity scene in "About Schmidt" That's some scary shizzle.

[foraker]

I thought she was going to say Gotterdamerung in spandex tights at a wheat grass bar...

[faster_than_you]

Note tie in points? OMG!

 

"Soldiers of Taiwan's Coast Guard Administration Special Service Company climb down a building during an anti-terrorist drill, in Taoyuan County, 24 miles southwest of Taipei."

 

[catbirdseat]

I'd like to see them take target practice while descending at 10 ft per second. You might not want to only have one at a time.

[sweatinoutliquor]

Dude, I love ninjas... I think I am going to start rappeling with a gun in my hand (for safety reasons). Or maybe a sword.

[faster_than_you]

I'd like to see them take target practice while descending at 10 ft per second. You might not want to only have one at a time.

 

The middle guy is about to cap rounds in the head of the far one.

 

The "bad guys" could lean out the window near the bottom of the rope and cut it. Whoops, big fall.

[ScottP]

 

Is it pure enthusiasm or the cinching of the goldline harness around the nad region that is eliciting the facial expression?