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April 3, 2009 12:08 PM 4/3/09
So I’m home today thanks to a lesson in physics yesterday.
We’re pulling 30 years of crap wiring out of one of the company buildings so we can run new wire.
Now if anybody has never done this you have to understand something. On a suspended ceiling once you start pulling a cleanly cut wire from one end it will start accelerating of it’s own will due to gravity pulling the cable to the floor and overcoming the friction of the wire that is still laying on the ceiling tiles.
Anyone care to guess what happens when it reaches the end? That’s right! The end acts like a whip as it goes over the side.
I must have just been in the wrong place facing the wrong direction as all of a sudden there was a snap, a blue flash in my left eye, instant pain, and blurred vision. O_x
( Click on the missing eye to continue... O_x )
So I’m home today thanks to a lesson in physics yesterday.
We’re pulling 30 years of crap wiring out of one of the company buildings so we can run new wire.
Now if anybody has never done this you have to understand something. On a suspended ceiling once you start pulling a cleanly cut wire from one end it will start accelerating of it’s own will due to gravity pulling the cable to the floor and overcoming the friction of the wire that is still laying on the ceiling tiles.
Anyone care to guess what happens when it reaches the end? That’s right! The end acts like a whip as it goes over the side.
I must have just been in the wrong place facing the wrong direction as all of a sudden there was a snap, a blue flash in my left eye, instant pain, and blurred vision. O_x
( Click on the missing eye to continue... O_x )