When Things Get Hot

nealglen37

Sometimes when guys are working together.................................and you have a bully or loudmouth..................bad things can happen.......................whats the worst fight..................or down right assualt you have seen on a job site.....................

PipeGuy

I saw an old (50 y/o?) meth-head biker chase a young guy down and out of the loader he was nappin' in (at lunch) with a snub-nose .38. The meth-head squeezed off two rounds into the cab as he was going up the ladder on one side and the young guy was bailing out the door on the other.

PS- The meth-head turned up the following year in a house full of dead bikers. All of them bound, gagged and shot in the head.

Mike Finley

You win.

Cole

No kidding.

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jmic

WOW! Nice company you keep.

PipeGuy

Again..."back in the day". Not something I'm likely to tell my 15 y/o about.

Teetorbilt

If you go back about a year in the Palm Beach Post, there was a disgruntled worker who cut loose on a site with an AK-47.

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mdshunk

Stories.... well I won't share mine. Let's just say that I'll never tell a plumber that I've been an electrician for more years than he's been sober ever again.

Peladu

About five years ago I was on a job. Two guys were real hot at each other and for most of the morning they worked on opposite sides of the jobsite. We all met at the gangbox at coffee time, maybe fifteen of us. Five minutes into coffee break, the younger kid (maybe 20-22) starts snickering. At first all I saw was a blur go passed me. I then saw the older, much more bulky guy, go at the younger guy. He grabbed the younger, guy just as he was standing up, by the neck. The bigger guy took about four steps with the little guys throat in his hands and threw him backwards. This caused the little guy to go flying backwards and crashing over a good size stack of steel studs and into the ground. It happened so fast that nobody even got up until the other guy was on the floor. The big guy was held back from going after the little guy again. The little guy was taken off of the jobsite via ambulance. The bigger guy went with the local law enforcement. The little guy ended up having back surgery and was out on workman’s comp for eighteen months. He told me that he finally settled his case for $85,000. Never did find out what happened with the bigger guy. Needless to say, the day that happened, we had an extremely extended coffee break. Then miraculously later in the week we all had to sign twenty (or so) safety sheets, so the contractor would be back up to date for the year.

furbis

I don't have anything near as good as the first story but while working on a hotel once I was up on top of a pipe rack running conduit and hanging some fourecent lights when a union carpenter got to talking smack to me and said " thats a good place for a RAT up there on that pipe rack" I let it go because we had got along good any other time we had talked and I thouhgt he was just having a bad day, but he wouldn't quit on it rat this and rat that finally I told him next time he said it I was coming down for his ass, I guess it worked since he found somewhere else he needed to be soon after.

Teetorbilt

md, around here plumbers aren't the drunk targets, painters are #1 hands down. Drywallers and plasterers take second spot.

I've overheard quite a few painters brag about the 'night before', "Downed an 18 pack and had to go out for more.".

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A+Carpenter

I was on a jobsite with my brother when we where 21 and 26 . My brother is huge . I mean ripped to the core for the most part. He told me it should only take 20 seconds to measure and cut that sheething. We I replied . It should only take me 2 hits to knock your a$$ out then . ***** it the an on that note . I flung my bags off and jumped off the roof at him . We went to the middle of the road blood everywhere . Well 4 mins later and 5 OR 6 concrete workers later it was broke up. Moral to the story when the concrete slab guys jumped in me and my brother turned on them. Needless to say some people got hurt. It was bad.

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A+Carpenter

i have retired from the jobsite boxing ring.

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furbis

that reminds me of what my first boss in the electrical trade used to tell me he wanted to do after a barley pop or 12 "***** fight or hold the light"

Teetorbilt

Years ago, when working for someone else, 'stuff' just seemed to happen to certain people who made trouble. Once a 12' gate valve 'fell' off of a truck onto a guys foot. The exact same thing happened again except it was a 90# jackhammer and a different guy. Different folks fight in different ways.

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mdshunk

Ah, yes, my personal favorite method. The passive aggressive method. Yes, irritating people seem to suffer odd occupational injuries.

Teetorbilt

Sometimes 'stuff happens'. It doesn't matter how big or bad you think you are. A little guy with a little lever or button can ruin your life.

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