How Most Kids Now-A-Days Can Earn Some Big Bucks

 
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Old 07-13-2009, 05:59 PM   #1
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How Most Kids Now-A-Days Can Earn Some Big Bucks


Do you text when you are walking?

What about your teenage kids?

Well, here is a potentially very lucrative and financially rewarding lazy mans/womans career opening:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31853449/?GT1=43001

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Old 07-13-2009, 06:51 PM   #2
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The New World Order, sue everyone for your own stupidity.
The sad thing is, if they tried to stop her the family would sue about that.
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Instead of passing some of these stupid acts of Congress lately, why not pass something useful, like how it is over in Europe. Cross the street and get hit by a car, too f-in bad. Shoulda looked. Same thing here. Fell down a manhole? should have been looking where you were going. I know, that would put lawyers out of business, and make the world a not so safe place. Waaaah. Just my opinion.
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I did that with a crawlspace cover left open from the HVAC guy. It was dark, never saw it. Broke 8 ribs. ****in' hurt like you never know.

I wasn't texting though
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I once fell in a front stoop of a house. We had some plywood covering the openings of the block where some piers were gonna be framed. Super came out one day and we moved them aside to figure out how the layout was gonna go. Before he left, I slid it PARTIALLY over the opening. Couple minutes later, I walked out onto the stoop, on that piece, and it trapdoored on me. Fell in feet first to an opening that was about 16x16. Scraped me nasty up to my armpits where I got snagged. One of my guys had to pull me out as I was stuck. This was about a week after the "baby Jessica" incident in Texas where the baby fell in a hole in her backyard. Guess what my nickname was for a week?
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People are stupid and what makes it worse are the ambulance chasers waiting to cash in on their clients misery.
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I once fell in a front stoop of a house. We had some plywood covering the openings of the block where some piers were gonna be framed. Super came out one day and we moved them aside to figure out how the layout was gonna go. Before he left, I slid it PARTIALLY over the opening. Couple minutes later, I walked out onto the stoop, on that piece, and it trapdoored on me. Fell in feet first to an opening that was about 16x16. Scraped me nasty up to my armpits where I got snagged. One of my guys had to pull me out as I was stuck. This was about a week after the "baby Jessica" incident in Texas where the baby fell in a hole in her backyard. Guess what my nickname was for a week?

Sounds like the only serious injury may have been to your pride...so I'm going have to laugh at that one.
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During my first week of construction my boss unfolds a combination ladder partially infront of me and tells me to fish a wire accross an open drop ceiling. He walks away as I begin to climb up the unstable ladder, a minuit later I crash to the ground with the ladder and my boss goes "you should always make sure your ladder is deployed proerly"...thanks arsehole.

Years ago at an AV company my coworker (who was always right...if you catch my drift) set his ladder up to contact a door. He put one leg over the hole for the air supply vent, after he climbed up and began leaning over he crashed to the floor and spragned his wrist. After he stood back up he began yelling about how the GC's jobsite was a mess and he couldn't even put his ladder down properly for all the mess around bla bla bla. I looked at him and said "Stupid hurts don't it?"
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