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Fork Lift Truck Doughnut

2008 Reader Submission
Pending Acceptance

This story is very true, I am one of the Paramedics who attended the scene....

A man, "John" can be his name, from Essex, England had returned to work having recently gained his fork Lift truck drivers licence. He also retuned to find that his works warehouse had been re-floored with a new, very shiny floor.

"John" decided to take a fork life truck and perform some "doughnuts" for his workmates. Unfortunately as he went faster and faster in a tighter and tighter circle the obvious finally happened and the truck toppled over trapping his arm under the roll cage.

This obviously didn't remove him from the gene pool..... However, when his equally intelligent audience decided to use a different fork truck to release him, they didn't count on the body work not being able to take the weight. The stricken truck slid off the forks and crshed "Johns" skull killing him instantly!

Submitted on 03/06/2008

Submitted by: Rob
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Chip said:
Maybe Toss: Bystanders Hurt
Well, John was an idiot but what actually did him in was stupidity not of his own doing so that makes him a bystander that was hurt. We have rules about bystanders so I am inclined to reject this one. Thanks, Rob. We will see what the other moderators have to say.


Bruce said:
Definitely Keep: Personal Account
Well as this is a personal account I have no problem voting in favor of it. John would most certainly deserve an HM if there's documentation available to support this incident. He's solely responsible for getting into the initial accident, so he was certainly displaying Darwin quality behavior as far as that's concerned. However I don't think he could qualify for a full DA since his death was caused by the stupidity of his coworkers. Thanks for the story, Rob!


James said:
Definitely Keep: Personal Account
I agree with Bruce. Strictly speaking, "John" is only eligible for an HM, but the collective stupidity of his co-workers certainly didn't help. Anyway, one does NOT do donuts in a forklift. Where the hell was the foreman during all of this??!! Thanks, Rob, good story!


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