Mainly Because It's My First Day Of Holiday
Meaning I was idle last night and didn't do any blog prep, got up late this morning, had a shower, walked into Lesser Sodom to get more Original Shots - a ginger juice drink, nothing to do with guns - and am only sitting down to type this out at 13:19. That's my explanation. I pondered on doing an Intro on 'Zomvivor' but would then need to spend at least 40 minutes watching the rest of Episode 2, compounding the problem.
So, instead - Art!
Yes, we are back on the 'Discover Tech US' montage of people being dangerous in warehouses, often involving forklifts. Art!
A man walks inside a warehouse. What can possibly go wrong? No, the shelves do not hilariously collapse and crush him to death, you ghouls. Art!
Enter a forklift, with so much stocked on the forks that the driver cannot see what's in front of him. This is not going to end well and Your Humble Scribe is pretttty sure SOP would be to move forward into an area you can see is open, THEN turn after making sure nothing is blocking you. Art!
Not here! Freddy The Forkflat Driver hits Mister Pedestrian head on, carrying him upright into a stack of shelves. Freddy gets out and the clip ends there, so we don't know how badly injured the Target Pedestrian was. Art!
Another clip with no attribution, and no visible signage to indicate where in the world it hails from. Be advised that the forklift in this clip is not only entirely innocent, it should have been used to transport that big orange object, because it is extremely heavy. Art!
How do I know it's extremely heavy? Wait and see, gentle reader, wait and see!
They manage to tip it over, since they both pull on the same side at the same time, when they should have been pushing from the rear and steering from the front. The Big Orange Thing is so heavy that there's no way they can prevent it from falling - Art!
Right on their feet. Which I am prettty sure were not clad in Toe-Tector boots, to judge from their reaction. Art!
Both hop away with an injured foot each. The footage is too low quality to determine the amount of damage, and without any clue as to where this takes place, no way to follow up on the story. Googling "two men injured when big orange thing falls on their feet" brought up the Dyatlov Pass incident instead.
Art!
If you have ever been puzzled by the phrase 'cherry picker' then rejoice, for this is what a cherry picker is, also called a 'boom lift' or 'aerial work platform' if you're a poseur. For working at height. The word 'safely' is usually part of that sentence, except a cherry picker should NOT be ramped up on a trailer for any reason, not even 'It seemed like a good idea at the time'. Art!
They drive it off the trailer, the boom drops sharply and inertia and gravity come into play. Art!
A bit hard to see thanks to the distance; matey is physically thrown from the platform thanks to the force with which it drops, and would have been lucky to escape serious injury were it not for the safety harness he was wearing. As it is, he gets flung about like a rag doll but doesn't impact anything. 'Falling from height is very dangerous,' intones the narrator, an incredibly obscure factoid we are all now better informed about. Art!
Sorry, couldn't track anything down about 'Woodrow13'. Note that the dorklift driver has already hit one stack of bottles and knocked many to the floor, which must have been the cue for someone to get out their camera and start filming. Art!
Inevitably, as Freddy The Forkflat Driver pulls away, his forklift's bracing the rest of the stack stops working and the whole thing comes down, with an impressive sound. Art!
"Look on the bright side, boss," said Freddy afterwards. "At least they were all empty bottles." Art!
This is one reason forklifts have stout steel bars protecting the driver. Art!
Sadly the same cannot be said for the people around them. Art!
Freddy raises the forks without checking they are fully disengaged from the metal frames he was placing. You can probably tell where this is going. Art!
As in our first stills, Freddy gets out to help. Very solicitous. Again, with no attribution we don't know how badly hurt Blue Cap was, but he does get back up again. Art!
There's a few clips and just under 3 minutes left to go, we'll wait until later to finish posting more mechanical mishaps. I bet you can hardly wait.
Right, I am now going to volunteer to take Edna for trotties, which I will use as Thinking Time!
Conrad Begs To Differ
This may be too much information, but what Conrad finds attractive in a woman is their -
Intellect. Come on, the blog is SFW, what else did you think I was going to type? Art!
Meet Sarah Paine, South Canadian historian and author, who has about three degrees and has a rather droll sense of humour and verbal delivery.
HOWEVER - O that word again!- I would disagree with her assertion here.
Gallipoli, which we have covered on occasion on BOOJUM! is absolutely an example of how NOT to conduct an amphibious invasion. From giving the Turks months of warning about where the landings would take place, to no practice at all of an opposed landing, to insufficient forces, to 'mission creep', to landing in the wrong place, to lack of reconnaissance, the failures and flaws all add up. Art!
BUT and it's a big BUT in flashing neon letters ten PROUD IMPERIAL feet tall, by D-Day in 1944 the Allies had tons of experience in (mostly) successful opposed landings since 1939. Which is when the Second Unpleasantness began, just so we're clear. The British had mounted amphibious operations in Greece and Norway, and the disastrously badly-planned and organised Dieppe Raid in 1942. They had carried out the Operation TORCH landings in late 1942, then invaded Sicily, then invaded Italy, then mounted amphibious landings at Salerno and Anzio. Those latter two looked rather touch-and-go at times but were successful.
So, Sarah, we shall have to agree to disagree. Conrad has spoken.
Meanwhile, Back In The Now Times
Conrad makes no bones about being pro-Ukraine and anti-Russia, whose Special Idiotic Operation is still limping along, bankrupting the country in order to succour Putinpot's ego. The Ruffian economy was getting worse by the month, except now it's worse every week, which is one reason Charlie Chipmunk Cheeks is pressuring 'Agent Krasnov' to hurry up and betray Ukraine.
ANYWAY! Enough ranting! onto the item itself.
One of the orcses reasons for the seizure of Crimea in 2014 was to get their grubby paws on the naval port of Sevastopol, which they slavered over as their jewel in the peninsula. Art!
They abandoned it in 2024, thanks to relentless and highly destructive drone and missile attacks, including the complete destruction of the Kirov-class submarine 'Rostov-on-Don', moving to the Sea of Azov and Novorossiysk.
Except - Art!
This is footage of the Ruffian naval vessels in Novorossiysk harbour, taken by Ruffian security cameras that the Ukrainian SBU had hacked into, which is a feat in itself. Art!
That's the conning tower of another Ruffian Kilo-class submarine, a big-ticket item that clocks in at about $400 million. Art!
And that's it being destroyed by a Ukrainian submarine drone, which must have an enormous HE payload to produce a blast that big. This is another historical first and will give all navies everywhere sleepless nights. This attack alone makes the harbour vulnerable and the Black Sea Fleet may turn into the Black Sea Flee again. Pity the poor Kremlin minion who had to break this news to the Puffy-Phaced Petrol Pimp.
For a man with no cards, Prez Zed plays a pretty mean hand of poker.
Another Gentle Shoeing
Can't let Agent Krasnov get complacent, can we? Art!
What the Braying Jackass wants is to be paid off by the BBC so they avoid spending lots of money on a lawsuit, which is a classic intimidation tactic he has used often in the past. Whether he'll be alive to see this get it's day in court is doubtful and if he did he'd need Alina Habba to prod him with a bamboo skewer every 5 minutes to keep him awake.
And with that prescient satire we are done!
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