On Mon, 07 Dec 2015 22:10:51 +0000, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:

> On 07/12/2015 07:15 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> Years ago, I worked for a company where the CFO got his tie caught in a
>> paper shredder - before paper shredders had an auto-shutoff mechanism.
> 
> Pfft. My dad tells a tale of one of his school buddies getting his tie
> caught in a 4-tonne lathe...

Ouch.  That would suck.

> Those things have an emergency stop button for a reason. Fat lot of good
> it does if nobody within reach of the button notices the problem.
> Fortunately for this guy, somebody pushed the button. Then they just had
> to find something to cut the tie with...

Heh, yeah, that was the problem that CFO had as well - he ended up in a 
position where he couldn't reach anything that could shut it off until 
after 2/3 of the tie was chewed up.  This was an industrial shredder, not 
the kind of thing like I have in the corner of my home office. :)

Jim



-- 
"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and 
besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw

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