I thought I'd seen it all.

[cmore]

I was watching a show called "Performance TV" today.
They're at some SEMA like convention and they had
a small story about high school kids competing in a
nationwide engine building contest. No big deal, right,
they've had these for years. But these kids had HELMETS
on. Really? for building an engine on a stand?
Gloves, OK, but HELMETS? Give me a break.
OK, rant off.

 

[LVSteve]

Gone are the days of spraying 1-1-1 trike all over without protection.

 

[BC38]

Well of course! Don't you wear a helmet when working on an engine? I mean, what a wrench slips off a bolt head when you're reefing on it and you smack yourself in the head with the wrench? Without a helmet you could get HURT!

 

[swsig]

That still sounds pretty unsafe to me. In addition, they all should have worn HANS devices.

 

[Chuck24]

When I was in school that's not why kids wore helmets!

 

[DeathGrip]

and none of these kids have ever seen Loony Tunes.

 

[Rustyt1953]

OK Timmy, go get the mail.

 

[timn8er]

There's a lot of people around that should wear helmets twenty four hours. Just as a precaution, you understand...

 

[finesse_r]

I am fairly positive that the helmets are to protect them from when a mosquito lands on their head and they swat it with a large crescent wrench. When smoking a little refer, high school students don't always think before they react. So now tools come with a warning label to wear a helmet.

 

[Comrad]

Funny you post this now. Watching Ask This Old House tonight the landscaping guy and a homeowner are spreading gravel, 2 inches on the ground. Yup, wearing goggles. I said to Mrs Comrad, can you believe they're wearing goggles to spread gravel with a rake and shovel.

 

[gregintenn]

I saw a UDSA inspector in a friend's butcher shop the other day wearing a hardhat.

I doubt it was his idea.

 

[PatriotX]

I don't know about helmets, but my hands would be in much better shape had someone insisted on (or even suggested) gloves.

 

[chud333]

The "wussification" of America.
I'm surprised OSHA doesn't ride on tractors and
combines with the Farmer these days.



Chuck

 

[bigride]

I wear a helmet and safety glasses when I shower. You can never be too safe. Look at the statistics. Lots of accidents take place when bathing and showering.

 

[Jessie]

I often watch the show "Building Alaska".
A client at one site flies his own float plane carrying supplies for the builders. He actually wears some weird looking helmet every time he flies.
For crying out loud! It's a Cessna, not combat missions in a fighter!
It makes me laugh every time I see it.

 

[JSR III]

I don't know about you all, but I think I'm going outside and run with scissors.

 

[rolomac]

I'm lucky to be alive - when I was a kid my folks' medicine cabinet had a bottle of aspirin without a child-proof cap! My brother and I rode in dad's Pontiac without seat belts! We even rode our bikes without helmets and knee pads! And when I was fourteen my folks bought me my first shotgun - a .410 single shot - and I didn't even do the background check!

rolomac

 

[soFlaNative]

Don't blame the kids. Probably had to backflip through flaming hoops at the local, state, whatever level for approval to host any kind of shop class. Arts and science are gone, down here local boards are considering doing away with recess at the elementary level.

 

[snubbyfan]

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