Pete and Re-Pete were sitting on a fence. Pete fell of, who was left?

/nothing.

Wait...when did they create paint? OMG!!!

What's a truck?

for my friend, DownSouth -

BIG BADA BOOM!

let the fapping commence.

How come good links keep getting rejected while obvious repeats are constantly accepted?

/conspiracy I tells ya'!

Thank God Bob Hope is still alive!

The first thing I think is, "my god, it has happened again!" But, no...

I was stuck on the interstate for like 1.5 hours because of this, and I remember thinking, "I hope people are farking dying up there, because if this is just a little accident, I'm going to be pretty pissed off."

I feel kind of bad about it now, of course.

Horrible story... can't believe they added this idiot:

"The fire has prompted an Indiana lawmaker to draft legislation requiring every person traveling in a motor vehicle to wear a seat belt. Current state law requires seat belts only in the front seats."

The seatbelts would have killed all of them.

Warning: smoking kills
Warning: do not huff paint fumes.

Why bother posting this again? old news!!!!

HELLOOOO DARWIN!!!

Several hours later, when the suffering painters were all laying in the burn unit, Virginia Slim pipes up with,
"Gee fellas, I could sure use a smoke..."

And in other news, George Bush elected President.

A horrific experience, to be sure, for all the victims. They were probably sinners though, so....whatever.

That is some farked up horrible shiat. Shudder.

Actually the law isn't that every one in the vehicle has to wear a seat belt. The proposed law is that you can only haul as many people as their are seat belts. The idea being cheap ass companies won't stuff 13 guys in the back of a panel truck. Yes I know they'll keep doing it, welcome to Indiana where kids can still leagaly ride in the back of pickup trucks.

That seatbelt thing really made me wonder too...seatbelts must contain some sort of flame-retardant chemical that sprays out in the event of a fireball...

Only in America - this just happened and already there are two lawsuits. Don't wait for an investigation, or even a funeral...just run to the lawyers.

I think I would have jumped.

I have an inside track for the workers comp insurance company for this accident. They are expecting to pay $36,000,000 for this claim.

YIKES!

well buwolverine that means the company would have needed 6 trucks. they couldn't keep two going. so because this happened once, bad as it is, this company and probably many more go out of business. got to love knee jerk law making.

So... all the blood would have made them Red House Painters... right?

http://www.subpop.com/bands/redhousepainters/ramon/home.html

I think if I ever got burned over 90% of my body I'd really wish I had been killed outright, god. People who have facial burns looks so hideous too, nevermind the physical pain.

Mmmm, Mila isn't it? Very very fine.

If I know painters, it wasn't tobacco that sparked the fire. It's got to suck to be burned that badly.

Curious,

There is a difference between being able to afford to keep two truck running, and being to cheap to give a rat's *ss about the safety of your employees. Riding in the back of a box truck on an interstate, doesn't strike me as safe, but hey its cost effective.

I'm growing very tired of the arguement against doing the right thing always being "but I can't afford to treat my workers fairly." (Because I'd be willing to bet this company doesn't give them health insurance either, but hey can't be cutting into that bottom line.) I can't say that under-regulating small businesses are worth the lives of two men.

I know the attorney for the company, and only a company fitting that profile would hire a weasel like that.

I would have jumped as well. Better to eat pavement and possibly die than burn in a rolling inferno and live.

When I was younger I shared a hospital room with a kid who had been burned over 80% of his body, and lucky for him his face was spared. He had been through over 30 operations, was in constant pain and would never look normal or live a normal life again. If I was burned over 90% of my body, I wouldn't want to be saved.... that's not a life.

What a horrible way to go.

-Alan

To the tune of five little monkeys jumping on a bed...

Thirteen painters sitting in a truck
One struck a match and he blew up
Momma called the doctor and the doctor said
"NO MORE REPEATS; POST THE NEWS INSTEAD!"

Cigarette addiction kills again.

Switchblade:
That was a...beauty.
Yeah..I think it ranks up there with Stairway to Heaven.

Broccoli:
Excellent idea...any way the DARWIN tag could be submitted? Or is it already a tag and Im a dumbass?

Omega Ohm - No, you're wrong. The seat belt law would have saved them, since there wouldn't have been any seat belts in the back of the truck, they wouldn't have legally been able to sit there.

eyesonlyus, Ive got a good one for you. I took a screenshot from an old article that had some very bad advertising with it. Ill just link it so I dont piss off my ISP.

"Thomas Doehrman, the attorney for the family of 20-year-old survivor J.R. Bryant, says transporting men along with flammables in a space the size of a small bedroom was "an accident waiting to happen."

So if a company is being grossly negligent and doing this, does that still mean you should get into the back of a truck w/ smokers, open paint cans, and gas fumes? It may not have been alright if the company required the workers to all leave together (somehow I doubt they did though) w/ flammable materials nearby, but I'm not dumb and when I see a bunch of guys getting into the back of a truck w/ paint, I don't get in there w/ them. This J.R. kid must've had his stupidity license on him at the time (along w/ all the rest of them). Hopefully the courts apply comparative negligence in this case.

Comparative negligence, btw, is where the courts assign blame (e.g. company 60% negligent, painter 40%. If the plaintiff sues the company for say, $100,000, he'd only get 60,000 b/c the other 40,000 he doesn't get for being dumb).

and btw, I'd also rather die than suffer the pain of skin graphs, pain from the burn, and pain from infection. Imagine the pain of being burned by something hotter, like napalm. I shudder at the thought. Probably one of the worst ways to die...death by burning.

I dont know...id probably rather burn to death in a matter of minutes, than slowly be cooked in a 200 degree oven.

"...drug-induced comas.."

Aaaaaaa yeaah

"gross negligence" -- lawyer-speak for "jackpot!"

As bad as it is for the poor painters, you gotta wonder why none of them had enough intelligence to beat the living shiat out of the first guy to so much as pull a lighter out of his pocket...

I would wish this burning on only a few people that *really* pissed me off, but give me a break. Regardless of how tightfisted the company might be for putting all those guys in the back with paint, they are not liable for one (or more) of them being dumb enough to light up -- unless the smooth-talking lawyer can convince a dumbass jury that the reason they were that stupid was exposure to paint fumes...

Didn't anyone tell them that 13 was an unlucky number?

How come all those Mexicans have such Anglo names?