shift_DAWG: ... and your brother reminds me of Chris Farley who, uhm, pretty much committed suicide.

It seems that my brother remind everyone of Chris Farley as well as Peter Griffin.

Well for those of you who do not know, in the footsteps of John Belushi, the death of Chris Farley is interesting. He basically died from "speedballing." Even if Chris Farley did not die of an overdose, he would of died early anyway because of his morbidity relating to his heavy drinking.

DarrPara: zinc or swim zwim?

FTFY

/just looked weird with only the s

shift_DAWG: ... so it turns out ther *IS* a cure for sexual deviance.

That's exactly what I was thinking. It even seems to be of the "do-it-yourself" variety! Now we're just waiting for the home game.

News, hyuk.

Not news, hehe.

Fark! LOL!

Whoops, Rotsky.

Winner in question: Link (new window)

How is he a dumbass. I mean, he successful did what he aimed at doing. I think the dumbass tag would apply if he failed and was found alive, but just pinned or something. HA HA

Probably got the idea from the movie 'The Fly'

Oy, the puns! And I like puns.

Mustn't forget the episode in Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle":

... and as for the other men, who worked in tank rooms full of steam, and in some of which there were open vats near the level of the floor, their peculiar trouble was that they fell into the vats; and when they were fished out, there was never enough of them left to be worth exhibiting-sometimes they would be overlooked for days, till all but the bones of them had gone out to the world as Durham's Pure Leaf Lard!

Thank Upton for the FDA!

Hm, maybe he wanted to be a metaphor for modern life...

Or else he was imitating Charlier Chaplin in the movie "Modern Life"

FTFA - Pennington was working at TDK under the alias Lawrence Joe Fox and was a wanted sex offender in Arizona, but officials did not learn his true identity until after his death.

I'm betting someone was about to out him and he'd rather die then go to PMITA jail.

GomezAdams
About 25 years ago here in Tampa there was a guy who bought some car jacks, went out into the parking lot and jacked his car up. He then crawled under and knocked one of the jacks out to be crushed to death. Must have been hardcore to do it that way.

True Story from my town: Police get a 911 call from a despondent woman who sounds drunk and says she's going to cut herself, so the cop goes to her house to check on her. The driveway is kind of steep, cresting to a flat spot at the top. The cop pulls into the driveway and realizes he has parked on top of the woman who passed out in the driveway. She lived, and with a horrible muffler burn.

/town PD is good for about one Barney Fife story/week

Offing yourself at work is nothing new.

I worked at a place in Florida. A test technician announced he was going out to his truck. A few minutes later we heard sirens. That very guy had gone out to his truck... where he stuck the business end of a shotgun in his mouth and pulled the trigger. Pretty weird.

SQUISH!

/got nuthin'

I am here to see any pic captioned with "nom nom nom"

/leaving disappointed.

Attention Whore!

Pics or it didn't happen.

Agreed. I heard this same story years ago.

I would imagine it's happened in any steel mill that has a galv line. Basically the steel runs through a huge multi-story machine which applies the molten zinc. The only real safety function is a small gate (which is designed to stop people from tripping and falling in, not those who want to jump in)

The pots are on a level below these guys, but you get the idea:

gopher321: "You're terminated, f*cker!"

You're terminated, dumb f*ucker

What about Thumb Sucker?

We all feel the squeeze at work from time to time. To relieve pressure I usually just got to a pub and get smashed. That usually flattens things out a bit.

And no, the asshat didn`t lock out the machine.

In the parking garage where I work some woman got pissed at her manager so she got in her car and set herself on fire. That really showed her boss!

ten_of_spades: We had one guy who lost it one day and jumped into a pot of molten zinc.

MasterThief: I'm assuming he could not zwim?

Nope, he zunk!

//right to ze bottom

Dirk paused, watching the head revolving patiently around on the record platter for a few moments.

"You know, these smart-alec show-off suicides really make me tired," the officer said. "They only do it to annoy."

"Suicide?" exclaimed Dirk.

"Windows secured with iron bars half an inch thick. Door locked from the inside with the key still in the lock. Furniture piled against the inside of the door. French windows to the patio locked with mortise door bolts. No sign if a tunnel. If it was murder, then the murderer must have stopped to do a damn fine job of glazing on the way out, except all the putty is old and painted over. No, nobody's left this room, and nobody has broken into it except us, and I'm pretty sure that WE didn't kill the poor sot."

Polyron: Winner in question.

As this is Maricopa Az, I'll chalk this up to not wanting the pink undies.
/Some body add this to "Manly ways to kill yourself" ^tm list.

Sever your leg please, sir. It's a great day!

/got nuthin

Hardcore, indeed. RIP you crazy hardcore motherfarker.

To the person that said he's surprised it hasn't happened more on the job in retail enviornments: I used to work in retail, and I can name a handful of ways..

1) Electrocution (metal stick, lightpole)
2) Crushing (cardboard bailer, trash compactor)
3) Falling (11ft tall stock ladder, concrete floor)
4) Slice and dice ('safety' knives)
5) Hanging (support beams in stockroom)
6) Beheading (trailer doors with old fashioned chain setups).

Some days...

This kind of reminds me of the infamous Hammer Suicide here in Houston. Apparently some guy hit himself in the head 43 times with a hammer and killed himself.

And just to cheapen the death a tad more, a scene from the ending of TERMINATOR #1.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=tOP0lGqk9bg

Once when I toured Stelco (big Canadian steel company), they showed the huge vats they use for molten steel. The guide said that a worker fell in once, but they never figured out if it was suicide or an accident. There was just a puff of steam and nothing left.

It rather spoiled the batch because it gave it too high a phosphor content, but they did eventually find a buyer for it.

CluelessMoron

I worked at Stelco, so I'm getting a kick out of ....

RockIsDead: Life is such a grind.

Oh waiter! I would like the finest bottle of win that you have, please. Oh and can you also bring some more bread? Thanks.

If I ever commit suicide it will involve 2 or more hookers and an OD on a blow/viagra cocktail...... I'll have a smile on my face the undertaker won't be able to take off.

Ah, the ultimate "f*ck the company" suicide.

If you're gonna go and you want to take your boss with you, that's how you do it. Plant shutdown for days while they dig your mangled body out of the equipment, OSHA shows up and grills all the management to investigate whether it was an exceptionally well done suicide or an exceiptionally poorly done accident, coworkers end off traumatized for weeks.

Quoting CluelessMoron:
Once when I toured Stelco (big Canadian steel company), they showed the huge vats they use for molten steel. The guide said that a worker fell in once, but they never figured out if it was suicide or an accident. There was just a puff of steam and nothing left.

It rather spoiled the batch because it gave it too high a phosphor content, but they did eventually find a buyer for it.

I've got your buyer right here:

What, no HERO tag?