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(MSNBC)   "U.S. Mines Still Not Safe Enough, Experts Say." Apparently they keep exploding when you step on them   (msnbc.msn.com) divider line
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Adelbert
2007-01-03 5:59:39 PM  
Very funny, smitty, +1.

I was going to go into an anti-land mine tirade, but then I read TFA. So much for that.
 
UVbLue
2007-01-03 6:27:32 PM  
groooooaannnnnnnnn
 
Sticky Hands
2007-01-03 6:28:13 PM  
Then I shouldn't have used them in place of cobblestones?
 
untrustworthy
2007-01-03 6:29:47 PM  
[image from home.comcast.net too old to be available]

"That's what they get for not having an education."
 
hisphrenic
2007-01-03 6:30:25 PM  
We're better than China, but not by enough.
 
Clint Zombie
2007-01-03 6:31:34 PM  
"What are those things called? You know, you bury it and when somebody steps on it, it explodes?"
 
PopeyeCon
2007-01-03 6:31:45 PM  
Coal mines still unsafe, a year after tragedy.

Yes - quite amusing.
 
proleboy
2007-01-03 6:32:17 PM  
# Wireless communications won't be required until 2009;
# Underground emergency safe rooms are still not required by law; and
# Mines have another year to position more rescue teams.

Required?! Law?! Another year?! These jackass mining companies! People's lives are at risk and they wont fix things till someone makes them.
 
Lickalottapuss
2007-01-03 6:32:28 PM  
Really, giant holes cut deep into mountain sides are dangerous?
 
Rootus
2007-01-03 6:33:27 PM  
Golf clap, smitty.
 
untrustworthy
2007-01-03 6:33:29 PM  
PopeyeCon: Yes - quite amusing.

[image from home.comcast.net too old to be available]

"Waaah-Waaaaaaah"
 
Thenixon
2007-01-03 6:35:09 PM  
can't we outsource our mines?
 
BobtheFascist
2007-01-03 6:35:59 PM  
Gonna go out on a limb here. You'd think common sense would tell you a big, man-made hole in the ground would not be the safest of places.
 
Sensei Can You See [TotalFark]
2007-01-03 6:35:59 PM  
untrustworthy: "That's what they get for not having an education."

Is it true that this man has no dick?
 
untrustworthy
2007-01-03 6:38:14 PM  
Thenixon: can't we outsource our mines?

We could hire the illegal immigrants. I've heard they're pretty good at digging.
 
Clint Zombie
2007-01-03 6:41:57 PM  
untrustworthy


"Yes, it's true. This man has no dick."
 
Manfred J. Hattan
2007-01-03 6:42:45 PM  
"One year ago Tuesday, the nation was holding its breath for 13 miners..."

Aw, geez.
 
portscanner
2007-01-03 6:42:52 PM  
I will never trust them. Anyone who dresses in black, puts on white face paint and never speaks has got to be a few beers short a six pack.

/ Anyone else read that as "US miMes still not safe"?
 
IXI Jim IXI
2007-01-03 6:48:16 PM  
One year ago Tuesday, the nation was holding its breath for 13 miners who were trapped deep inside the Sago Mine near Buckhannon, W. Va.

I think the miners would have preferred if the nation was BREATHING for them instead...
 
serutan
2007-01-03 6:49:23 PM  
What could be safer than working with heavy equipment in tunnels hundreds of feet underground?
 
JohnathanZX4
2007-01-03 6:49:29 PM  
Obvious tag feels left out...
 
IXI Jim IXI
2007-01-03 6:51:02 PM  
serutan: What could be safer than working with heavy equipment in tunnels hundreds of feet underground?

Being Mike Tyson's dentist?
 
ippolit
2007-01-03 6:51:58 PM  
From Best of the Web Today earlier this afternoon:


They Still Blow Up When You Step on Them
"U.S. Mines Still Not Safe Enough, Experts Say"--headline, MSNBC.com, Jan. 2
 
ne2d
2007-01-03 6:56:34 PM  
Today's link and headline joke copied almost verbatim from Best of the Web Today brought to you by subby.
 
ne2d
2007-01-03 6:58:00 PM  
D'oh! ippolit beat me to it.
 
PopeyeCon
2007-01-03 7:00:30 PM  
untrustworthy:

Aw, now you've gone and hurt my feelings.

just sayin' - the amusing tag is an odd choice.
 
Clint Zombie
2007-01-03 7:02:17 PM  
IXI Jim IXI


On....fi-yah.....
 
jeff_is_not_emo
2007-01-03 7:22:03 PM  
I see what you did there.
 
The_Sponge [TotalFark]
2007-01-03 7:22:50 PM  
Have any of you Farkers seen "Kelly's Heroes"?

It's a WWII movie starring Clint Eastwood, Don Rickles, etc.

Anyhow, there's a classic scene where Don Rickles discovers a land mine, and one of the other G.I.'s asks him what kind it is. His response: "The kind that blow up!"

/Don Rickles fan.
//Saw him perform in Vegas back in '98.
 
Trex
2007-01-03 7:51:21 PM  
Thanks to whomever for correctly spelling "exploding"
 
blahpers
2007-01-03 8:26:15 PM  
Trex: Thanks to whomever for correctly spelling "exploding"

Yeah, that cliché is getting old. I'm totally cereal.
/not cereal
 
Reveilled
2007-01-03 8:58:22 PM  
There was a study on the news a few months ago that found that people who drive 10,000 miles a year for their work are at equal risk of a fatal accident as a miner down a pit.
 
Spenser
2007-01-03 9:30:01 PM  
Ever see that thing on Nightline or Dateline, whatever... where they try to lure these guys into illegal sex with miners? You'd never think so many guys want to screw a miner.
 
studebaker hoch
2007-01-03 9:36:07 PM  
ippolit pwns smitty.
 
KingDead42
2007-01-03 9:58:51 PM  
Lickalottapuss

Really, giant holes cut deep into mountain sides are dangerous?

Next someone's going to point out that the ones that dig up combustible materials are even more dangerous.
 
Languator
2007-01-03 10:00:16 PM  
Does anyone have a current photo link to commonly used landmines?

I'd hate to have an early heart attack when the war is over and they bring home defused paperweight versions for the kids to leave on my doorstep... You know like the 8 million paperweight defused hand grenades from vietnam you've seen in your lifetime.
 
crypt0z0ic
2007-01-03 10:05:10 PM  
"We need to have a way to communicate with trapped miners," McAteer says.

Ch, just hire Sylvia Browne.

Oh, wait...
 
Languator
2007-01-03 10:07:11 PM  
Oh goddamnit, now I read the article. But seriously. I think teachers in my high school saved vietnam-era paperweight hand grenades that you could buy at any flea market for $10, and left them on their desks as kind of a personality test for new students. "Yes, son its real don't touch it"... Click toss!! Uh oh another psycho kid this year...
 
meuchler696
2007-01-03 11:23:55 PM  
"Oh sir, just one thing. If we should happen to tread on a mine, what do we do?"

"Well, normal procedure, Lieutenant, is to jump 200 feet
into the air and scatter yourself over a wide area."
 
Holdtheroll
2007-01-03 11:28:54 PM  
Discovery is airing a show on Sago next week, January 10th.
 
mistergecko
2007-01-03 11:58:33 PM  
pfft! they shouldn't be working mining jobs if they don't want to be in danger. just go to college and become a doctor or something. anybody can do it.
 
Bastinado
2007-01-05 9:25:58 AM  
I work in an underground mine, and I'm finding all these posts very amusing....


/no, really.
 
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