While stationed on okinawa years ago we got a strange call in our units
readiness office.  They wanted our heavy wrecker and crew for it that was
also scuba qualified.  Two of us in the office were qualified to crew the
wrecker (but not operate) and diver certified.  Our vehicle ops dispactched
to the marina and find that somebody had tried to use a fork lift as the
beaching tow (totally incorrect procedure) for a rescue craft and at the
wrong tide level (restricted to high tide).  The fork got onto the slippery
sloping concrete and went straight into the water and 15 foot down.
(fortunately stayed upright. About every 10 minutes while we were setting up
the major was over cussing out his idiots and then back begging that we were
going to be able to get the fork back out in servicable condition.  We did
but it took three tanks apiece on air and 4 hours to maneuver it up and out.
Base motor pool said it was a write off but our motor pool took it and had
it running in a day and returned to an extremely thankful major (with access
to many valuable trading goods -those knowledgable in military tactical
units will understand that one).  Base safety office was really upset!!

Idiots of the world are unfortunatly very common.
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On 12/18/04 2:48 PM, "John Rodgers" <inua@CHARTER.NET> wrote:

> Whatever the doctoring of the pictures went on,  I tought the tongue in
> cheek caption and the associated pictures were pretty funny.
> 
> I have seen first hand such doofus stuff happen
> 
> In front of my shop some years ago on the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska, the
> State was upgrading a highway. Lots of belly dumps hauling and dumping
> to fill and level the road. Some guy got his belly dump stuck somehow
> crosswise the road and it blocked hiway traffice both directions. The
> contractor started screaming and shouting, and the truck driver got out,
> looked around, reached back inside and got his lunchbox an hardhat, and
> walked away, leaving the belly dump sitting in the middle of the
> highway. He got in a pickup just a little ways down the road and drove
> off, just leaving the belly dump and the contractor to deal with it all.
> 
> Like I said....doofus stuff sometimes.
> 
> In Alaska I also saw a guy get a D-8 Cat stuck in a permafrost bog where
> the insulating top layer of moss and grass had been cleared and the ice
> melted underneath. He drove out to do some more scraping and down it
> went. By the time they got something in there big enough to get the D-8
> out, it had sunk in to the point that only the flat metal top of the cab
> was about 6 inches above the mud.
> 
> Doofus stuff.
> 
> John Rodgers
> 88 GL Driver
> 
> ohn Rodgers wrote:
> 
>> Sorry I missed The Frydaye Follies, Guys, but check it out!!
>> 
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>> 
>> John Rodgers
>> 88 GL Driver
>> 
>> 
> 
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