What is new in your little world?

[chopov]

Today we had a Bugatti Chiron in the development workshops of our company. Since I work in the design department and not in the workshops I only saw (and way before heard) it drive in. Damn what a beast! The sound gives you goosebumps all over.
Sorry no pics though since we aren't allowed to carry cams or phones w. cams in the company, not to mention taking photos....

That thing takes in 1,9l/km driven flat out. Thats about 1,2mpg. Lol @ dieselgate...

[phantasmagoria]

Nice!

Do you work for a car manufacturer?

[chopov]

Not directly for a manufacturer. Our company engineers from single parts up to complete cars for all the bigger car makes in europe. The dependance I am employee at works mostly for VW and some of its associated makes as for example Bugatti, Bentley and also some chinese joint ventures. But we have dependencies also at Audi, BMW, Mercedes, Porsche, Ford, Opel, Seat, Airbus...

[Don Carlos]

Nice - the Chiron looks a beast

Wandered around the Coliseo and Trevii Fountain yesterday...beautiful and amazing.

[Doombrain]

Might be signing a contract for a new job tomorrow, which means moving the family back up north (and being put on garden leave).

[YourGrandpa]

Good luck

[Whiskey 7]

We are off for another country drive tomorrow. Up in the hills and far from the coast................

Home and tired

What's been happening in the world?

[obsidian]

Went rock climbing outdoors today, turned into a rescue mission:

I was leading up a route at a nearby crag, there was another guy leading on a route to my direct right. He was about 15-20 feet higher than I was at this point, he was nearing the top and getting ready to clip into his anchors at the top. I hear him call to his belayer down below "take", signalling his belayer to pull out any extra slack since he was done climbing. I hear his belayer reply, "okay".

Next thing I hear is a yell from the climber and I see him cartwheeling in free-fall down 30 feet. As he was falling, he inverted and was going down head first, slammed shoulder first into the wall, continued to fall and came to a stop about 10 feet below me and was suspended upside down. WHAT THE FUCK!

I bail off my route and got my belayer to lower me to the ground, I untie and the two of us along with a few other climbers in the area scrambled to help. The man was slowly lowered, all the while being upside down and didn't seem responsive at all. His leg had been caught on the ropes and we couldn't lower him the last 15 feet, so I bouldered (carefully climbing without a rope) up the route he was climbing to untangle his leg. Whole process of lowering him took about 5 minutes, but he was inverted the whole time.

Finally lowered him down, and had him sit. He was severely disoriented, slow to respond and had vision issues. 911 was called, ambulance was on the way. We secured him as best we could, he was slowly regaining responsiveness. My belayer and his GF are both first-aid certified (doctors) and stayed with him while another friend and I hiked back down to the road to signal the ambulance. I lead the EMTs up the trail, they checked him out, he seemed better but they were afraid of possible unseen hemorrhaging especially since he was on blood thinners. He said he remembers falling, but did not remember us lowering him, probably blacked out at some point.

Firefighters arrived with a stretcher. We loaded him in, and since we were on really rough terrain, we all collectively hauled him out over boulders, loose rocks, tree branches, etc. forming a human chain. Last I heard, someone with him at the hospital messaged that he was doing okay, and was waiting for test results. Overall, his injuries included lacerations to his right arm and nose, rope burn and constriction to his legs, heavily bruised shoulder, and a concussion. He was wearing a helmet and it looked intact, so he didn't take a direct blow to the head. Luckily, no broken bones, no apparent spine issues, he seemed to be responding better when we were hauling him out, even joking about "don't anyone call my wife, she's gonna kill me".

My friends and I returned to investigated the climb he was on to analyse the accident. It seems as if he had two separate but identical ropes attached to him, one that he was using to lead the route (his safety line with his belayer attached to the other end), the second he was hauling up with the intention of setting it up on an adjacent route for top-rope (just dangling freely). It seems as if the climber had correctly clipped his lead rope most of the way up, but for the last 2 clips (15-20 feet) he had clipped in using the wrong rope!

So when he reached the top, he thought he was sitting back on his safety line when in fact he was resting on just a free dangling rope, thus free-falling 30 feet. When he fell far enough, his lead line finally stopped his fall, the force of which even threw his belayer off his feet.

The climber made the mistake of hauling an identical looking rope tied into the same place as his lead rope. He couldn't reliably distinguish between the two and made the mistake of using the wrong one at the end of his route. Climbing harnesses have a built in haul line tie-in point on the back specifically for this purpose that you don't mix your ropes up, I don't know why this guy neglected to use it. His second mistake was not being observant and got his ropes mixed. The third mistake was not slowly weighing himself on the rope before putting his full weight on it, he would have noticed that he was not getting any resistance.

So yeah, witnessed a climbing accident happen right next to me, ended up pulling a rescue effort. Rock climbing can potentially be a dangerous sport if you're not aware of what your doing and don't follow proper procedure.

[Captain]

I just finished a month-long freelance contract during which I worked from home and earned more than I did in several months of my last full-time job. I'm finally happy with all the mods on my car and I've been winning all of my games. Doing another training session with a former NHL goalie coach on the 21st and my girlfriend just booked our tickets to Cuba

[obsidian]

Update:

they did find seven ribs were broken and some fluid in lung and pain in low back. His blood pressure is being low now, so they needed to reduce amount of pain killer, that's why he is in pain. I keep you posted if any updates tomorrow.,His wife is doing good. I stayed with her for while and got home now.

[shaft]

Holy shit Obsidian



Well done Mazda, I would like to visit Cuba one day. Take some pics.

[MKJ]

gg obsidian, breaking the stigma of the black guy dying first

[Ryoki]

Wow obs

[Doombrain]

16 years in my company. Handing in my notice tomorrow. I might cry.

[Doombrain]

I'd like to see Cuba.

I've seen a few people get hurt riding, and helped a few. Sounds weird but I get a rush from helping out. Some people just freeze, so well done for getting stuck in.

[Captain]

Others just whip out their phones and gawk like morons, taking up valuable space and wasting oxygen.

[Doombrain]

In Scotland last year I watched someone face plant, smashed himself up good. When I got to him he was trying to get up (with teeth falling out). He had no clue who or where he was three of his five friends were stood there pointing phones at him, blood pissing everywhere.

[Captain]

Fucking retards do it while driving here "YO BILLY LOOK AT DEM CARS ALL WRECKED IMMA SNAPCHAT DIS..." *rear-ends an ambulance*

[MKJ]

16 years in my company. Handing in my notice tomorrow. I might cry.

oh noes. bittersweet I reckon.
where you off to?

[Don Carlos]

I second this...

[mrd]

@obs: Intense story. Sounds like he may have been in a bit of a hurry and it cost him.

@Mazda: Cuba is grand, hopefully you check out a couple different cities. I went a while back, I remember really liking Cienfuegos, Trinidad and Santa Clara.

[plained]

ugg i got stuck in a position where i had to listen to a boring person talk

it felt like forever...


it was like when people write those super long paragraphs in a vain attempt to portray themselves as intelligent but it only confirms the opposite !

arg could have said it in a few concise words!

[HM-PuFFNSTuFF]

life is rough i guess

[plained]

yea good point.

thanks god!

[Captain]

@Mazda: Cuba is grand, hopefully you check out a couple different cities. I went a while back, I remember really liking Cienfuegos, Trinidad and Santa Clara.

I would've loved to see Santa Clara for the history alone (viva Che!) but we booked an all-inclusive stay in Holguin and the resort there is apparently #1 in the entire country. We tried to come up with a plan to get to Varadero and Havana but it ended up too expensive. We'll have to take another trip for that