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Oh stewardess, I speak jive. |
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Spread the Disease |
Damn. I missed the photo.' I've come close to what is described, but luckily not yet. ________________________________________ -- Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. -- | |||
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You give me five minutes, and I will get you your chicken burrito. ____________________ | |||
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come and take it |
Yes, fortunately it was over the garage. I have a few SIGs. | |||
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War Story: My partner, myself and another cop with a very bitey doggie responded to a burglar alarm at a Radio Shack. One burglar made it to a car with my partner and I in pursuit. A steel utility pole brought that aspect of the event to a successful conclusion and I went back to the store. The nice doggie was staring up at the ceiling. We found a ladder and a ceiling hatch open in the back room. The nice doggie climbed right up the ladder and a lot of noise began began in the attic space. Burglar, with doggie attached, fell through the ceiling and onto a glass display case. ER trip for the burglar and jail. Doggie got a nice treat. End of Earth: 2 Miles Upper Peninsula: 4 Miles | |||
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So let it be written, so let it be done... |
A few years ago I came home to find my Dad in a very similar position. 'veritas non verba magistri' | |||
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Gone but Together Again. Dad & Uncle |
My Dad did it! He was in the attic and put his leg through right above the landing area to the basement of their single story ranch home. Rather than simply patch the big hole, he turned it into a second access into the attic with a pulley system for the door he created. Quite innovative and handy was he! | |||
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My other Sig is a Steyr. |
Glad to hear that you are okay after this one. Had a buddy of mine send both feet through the sheetrock ceiling at a local church. They went on either side of a rafter. Oaths and insults filled the air. Never asked if he could still have kids after that. | |||
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And say my glory was I had such friends. |
After my sophomore year of college my summer job was with a pest control company that also blew rock wool into attics. As the new guy, I got the job of going up with the flashlight and the remote control for the chopper/blower for a week. My next week started with a similar fall. I ended up be transferred to the post of loading the rock wool bundles into the Cooper /blower machine. Not a bad trade from 150 degree attics to 90 degrees outside. Plus my itch factor dropped like a rock. "I don't shoot well, but I shoot often." - Pres. T. Roosevelt | |||
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I did. Luck was on my side it was about a foot and a half into the garage past the kitchen wall. That made it much easier to patch ... not to mention a much happier wife. _________ Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right. Henry Ford | |||
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Many years ago, a coworker of my wife wanted a ceiling fan in one of their rooms. My wife volunteered me to install it. First, it was 90 deg outside. I went into the attic to run wire to the new fan. The coworkers husband asked if he could help. I told him, yes, but not in the attic. Of course before I realized he had come into the attic, he put his foot through the ceiling. So, I answered no, I did not, but he did. I suffered from with my very first round of heat exhaustion from that. NRA Life Endowment member Tri-State Gun collectors Life Member | |||
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I thought this would be about taking a leak in the pool. | |||
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Too old to run, too mean to quit! |
Yes, I did it, but not nearly that bad!! Just cracked the wallboard, which was easily repaired. Elk There has never been an occasion where a people gave up their weapons in the interest of peace that didn't end in their massacre. (Louis L'Amour) "To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical. " -Thomas Jefferson "America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great." Alexis de Tocqueville FBHO!!! The Idaho Elk Hunter | |||
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Plowing straight ahead come what may |
Yep...I confess...once ******************************************************** "we've gotta roll with the punches, learn to play all of our hunches Making the best of what ever comes our way Forget that blind ambition and learn to trust your intuition Plowing straight ahead come what may And theres a cowboy in the jungle" Jimmy Buffet | |||
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The cake is a lie! |
I didn't fall through, but while walking around the attic, I caused a bunch of fractures along the ceiling in the garage and kitchen while investigating a water leak. | |||
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Yes here. What made things worse was it was a house that was for sale and I was previewing with my realtor and not interested in buying. Can't remember what possessed me to be up there in the first place. The ceiling was those 12" square fiber like tiles and I only knocked down 4 with my foot. Although I offered to pay, my realtor handled it though maybe he upped his commission in the end to make up for it. | |||
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I've done it - right leg went through into the hallway below and right elbow went into a bathroom. I was hung up on an interior wall. Yelled for the wife to come help me out and she replied, "Where are you?" I told her to come upstairs and look for the leg sticking out of the ceiling. Broke my thumb on the way down, but not badly. | |||
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Keeping the economy moving since 1964 |
I've done it in reverse. Many years and 100 pounds ago, sitting in the kitchen with some friends, I was bragging about how high I could jump. Noting the 9 foot ceiling, I stated that I could jump and touch it with the top of my head (I am 6-2). Nobody believed me so I got up and jumped. Put a nice round hole in the drywall ceiling. Damned lucky I didn't hit a joist or I could have snapped my neck. Alcohol may have been involved..... ----------------------- You can't fall off the floor. | |||
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