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Danger! Danger!
I stopped at a garage sale on the way to the tomato festival, and I filled up my cooler at the festival, so when I stopped at Aldi's on the way home, I had to take some back-up bungees out of storage to get all my groceries attached. After everything was battened down, I noticed a tag fluttering from one of the new bungees and ripped it off. It reads: --------------------- Stretch cord carefully. Uncontrolled release can cause severe injury to unprotected body parts, particularly eyes. Maximum stretch-length 50% of unstretched cord. Overstretching cord can cause hook failure, resulting in sudden, uncontrolled release. Wear safety glasses when attaching and releasing. --------------------- Man, I don't even *own* a pair of safety glasses! What a daredevil I've been all these years. Note that it never mentioned the danger in failing to attach all hooks. A dangling bungee can catch in your spokes, which will wreck the bungee, wreck the wheel, or send you over the handlebars. -- `joy beeson at comcast dot net http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ The above message is a Usenet post. I don't recall having given anyone permission to use it on a Web site. |
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On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 23:41:34 -0300, Joy Beeson
wrote: I stopped at a garage sale on the way to the tomato festival, and I filled up my cooler at the festival, so when I stopped at Aldi's on the way home, I had to take some back-up bungees out of storage to get all my groceries attached. After everything was battened down, I noticed a tag fluttering from one of the new bungees and ripped it off. It reads: --------------------- Stretch cord carefully. Uncontrolled release can cause severe injury to unprotected body parts, particularly eyes. Maximum stretch-length 50% of unstretched cord. Overstretching cord can cause hook failure, resulting in sudden, uncontrolled release. Wear safety glasses when attaching and releasing. --------------------- Man, I don't even *own* a pair of safety glasses! What a daredevil I've been all these years. Note that it never mentioned the danger in failing to attach all hooks. A dangling bungee can catch in your spokes, which will wreck the bungee, wreck the wheel, or send you over the handlebars. Well, there you go. (It must be Hate a Safety Man Week) a good friend in the petroleum drilling business just sent me a cost study on cost per foot to drill an oil well and his chart shows an almost vertical line from the time HSE, he calls it, got to be the new Big Thing. Just as general information it cost $ 13.22 a foot in 1960 to drill an oil well, in 1995 it cost $78.09, in 2000, $126.96, in 2005 it was 314.36 and in 2007 $717.13. Today? God only knows. -- cheers, John B. |
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With the number of bungee cords I see by the roadside, I'm not going to
trust my cargo to them. And I have had one come loose and go into the spokes. These days I tie things on using a length of old inner tube. There always seems to be plenty of that to go around. |
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On 8/27/2015 10:41 PM, Joy Beeson wrote:
I stopped at a garage sale on the way to the tomato festival, Ah. Some friends and I provided music for a tomato festival today. and I filled up my cooler at the festival, so when I stopped at Aldi's on the way home, I had to take some back-up bungees out of storage to get all my groceries attached. After everything was battened down, I noticed a tag fluttering from one of the new bungees and ripped it off. It reads: --------------------- Stretch cord carefully. Uncontrolled release can cause severe injury to unprotected body parts, particularly eyes. Maximum stretch-length 50% of unstretched cord. Overstretching cord can cause hook failure, resulting in sudden, uncontrolled release. Wear safety glasses when attaching and releasing. --------------------- Man, I don't even *own* a pair of safety glasses! What a daredevil I've been all these years. Note that it never mentioned the danger in failing to attach all hooks. A dangling bungee can catch in your spokes, which will wreck the bungee, wreck the wheel, or send you over the handlebars. FWIW: When my wife, daughter and I rode coast to coast some years back, we had only two minor injuries, IIRC. Both were my daughter's. One was a bungee cord injury. As she was stretching one to tie down her sleeping bag, it slipped and hit her in the lip. She had a nice big bubble in her lip for several days afterwards. So I agree with the first three words of the sticker. The next sentence is true, in the sense that bungees are one of a million things that CAN cause severe injury. The rest is overkill. -- - Frank Krygowski |
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On Sat, 29 Aug 2015 20:13:54 -0400, Frank Krygowski
wrote: On 8/27/2015 10:41 PM, Joy Beeson wrote: I stopped at a garage sale on the way to the tomato festival, Ah. Some friends and I provided music for a tomato festival today. and I filled up my cooler at the festival, so when I stopped at Aldi's on the way home, I had to take some back-up bungees out of storage to get all my groceries attached. After everything was battened down, I noticed a tag fluttering from one of the new bungees and ripped it off. It reads: --------------------- Stretch cord carefully. Uncontrolled release can cause severe injury to unprotected body parts, particularly eyes. Maximum stretch-length 50% of unstretched cord. Overstretching cord can cause hook failure, resulting in sudden, uncontrolled release. Wear safety glasses when attaching and releasing. --------------------- Man, I don't even *own* a pair of safety glasses! What a daredevil I've been all these years. Note that it never mentioned the danger in failing to attach all hooks. A dangling bungee can catch in your spokes, which will wreck the bungee, wreck the wheel, or send you over the handlebars. FWIW: When my wife, daughter and I rode coast to coast some years back, we had only two minor injuries, IIRC. Both were my daughter's. One was a bungee cord injury. As she was stretching one to tie down her sleeping bag, it slipped and hit her in the lip. She had a nice big bubble in her lip for several days afterwards. So I agree with the first three words of the sticker. The next sentence is true, in the sense that bungees are one of a million things that CAN cause severe injury. The rest is overkill. Bungee's are a very low priority item. When I was about 8 years old I fell out of a tree, I fell off a horse once or twice, my brother had a ram sheep knock him down several times before he could get out of the barnyard, my cousin fell on a pitch fork and drove a tine through his calf. My mother caught her hand in a clothes wringer". Hot Damn! Life is just full of dangers. (Why doesn't the government Do Something) -- cheers, John B. |
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On 8/30/2015 2:29 AM, John B. wrote:
On Sat, 29 Aug 2015 20:13:54 -0400, Frank Krygowski wrote: On 8/27/2015 10:41 PM, Joy Beeson wrote: I stopped at a garage sale on the way to the tomato festival, Ah. Some friends and I provided music for a tomato festival today. and I filled up my cooler at the festival, so when I stopped at Aldi's on the way home, I had to take some back-up bungees out of storage to get all my groceries attached. After everything was battened down, I noticed a tag fluttering from one of the new bungees and ripped it off. It reads: --------------------- Stretch cord carefully. Uncontrolled release can cause severe injury to unprotected body parts, particularly eyes. Maximum stretch-length 50% of unstretched cord. Overstretching cord can cause hook failure, resulting in sudden, uncontrolled release. Wear safety glasses when attaching and releasing. --------------------- Man, I don't even *own* a pair of safety glasses! What a daredevil I've been all these years. Note that it never mentioned the danger in failing to attach all hooks. A dangling bungee can catch in your spokes, which will wreck the bungee, wreck the wheel, or send you over the handlebars. FWIW: When my wife, daughter and I rode coast to coast some years back, we had only two minor injuries, IIRC. Both were my daughter's. One was a bungee cord injury. As she was stretching one to tie down her sleeping bag, it slipped and hit her in the lip. She had a nice big bubble in her lip for several days afterwards. So I agree with the first three words of the sticker. The next sentence is true, in the sense that bungees are one of a million things that CAN cause severe injury. The rest is overkill. Bungee's are a very low priority item. When I was about 8 years old I fell out of a tree, I fell off a horse once or twice, my brother had a ram sheep knock him down several times before he could get out of the barnyard, my cousin fell on a pitch fork and drove a tine through his calf. My mother caught her hand in a clothes wringer". Hot Damn! Life is just full of dangers. (Why doesn't the government Do Something) Oh, but it is! It's spreading "Danger! Danger!" warnings! -- - Frank Krygowski |
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On Sun, 30 Aug 2015 09:50:49 -0400, Frank Krygowski
wrote: On 8/30/2015 2:29 AM, John B. wrote: On Sat, 29 Aug 2015 20:13:54 -0400, Frank Krygowski wrote: On 8/27/2015 10:41 PM, Joy Beeson wrote: I stopped at a garage sale on the way to the tomato festival, Ah. Some friends and I provided music for a tomato festival today. and I filled up my cooler at the festival, so when I stopped at Aldi's on the way home, I had to take some back-up bungees out of storage to get all my groceries attached. After everything was battened down, I noticed a tag fluttering from one of the new bungees and ripped it off. It reads: --------------------- Stretch cord carefully. Uncontrolled release can cause severe injury to unprotected body parts, particularly eyes. Maximum stretch-length 50% of unstretched cord. Overstretching cord can cause hook failure, resulting in sudden, uncontrolled release. Wear safety glasses when attaching and releasing. --------------------- Man, I don't even *own* a pair of safety glasses! What a daredevil I've been all these years. Note that it never mentioned the danger in failing to attach all hooks. A dangling bungee can catch in your spokes, which will wreck the bungee, wreck the wheel, or send you over the handlebars. FWIW: When my wife, daughter and I rode coast to coast some years back, we had only two minor injuries, IIRC. Both were my daughter's. One was a bungee cord injury. As she was stretching one to tie down her sleeping bag, it slipped and hit her in the lip. She had a nice big bubble in her lip for several days afterwards. So I agree with the first three words of the sticker. The next sentence is true, in the sense that bungees are one of a million things that CAN cause severe injury. The rest is overkill. Bungee's are a very low priority item. When I was about 8 years old I fell out of a tree, I fell off a horse once or twice, my brother had a ram sheep knock him down several times before he could get out of the barnyard, my cousin fell on a pitch fork and drove a tine through his calf. My mother caught her hand in a clothes wringer". Hot Damn! Life is just full of dangers. (Why doesn't the government Do Something) Oh, but it is! It's spreading "Danger! Danger!" warnings! It seemingly defeats Darwin's theory as we now, apparently, have survival of the un-fittest :-) -- cheers, John B. |
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On Mon, 31 Aug 2015 07:08:03 +0700, John B.
wrote: On Sun, 30 Aug 2015 09:50:49 -0400, Frank Krygowski wrote: On 8/30/2015 2:29 AM, John B. wrote: On Sat, 29 Aug 2015 20:13:54 -0400, Frank Krygowski wrote: On 8/27/2015 10:41 PM, Joy Beeson wrote: I stopped at a garage sale on the way to the tomato festival, Ah. Some friends and I provided music for a tomato festival today. and I filled up my cooler at the festival, so when I stopped at Aldi's on the way home, I had to take some back-up bungees out of storage to get all my groceries attached. After everything was battened down, I noticed a tag fluttering from one of the new bungees and ripped it off. It reads: --------------------- Stretch cord carefully. Uncontrolled release can cause severe injury to unprotected body parts, particularly eyes. Maximum stretch-length 50% of unstretched cord. Overstretching cord can cause hook failure, resulting in sudden, uncontrolled release. Wear safety glasses when attaching and releasing. --------------------- Man, I don't even *own* a pair of safety glasses! What a daredevil I've been all these years. Note that it never mentioned the danger in failing to attach all hooks. A dangling bungee can catch in your spokes, which will wreck the bungee, wreck the wheel, or send you over the handlebars. FWIW: When my wife, daughter and I rode coast to coast some years back, we had only two minor injuries, IIRC. Both were my daughter's. One was a bungee cord injury. As she was stretching one to tie down her sleeping bag, it slipped and hit her in the lip. She had a nice big bubble in her lip for several days afterwards. So I agree with the first three words of the sticker. The next sentence is true, in the sense that bungees are one of a million things that CAN cause severe injury. The rest is overkill. Bungee's are a very low priority item. When I was about 8 years old I fell out of a tree, I fell off a horse once or twice, my brother had a ram sheep knock him down several times before he could get out of the barnyard, my cousin fell on a pitch fork and drove a tine through his calf. My mother caught her hand in a clothes wringer". Hot Damn! Life is just full of dangers. (Why doesn't the government Do Something) Oh, but it is! It's spreading "Danger! Danger!" warnings! It seemingly defeats Darwin's theory as we now, apparently, have survival of the un-fittest :-) Yup, innovation does protect those who would have been wiped out of the gene pool. Like eye glasses. Now folks who would have been walking in front of bikes and cars can see them coming. No fair. |
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,,,cord injury. As she was stretching one to tie down her
sleeping bag, it slipped and hit her in the lip. She had a nice big bubble in her lip for several days afterwards. So I agree with the first three words of the sticker. The next sentence is true, in the sense that bungees are one of a million things that CAN cause severe injury. The rest is overkill. Bungee's are a very low priority item. When I was about 8 years old I fell out of a tree, I fell off a horse once or twice, my brother had a ram sheep knock him down several times before he could get out of the barnyard, my cousin fell on a pitch fork and drove a tine through his calf. My mother caught her hand in a clothes wringer". Hot Damn! Life is just full of dangers. (Why doesn't the government Do Something) Oh, but it is! It's spreading "Danger! Danger!" warnings! Those things should have warnings on them. I had one fall into the gears and they came to a (grinding) halt and I went flying. I use them on the bike only with very careful attention. I've had other people tell me that similar things happened to them while using bungie cords on a bike. |
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On 10/19/2015 10:56 PM, dgk wrote:
Those things [bungee cords] should have warnings on them. I had one fall into the gears and they came to a (grinding) halt and I went flying. I use them on the bike only with very careful attention. I've had other people tell me that similar things happened to them while using bungie cords on a bike. I can visualize a CPSC-mandated, bungee-proof bike. Disk wheel covers front and back, wide fenders to direct falling bungees away from the wheels, plus full chainguards so the bungee has nothing to snag on. Oh, and breakaway hooks on the bungees, plus tension limits on the cord itself. Nothing but the fenders would work very well, but it would be safe. -- - Frank Krygowski |
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