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Originally posted by pritchke:
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Originally posted by Bungleau:
I can't think of anyone really weird... wait. Not necessarily weird, per se, but somewhat stupid.
Dingbat #1: My brother's friend from school. We had a box fan that my grandfather had built (literally) from a 2x8 board, a fan blade and motor, an electrical box with a light switch, and a cage around it. The switch was inside the cage, and dingbat #1 decides one day, while he's talking on the phone, to turn the fan off. Without looking. He missed the switch. It was not one of those plastic safety fan blades, but a real metal one from the 1950s. One trip to the ER, coming up.
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That actually sounds like a safty hazard. You should modify it put the switch on the outside and some type of mesh or cage over the front. To many dingbats out there plus children who are still getting used to the world.
If I had a quarter for each dingbat I met.... [/QUOTE]Oh, it was definitely a safety hazard. But this fan was built 50 years ago easy; to make it "safe" would cost more than a new fan. And my brother's friend was 16 years old or thereabouts... not exactly a child who might play around with the fan to their dismay. There were also no children around, and whenever we *did* have people over, we moved the fan out of harm's way (or harming's way). In any case, I think the fan is long since retired.
Point is, you... just hearing about the fan, let alone looking at it... said in your mind "wow! That thing is dangerous, and I would need to be careful around it". That's a normal, rational response in my book. Apparently, his normal rational response button is broken... and it hasn't gotten much better in the years since, AFAIK.