Slog - Comments on Construction Worker Hit on Head with Sledgehammer

Comment by Jubilation T. Cornball

Jubilation T. Cornball — Wed, 21 May 2008 15:47:16 -0800

Darling, I doubt very much they'll answer you.

Comment by six shooter

six shooter — Wed, 21 May 2008 15:54:04 -0800

http://www2.seattle.gov/fire/realtime911/getRecsForDatePub.asp?action=Today&incDate=&rad1=des

Looks like a trench collapsed on someone or someone got trapped inside a vault of some sort.

Comment by Jubilation T. Cornball

Jubilation T. Cornball — Wed, 21 May 2008 15:58:42 -0800

@2 -- Like this: http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/050921/12019__panic_l.jpg ???

Comment by Jonah S

Jonah S — Wed, 21 May 2008 16:05:56 -0800

Aw...I thought it was gonna be a Silence of the Lambs "put the lotion in the basket" pic.

Comment by Fnarf

Fnarf — Wed, 21 May 2008 16:06:50 -0800

"Darling"?

That doesn't sound like fun at all. I hope he lives. I hope the guy who put the sledge down there doesn't off himself if he doesn't.

Comment by Non

Non — Wed, 21 May 2008 16:07:03 -0800

The sledge hammer was from a view condo owner at Metro Tower

Comment by Will in Seattle

Will in Seattle — Wed, 21 May 2008 16:13:45 -0800

Is this a promo for Hammerfall?

Comment by Greg

Greg — Wed, 21 May 2008 16:13:59 -0800

Somebody's getting fired.

Comment by AJ

AJ — Wed, 21 May 2008 16:19:00 -0800

Nobody fucks with Peter Gabriel and gets away with it.

NOBODY.

Comment by NapoleonXIV

NapoleonXIV — Wed, 21 May 2008 16:22:28 -0800

Why do three ambulances respond for one construction worker?

Do they flip a coin to decide who gets the transport, or is it first-come, first-served?

Comment by Mr. Poe

Mr. Poe — Wed, 21 May 2008 16:28:29 -0800

Ow.

Comment by chops

chops — Wed, 21 May 2008 16:32:54 -0800

what a scoop!

Comment by Former EMT

Former EMT — Wed, 21 May 2008 16:34:06 -0800

3 ambulances would respond to a call like this because you don't know for certain how many are injured. Crowded construction site, crane acident...lots of ugly possibilities. Dispatch doesn't always get the right info either. See above "man fell out of crane"...

Comment by six shooter

six shooter — Wed, 21 May 2008 16:40:13 -0800

@10 - the Incident Commander on scene decides which "Ambulance" will transport the patient(s). The IC usually lets the paramedics choose.

For what it's worth, there are usually only as many "ambulances" on scene as there are patients. Usually the other "ambulances" are aid and medic cars. The cars are usually a means of transportation for the paramedics and EMTS. They also carry a lot of cool drugs and devices which come in handy when people are trying to not die.

Comment by Catalina Vel-DuRay

Catalina Vel-DuRay — Wed, 21 May 2008 16:59:21 -0800

God, how awful. A hardhat won't help much against something like that.

Back when I was in the Stagehand union you couldn't have any tools above a certain height from the stage without having a harness for them. But I don't know how you'd harness a sledge. In my youth - which was much skinnier - the harnessed sledge would probably have just taken me with it.

Comment by Fnarf

Fnarf — Wed, 21 May 2008 17:08:02 -0800

But unlike the sledge, Catalina, you could scream on the way down, thereby alerting the fellow below to move out of the way and avoiding injury.

You, of course, would have been impaled.

Comment by ecce homo

ecce homo — Wed, 21 May 2008 17:09:39 -0800

Fuck him.

I hope he dies for fucking up this city. Or has to live with a ead injury. Drooling vegetables are fucking funny!!!!!!!

Just another development nazi destroying seattle bites the dust.

Big deal

Comment by Jubilation T. Cornball

Jubilation T. Cornball — Wed, 21 May 2008 17:15:07 -0800

Ecce!!!!

Comment by Blunderplank

Blunderplank — Wed, 21 May 2008 17:15:11 -0800

"A hardhat won't help much against something like that."

The guy is alive, no? Without that hat, the hammer would have gone right through his skull.

Comment by CommonKnowledge

CommonKnowledge — Wed, 21 May 2008 17:17:00 -0800

Two years ago while walking downtown by the Sheraton construction a piece of sharp metal came flying from the inside of the building landing not two feet in front of me, shocking the guts out of me. whoooooosh, whoooosh, CLANK!. A stunned tourist had an OMG face. Not a peep from the constructioneers.

Comment by Leon Trotsky

Leon Trotsky — Wed, 21 May 2008 18:05:13 -0800

I will not survive this attack. Stalin has accomplished what he set out to do. I want you to undress me.

Comment by umvue

umvue — Wed, 21 May 2008 18:13:03 -0800

Hurray! Another TBI for HS!

Comment by Damien

Damien — Wed, 21 May 2008 18:59:07 -0800

When I read "He was wearing a helmet!" I was like, "oh hell yeah!" I'm way stoked about that helmet right now. Imagine if he wasn't wearing one. Oh shit! But like, it turns out he was wearing a helmet! So it's a lot better.

Comment by Bob

Bob — Wed, 21 May 2008 19:08:17 -0800

As an aside, the Hells Angels preferred weapon is a ball peen hammer.

Comment by Gidge

Gidge — Wed, 21 May 2008 19:41:51 -0800

I don't begrudge the construction worker for getting such a full response, but why was there a helicopter? They were so close to Harborview.

Comment by COMTE

COMTE — Wed, 21 May 2008 21:22:48 -0800

Tommorow's PI Headline:

"Sledgehammer Had History Of Drug Abuse".

Comment by Construction Guy

Construction Guy — Wed, 21 May 2008 22:27:52 -0800

Construction workers do not wear "helmets"!!! They wear hardhats. Anybody on staff at this rag that's ever done a lick of real work? Apparently not

Comment by Bob

Bob — Wed, 21 May 2008 23:05:34 -0800

@27, I've wondered the same thing, as well as 90% of the commenters who seem to have developed career trajectories of parental trust funds and endless latte sipping at cafes. It's why the only thing that will stop the Islamobadguys when they hit the Seattle beaches in their Zodiacs will be hardhatted construction guys and felons on parole.