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There's a darwin award for a security guard at (I think) a TV studio who decided on christmas eve that work was too hard and instead spent the night sleep in fr
by axman6 12y ago
There's a darwin award for a security guard at (I think) a TV studio who decided on christmas eve that work was too hard and instead spent the night sleep in front of one of their microwave transmitters. I believe they found him dead and cooked right through in the morning.
- sp332 12y agoDid that actually happen? I know someone who worked at a shortwave (a.k.a. microwave) radio station when that almost happened. They had to shut down the transmitters occasionally to paint the radio towers, but someone had the bright idea that they could just power down long enough for the painters to climb on. Then, when they weren't grounded, they could power it back up during the painting. They actually did a test run with chickens before it dawned on anyone that they would be cooking anything up there!
- slacka 12y agoNo it did not happen. Once again snopes to the rescue. http://www.snopes.com/horrors/techno/microwave.asp http://www.snopes.com/horrors/techno/microwave.asp
- ZoF 12y agoWhy would they do a test run with chickens if it hadn't already dawned on them to some degree?
- sp332 12y agoThey were worried about electrical problems, not radiation problems.
- axman6 12y agoI did read it in a darwin awards book, so I assumed it was true, but it's such an innocuous anecdote that I never felt it was worth checking.