Excavator tossed by water from ruptured pipe - GIF

[Altair]

Excavator tossed by water from ruptured pipe.




Previously:

Burst water pipe erupting like geyser - GIF
Burst water main flooding houses - GIF
Market water supply malfunction - GIF
Burst sewer pipe spewing sewage on car - GIF
Water main bursts in plumber's face - GIF

[Frank S]

811 can I help you? Yeah, you stupid idiot, you flagged the wrong place I struck a water line. I dug where your man told me is was safe to dig and I'm not paying for this.

Conversations like that do happen all the time, because the people at the 811 tasks depart don't do their job all the time.

[Hoosiersmoker]

What did the excavator operator hope to accomplish here? A thorough washing of his bucket?

[BuffaloJohn]

What did the excavator operator hope to accomplish here? A thorough washing of his bucket?

Soaking the guy with the cell phone...

[nova_robotics]

811 can I help you? Yeah, you stupid idiot, you flagged the wrong place I struck a water line. I dug where your man told me is was safe to dig and I'm not paying for this.

Conversations like that do happen all the time, because the people at the 811 tasks depart don't do their job all the time.

I had this happen on a job site, but the bonehead hit a main electrical line. Massive bang, and it didn't trip the upstream breaker, so we just had this thing arcing away on the bucket, with the entire chassis of the backhoe being electrified. We called the utility, they hit the disconnect on their end, then came down and did a splice. As soon as the power company left, the superintendent is back directing the operator on the backhoe.

Everybody was like "WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?"

Supernintendo's response was that he asked the power company, and there are no more buried lines.

"WHAT ABOUT GAS!!!???"

His response, and I **** you not, was to look over one shoulder, then look over the other shoulder. "There's no gas around here."

That was an interesting job.