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Daytona was a wash so I watched a logging show on the History channel.
Tree big enough to kill you and cables flying around. No thanks.
Roughnecks, that has to be fairly wild.
Those crazy [bleep] working on big wind mills.
What is the most dangerous job?
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30-06 till i die, the greatest round ever! I carry a gun because a cop is too heavy! CEO of a Turdlike People: Turds & Tats Division... (per Ingwe  )
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Those kids who work the flight deck of a carrier certainly defy the odds.
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Quite a few in the military and LEO live dangerously....
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"The number one problem with America is, a whole lot of people need shot, and nobody is shooting them."
-Master Chief Hershel Davis
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Folks that used to drive the convoys in Iraq, I thought would rate pretty high.
There is no way to coexist no matter how many bumper stickers there are on Subaru bumpers!
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Up in Aspen when they're building the X-Games Slopestyle course and Halfpipe, they use winch-cats... which is basically just one big-azz snowcat at the top of a run pulling up another one by a huge winch so it can make it up the pitches. When they snap... holy smokes.
Back when i was skiing competitively, I made it onto a run with a winch cat on it somehow, and got BITCHED at by a few of my coaches. scared the piss out of them. But I'm sure there is way worse jobs out there. This just came to mind...
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Sam
I think taking out land mines that have been planted must be
right up there!! Cheers NC
don't judge until you have walked a mile in other persons' moccasins'
SUM QUOD SUM........HOMINEM TE ESSE MEMENTO
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I think it is coal miners.
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Under cover work has got to be tough.
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The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time by the blood of patriots and tyrants.
If being stupid allows me to believe in Him, I'd wish to be a retard. Eisenhower and G Washington should be good company.
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Folks that used to drive the convoys in Iraq, I thought would rate pretty high. Knew a guy that did that.....I wished I'd have sent some coal lumps over with him after I saw his dash-cam vids!
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Bombers over Germany in WW 2? Copter gunners over Viet Nam?
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time by the blood of patriots and tyrants.
If being stupid allows me to believe in Him, I'd wish to be a retard. Eisenhower and G Washington should be good company.
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I think it varies from year to year. A few years ago my job(Communications workers who climb towers) had the highest fatality rate. I think all the usual players(crabbers, loggers, miners, etc...) bounce around in the top ten. Most are boom & bust industries, and whenever there's a boom cycle, companies and workers are scrambling to make the big bucks. Corners get cut, chances are taken, higher percentage of rookies on the job. Recipe for bad things to happen. Most "dangerous jobs" are perfectly safe........until you pfukk up! Jeff
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Oh, I dunno. The job I had for 20 years was a somewhat hazardous. ![[Linked Image]](http://i680.photobucket.com/albums/vv167/sprnt11/506.jpg)
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Being a member of the bomb squad, military or police, must rank pretty high.
He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
- Albert Einstein
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The oldest profession in the world.
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Working in a stop & rob ranks right up there believe it or not. Highway workers as well. The high tension workers that climb them towers inches from death.
George Orwell was a Prophet, not a novelist. Read 1984 and then look around you!
Old cat turd!
"Some men just need killing." ~ Clay Allison.
I am too old to fight but I can still pull a trigger. ~ Me
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And being a door gunner sure looked a hell of a lot safer than getting in the mud with Charlie from my door!
George Orwell was a Prophet, not a novelist. Read 1984 and then look around you!
Old cat turd!
"Some men just need killing." ~ Clay Allison.
I am too old to fight but I can still pull a trigger. ~ Me
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