Yea, near misses are bad enough. but still better than something that went really wrong.
Mate was using the sheet metal guilotine at work. Its air powered with 2 f@$k off big air rams that pull the blade down. The shaft/ blade arm stops 3/8 of an inch from the floor. The foot pedal had been pushed back and when my mate went to use it the shaft came down and smashed the plastic casing and the top of the valves in the pedal.
If the pedal was 3 inches further under, the shaft woulda come down, crunshed the plastic, hit his boot, and held it down untill the shaft had got to the bottom of its stroke before going back up. leaving him with a 10mm thick foot.
Anyway. WGMG,
Making thr deal to buy a ke30 on a saturday for $900, with instructions that we would pick it up on the following tuesday. Ring up on tuesday to let them knwo we would be down to pick up the car. only to get the response "oh, the cars sold". Further questioning revealed theyd sold it for $1275 (not worth it) on the monday.
LIKE WTF? I know it wasnt set in cement as nothign was in writing, but people can't even keep their word these days.