Thoughts of Mine

[serratia]

OK, I have had about enough of this "lost miners in Utah" thing. This has bugged me from the very beginning, but the procto-cranial inversion of the entire situation has reached heretofore unimagined heights of human incompetence and bumbling. So now I must say something

Comments

[nursie]

you are in my head again. stop that.

I've been completely disgusted with the management of the mine in question from the first interview he gave after the initial collapse. Immediately spewing forth that the collapse couldn't have had anything to do with his mine, that it was a NATURAL. DISASTER. !!!

Never mind his mine and its safety issues have been cited 9 ways from Sunday over several years.

Cheap bastard.

[indigosarah]

You should watch a documentary called Harlan County USA, about a mine strike in the 1970s. Great movie; outrageous conditions set up by mining companies. Thank god a zillion times over I was not born in a mining town.

[resonant]

Canadian mines are required to have "refuge areas" at regular intervals, with a reinforced roof, oxygen tanks, and first-aid kits. US mines aren't even required to have toilets.

Sadly, Canadian mines still have fatal accidents quite often.

[octopus_garden]

In the event of something happening to me,
there is something I would like you all to see.
It's just a photograph of someone that I new.

Have you seen my wife, Mr. Jones?
Do you know what it's like on the outside?
Don't go talking too loud, you'll cause a landslide, Mr. Jones.

I keep straining my ears to hear a sound.
Maybe someone is digging underground,
or have they given up and all gone home to bed,
thinking those who once existed must be dead.

Have you seen my wife, Mr. Jones?
Do you know what it's like on the outside?
Don't go talking too loud, you'll cause a landslide, Mr. Jones.

In the event of something happening to me,
there is something I would like you all to see.
It's just a photograph of someone that I knew.

Hvae you seen my wife, Mr. Jones?
Do you know what it's like on the outside?
Don't go talking too loud, you'll cause a landslide, Mr. Jones.

[manoman]

Right on target. Bravo.