Posted: 5/12/2005 11:26:35 AM EDT
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Someone posted about tinitus the other day. I thought I would share my tragic story. My hearing damage was the result of my caring for kids. I wanted kids to be safe, to grow, and make something of themselves later in life. To this end I travelled to schools and extra curricular events giving lectures on safety and survival. Then, one tragic day, Just as I had spoken those "famous last words" it happened. I had just been telling the kids how to safely use all kinds of survival gear, but warned them "I'm the only one in this room professional enuff to use a Fox Foty!"   Scott |
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BeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeWHAT?eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeHUH?eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeAREYOUTALKINGTOME?eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Several years of no protection at punk concerts left me with a decent case. Luckily, my hearing is still good, just a continual undertone. Of course, then some jackass runs the regulator up to 975 PSI for our rolling compressed air "M" cylinder, and yours truly finds out how a self-coiling nylion hose catastrophically fails when subjected to 7.8 times the recommended working pressure. While standing next to it. It flexed the 8' x 4' picture window on the far end of the 60' apparatus bay. I was picking yellow nylon fragments out of the engine bay for days. I found it rather ironic, since I've "muffed" religiously while shooting for years... |