Trickled on

Sitting in the Earth Module as Mrs. Kadizzle makes the coffee.  Last night we got trickled on as the clouds came in.  Some kids got trickled on with bullets in Florida.  It will all be forgotten until the next gunman trickles on some kids, or maybe some church people. If thoughts and prayers work you would surely think a church would be a place you could not get shot.  Americans have such short memories. Trump can tell a lie and no one remembers he told one yesterday and the day before.

The current mess reminds Kadizzle of an incident long ago.  Kadizzle was underground in a coal mine in West Virginia.  He was young and new to mining.  With a bunch of other young people that had been hired for the summer to do laboring work Kadizzle was reinforcing a portion of the main line rail line that had caved in.

Underground trains run on a trolly system.  That means there is a copper trolly wire over the track that is energized with 800 volts of DC power.  The ground for the system are the tracks the train runs on.  Under the trolly wire was a steel flatbed rail car.  As we were unloading the car somehow a steel drill stem, which is basically just a long piece of steel,  fell against the trolly wire as it was grounded on the steel flat car.  This happened right in the midst of young unexperienced coal miners.  It was like instant lightening.  Huge bolts were flying and we scattered like rats.  An old expeirienced miner came casually onto the rail car and used a wooden 2 x 4 to move the drill stem from the trolly wire.  The excitement was over.  The young miners felt like fools. 

This is like dealing with the NRA gun terrorist.  There are simple solutions, but instead we run like chickens in every direction not knowing what to do.

Now after the old timer stopped the lightening show he had to put on a show of his own.  The old guy was standing on the rail car so he could reach the trolly wire with his mouth.   He opened his mouth and put the trolly wire in his mouth.  This is one of the stupidest things Kadizzle has ever see a human do.  With good rubber boots, which this guy had, you could get away with this trick.  However,  there is always moisture in a mine,  and a pair of boots without a small leak are hard to find.  When the idiot put the wire in his mouth if his boots which insulated him from the car had the tiniest of a leak he may have been killed or in for a terrible surprise.  The fillings in his teeth would have melted and dripped down his throat.