Dudes trapped in a mine in Chile

No.

No, no,no.

A thousand times no.

Do not want.

I'm not a super claustrophobic person, but I think being trapped in a mine with a bunch of other dudes until Christmas would fix that fast. I'm glad that they're alive, and that it looks like their rescue is inevitable (although not on a timetable they're real happy about), but this situation is basically every horror movie cliché wrapped into one event.

Although, if I was in that mine, and they asked me what I wanted in the next tube of stuff they sent down, I think my answer would be "Business cards of several prominent entertainment agents. And some Jergens. Thanks."

jg

Yeah, no kidding - they were down there for 17 days before being found - only to hear "Hang on... only 4 more months and we will have you out of there".

I would be asking for enough ruffies to wake up topside.

In reply to JG Pasterjak:

Clooney?

maybe you can roll up a bunch of GRM and CM and shoot them down the hole to give them something to read for 3 months? think of the PR.

I bet a whole political system gets developed down there along with a housing setup.

the smell alone would kill me in about a week. They (hopefully) should have a return bucket for...waste. Cause it's all gotta go somewhere.

pete240z wrote: maybe you can roll up a bunch of GRM and CM and shoot them down the hole to give them something to read for 3 months? think of the PR. I bet a whole political system gets developed down there along with a housing setup.

The whole thing just reads like the setup for a Twilight Zone episode. Like, they finally get to them and the guys don't want to come out of the hole because they've set up a better society than they have on the topworld and their technology is already further advanced; or they finally dig down to them and all the miners are dead except one who's now mysteriously fat and "doesn't know" what happened to his buddies; or it turns out that there was a way out all along and they were only trapped by their prejudices and have to learn to work together and all learn to love again; or they just go E36 M3house crazy and flip out and kill each other. I think all are equally plausible at this point.

My best advice? In the words of Chief Wiggum "Dig UP, stupid."

jg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfdXbTRVRzc&feature=related

The Simpsons send their love down the well.

This is the prequil to Rise of The Underminer... they all get out except the one guy they shunned. He is left to fend for himself. Years pass...

I don't get it. It's quite damp in mines, why would you need Jergens....?

I will never understand how their moral is so high. Some real strong guys i tell ya whut...

This situation has been discussed at length around the firehouse.

After about 24 hours with four other firemen, we are ready to kill each other. We can solve just about any crisis, but we could not stay in the same room together for four months.

Meh, you could if HAD to. Like in these guys case where it is literally life and death.

They are also being asked to help dig themselves out. Will that be on the clock I wonder?

In all seriousness, what do they do if they have to go poo-poo?

I also figured these guys are still on the clock?

I saw this in an article: "What the men may not know is that the mining company that hired them is doing nothing to join them in a rescue. The San Esteban company says it can't afford to pay their wages and may go bankrupt."

If you check out the story, you find that they are able to walk around the part of the mine that's on the same side of the cave-in as them. They probably have their pick of poopy spots.

Margie

Maybe they bury it, like cats.

Lesley wrote: Maybe they bury it, like cats.

+this. They probably dug a latrine like the army would have. Otherwise it would just be overwhelming.

They bury cats?

SkinnyG wrote: They bury cats?

yep, the cat fur is very absorbent, and the stinky stuff will be less potent under a few inches of kitteh. id love to be there when theyre shoving the cats down the pipe!

No, they eat the cats.

Trapped in a submarine for months, usually at Rig for Silent Running" which means if your're not working, you're sequestered to bed; I guess chasing Russians is noisy business.

At least we had distractions.....

Bobzilla wrote: No, they eat the cats.

so its like a chinese food restaurant (im sorry lord...).

In reply to grimmelshanks:

Actually, a Chinese food restaurant here was closed down for having cats in the freezer. Like skinned and ready to eat. Made the newspaper, so there has to be a grain of truth to it.

Chicken Chow Meow.