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29-year-old Hit by Mixing Blade Falls into 8-Foot Vat of Boiling Chocolate
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- Actually, I was going to say that they would still use it, but I figured everybody would jump all over me. : ) Not that that has bothered me before.
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- http://www.isntapundit.com/?date=20020725
Predictably, there were Ooompa-Loompa takes on that Worker dies in chocolate vat story. But Best of the Web was the only blog which had the Smothers Brothers angle.
Like James Taranto, I tried googling for the Smothers Brothers piece, and was frustrated to find only the vaguest references to this comedy classic on the web. So, for my readers who may not have been Smothers Brothers fans as children, I'll try to reconstruct the transcript from memory:
Tom (sings): I fell into a vat of chocolate.
I fell into a vat of chocolate.
Dick (sings): What'd you do when you fell into the chocolate?
Together: Lolly doo-dum, lolly doo-dum-day...
Tom (sings): I fell into a vat of chocolate.
I fell into a vat of chocolate...
Dick (interrupts): Tom, Tom! I just asked you, what did you do when you fell into the chocolate?
Tom: Well, you see, I fell into this vat of chocolate, and...um...
Dick: Wait a minute. How did you fall into a vat of chocolate, anyway? Where was this vat of chocolate?
Tom: It was on my way home from school. I would pass by this vat of chocolate.
Dick: But wasn't there some kind of railing or something, to keep people from falling in the chocolate?
Tom: Well, um, you see, I used to kind of walk on that railing...
Dick: And you fell in the chocolate.
Tom: Yeah.
Dick: Okay. So what did you do when you fell in the chocolate?
Tom (sings): I yelled Fire when I fell into the chocolate.
I yelled Fire when I fell into the chocolate.
Dick: (sings): Why'd you yell Fire when you fell into the chocolate?
Together: Lolly doo-dum, lolly doo-dum-day...
Tom (sings): I yelled Fire when I fell into the chocolate.
I yelled Fire when I fell into the chocolate...
Dick (interrupts): Tom! Tom! Why, if you fell in the chocolate, why did you yell Fire?
Tom : Well, it just kind of seemed like the thing to do...
Dick : Tom, listen to me. We're going to play the song one more time, and I want you to say why you yelled Fire when you fell into the chocolate! (plays guitar)
Tom (sings) : I yelled Fire when I fell into the chocolate...
Dick (sings) : Why'd you yell Fire when you fell into the chocolate!?
Tom : Because nobody would have saved me if I'd yelled "CHOCOLATE!"
Together: Lolly doo-dum, lolly doo-dum-day... - Reply to this comment
- I used to work in a candy factory. Once I found my thermometer broken. Because we couldn't find the tip of it, everything it had touched that batch was pitched. The mercury in the thermometer may or may not have been in the candy, but there was no way my bosses wanted me to take any chance that it was.
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- The same thing would happen today if they are afraid the employee might talk. A company can be shut down instantly if they cover something like this up.
- The same thing would happen today if they are afraid the employee might talk
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Then they'll make sure the empolyee doesn't talk.
Then they'll sell the batch.
Remember the contaminated peanut butter?
It failed the salmonella test twice, but the factory owner had it re-tested again until it passed, so he could sell it.
He didn't seem afraid of any consequences at the time.
- who says they didn't???
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- The Smothers Brothers wrote a song about that Titled, "I fell into a vat of chocolate"
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- I bet if he hadn't died in it, they would still use that chocolate.
It reminds me of a story that a friend of mine told me. She worked next door to a pickle factory. She used to see the guys peeing in the vats.
So guess what your pickles are soaked in? : ) - Reply to this comment
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- Actually, I was going to say that they would still use it, but I figured everybody would jump all over me. : ) Not that that has bothered me before.
- Dang. Someone beat me to it.
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- "I Fell Into a Vat of Chocolate" Smothers Brother's song.
You can't make that up. - Reply to this comment
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- China will resell it to America. They own most of our debt why not our bad chocolate. BHO will say buy chinese chocolate and the Berry zombies will eat it up.
- As sad as and industrial death is, I couldn't beleive the headline and the first thing I thought of was the famous Smother's Brother's song which I know by heart! I loved those guys.
Condolences to the family
- Naw. The Chinese will buy the batch, filter out the body parts, and re-sell it.
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- What a way to go!!
Jetranger7 I do believe they will throw that batch out, at least I hope they do!! - Reply to this comment
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- Sadly I don't think that was intended as rascist, its more a fact with chinese products. Why don't you stop shopping at walmart you fatass.
- Don't know, but I'm not going to risk it.
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- Not an elbow, surely.
Horrible way to die. I got some more information from Camden's South Jersey Courier Post.....
Apparently there were three workers loading chunks of solid unsweetened chocolate into a vat when the victim fell through a hole in the platform. It appears that it was after he fell through that he was hit by the agitator blade. And probably knocked senseless at once.
Now picture a vat that's eight feet deep. Neither CBS nor the Post give any other dimention but the tank could have easily been as many feet across. It would take a mongo size agitator blade to move around that much melted chocolate. Getting hit by something that size moving at any kind of speed could be instantly lethal. In any case it appeared that he was already dead when they pulled him out.
Condolences to his family and friends. - Reply to this comment
- Did a bunch of Oompa Loompahs discover and clean him up?
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- LOLOL! me too cs4466! first thing i thought about was the fat german kid..."Agustus! Agustus!" sorry!!! very bad form...sorry! dang weird assocaiation of the mind!
- Poor guy. Who says that work never killed anybody?
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- Well I won't be eating any Chocolate for a while,, just wonder who over saw the operation as to what they intend to do with the Chocolate, after this accident, or are they going to just continue to ship that batch out to unsuspecting customers, and the next time you bite into a chocolate bar, and you feel something crunchy, it may not be an almond, but a finger or toe, or elbow !!!!!
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- Not an elbow, surely.
Horrible way to die. I got some more information from Camden's South Jersey Courier Post.....
Apparently there were three workers loading chunks of solid unsweetened chocolate into a vat when the victim fell through a hole in the platform. It appears that it was after he fell through that he was hit by the agitator blade. And probably knocked senseless at once.
Now picture a vat that's eight feet deep. Neither CBS nor the Post give any other dimention but the tank could have easily been as many feet across. It would take a mongo size agitator blade to move around that much melted chocolate. Getting hit by something that size moving at any kind of speed could be instantly lethal. In any case it appeared that he was already dead when they pulled him out.
Condolences to his family and friends.
- Oh yes, I'm sure the company as is typical these days- China and adding chemicals to boost faked protein readings comes to mind too- will try to salvage as much of the chocolate as they can, but it could be used in candies made months from now that are stored in warehouses for a year
- a hole in the platform? CAn we say multimillion dollar lawsuit and OSHA crawling all over the place?
- Not an elbow, surely.
- What a way to die. Once his lungs is coated with that chocolate there would be on way he could get any oxygen into his lungs no matter how much you did for him.
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- Pure chocolate is NOT sweet--it is very, very bitter. Only after sugar is added and the chocolate is cut with milk powder does chocolate approach being edible.
- Newster1, Drowning is death from suffocation (asphyxia) caused by a liquid entering the lungs and preventing the absorption of oxygen leading to cerebral hypoxia and myocardial infarction.
- Does this mean they will have to re-name the dessert called Death By Chocolate?
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