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He Blows Things Up So You Don't Have To

Posted by simoniker on from the bang-bang-it's-chuck-cramer dept.

Red Wolf writes "Popular Science reports on what is possibly the world's coolest job. During his 19 years as a laboratory technician for Underwriters Laboratories, Chuck Cramer has set coffeemakers on fire, knocked computers off desks, short-circuited fans, and blown up everything from toasters to curling irons - all in the name of consumer safety."

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  1. Salary by Bigby · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I wonder how much he gets paid. It can't be much because I would imagine that he is very replacable. Who wouldn't want to do this. All you have to do is think stupid and see how things go.