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He Blows Things Up So You Don't Have To
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."
You'll actually find if he is, then he's been paid off by environmentalist groups to do so. It's been on public record for well over 10 years that many SUV "rollovers" were fudged because pseudo environmental protection groups wanted them off the road.
It didn't take much more than a little overengineering to fix the cars so this couldn't happen again. The result went against these groups' expectations. Instead of getting rid of SUVs they're now one of the safest cars on the road
Ironic isn't it?
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.
Goog God, I've seen some stupid shit in my time but that takes the fucking biscuit. A car that you can't drive with a fucking stereo that is only good for playing a single tone for 4 seconds at the sorts of levels that would kill you if you could hear it. All done while a bunch of fucknuts spread themselves over the undrivable peice of shit.
Fucking shoot that man, and all of the other fucking loosers who somehow think that this is a "sport". Seriously. Give Darwin a helping hand here.