Merlin MannWhatever this is, it looks like the kind of thing my late grandmother would get talked into buying.
Still thinking about this.
Dr. Drang@hotdogsladies It’s an open and shut case.
@drdrang Take him away, boys.
@drdrang Any chance you’d wanna take a crack at this one?
Give it to me straight, Doc. What am I looking at here?
Dan Sturm@hotdogsladies @drdrang This apparatus is 100% a trap. I'd check the ground for hinges if I were you.
Drew Pederson@hotdogsladies @drdrang Judging by the components I think it's related to the fire sprinkler system for the building. Someone may have been trying to clean their truck out on this one.
Craig Hockenberry@hotdogsladies @drdrang Someone who had too many gift cards for Home Depot.
Chancerubbage@hotdogsladies What am I, a plumber? I assume there’s a backflow preventer in there, but that’s only because municipalities love to add backflow preventers and then force you to have them inspected every year.
Mainly I just wanted to make a joke about the red case having the words OPEN and SHUT stamped into it.
@hotdogsladies OK, I’ve just scrolled to the new photos, and the words are cast, not stamped. I regret the error.
@drdrang You probably didn’t account for wind shear and ground effect.
Scott Wright 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️@drdrang I am struck by your last sentence and can’t help but think that had your job involved writing a lot of performance reviews (think military or academia) you would have buried many posers by damming with faint praise.
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Ethan Mateja@drdrang @hotdogsladies I have experience managing a small community water company and the annual backflow certification thing is very real.
Laxdude@drdrang @hotdogsladies I know why backflow preventors are important, I watched the Quincy episode in syndication after school where the deadly chill was sucked into the stadium water system! Then he probably had relations with a young woman, perhaps on his boat.
@hotdogsladies @drdrang the water fountain that was *covered* by a board on first inspection. But Quincey had tenacity!
@hotdogsladies is Quincy why I have high expectations with municipal employees and am always disappointed?
@Laxdude It’s how you learned punk rock causes screwdriver stabbings vaguely involving Melora Hardin.
@hotdogsladies the 80s were weird, Quincy was 4pm after school. I think I remember a different screwdriver shanking episode where they hadn’t considered screwdrivers with reversible tips. A Craftsman 4 in 1 as I recall.