Best PSA Ever
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cpr, first aid, vinnie jones, heart, british heart foundation, psa, safety,
The Pipes Are Leaking
the blue smoke makes it work -- let it out and things stop working.
Another Prop Gun Incident: Urban Legends Not Legend Enough →
Another incident has occurred where a performer was injured by what was supposed to be a prop gun. It’s unclear whether the firearm was loaded with blanks that gave powder burns to the actor, or if the prop firearm was swapped out for a real one and the performer was shot with a bullet. It’s not as uncommon as we in the event production industry would like it to be for this to happen. These aren’t the urban legends many people think them to be. This same company had a separate incident in 2008 where a prop knife with a dulled edge was swapped out for a very real, very sharp knife. When a cast member went to “slit their throat,” —- well, there weren’t apostrophes around it. This is possibly even more common in schools than in professional theatre. It’s regular enough that scripts will call for a prop weapon to simulate the killing or maiming of someone in a show. Students will (usually innocently) bring a firearm from home to use with blanks and someone will instead load it with live ammunition, either accidentally or deliberately. The inexperienced drama teachers often don’t know the difference, and so long as they’ve been given the prop they asked for, they don’t even think twice about what it actually is or what it’s capable of. The next thing you know, a student is laying dead in the middle of the most dramatic rehearsal that school will ever know. Each time this happens, the discussion is always rehashed in the industry on how to safely use prop weapons, and many people simply call altogether for schools to not use them at all. Any prop weapon intended to look close enough to the real thing can be exchanged for the real thing, often going unnoticed until the tragic moment in a rehearsal or a performance when someone ends up shot, stabbed, or otherwise harmed. Often times, the effect happens, and because it’s intended to look real, when it is real, it can go completely unnoticed until the performer has no chance of being resuscitated. Just 19 months ago there was a performance of West Side Story where an actor was shot in one of the scenes when a real gun was swapped in for the prop gun. His body rolled off of the stage and into the empty orchestra pit and no one noticed until well after the show was over. The spookiest thing in my mind is that tomorrow I have a safety and procedural training seminar for a high school technical crew and in my preparation to host this seminar, I had thought about prop gun incidents. Just earlier this week, before the story even broke, I had thought to myself that these incidents happen on a semi-regular basis (roughly every 18 months) and we’ve been overdue for the next one. Then, sure enough, someone gets shot. Luckily in this case the performer did not end up in the coroner’s office.
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I wasn’t saying lets all put forks in the closest socket and see what happens…
DuckJordan, talking about how being too safe when working can be impractically difficult and unnecessary.
Bastards, Every Last One Of Them:
