Would it be incredibly bad form to follow that with this Mr Show clip?

<a href='http://www.plime.com/redir.p?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmNApZRy3wk' class='plime' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'><b>flash video</b></a>

You have to sign in there...

Yes you do...

Mr. Show is NEVER in bad form...

and

How bizarre. It didn't ask me to.

I've changed the link to one that should work.

Wait, there's no category for "pretty much the worst way a person has ever died?"

That's one acid trip I wouldn't want to take.

The article, being several weeks old, doesn't give much information on how the kid got into the vat. How horrid for his father. What an awful way to go.

I'm sure there was more to that page earlier in the day.

Here is the full text from the article that I originally linked to. Doesn't give a huge amount of details, but it sounds as if he was overcome by fumes and fell in.

The father of an 18-year-old Redwood City man found his son dead after he fell into a waist-high vat of sulfuric acid early Sunday morning in a bizarre industrial accident, police said.

When Fernando Jimenez Gonzalez failed to come home after his shift at Coastal Circuits, his father went looking for him at the Redwood City manufacturing plant, said Sgt. Steve Dowden of Redwood City police. He found his body shortly before 2 a.m.

The teen was one of two employees working overnight at the circuit board manufacturing company.

Laura Boozer, a Coastal Circuits vice-president, declined to say why Gonzalez was at work at such a late hour. She also declined to comment on why police believe the young man apparently wasn't wearing any safety gear for his face, as is recommended for those working in close contact with hazardous chemicals.

"This has been a devastating experience for all of those involved, including the family - we're trying to find out more conclusively what happened so we can share it with the media," Boozer said.

Police believe Gonzalez passed out from chemical fumes as hesubmerged circuit boards into one of the plant's three acid-copper-plating tanks, Dowden said.

The other employee at the facility, located in a Redwood City industrial area, was uninjured. It's unclear why that worker didn't call emergency crews.

Signs with emergency numbers were posted on a chain-link fence surrounding the facility Sunday, but they included the
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outdated phone number of a man who retired several years ago. The plant closed after Gonzalez's death.

Occupational Safety and Health Administration officials are investigating the incident, classified as an industrial accident, Dowden said.

The company employs 75 people to produce circuit boards in as little as 24 hours.

So, a vp won't give information regarding safety equipment nor why the boy was there that late and the co-worker working with him just didn't bother calling emergency services.

I really want a follow-up on this, sounds like there's a deeper plot here.


Oh, and thanks Pock :)

you rule :)