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- From: dannyb@panix.com (Daniel Burstein)
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
- Subject: extreme strength (was: mom lifting car..)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.185926.5236@panix.com>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 18:59:26 GMT
- Organization: Panix, NYC
- Lines: 30
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- As a paramedic in NYC I can relate from personal experience feets, umm,
- make that feats, of strength which are quite extreme.
-
- One of our more worrisome calls is dealing with a patient who is in a
- (usually) drug induced psychotic, i.e. crazily mad and violent, state.
- (no flames please about the imprecise language, I'm writing this for the
- normal? folk in netland)
-
- Visualize a person being held down flat on the floor by five people (one
- on each arm and leg, one on the center), then watch as this person
- cheerfully raises said arm, with 200 pound paramedic sitting on it. watch
- paramedic thrown into the air.
-
- Yep, this is one I personally (and probably just about every other
- emergency medical or law enforcement person) can relate to.
-
- Hmm, let's see how this equates into a car: figure that to lift a car off
- someone you need approx 750 lbs of lift (a typical car these days weighs
- about 3,000 pounds, but you're shifting weight onto the other wheels..)
-
- can a person lift this much? It wouldn't surprise me. Have I ever seen
- this? no. But again, I've seen things that come pretty close.
-
- Ever carry someone on your back? Figure on that being 200 pounds. Ever
- pull someone up a climbing rope or ladder? well, that's your two hundred,
- plus their two hundred.
-
- danny
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