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- From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
- Subject: Re: extreme strength (was: mom lifting car..)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.095808.16772@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
- References: <1992Dec29.185926.5236@panix.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 09:58:08 GMT
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- dannyb@panix.com (Daniel Burstein) writes:
- :
- : 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.
-
- I seriously doubt this. Muscles and ligaments would tear before this could
- occur.
-
- Yes, I was a medic - I have worked with my share of violent people. They
- have never been able to do any such "superhuman" act.
-
- ... delided ...
-
- : 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..)
-
- Nope. You still are lifting at least half the weight of the vehicle. There
- are not many people who can lift 1500 lbs - even in panic situation. The
- only way this would happen is if the auto was balanced on the frame or
- some other part of the auto so the weight was being supported near the
- center of the car.
-
- : 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.
-
- Maybe a professional weightlifter could do so.
-
- : 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.
-
- No, never have. Maybe there are people who can pull another 200 pounds up
- a rope, but they are far and few between. The mechanical advantage would be
- much better, the ligaments would probably survive - if the muscle didn't
- tear.
-
- Bill
-