Then Goody peeped in at the hole, and called down--"Timmy Tiptoes! Oh fie, Timmy Tiptoes!" And Timmy replied, "Is that you, Goody Tiptoes? Why, certainly!" He came up and kissed Goody through the hole; but he was so fat that he could not get out.
Posted on 08/25/2010 9:29:39 PM PDT by traumer
Chilean authorities fear that the 33 miners trapped underground might get too fat to fit through the escape shaft at Christmas.
Incredibly, the miners survived the 17 days before they were located by each eating two spoons of tuna, a few sips of milk and half a biscuit every 48 hours.
But with those starvation rations now over there are fears that the group will put on weight due a lack of exercise in the very confined space, according to Health Minister Jaime Manalich.
It has also emerged today that the owners of the mine failed to install an emergency ladder which would have allowed the men to escape.
Inspectors ordered bosses to build the ladder following a similar cave-in two years ago in which a man died.
But when the miners tried to reach the surface through a ventilation shaft marked on a map as an escape route, they discovered the ladder was not in place.
Mining minister Laurence Goldborne said he believed the workers would have got out within 48 hours of the cave-in if the ladder had been installed.
One of the trapped miners, shift foreman Luis Urzua, 54, told rescue workers: 'We attempted to get up through the air shaft, but as it didn’t have a ladder we aborted.'
The miners have been trapped half a mile underground since August 5 following a cave-in at the San Jose mine in Copiapo, 500 miles north of the capital Santiago.
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If they didn’t feed them for a couple of weeks they’d fit.
Well... I’m sure that by Christmas most of them will be small enough to fit through the hole...
But don’t wait AFTER Christmas..... :o)
They are able to get food and water to them now
The rescuers control the vittles. ;^)
NASA can provide them with reading material about the contributions of Islam to science and math.
I hope that these guys don’t kill each other.
Wonder what the sanitation situation might be. They might kill themselves it could get so bad.
They better be getting PAID...?
‘We attempted to get up through the air shaft, but as it didn’t have a ladder we aborted.’
I don’t understand. Can’t someone put a ladder DOWN the airshaft?
If the airshaft can fit a ladder, then... ?
That would be horrible. One might die from stress or a medical condition too. That would be a nightmare. They could send salt down to pack a corpse in I suppose but the psychological factor would be off the charts.
I'd rather die.
But killing yourself wouldn't be a personal matter because your rotting body would probably kill everyone else.
If Christmas is the birth of life, maybe it won’t play to well with the miners.
If one of them reads it aloud to all the rest that takes care of ten minutes.
I’m not getting that either. 2,600 ft. is a looong ladder, but why can’t they lower a cable down the air shaft and winch them out?
That’s true. Add a body to that. Yikes!
The wireline truck is equipped with tensionometers already to indicate when tools hang up in the hole, and wiring in communications should not be any real trouble, and the wireline already contains conductors for tools to send data to the truck's computers.
Sort of like when you hear about a 1,000-pound guy who has beenridden for years. Who keeps feedin' the guy six extra-large pizzas daily? Yeah, they're bored down there, but don't keep lowering down boxes of twinkies.
That would be a half mile long ladder. I am sure the ladder that should have been installed was to have been permanent steps in the side of the vent shaft.
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