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Originally Posted by bbob Also, watch the moving belts and pulleys underhood. Was reminded of this today as I watched someone wearing a tie lean over the fender of a FWD Deville to look underhood. He forgot the accessory drive belt is on the right side so his tie was dangling right in the power steering pulley/belt interface while the engine was idling. Nothing happened but it could have. I did once see a person get their tie caught like that in the pulley of the accessory drive. Fortunately, the guy was pretty big and strong and he just grabbed his tie and leaned back hard and it finally ripped....but in another sitation he could just have easily have had his face pulled into the pulley as the tie wrapped around it. |
Not only ties, but we tend to overlook the strings on hoodie type sweatshirts - working on my friends Honda I leaned over and one end got tied up on the fan belt, by the time I knew what happened the string got pulled through my shirt and gave me a pretty nice rope burn around the neck, luckily it got pulled through tho instead of my getting my face pulled into the motor...I pull all these strings out even on new shirts now and Im a lot more careful....