How do you spell overreaction?

[Alex]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=399460&in_page_id=1770

I especially like how the final line of the article refers to it as a "deadly incident."

[Gemini Cricket]

I'd do laundry more often if one of those showed up in my dryer...

[Ghoulish Delight]

He climbed out of there pretty admirably, for a dead guy.

[Capt Jack]

you have GOT to be kidding me. I take more exception to the writer calling it a 'deadly incident', especially considering ....and correct me if Im wrong...NO ONE F-ING DIED! than I ever could a few firefighters filling a bored moment.

(Ive done the dryer thing btw)

[RStar]

While the machine could have malfuctioned, I think the real threat here are the kids who may emulate firemen and try this themselves.

But yes, I'd say overraction is a good word for it. Take action if you must, but a week off without pay sounds more fitting to the crime.

[Alex]

If the boss people hadn't overreacted this video would never have even been seen by kids who might emulate them.

Besides, what well-adjusted child hasn't at least given serious thought to taking a ride in the dryer?

[€uroMeinke]

We refered to it as "Astonaut Training" - why kid didn't want to grow up to be an astronaut?

[Alex]

To make sure it was safe we gave the cat a ride first. Apparently I have always been a fan of animal testing.

The cat survived, as did everybody else.

[€uroMeinke]

Naughty Alex - No Animal Testing in our Astronaut Training School

[Alex]

Then how do you explain the monkeys in space?

[€uroMeinke]

Then how do you explain the monkeys in space?

Spontaneous Simian Generation

(or a competing space program)

[Gemini Cricket]

My friend's cat, Sammy, crawled into a dryer and fell asleep. My friend's mom didn't see him and dumped clothes on him and sent him through a full dryer cycle. Sammy survived.
:)

[Brigitte]

Was he ever the same again? I'd think the heat would get him!

[Gemini Cricket]

Was he ever the same again? I'd think the heat would get him!
They said he was kind of wobbly for a couple of hours and then he was fine. They said he never went near the dryer again...

My friend's pets had weird things happen to them. They had a dog, Dusty, whose tail got frostbite and fell off. Really sad. But the dog didn't ever seem to mind not having it. Great dog.

[Kevy Baby]

I especially like how the final line of the article refers to it as a "deadly incident."Also from the story:
"It is blatantly obvious that getting into a tumble dryer, especially of industrial design, is not only foolish, but dangerous in the extreme."