Factory Worker Dies After Falling Into Vat of Chocolate
Wednesday, July 08, 2009
A 22-year-old factory worker died Wednesday after he fell into a vat of boiling chocolate at a manufacturing plant in New Jersey, police said.
the man had been in the melting pot for about 10 minutes by the time rescue crews arrived, MyFOXPhilly.com reported.
a co-worker tried to shut off the machine and two others tried to pull the man out of the 8-foot-deep vat. He was hit and fatally injured by the agitator that mixes the chocolate.
slightly edited by me.., just wondering if that $12,000.00 pot of chocolate will be dumped or turned into little chocolate men like chocolate Easter Bunnies ?? 
Whole new meaning to “death by chocolate”
I now have the Oompa-Lumpa song going through my head… 
Well I didn’t but now I do…:mad:
The man died in a work related accident. Chocolate, cement, dirt, whatever.
It’s not amusing in the least.
I’m just a horrible person.
Believe it or not, the human mind often develops something called a coping mechanism. Many years ago, when I was a paramedic, and then a Marine grunt, I would use humor to try to deal with tragedy.
Yes, it was an accident. Yes, it was a bad thing.
And if I cried over every person I had ever seen die, or scraped their bodies out of some kind of accident, I’d be in a padded cell.
It’s called dark humor, or sarcasm, or whatever you want.
I am glad you can feel bad over every bad thing that happens in the world. I really am, and I do not mean that as a slight. I am glad there are people that go about their lives with a smile.
But there are a lot of people that have spent too much time cleaning up after other people, and we get a wee bit hardened by it. So we think and say things that you would complain about.
Be happy you are you.
Do you think you could make any stronger a generalization? This sounds like something coming from someone who sees the world in 2 dimensions.
It also sounds like you have seen a lot, perhaps too much. Still, you have no idea what I have seen and endured as well. I have every reason to go around frowning if I chose to.
But, not only don’t I do that, but I do smile often (mainly because of my 5 year old son). I have seen death and lost much, yet I still love and can sympathize with this man’s unusual death.
The concept of coping with humor is questionable at best. I suppose it is up to the individual.
Your in the minority; This is one of over 5000+ industrial deaths that occur every year. Why do you think the media chose to report this one over a guy falling off a ladder?
Because the media is a bunch of fucking assclowns, the whole lot IMO.
Well, I will not argue with that one, but we are the ones who watch.
Personally I wish the media would get back to the facts and not report sensationalist stories just to drive numbers.
“Here with that report is a midget in a bikini.”
+1. Generally speaking, I find death an unbecoming issue to make me laugh. Sometimes it happens spontaneously, however. Just today I was told about a man in Berlin who had his head chopped off with a samurai sword by his psychotic neighbour. I snickered at first, then felt ashamed. Empathy for our fellow man is vital.