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As a machinist a lathe is the first thing that comes to mind, you get some clothing or even a rope caught in the wrong place and it'll eat you alive

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[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 4 points 1 week ago

I have several 300 gallon mixers at work, and a QA lab. If the mixer won't do the job, I'll just pour acids in until it is reduced to soup.

Then I'm fleeing the country because maintenance will make the eldrich horror look like the easy choice.

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I would print out the code and Rube Goldbergian series of database triggers that run some of our internal apps; to the untrained mind, it would probably have an effect similar to looking into Medusa's eyes.

[–] starlinguk@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I could mistranslate an MRI manual and they could fry themselves to death?

[–] Landless2029@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I work from home...

Best I got is an old fashioned paper cutter that looked way too heavy duty.

Cue the scene from The Faculty where the bad boy twists off the blade of that thing.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

There’s a kid I work with that is going to end up stabbing me with a pencil. He’s gotten pretty close a few times.

The lab closet when I was teaching science might have worked. The stuff you let kids work with is as close to water as you can make it, but the stuff for demos could easily take out a Jason or a Freddy.

[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

There is usually an alligator or two (or three, or..) in the pond by my work. They definitely get big enough to kill a villain before anyone bothers calling to have them relocated.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The printing press. The monster's blood would be spread out over 70000 newspapers.

[–] Tujio@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

What's black and white and red all over?

[–] Kowowow@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

Would be an interesting way to spread a vampire curse

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The elevators that always breakdown. They were doing a repair today and knocked out power to the whole building.

[–] Landless2029@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

My mind immediately goes to the resident evil movie elevator scene...

[–] shikitohno@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

Probably all the knives and the room full of people who spend 8 hours a day cutting things to bits with them. After a while, you get pretty good at finding where to cut through joints, so it doesn't take all that long.

Really big laser - meant for cutting through thick steel, could probably slice most monsters Bond-villain style.

[–] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

The contents of the fridge

[–] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 2 points 1 week ago

How many painkillers does it take to kill someone? I reckon we have enough for that at work

[–] blarghly@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

100' fall into the middle of an arena.

I work as a concert high rigger.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

School supplies can be pretty dangerous when used incorrectly. :3

[–] Kowowow@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

One of those paper cutters with the blade arm would be a good go to

[–] Berttheduck@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

I work in a hospital so: scalpels, oxygen bottles/ wall supply explosions (hard to do without disabling the safety's which I don't know how to do), plenty of radiation sources in the building, loads of dangerous drugs from sedatives to painkillers to chemotherapy. If I'm lucky the monster might just die of MRSA or pneumonia before they get to me.

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today -4 points 1 week ago
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