snds like a good reason to avoid riding in buckets
> The Vermont Tribune, Ludlow, Friday, August 7, 1885
>
> Nine workmen on the new aqueduct near High Bridge, N. Y., got into the
> bucket, Friday to go to the top if the shaft for their dinner.  The shaft
> is 175 feet deep.  When a third of the way up the edge of the bucket caught
> in a projecting rock and four of the men were thrown out.  Two of them
> clung to the outside of the bucket, but the other two fell to the bottom of
> the shaft.  William CUNNINGHAM and Timothy HARRINGTON were instantly
> killed.  John CARR and William REGAN, who grasped the bucket, were probably
> fatally injured.
>
> So be careful if you all go there to work.
>    

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