Best seat switch story ever. I worked at a produce packing plant as assistant plant manager. We got a lot of busted pallets and dirty cardboard and had a three sided concrete block burn structure on the far side of the parking lot to get rid of them. We had a tall, skinny black man named Bubba who always wore loose rubber boots. He worked in the back washing potatoes out of semi trailers and keeping the area clean. One Saturday morning we had come in to run a few loads and the main crew had left and just a few stayed up front to load out the last semi. Bubba was burning some pallets and I was in the maintenance room when I hear flop,flop,flop,flop,flop,flop and Bubba shouting "Mr. Dan, Mr. Dan, the Bobcat shut of in the fire pit and I can't start it! It was actually a brand new John Deere skid steer loader but all skid steer loaders are Bobcats to most people. He shouted he was grabbing a chain so I got the dump truck we used for culls and backed it up to the skid steer. The front tires were already smoking as he got the chain hooked to the truck and loader. I dragged it up to the unloading dock and he took the washout hose and cooled the tires down.
What had happened was he rammed some pallets into the fire and the impact knocked him off the seat, the loader was at an angle and his skinny butt wasn't enough to close the seat switch. Another few minutes and the loader would have been toast. The boss had gone home and no one was in the back to see us. We never told anyone.
That was twenty years ago, to bad there wasn't any security camera footage. Speed up some with Benny Hill chase music it would be a YouTube classic.
