Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for February 23, 2019

If all Japanese employers just learn to not let themselves and their employees to work overtime, there’d be no karoushi.

If that is an accurate cartoon, she was wearing a lot more than just sandals.

Technology was a tad bit different 12 years ago ;-)

No one in this country needs to worry about Karoshi.

Well karoushi is one thing I don’t have to worry about dying of.

the fact that the 22 year old woman in sandals winning the race says more about her competition than her foot wear

then there is the famous police radio call, “Mae West is in Times Square, she is wearing a red hat, that is all!”

As others have noted, the wording of the entry about the lady who won the race could have been thought through a bit.

About the kid cracking into the porn site in 30 seconds. As a friend once said about p***y; “It’ll make a puppy pull a freight train.”

If they were smart in Australia, they would’ve hired that student to ensure no one else could hack the filter.

Big deal, Abebe Bikila won the 1960 Olympic marathon. Setting a new world record at the time while running barefoot.

Death penalty to all hackers!

I wonder if any of the workers who developed the drones keeled over during it’s manufacturing.

Jim Thorpe’s shoes were stolen before his Olympic event. He found a couple of mis-matched shoes in the trash, put them on, and won anyway.

Leave it to a young hormones-raging teenage boy.

OMG thank goodness no American workers need fear death from overwork…

Sports shoes are overrated. In Africa, many top runners start barefoot, but when entering competition on an international scale, they are offered contracts by Nike and adidas etc. and earn lots of money. Abebe Bikila was an African marathon runner and a Olympic marathon champion twice. He won his first race at the Olympics in Rome in 1960 while running barefoot and thereby setting a new world record. At the beginning of the race, he was laughed at, because he had no shoes on. It seems that shoes are only good for protecting you from injuring surfaces and from cold. On a running track or soil, you won’t need shoes, they are even a disadvantage. This woman was used to wear these sandals, so she did best with her sandals. Athletic shoes are a business, not a working technology, at least for long-distance runners.

Most karôshi cases are heart attacks and strokes. The drone probably wouldn’t know about them happening in advance, so probably is giving an early alarm to increase chances to save the affected person’s life. So, some software has to be clever enough to distinguish heart attacks and strokes from normal behavior. But there are other casualties associated with karôshi, and some even connect suicides to it. Would the software also try to detect that? I also wonder how many companies employ such drones and it which kind of working places this happens. Probably not in offices, where most cases of karôshi have been reported so far, afaik. Anyway, it sounds interesting, I will do some research about it…

So what, ancient warriors ran barefoot all the time. There are cultures that would run great distances, like around 50 miles or more with little to nothing on their feet. People are fully capable of running barefoot, but we have become used to shoes, and many shoes actually cause foot problems.