Hopefully in the name of overall safety these drops are made without the driver in the cab at all. Yeah I'd have been climbin the crane tower to give that cat a piece of my mind after that BS. Definitely NOT a job to be taken lightly ... or with a hangover!

My experiences with crane operators is that the young ones are more careful while older operators get complacent and cranky as hell! I figure it has somethin to do with having had peoples lives in their hands too long, seems to get to 'em eventually.

Runnin a crane is every bit as stressful as about anything you can imagine.

My wife runs an overhead crane (like the one that would be used to load/offload these type containers) in the military these days. I don't envy her job !