Posts Tagged ‘accident’
‘Roadrage Instant Karma’: Volvo driver undertakes bikers
IN Roadrage Instant Karma, the Volvo driver moves to undertake the bikers who are spread across the road. The Volvo ends up in a bad place. The bikers give him the finger and drive on. But karma is not about retribution and punishment. It’s about intention. The Volvo driver never meant to injure the bikers. He just wanted to get by. And they weren’t letting him pass. If the bikers’ brand of karma is right, it is they who’d best watch out:
Posted: 8th, April 2013 | In: Technology | Comment (1)
Indian motorcyclist women are much, much harder than you
PEOPLE who ride motorbikes think they’re pretty tough, waddling around in their leather romper suits and Street Hawk crash helmets, doing 23mph down the road with ‘Born To Be Wild’ playing in their heads.
The freedom of the road! The constant terror that you might fall over and scratch that lovely paintwork! Motorcycling! It is like riding a car, but colder!
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Posted: 5th, March 2013 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Newsreader falls into canal while texting… and it’s on video!
CCTV footage has emerged, capturing a local newsreader falling arse-over-tit into a frozen canal after being distracted by her phone.
Laura Safe (raises eyebrows at the nominative determinism) works for Capital FM Birmingham, and was sending her boyfriend a text when she failed to look up and found herself immersed in dirty, freezing water. She’s probably got polio now or something, but it is still funny.
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Posted: 25th, January 2013 | In: Reviews, TV & Radio | Comment
Woman drove stolen train into apartment block
“THE woman started driving the train from the Neglinge train station, which is two stops from Saltsjöbaden, and usually a three-minute ride. The train usually goes at about 10 kilometres an hour in this area, but we estimate that she was going at about 70 kilometres per hour.”
“We still don’t know why she was in the driver’s seat or whether the incident was an accident. There’s a police investigation underway and we’re waiting for them for clarification.”
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Hapless rescuers follow man into frozen lake in Wrightwood, California (video)
WHEN a man fell through the ice into the lake in Wrightwood, California, he struggled to find safety. One man kept his head and recorded the action on his camera. Others dashed to help. And one-by-one they too slid into the freezing waters.
Things to look out for:
7 seconds: “That’s seriously not even funny”
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Man impaled on bed headboard
TO Canberra, Australia, where fire crews are working to free a man from his bed’s headboard.Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: 31st, December 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Electrocuted dog used wee to detect Liverpool cannabis factory
TO Liverpool, where a dog taking a leak has been electrocuted on a live metal shutter. The Jack Russell was outside the former Oluyole restaurant in Prescot Road, Fairfield. The emergency services were called. Firemen cut their way into the premises. Inside they found 55 cannabis plants in an upstairs flat. Live wires dangled from the flat, conducted along the metal shutter.
It’s a tragic event.
Merseyside police detective inspector Julie Milburn then wades in:
“This incident shows the dangers of cannabis farms and highlights the misconception that cannabis and the growth of the drug is harmless.”
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Posted: 17th, December 2012 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
Blind man runs over girlfriend after 5 bottles of wine
GALLOWS humour is something that drags every one of us through the day because, without it, we’d spend our entire lives sobbing at work.
And so, let us laugh at a story about a man who is registered blind, running over his partner in a car, after drinking five bottles of wine… because the reality of it could very well be far too depressing to contemplate.
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Man hit in head with circular saw looks like a baseball
TO Marietta, Georgia, where Henry Rodriguezn has been in an accident. He was driving when a 14-inch circular saw blade smched into his face and arms:
“I was minding my own business, and all of a sudden it felt like someone hit me in the head with a baseball bat.”
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Posted: 7th, December 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Man cleaning underpants with industrial air pump inflates when hose hits his anus
TO China, where a 26-year-old man cleaning his underpants with an industrial strength air pump slipped. This caused the pressurised air to enter his backside. The man says he didn’t “feel anything special” when the hose slipped towards his anus. But then he felt a sharp pang.
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Posted: 28th, November 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comments (5)
So. You got a car key stuck in your foot (photos)
HOW do you get a car key stuck into your foot during karate class? Are you fending off an attack or showboating anew way to disable the alarm? It;s unclear. The photos of the aftermath are more in focus:
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Posted: 21st, November 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
This is how you dive into a frozen swimming pool
THIS is how you dive into a frozen swimming pool:
Posted: 18th, October 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
How (not) to jump out of a tree (video)
HOW (not) to jump out of a tree:
Posted: 11th, October 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Speeding truck turns into box of apples (video)
ET Voila! In this video a speeding truck becomes a box of apples in a puff of smoke:
Posted: 6th, October 2012 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Man set alight by cigarette fire escapes into path of speeding train
TO Kamloops, British Columbia, where a 51-year-old man is recovering in hospital. He has been badly burnt. There is a deep gash on his head. He is lucky to be alive.
The man had been taking a break in a field. He’d been drinking. He’d lay down in the long grsss for a smoke. The grass had caught fire. The fire had spread to his clothes. In fear of his life, the man had taken up his bicycle and raced off. It was then that a locomotive belonging to the Canadian Pacific Railway stuck him.
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Posted: 6th, October 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Woman runs over herself (video)
IN this video a woman runs herself down with her own car. Got to like the quick thinking of the man who appears at the video’s end. Were it not for his quick thinking in applying the handbreak, the car could really hurt someone…
Posted: 3rd, October 2012 | In: Technology | Comment
Soldier shoots colleague in face to cure his hiccups
WAYS to cure hiccups: No. 342b – shoot the patient in the face with a hand gun.
Says Carroll Smith of the Killeen, Texas, Police Department:
“The victim had the hiccups. The suspect pulled out a gun to scare him in order to stop the hiccups.”
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Posted: 27th, September 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Atheletics official Dieter Strack killed by javelin
TO Germany, where a track official has been killed by a javelin. 74-year-old Dieter Strack was working at an athletics meet in Dusseldorf when the javelin struck him the throat.
The javelin was tossed by a 15-year-old competitor.
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Fallen blind man sues after workmen removed his balcony
TO Blindheim, Germany, where wheelchair-bound Klaus Ohlmeier is addressing the court:
“I heard a noise, and then I can’t remember anything. I’m glad it didn’t come out any worse.”
Mr Ohlmeier is 64-years-old and blind. He lives in a home that was being renovated. His balcony had been removed… His fall led to many broken ribs and internal bleeding. Says site manager Patrick B: “There was a sign.” For the, erm, blind people to read.
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Posted: 21st, August 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Eduardo Leite was pieced in the brain by a 6-foot metal pole – and lived
PICTURE of the day features the head of 24-year-old Eduardo Leite, a builder in Brazil. He was on site when a 6-foot metal bar fell and hit him in the head. The pole passed though his hard hat and into his head. He did not lose consciousness until he was put under for an operation to remove it.
Says Luiz Alexandre Essinger, chief of staff at Rio de Janeiro’s Miguel Couto Hospital:
“He was taken to the operating room, his skull was opened, they examined the brain and the surgeon decided to pull the metal bar out from the front in the same direction it entered the brain…Today, he continues well, with few complaints for a five-hour-long surgery..He says he feels little pain.”
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Posted: 18th, August 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Dad’s rectum impaled on children’s fairground ride
YOU join us at the Furuvik theme park near Gävle in eastern Sweden, where a 31-year-old man has become impaled on a child’s ride. His rectum has been penetrated by the tow-bar on a minicar truck.
Says the father of two, now free:
“It was a complete shock to the whole body.”
Posted: 22nd, July 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Halle Berry rushed to hospital, possibly for lack of ability
THRNNNNK! That could well have been the noise made by Halle Berry’s bones as she injured herself while on the set of The Hive. That’s right. Berry was involved in an incident which saw her being rushed to hospital last night, which is all very worrying.
The actress was working on her new film – which also features Abigail Breslin and David Otunga, whoever they are – when the incident occurred and an ambulance was called to take her to the Cedars Sinai medical centre in Los Angeles.
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Posted: 18th, July 2012 | In: Celebrities | Comments (2)
Manchester man impaled on bed spring was not reading 50 Shades in bed?
’50 Shades Of Grey’ a bit tame? You into something alit more esoteric than the kind of Clit Lit Barbara Cartland would write as a thank you letter for Jilly Copper’s dinner party? You need to get an old mattress.
From Manchester, news of a kind of bedroom pain that makes E.L. James’s spanking the flunkey (any relation to Sid James?) read like What Katy Did.
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Posted: 15th, July 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Paraplegic man blows off leg with dynamite firework
TO Oakland’s Hazel Park, where a 21-year-old paraplegic is lighting fireworks for the July 4th celebrations. His routine is to light the rockets in his lap and then place them on the ground for detonation. But one lit firework has slipped. It goes off, blowing off the man’s leg below the knee and sending it like a missile 50 feet across the street.
Says an eyewitness: “There was debris everywhere, including flesh and bone.”
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Posted: 7th, July 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment
