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Kiwi Death Blast Mine Goes Bust – None Recovered

THE worst possible news has come for the grieving families of 29 coal miners killed in explosions last month. The firm which ran the Kiwi coal mine where the 29 including two Britons died, has gone under.

The still blazing mine’s ventilation shaft, above, was sealed and capped off yesterday and today, Pike River Coal chairman John Dow said NZ Oil & Gas, the company’s largest shareholder, has appointed accountants PricewaterhouseCoopers as receivers. Mass redundancies are expected later today, December 13, 2010.

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Posted: 13th, December 2010 | In: Money | Comment


Man Almost Killed In Live TV Stunt: Crowd Give Low Scores

SAMUEL Koch is on the German TV show Wetten, Dass?. He will bounce over five cars wearing stilts with springs stuck to them. The cars arrive. Koch leaps. He lands horribly.

In the crowd, a couple of kids hold up sigs with an “O” on them? Is that a score? It’s a tough crowd.

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Posted: 6th, December 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comments (2)


When A Chinese Boy Gets Stuck In Washing Machine: Mum Calls State TV

WHEN Chaofan, 3, got stuck in his mum’s washing machine Taiyuan, Shanxi Province, she did what anyone would do: she called the media.

Chinese state broadcaster CCTV arrived, as did three men in military uniform, another man in camouflage duds and another man with a circular saw. As Chaofan is cut free, one military man takes photos.

It’s all looks like a piece of propaganda, the boy being used to advertise the fact that the Chinese military are good sorts; you CAN fit a small boy inside a washing machine; and washing machines are common in China.

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Posted: 1st, December 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment


Girl Has Arm Attached To Her Leg: Photo

WHEN MING Li had her arm severed in a tractor accident in rural China, medics kept the limb  alive by sewing it to her leg. (No medical cock up but a procedure done on purpose.)

The arm got better and was relocated to its original spot at the end of her shoulder.

The arm is said to regained a healthier colour and she can move her wrist.

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Posted: 18th, November 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)


Man Who Used Peugeot To Shunt Mazda And Ford Parked Over His Garage Banned From Driving

IN this video (and why no Benny Hill soundtrack?) Ronald Pemberton, 83, us seen to use his Peugeot estate to shunt the Ford Ka that has inconvenienced him by blocking his garage. The driver has gone to nearby Cabot Primary School in St Paul’s, Bristol.

That was but one incident. Two weeks later Pemberton shunted a silver Mazda in similar fashion. The Peugeot is mighty. Who will take it on? Anorak suspects this a class matter, and had Pemberton attempted his manoeuvre in, say, Hampstead or Chelsea, he’d have found the massive 4×4 blocking his driveway hard if not impossible to shift.

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Posted: 17th, November 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comments (4)


TV Interviews Drunk Woman Who Crashed Into School Bus

ELIZABETH Crull give a post-crash interview to the TV news right after crashing her car into a bus full of school children in Orlando, Florida. WESH 2 News was on the scene at Roger Williams Boulevard in Orlando. Her drool slipped onto the pedals and made the accelerator and the brake merge into one before they swapped places… And… Oh, it’s too darn hard. Here. She tells the story better:

Spotter: WESH via Guyism

Posted: 17th, November 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment


The Airbus 340-600 Toulouse Crash In Photos: They Didn’t Read The Manual

DID the Airbus 340-600 crash in Toulouse because no one read the manual?

It’s from 2007. But worth repeating:

THIS brand spanking new Airbus 340-600, the largest passenger aeroplane ever built, sits just outside its hangar in Toulouse, France without a single hour of airtime.

Enter the flight crew of Abu Dhabi Aircraft Technologies (ADAT) to conduct pre-delivery tests on the ground, such as engine run-ups, prior to delivery to Etihad Airways in Abu Dhabi.

The ADAT crew taxied the A340-600 to the run-up area.

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Posted: 11th, November 2010 | In: Technology | Comments (5)


Woman Picks Up Own Head In Hands After Horrific Accident: Headless Horsewoman Rides

THEA Maxfield, a 26-year-old Briton, fell off her horse and broke her neck. The horse bucked and Maxfield ended up with a “hangman’s fracture” – a clean break of her upper cervical vertebra.

The WA Today sees this news and delivers a great headline:

Woman picks up own head after horror horse-riding accident

Says she in the Express:

“I had to literally pick my head up and carry it in my hands. I didn’t have much hope of a recovery.”

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Posted: 28th, October 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment


Stock Car Racing Video Of The Day: The Autosculpture

STOCK Car Racing Video Of The day takes us to the Last Chance Heat 2 at Ipswich World Final 2010. One man in the crowd gets excited at the Autosculpture.

Featured crash enthusiasts are: 133 Werzal, Boogiemen, 298 Showman, 597 Shane Lines and 241 Liam Cracknell.

While you were watching the corporate F1:

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Posted: 25th, October 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment


Dead Women Returns To Lift In Divine Miscommunication

WHEN Lydie Paillard was pronounced “very certainly clinically dead” at the Bordeaux Rive Droite private hospital, there was much anguish and pain. But her sons refused to turn off her life-support system.

She was transferred to the town’s university hospital. And it there she retuned to life. Says Yves Noel, of the first hospital:

“It’s a kind of miracle.”

Or a misdiagnosis? If a doctor can’t tell if a body is dead or alive you might suppose he was at fault.

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Posted: 22nd, October 2010 | In: Reviews | Comment


Man Surfs Wave Of Raw Sewerage In 27 Pipe: Chilean Miners Impressed

DANIEL Collins, 20, usptaged the Chilean miners in their uphill bobsleigh by  riding a wave of raw sewage in a 27 inches wide pipe in Missouri.

The sewerage, described as whatever you brush or flush, might have killed Collins, who had climbed down a manhole. He fell when his safety harness broke.

Says Antonio Smith, the firefighter who rescued Collins:

“It was really nasty. Once you pop the cover, the methane gas just comes up to you, kind of stings you a little bit.”

Around a mile and half later, Collins was found. Says Smith:

“We asked him if he could get up, and he kind of stumbled to the ladder. By then his knees were buckling, so we knew he was kind of weak.”

He got hypothermia. The Chilean miners got a heroes welcome…

Posted: 14th, October 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)


Urinating Motorist Plunges To Death Off Viaduct

RIP Ermes Calautto, 36. The Italian gell off a viaduct to his death when he stopped to have a wee.

Last Sunday, Calautto was driving near Cavolano di Sacile in the northeast of Italy. It was around 3:00am local time.

He needed a wazz. So he stopped and got out of the car.

He jumped over the barrier – failing to noticed that he was still on the viaduct and nine metres up.

He fell and died…

Had only he had one of these:

Posted: 4th, October 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)


Ex Paratrooper Dies In Blender

PAUL Palmer died when he climbed into an industrial blender at the Building Chemical Research (BCR) plant in Bury, Greater Manchester. As he worked inside, the blender was switched on by another employee.

Mr Palmer was killed by the mixing blade.

It should have been impossible to turn the machine on with a man inside, but two safety switches failed.

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Posted: 20th, September 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment


Hospital Guards Beat Up Patient Trying To Flee Cancer Surgery He Didn’t Need

WHEN Joseph Wheeler was hurt in a car accident he was hospitalised at Prince George’s Hospital, Maryland, USA. That as June 23. On June 24 he woke in a hospital bed. He felt hungry. But the nurse said he could have no food. Why? Because he was scheduled to go to theatre “to have a potentially cancerous mass removed from his chest“.

He knew this was not the case. Mr Wheeler’s lawyer says the ID bracelet about his client’s wrist “contained a name that was different from Mr. Wheeler’s, appeared to be that of a woman, and had a birth date that was 13 years prior to his own“.

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Posted: 26th, August 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment


Six People Drown In Vat Of Tomato Ketchup

INTERESTING times at the Akansha Food Products unit in Lucknow, India, where a sixth worker has drowned after falling into a giant vat of tomato ketchup.

The Indian Express say the sixth victim is a female worker who slipped and fell into the 6m deep tank. Five ketchup workers dive in to save her. They are overcome by fumes.

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Posted: 10th, July 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)


Is Lutz Buergi The World’s Worst Car Parker?

INTRODUCING Lutz Buergi, the Swiss challenger to Tripta Kaushal’s title of the World’s Worse Car Parker.

It is 7am and Lutz Buergi, 42, is park at about 7 in the morning at a train station in Bern, Switzerland. The car park is empty. He pilots his white Mitsubishi Galant with no little skill into the only obstacle in view.

Someone tell him that in Switzerland, suicide is legal…

Posted: 2nd, July 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comments (7)


Biking Couple Stuck In Drainpipe When Bike Hits Tree

THE couple on the motorbike in Fangzian, Hubei Province, China, have crashed into a tree. The impact has sent them flying. They end up wedged in a 50cm-wide drain pipe.

Firefighters arrive. Says Officer Yu Chunyou:

“Without immediate rescue, they would have been in trouble because of the polluted air in the tunnel and the dirty water.”

The couple were eventually freed. And a million sperm nod in sympathy…

Posted: 25th, June 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment


Crash Sight TV Reporter Nearly Killed By Crashed Bus

IN Today’s Guide To TV Reporting, we remind you not to stand too close to the bus crash.

The media does like be at the centre of the story – but let’s not be a statistic, people…

Posted: 19th, June 2010 | In: TV & Radio | Comment


Man Jumps From Speeding Car To Escape Nagging Wife

A MAN has jumped from a moving vehicle rather than listen to his wife. The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office report says the 23-year-old man perfomed his own stunt after his wife refused to “shut up”.

The  man sustained serious injuries.

It is not known if his wife shut up but the man is on painkillers…

Posted: 17th, May 2010 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)


A Truck Driver Forgets To Lower His Trailer

HERE’S a video of a truck driver who forgot to lower his trailer crashing into a bridge. Here’ a video of people in a car laughing as a truck driver nearly kills himself and anyone on the bridge:

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Posted: 24th, March 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment


Kentucky Boy Stabbed In Brain By Keys

NICOLAS Holderman fell on his parents’ keys while playing.

The accident occured while Nicholas was playing at his home in Kentucky.

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Posted: 26th, November 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (7)