Posts Tagged ‘accidents’
Gifs: 17 water slide lols
SUMMER’S here. Toss the daddy long legs from the dusty paddling pool. Grease over the slippery sliders. And head along to the Aqua Park, taking care to avoid the rusty nails. What could go wrong?
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Posted: 26th, June 2013 | In: Gifs, Key Posts, The Consumer | Comment
How they deal with road toll dodgers in Burma
TO Monywa, Burma, where a man on a scooter is trying to zip through the open toll gate. He never makes it:
Posted: 4th, June 2013 | In: Technology | Comment
Rescue crew race to save sinking canoe (video)
WHEN a canoe sinks, the rescue crew hope into action. Don’t panic!
Posted: 10th, April 2013 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Beach goers form human chain to save boy from drowning (video)
TO Napier, New Zealand, where Josh McQuiod, 12, has been swept into the sea at Marine Parade. He’s been in the water for eight minutes.
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Boy riding to school impaled on his bicycle (photos)
TO China, where a student riding his bike to his first day of school suffered a mishap. The bike’s seat buckled. This exposed a steel rod, which stuck into the lad’s backside. A fire crew cut most of the bicycle free. At hospital, the rest of the bike was removed. (Its was not a Bootie but one believed made in China from old KitKat wrappers.)
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Posted: 26th, February 2013 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Six Chinese soldiers playing catch with live grenade (video)
THE People’s Liberation Army of China is big in number but relatively low on supplies (!). In this video, six soldiers with the People’s Liberation Army of China toss a grenade about. The person holding it last throws it into a hole – or keeps hold of it and gets an early discharge… Also, listen out for the civil rights campaigner inside the grenade keeping count:
Spotter: Joe
Posted: 24th, January 2012 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
German Carries Lots Of Beer On His Hans
HERE’S a German called Hans carrying lots of big glasses of beer at once to the top tabel at the G8 summit in Frankfurt. He never arrived. Instead the world leaders had to make to with a bottle of Ouzo and a sniff of Sarkozy’s aftershave.
Note: sound effects, as recorded at the Griechenland und Fehlschlag club, were added later.
Posted: 13th, December 2011 | In: TV & Radio | Comment (1)
Doctos Replace Man’s Missing Thumb With Big Toe (Photos)
WHEN James Birn lost his thumb in an accident, medics moved his big toe to his hand. What he’s got for a big toe is a moot point. But Hollywood has a surplus of noses, and it’s good to recycle…
Spotter: Barnorama
Posted: 8th, December 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Loaf Of Bread Saves Woman’s Life: White Sliced Acted As Edible Air Bag
WHEN Liz Douglas’ Nissan Note hit a telegraph pole and flipped over on the B829 near Inversnaid her life was saved by her white sliced loaf of bread.
The loaf had become wedged between the roof and her head. Says she:
“I was upside down in this ditch, and could feel something under my head, and realised it was the loaf. The loaf had been thrown from the back seat of the car and landed on the roof of car inside the vehicle in time to cushion my head during its contact with the roof of the vehicle. For some reason the airbags didn’t inflate so the loaf was really the only cushion I had. It helped keep me comfortable the whole time. As far as I’m concerned it stopped my head hitting the top of the car and saved my life.”
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Posted: 27th, November 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Derby Student Danielle Morgan Gets Trapped In Clothes Horse
DANIELLE Morgan,18, has learnt a powerful lesson. The University of Derby student had been “mucking about” with laundry devices when she became trapped in a clothes horse at her halls of residence.
Whilst in the room of one Lisa Smith, also 18, Morgan fell off the bed, and the clothes horse fell on top of her.
She remained captured by the drier for more than an hour.
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Posted: 23rd, November 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Tao Jiayuan Has A Large Leech Living In His Windpipe
MEDICS at a Nan’an Division of Yibin No. 2 Hospital, in Yibin City in southwest China’s Sichuan province have removed a 4-inch long leech from 16-year-old Tao Jiayuan’s windpipe.
He had been feeling a little hoarse.
That’s just one theory. His father, Tao Chuanhua, offers another:
“He must have drunk stream water when working in the field.”
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Posted: 23rd, November 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
Boy Hangs On For Dear Life: Video
DON’T worry – if the little lad falls off the bike, the car filming the ride will be on the scene – and on him – swiftly…
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Posted: 1st, October 2011 | In: TV & Radio | Comment
Dying Newspaper Saves Women Trapped In Patio Chair
LOCAL News Story of The Day takes us to Liberty Hill, Texas, where Evelyn Rogers, 75, has become trapped in her garden furniture. It is early evening and Rogers sits on her chair. She spots a length of plastic sticking out from under the seat. She gives it a tug. The chair rips. She tumbles through the hole. The chair’s aluminium frame closes on her. She is stuck.
Evelyn’s chihuahua Lucy looks on.
Says Evelyn:
“I screamed until I couldn’t scream anymore. I told myself I couldn’t scream anymore because it wouldn’t do any good because there were no real close neighbors.”
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Posted: 7th, September 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Woman Crashes Car While Giving Finger To Other Motorist
TO Tacoma, where the 23-year-old woman is giving the finger to the driver of a Subaru Outback. She is in a Ford Taurus. Rather she was. The hand gesture caused her to lose control of the vehicle and end up upside down in a ditch.
She has been charged with reckless driving.
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Posted: 23rd, August 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man Claimed Lost Arm To Get Insurance Money
MICHAEL Earl LeDuc Escanaba, 33, of Michigan, has been jailed for 57 months in prison for telling CUNA Mutual Group that he lost his arm in a wood chipper. His insurance policy said that if he lost a limb, it would earn him 251,000 in compensation. So he lost one – by forging his medical records.
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Posted: 21st, August 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man Kills Wife With Homemade Missile
TO Vologda, northwest Russia, where a man, said to be an aviation enthusiast, is showing his wife the homemade missile he’s created.
He is not in the couple’s lounge, rather in a field. He sets the device and stands back. The misisle is detonated. Off it goes…straight into his wife’s head.
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Posted: 14th, August 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man Aiming Gun At Pig Shoots Wife Dead
A MAN who intended to shoot a pig, shot his wife dead instead. Is this a case of mistaken identity?
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Posted: 18th, June 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Doncaster Man Loses Finger Removing Wart With Stolen Shotgun
SEAN Murphy, 38, of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, tried to remove a wart on his middle finger with a 12-bore Beretta shotgun. He succeeded. He also lost most of the finger.
Such was Mr Murphy’s state of mind that he fired the gun at Markham Grange Nurseries, a garden centre in Brodsworth, where he worked as a security guard. The gun he used was stolen. Police are called. For using an illegal firearm, Murphy has secured himself a 16-week suspended prison sentence, 100 hours of unpaid community work and pay costs of £100.
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Posted: 16th, June 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (3)
Man Is Run Over By Two Trucks – And You’ll Smile (Video)
IN this video the man is run over by one trucks….two trucks. Doors, eh, readers. God, they’re complicated…
Posted: 15th, June 2011 | In: TV & Radio | Comments (2)
Woman Loses House Keys: Dies Climbing Through Window
RIP Esther Kline. She was 44. Her last recorded words before she became wedged in a basement window at her Cincinnati home and died were:
“I wish the spare key was here.”
That’s the message she texted her husband when she was locked out of their house.
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Posted: 15th, April 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man Catches Fire Watching Porn
IN San Franciso, the man sat in the porn booth watching a video has caught fire. Our first thought – like yours – is that friction and godless man made-fibres are a recipe for an inferno.
The man is now in hospital recovering from third degree burns.
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Posted: 14th, April 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Kent Students Filming Death Scene Find Dead Body
WHILE shooting a death scene for their project, film undergraduates from Canterbury Christ Church University found a real dead body at Botany Bay in Broadstairs.
Says student Dave Larke, 48:
“It was a bit freaky to say the least. Our actress looked up and saw a bloke pulling something out of the sea, then she suddenly realised it was a dead body. We went over to see if the guy was all right with it because we could see he was having trouble with his phone. And just to make sure that we weren’t wrong in what we had seen. I was probably a foot away from it at the closest point, which wasn’t nice at all.”
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Posted: 21st, March 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
