Life and Death
the linemen helped the driver out of his trapped seat while flames started to lap against his overturned truck. As soon as he was freed, the driver reached back in to rescue his 3-year-old daughter. That's when he told the linemen his pregnant wife was trapped inside the truck, and the boys sprang into action. First, the trio got additional help from two other bystanders -- an older man in a back brace and a woman in a military uniform -- and then coordinated a five-man lift to flip the truck over, all while the automobile's engine compartment was lapped by flames. ... We had to flip the truck over. It was just a midsize truck."
Jumping off a cliff [Fantastic video h/t Ace of Spades]
Jon Hutt used a 3-inch pocket knife to sever his toes from the machinery after realising no one heard his cries. ... pinned under his six-tonne trailer. ... "It hurt so bad," Hutt said, "I would cut for a while and then I had to rest."
...text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005. ... three stories from my life... you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. ... getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again ... Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.... [h/t Cuz BD]
21 hours after his family called in an undertaker who sent him to the morgue after an asthma attack. Kupelo says the man started yelling, prompting morgue workers to run away in fear. They eventually returned and removed him from the fridge. He was then taken to a nearby hospital and later discharged by doctors who deemed him stable.
Just before he was hit, Rooney downplayed concerns about the lightning. "He had just said that lightning doesn't strike two people in one family right before it happened, not long before it happened, he said that," ... Steve Rooney's father George was also killed by lightning 48 years ago when Steve was just a 5-year-old boy.
Witnesses who watched a Northern California man get sucked into a Maui blow hole to his apparent death say that the tourist was dancing around and frolicking in the sprays of water moments before a wave knocked him down.
An Iraq war veteran who lost both his legs to an IED attack has died after being flung from a roller coaster.
A fan attending a Texas Rangers game died Thursday night after falling out of the stands behind the left-field wall.
Two years later, Miss Dugard is living in northern California with her mother, her half-sister and her two daughters. The two girls are now at school full-time. She writes of her pride at how well her eldest daughter interacted with the other students at her orientation day, and how for the first time she realised they were all going to be OK. Most of all, she writes, she and her daughters are happy to be free - for the first time in 18 years. 'Now I can walk in the next room and see my mom,' she says in the interview. 'Wow. I can decide to jump in the car and go to the beach with the girls. Wow, it's unbelievable, truly.'
A Russian woman died from a heart attack ought on by the shock of waking up at her own funeral.
A 911 dispatcher handled a call for a water rescue at a state park — only to learn later that the drowning victim was her [17yo] son.
on Wednesday, after 65 years as identical twins wearing the identical brown robes of the Franciscans... Brother Julian Riester and Brother Adrian Riester died together... Julian died Wednesday morning, followed by Adrian in the evening.... "They weren't even separated for 12 hours." ...
Jack Kevorkian... Dr. Death... 83, died... kidney and heart problems... "It was peaceful. He didn't feel a thing...." no artificial attempts to keep Kevorkian alive....
A 30-year-old model celebrating her birthday at an Atlanta hotel plunged to her death Saturday after she and a pal crashed through a 10th-floor window while "play wrestling...." Rescuers discovered her friend, who tumbled off that same roof, on an outdoor patio.... in critical condition with several broken bones....
"Right now, we don't know exactly what happened, but from what we are told, she was cooking, and for some unknown reason, the pressure cooker fell," said Lt. Ignatius Carroll, of Miami Fire Rescue. "The impact caused it to explode. Maybe pieces from the pressure cooker severed her leg completely." The woman's leg was severed below the knee
The homeless Bulgarian who decapitated a British woman in Tenerife yesterday thought he was 'a prophet of god'
The bus driver who talked an armed student out of a plan to hijack the bus said God was to thank for defusing the crisis Monday afternoon. ... "I thought he was immediately going to use it on me. But after he had stopped and I began to get into conversation with him I was a little calmer, you know, and said a little prayer in my heart, and I got a clear mind after that." Okoduwa told the boy to calm down and began asking the boy various questions. Police say the boy planned to have Okoduwa drive him to Washington D.C. where he wanted to shoot government officials. ... "I could not do much thinking at the time.... I would mostly attribute it to God — if it wasn't for His help, things would have gone differently on that bus.... It wasn't anything specific I did that changed the situation.... I just stepped into a providential grace — if you call it — that's why he cooperated with me."
homeless man... entered the woman's apartment to use the bathroom.... she found him and screamed... [he] ran out of the room with his pants around his ankles, tripped and fell down the stairs and died.... [Talk about undignfied deaths!!]
An 82-year-old former Nepalese foreign minister has died in his attempt to become the oldest person to climb Mount Everest [Better than lying in a nursing home.]
Rita Chretien, 56, was found alive on Friday by hunters near the Humboldt National Forest, in northeastern Nevada. Her husband Al Chretien is still missing. The couple vanished shortly after leaving their Penticton, B.C., home March 19. They were on their way to a trade show in Las Vegas, but didn't check into the hotel they had reserved. Rita survived 49 days in the wilderness on snow, a small amount of trail mix and prayer, said long-time family friend Dave Goertzen. She lost about 30 pounds and they're working on balancing her electrolytes at a hospital in Twin Falls, Idaho
...says he was also told his mother would need an extra-large casket and burial vault or a double grave site. The woman weighed 230 pounds. ... At the April 9 funeral, the gravesite ended up being too small for the oversize casket, and ended up being damaged in an attempt to force it into the grave....
Yvette Vickers, an early Playboy playmate whose credits as a B-movie actress included such cult films as "Attack of the 50-Foot Woman" and "Attack of the Giant Leeches," was found dead last week at her Benedict Canyon home. Her body appears to have gone undiscovered for months, police said. Vickers, 82, had not been seen for a long time. A neighbor discovered her body in an upstairs room of her Westwanda Drive home on April 27. Its mummified state suggests she could have been dead for close to a year
one unfortunate man appears to have been electrocuted twice within the space of a minute by two almighty bolts of lightning.
Eight-year-old Reginald Epps Jr was picked up off his feet and pulled into the swirling darkness when one of the Alabama twisters tore through his home. As his family cowered beneath him he was carried through the air some 30ft before being set down again with just cuts and bruises.
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