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PostPosted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 1:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote


A helicopter crash in the Irish republic was caught on CCTV. The attempted take-off in Bettystown, County Meath failed and the chopper came down on a hotel. No one was hurt in the crash. There is no sound on this video.
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 11:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Tramp survives being hit by car, train in same day
25/09/2008

WASHINGTON, September 25 (RIA Novosti) - A homeless man from the U.S. city of Boulder, Colorado survived being hit by a car and train in the space of seven hours, the local KMGH TV channel said on Thursday.

Robert Evans, 46, was hospitalized late on Wednesday with minor injures after being run over by a hit-and-run driver, but was discharged from hospital five hours later. An hour and a half later police found the man and his bicycle under a railway bridge - he had been hit by a freight train and fallen 10 feet into a creek below. His injuries from his second encounter with a moving force were reported as "slight."

In an addition to his accidents, Evans now faces a fine for crossing railway tracks in an inappropriate place.

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 2:04 am    Post subject: Reply with quote



somewhere in Guatemala there's a man thanking his lucky stars...
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 5:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote


Australian Ferrari owner is both a lucky and an unlucky b*stard.
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 26, 2009 11:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote



The moment a car launched 100ft through the air and crashed into a church roof
By Allan Hall
26th January 2009

Some churches have bats in the belfry. This one has a car. The Skoda saloon arrived at its unusual resting place after its speeding driver lost control, drove over the edge of a steep slope and flew for 100ft in the air before becoming embedded in the roof.

Fireman needed a special lift to reach the 23-year-old trapped 30ft above the ground late on Sunday night. After two hours trapped in the wreckage he was freed, badly hurt but expected to survive his injuries.

Next Sunday's service at the the Church of Our Lady in the East German village of Limbach-Oberfrohna might have to be cancelled while structural safety checks are carried out. The minister, Johannes Schubert, said: 'I think it is a miracle that the young man is alive. The church we can repair; he would have been a different story if God had not been looking out for him. If we are allowed to hold a service on Sunday I think I shall make the theme of it "God moves in mysterious ways, his miracles to perform".'

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PostPosted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 8:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote


The living room of a house in Newport. The owners were watching television when the lorry crashed through the bay window.


Joe Peroceschi, of Wisconsin, is thrown from his boat, Smokin Joe, after losing control on a windy course at the Budweiser Drag Boat Nationals in Southeast Missouri.

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That is his shoe that he loses... clipped by the train Shocked
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CCTV shows moment when man survives collision between train and lorry
A Turkish man declared that "life is beautiful" after he survived a collision between a lorry and a train that was captured on CCTV.
05 Mar 2009

In the dramatic footage, a train slammed into a flatbed lorry as it was crossing train tracks in the Mediterranean port city of Mersin on Feb 25. Propelled sideways, the lorry then swept over Cem Tokac, who was standing beside the tracks. But while the footage, released on Wednesday by Dogan news agency, showed Mr Tokac after the accident, lying motionless on the ground, incredibly the 32-year-old suffered only minor injuries.

"I can't remember anything about the accident," Mr Tokac said. "I thought I was asleep. But when I woke up, I was not in my bed. I was on the ground." Mr Tokac, who plans to marry in April, said Feb 25 is his new birthday. "Life is really beautiful," he said.

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PostPosted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 11:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote


A little deaf in one ear - meet the Japanese man who survived Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Justin McCurry
The Guardian,
25 March 2009

It seems almost improper to suggest that fortune was smiling on Tsutomu Yamaguchi in the dying days of the second world war. On 6 August 1945, he was in Hiroshima, preparing to return home from a business trip when the American B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, dropped an atomic bomb on the city. Yamaguchi lived, while 140,000 other people who were in the city that morning died, some in an agonising instant, others many months later. Burned and barely able to comprehend what had happened - only that he had witnessed a bomb unlike any used before - Yamaguchi spent a fitful night in an air raid shelter before returning home the following day.

That home, 180 miles to the west, was Nagasaki. His arrival came the day before it was devastated by a second US atomic bomb on 9 August. In a barely conceivable course of events, he had twice been perilously close to nuclear ground zero; and both times he had lived. More than 70,000 other residents of Nagasaki were not so lucky.

More than 60 years later, the 93-year-old became the first and only known survivor of both attacks yesterday to win official recognition from Japanese authorities. While other survivors died prematurely from cancer and liver disease caused by their exposure to radiation, Yamaguchi remains in relatively good health apart from near-deafness in one ear and complaints that his legs are "growing weak".

Japanese records show dozens of people experienced the blast in Hiroshima only to be exposed to "residual radiation" in Nagasaki three days later. But Yamaguchi is the first to have been at ground zero when both explosions occurred. According to a newspaper interview Yamaguchi gave on the 60th anniversary of the end of the Pacific war, he had spent the conflict designing oil tankers for Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, a wartime zaibatsu, or conglomerate, whose shipyards dominated the Nagasaki skyline.

After a three-month stint at the firm's yards in Hiroshima, Yamaguchi and two colleagues, Akira Iwanaga and Kuniyoshi Sato, prepared to return to Nagasaki on 7 August, 1945. The day before, they woke early, collected their belongings and prepared for the train journey west. On the way to the station they became separated after Yamaguchi realised he had left his personal seal in the office. He remembers hearing the Enola Gay circling above, but thought nothing of it: Hiroshima was an important wartime industrial base, and the sound of circling planes had become a fact of life.

Within seconds he had been knocked off his feet by the force of the blast as "Little Boy" detonated 580 metres above central Hiroshima just after 8.15 am, announcing its arrival with a blinding flash followed by a deafening boom. As he stumbled to the train station the next day, Yamaguchi witnessed the destruction and carnage left by the bomber's 13-kiloton payload.

The following day, his burns swathed in bandages, Yamaguchi reported for work in Nagasaki, like Hiroshima an important industrial and military base. At 11.02 on 9 August, as his boss reportedly questioned his sanity for believing that a single bomb could destroy a city the size of Hiroshima, a 25-kiloton plutonium bomb exploded above Nagasaki, throwing Yamaguchi to the ground. He, his wife and baby son survived and spent the following week in a shelter near what was left of their home. His son has since died of cancer aged 59. After the war Yamaguchi worked for the US occupation authorities, became a teacher and eventually returned to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.

Yamaguchi was quoted yesterday by the Mainichi newspaper. "My double radiation exposure is now an official government record. It can tell the younger generation the horrifying history of the atomic bombings even after I die," he said. As a registered survivor of the Nagasaki bombing, Yamaguchi has owned a pale violet copy of the Atomic Bomb Victim Health Handbook since 1957, entitling him to monthly allowances, free medical checkups and funeral costs. More than 260,000 others are similarly covered. Yamaguchi's handbook confirmed he was within a three-kilometre radius of ground zero in both cities, but the reference to Hiroshima was deleted when he renewed it at Nagasaki city hall in 1960.

Officials refused to recognise Yamaguchi's special status because, they said, it would not affect his medical and welfare entitlements, but relented after he filed another request earlier this year. "As far as we know, he is the first one to be officially recognised as a survivor of atomic bombings," Toshiro Miyamoto, a Nagasaki city official, told the Associated Press. "It's such an unfortunate case, but it is possible there are more like him."

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This owner of this Australian car was counting his fingernails after being caught in a landslide.
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python killing a deer
Kenyan man bites python in struggle to survive
A Kenyan man bit a python that wrapped him in its coils and hauled him up a tree in a struggle that lasted hours, local media said on Wednesday.
15 Apr 2009

Ben Nyaumbe was working on the farm he manages at the weekend when the snake, apparently hunting for livestock, struck in the Malindi area of Kenya's Indian Ocean coast. "I stepped on a spongy thing on the ground and suddenly my leg was entangled with the body of a huge python," he told the Daily Nation newspaper.

When the snake coiled itself around his upper body, Mr Nyaumbe resorted to desperate measures. "It waggled its ragged and scary tail on my mouth. I had to bite it as I struggled, one hand incapacitated," he told the paper. The python dragged him up a tree, but when it eased its grip, Mr Nyaumbe said he was able to take a mobile phone out of his pocket and ring for help.

When his supervisor came with a policeman, Mr Nyaumbe smothered the snake's head with his shirt, while the rescuers tied it with a rope and pulled. "We both came down, landing with a thud," said Mr Nyaumbe, who survived with damaged lips and bruising. The snake was stuffed into three sacks and driven to a bird and snake sanctuary, but it later escaped and remains at large.

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PostPosted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 12:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Woman makes cup of tea after being shot in head
An American woman who was shot in the head by her husband not only survived but made herself a cup of tea

Police and doctors hailed the survival of Tammy Sexton, 47, as miraculous after a bullet from a .38-calibre handgun struck her squarely in the forehead, passed through her skull and exited through the back of her head. She is expected to make a full recovery, while her husband shot himself dead after the attack on his wife.

But law enforcement officers in Jackson County, Mississippi, were also astonished that Mrs Sexton offered them tea when they arrived at her home after the shooting.

Sheriff Mike Byrd said: "When the officer got there she said, 'What's going on?' She was holding a rag on her head and talking. She was conscious, but she was confused about what had happened.

"She had made herself some tea and offered the officer something to drink.

"There's no way she should be alive other than a miracle from God. You just don't hear of something like this. Somebody gets shot in the head and they're dead."

He said that her husband had been on probation for domestic violence and officers had been seeking to serve him with a court order demanding he stayed away from his wife and their rural home.

He said the bullet apparently passed through the lobes of the woman's brain without causing major damage. She was rushed to hospital by helicopter where shehas been monitored for three days.

Dr Patrick Pritchard, an assistant professor of surgery at the University of Alabama-Birmingham, said: "There is a space in the brain where a missile could pass without doing any major damage.

"Is it possible? Yes. It would be rare."

from http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/5177344/Woman-makes-cup-of-tea-after-being-shot-in-head.html
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Plummeting plane saved by toilets
May 5, 2009

A pilot walked away unhurt after his plane dropped out of the sky - because its landing was cushioned when it fell on a group of portable toilets.

Gary Mayor of the Federal Aviation Administration says the Cessna 182 crashed on Friday afternoon in Washington state, after taking off from Thun Field, an airfield southeast of Tacoma. Sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer says the plane was about 150 feet in the air when the engine gave up the ghost. Troyer told The News Tribune that the pilot tried to turn around to land but didn't quite make it.

The plane hit a fence, flipped over and landed upside down on top of the portable toilets standing in a storage yard. Authorities didn't reveal the pilot's identity.

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