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Posted on 2/26/21 at 1:41 pm to Large Farva
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I don't want this thread to slow down.
same
come on Bert... work can wait. post some more!
Posted on 2/26/21 at 1:45 pm to Slagathor
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The man flying through the air is Nigel Corner, who was racing a car at the Goodwood Revival in 1998 when he suffered a terrible crash.
Somehow, he survived. But he did break 20 bones (including his back) and punctured both lungs.
Corner later said: “Those old Ferraris are bloody strong, but if I’d been belted in I’d be a dead man now.”
Posted on 2/26/21 at 1:46 pm to IAmNERD
This post was edited on 2/26/21 at 1:47 pm
Posted on 2/26/21 at 1:47 pm to Ed Osteen
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since 2001 t
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, it's been 20 years
Hard to believe, baw.
Posted on 2/26/21 at 1:48 pm to White Bear
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This is the shocking moment that Keith Sapsford, a 14-year-old Australian, fell to his death on February 24th, 1970
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Sapsford had been hiding in the wheel of a flight which left Sydney and was bound towards Japan.
At the moment he fell from the plane, John Gilspin – an amateur photographer – was testing beyond his camera lens.
He unwittingly caught the moment that Sapsford fell over 200 feet to his death.
Posted on 2/26/21 at 2:03 pm to Bert Macklin FBI
quote:There is some connection between people struck by lightning and suicide.
Also, I am not sure what the suicide has to do with the pic. It seems like unnecessary information to me.
The man who is (or was) in the Guinness Book of World Records for having survived the most times being hit by lightning (6 times) also killed himself.
Posted on 2/26/21 at 2:06 pm to Bert Macklin FBI
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This seemingly fun and lively photo of two brothers - Michael and Sean McQuilken - was taken at Moro Rock in California’s Sequoia National Park on August 20, 1975. The photograph was captured by their sister Mary just seconds before they were struck by lightning. One of the brothers later recalled: “At the time, we thought this was humorous. I took a photo of Mary and Mary took a photo of Sean and me. I raised my right hand into the air and the ring I had on began to buzz so loudly that everyone could hear it. I found myself on the ground with the others. Sean was collapsed and huddled on his knees. Smoke was pouring from his back.” At the time, all the three survived, but Sean, the younger brother, sadly took his own life in 1989.
Shocking story.
Posted on 2/26/21 at 2:23 pm to SouthEndzoneTiger
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The 1995 Winston 100 at Charlotte was the 17th series start for Phillips, who entered the race with a best finish of 11th and having just won his first pole position after setting a lap speed of 157.444 miles per hour (253.382 km/h).
The crash occurred on lap 17 of the 67-lap event; up to that point, Phillips was in tenth place and had led three laps. His Oldsmobile was hit by the car of Steven Howard, who steered high to avoid a two-car spinout. Howard's car forced Phillips' car onto its right side, then smashed it roof-first into the retaining wall. Until 1996, NASCAR cars were not yet required to be equipped with the "Earnhardt bar", a roof-support bar running down the middle of the windshield, designed to prevent fatal roof collapse in roof-first accidents. His roll bars failed to protect the roof; both the roll bars and the roof itself were sheared completely off the car, exposing the interior of the driver compartment and grinding Phillips and the compartment against the wall and fence, killing him instantly. When the vehicle came back down onto the track on its wheels, there was a massive "gaping hole" where the roof had been.
Phillips, whose body was mutilated by the track's steel catch fence and a caution light fixture at high speed, was both dismembered and decapitated, in what a photographer on-scene described, "as gruesome a wreck as I can ever recall".
Not posting pictures of the accident. But the photo above is taken shortly before the crash.
Posted on 2/26/21 at 2:24 pm to goofball
Serious question. If you're one of those women on the beach seeing a tsunami approaching. Is there a chance of survival?
I know you can't outrun a tsunami, and at the point where they are, you can't out drive it either. But hell, if you're able to grab the family and haul arse to your vehicle. Does that increase or decrease survival chances?
Also that 9/11 photo just really fricked with me. So frightening that I cant even begin to put myself in her shoes. From the looks there's another dead body in the pic too.
I know you can't outrun a tsunami, and at the point where they are, you can't out drive it either. But hell, if you're able to grab the family and haul arse to your vehicle. Does that increase or decrease survival chances?
Also that 9/11 photo just really fricked with me. So frightening that I cant even begin to put myself in her shoes. From the looks there's another dead body in the pic too.
Posted on 2/26/21 at 2:36 pm to PJinAtl
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The man who is (or was) in the Guinness Book of World Records for having survived the most times being hit by lightning (6 times) also killed himself.
at age 71.
Posted on 2/26/21 at 2:37 pm to QJenk
At the 9/11 memorial in New York, there is a small enclave that refers to the jumpers. It was very sobering and was the moment that my young boys truly felt the gravity of the situation.
No pun intended.
No pun intended.
Posted on 2/26/21 at 2:38 pm to TigerstuckinMS
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Nah. It's a beach and looking from what those women are wearing, it isn't the peasant beach. There's certainly a hotel or a resort near those people. All you have to do is go into the building and get up on the 3rd or 4th floor and you should be good.
The waves were 100 feet tall, went a mile inland, and killed 200,000+ people. It wasn't as simple as just getting to a 3rd story building and hanging out
This post was edited on 2/26/21 at 2:39 pm
Posted on 2/26/21 at 2:39 pm to lsu merk
ISWYDT
Posted on 2/26/21 at 2:40 pm to lsu merk
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Sydney Loofe posted this image to social media before being strangled on a Tinder date.
The man who killed her, Aubrey Trail, falsely claimed the death was “an accident that happened during a five-way sexual encounter gone wrong,” though there is no evidence that suggests this was anything other than murder.
Posted on 2/26/21 at 2:42 pm to Ed Osteen
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The waves were 100 feet tall, went a mile inland, and killed 200,000+ people. It wasn't as simple as just getting to a 3rd story building and hanging out
I'd be running for higher ground for sure, but I'd also be terrified that the building would get washed away too
Posted on 2/26/21 at 2:45 pm to goofball
You have to zoom into the bottom left corner to see the college instructor who became entangled in in the lines of a giant kite when it caught an unexpected wind. He and his students were attempting to break a world record in 1983. He wound up falling 115 feet to his death.
ETA - Sorry that the pic keeps disappearing. If you can't see it, Google 1983 kite death on Google images.
This post was edited on 3/1/21 at 10:36 am
Posted on 2/26/21 at 2:49 pm to PJinAtl
Was part of a group lighting strike at LSU, was playing in frat flag fb tournament near the old downtown airport beneath some high tension power lines during a thunderstorm. Brilliant, I know. Knocked several of us to the ground, one didn’t get up. No suicide here, that I’m aware of.
Posted on 2/26/21 at 2:54 pm to Slagathor
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Geologist David A. Johnson 13 hours before he was killed when Mt. Saint Helens erupted.
IIRC he was found clutching/protecting film he took when he died
no that was a photographer...Johnston was never found
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