Good God almighty

[Norman Stansfield]

There are a lot of ways to leave this world.

This could be the worst of all.

Man killed in wood chipper accident

A 30-year-old man was killed this afternoon when he was sucked into a wood chipper while trying to shake loose a piece of wood that had jammed it.

The man owned a tree service company working in the 8900 block of 26th Ave. in Pleasant Prairie, according to a Pleasant Prairie Police Department press release.

The man was using his foot to clear debris that had jammed the wood chipper around 5:20 p.m. when his foot became entangled in the machine, witnesses told police.

His coworkers tried to rescue him from the intake, but he was pulled into and through the wood chipper, according to the release.

The incident remains under investigation by Pleasant Prairie detectives, the Kenosha County Medical Examiner's office and officials from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

Police withheld the man's name while they attempted to notify his family.

 

[spaceman]

Jack Splat

 

[Songbird]

If they ever do another Faces of Death, I hope something like this would be in there.

Wow.

 

[PopeDirkBenedict]

When reached by telephone, this pair replied, "No comment."

 

[pallister]

In a similar vein, whenever I go down to the pressroom, I always wonder what it would be like to get sucked into the giant press.

 

[farmerjerome]

There are a lot of ways to leave this world.

This could be the worst of all.

Man killed in wood chipper accident

A 30-year-old man was killed this afternoon when he was sucked into a wood chipper while trying to shake loose a piece of wood that had jammed it.

The man owned a tree service company working in the 8900 block of 26th Ave. in Pleasant Prairie, according to a Pleasant Prairie Police Department press release.

The man was using his foot to clear debris that had jammed the wood chipper around 5:20 p.m. when his foot became entangled in the machine, witnesses told police.
His coworkers tried to rescue him from the intake, but he was pulled into and through the wood chipper, according to the release.

The incident remains under investigation by Pleasant Prairie detectives, the Kenosha County Medical Examiner's office and officials from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

Police withheld the man's name while they attempted to notify his family.

Is there really any need for an investigation?

Cause of death: Stupidity.

 

[Buck]

Police withheld the man's name so they could notify his family before people across the nation started mocking the man, by name, for his sheer stupidity.

 

[lono]

There are a lot of ways to leave this world.

This could be the worst of all.

Man killed in wood chipper accident

A 30-year-old man was killed this afternoon when he was sucked into a wood chipper while trying to shake loose a piece of wood that had jammed it.

The man owned a tree service company working in the 8900 block of 26th Ave. in Pleasant Prairie, according to a Pleasant Prairie Police Department press release.

The man was using his foot to clear debris that had jammed the wood chipper around 5:20 p.m. when his foot became entangled in the machine, witnesses told police.
His coworkers tried to rescue him from the intake, but he was pulled into and through the wood chipper, according to the release.

The incident remains under investigation by Pleasant Prairie detectives, the Kenosha County Medical Examiner's office and officials from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

Police withheld the man's name while they attempted to notify his family.

Is there really any need for an investigation?

Cause of death: Stupidity.

And if you've ever worked news side, you know stupidity is the No. 1 cause of death worldwide.

 

[alleyallen]

He's definitely in the running for the Darwin Award.

 

[farmerjerome]

He's definitely in the running for the Darwin Award.

Not anymore. [/ducking]

 

[spaceman]

Obviously his name .... was....

Chip

 

[Double Down]

Quick story: When I was first working as a journalist, fresh out of college, it was as a police reporter. Got a call one day, and had to write a story, about a situation where a man was attempting to pull his mailbox out of the ground with his pick up truck. The mail box attatched to a metal post, which was burried deep in his front yard. He attatched a chain to the post, got in his truck, and tried to yank it out of the ground like they do with stumps in so many Ford and Chevy commercials.

He stepped on the gas, mail box post got yanked out of the ground, his truck went lurching forward must faster than he was expecting, and he crashed into the side part of his garage (which was made of brick), breaking his neck and killing him instantly.

I wonder if he, or the wife maybe, was just tired walking down the driveway every day to get the mail.


But yes, the woodchipper seems like a much worse way to go

 

[Chuck~Taylor]

Obviously his name .... was....

Chip

 

[Lester Bangs]

Guy not far from me worked at a garage-door manufacturing company and was pulled into the coiling mechanism and essentially crushed to death. I might take the wood chipper over that if only because, hell, at least the chipper leaves no doubt and is fast.

 

[dog428]

We ran a brief a few days back (searched for it and couldn't find it) about some guy who died from a sneeze.

Seriously. Guy sneezed, something broke loose somewhere and, bam, dead.

I'll take the wood chipper or the coiling mechanism, but sneezing? What a ****ty, ****ty way to go.

 

[Shaggy]

Not to be graphic, but what do you suppose he looked like coming out of the wood chipper?

I'd take a wood chipper accident over drowning. Of course, I'd rather have neither. If I could choose, I'd die in my sleep or during sex.

 

[spaceman]

other nickname... Soupy

 

[The Duke]

I can't resist

 

[Norman Stansfield]

Not to be graphic, but what do you suppose he looked like coming out of the wood chipper?

I'd take a wood chipper accident over drowning. Of course, I'd rather have neither. If I could choose, I'd die in my sleep or during sex.

What about on the ****ter, ala Gigi from The Sopranos?

 

[BYH]

I can top this.

A year or two ago in Connecticut, a construction worker fell off a roof and into a tar pit.

He didn't die instantly.