Good God almighty

[Buck]

Strange thing.
Arborists fall into the tops of palm trees, what's called the beard, and suffocate.

 

[TrooperBari]

other nickname... Soupy

Mr. Kibble

 

[Smallpotatoes]

When I was in college in the '80s, there was a man in Connecticut who killed his wife and dsiposed of the body in a wood chipper.
There were actually t-shirts with a picture of a wood chipper that read "Divorce Connecticut-style"
Anybody remember that case?

 

[CentralIllinoisan]

Good Gawd Almighty!

 

[BYH]

When I was in college in the '80s, there was a man in Connecticut who killed his wife and dsiposed of the body in a wood chipper.
There were actually t-shirts with a picture of a wood chipper that read "Divorce Connecticut-style"
Anybody remember that case?

Oh yeah, in New Milford, right? Some rich dude fed her into the chipper.

 

[TrooperBari]

Mah ... Mah Gawd! That's Murphy's music!

 

[CentralIllinoisan]

Mah ... Mah Gawd! That's Murphy's music!

Let's grapple!

 

[BYH]

Good Gawd Almighty!

Tracy Ringolsby was fed into the chipper?!

 

[Angola!]

This is pretty ****ed up.
The way I assume it went down was his leg gets sucked into it and then the rest of his body. So was his other leg in the machine also? Or did he have one leg in one leg out?
Either way, that is an awful way to die because of the seconds when he knew what was going on before his body started to get shredded. I can't imagine being one of the "bystanders" and witnessing dude getting sucked into the chipper machine. Just terrible.

 

[Roscablo]

I have people coming to work on my trees in a couple of days. Should I be worried?

 

[Angola!]

Strange thing.
Arborists fall into the tops of palm trees, what's called the beard, and suffocate.

I just planted two palm trees, should I be worried? Of course, they are only 3 feet tall and it would be tough to fall inside of them, but still, should I be worried?

 

[User 1019]

There's a tire plant in the town my shop's in. There have been several cases of people falling into bubbling hot vats of rubber -- or whatever they are.

I also saw a guy get his hand "degloved" in a press once. Then, saw another guy about a year later lose a finger in the same press.

 

[Seabasket]

When I was in college in the '80s, there was a man in Connecticut who killed his wife and dsiposed of the body in a wood chipper.
There were actually t-shirts with a picture of a wood chipper that read "Divorce Connecticut-style"
Anybody remember that case?

Oh yeah, in New Milford, right? Some rich dude fed her into the chipper.

The guy's name was Richard Crafts. He killed his wife, froze her body and then disposed of her by woodchipper. They found small remnants like fingernails along a river in Ct. I believe it was Newtown. The amazing thing was his first trial ended in mistrial, and he had to be retried. He got life his second time around.

 

[joe]

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.

Yeah, ask Sammy Sosa about that.

 

[Bob Cook]

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:VX9lmOMUSUQJ:query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html%3Fres%3D950DE3DD123DF93AA15754C0A96F948260+%22menominee%22+%22dairy+farm%22+died&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=4

This one was pretty bad, too. One guy slips into an uncovered manure pit at a U.P. dairy farm. Eventually, he's dead, overcome by fumes. Another guy slips in behind him. Same result. Another guy goes in to save the first two. Same result. Another guy goes in to save the first three. Same result. Another guy goes in to save the first four. Same result. Finally, they ran out of guys.

 

[Ace]

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:VX9lmOMUSUQJ:query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html%3Fres%3D950DE3DD123DF93AA15754C0A96F948260+%22menominee%22+%22dairy+farm%22+died&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=4

This one was pretty bad, too. One guy slips into an uncovered manure pit at a U.P. dairy farm. Eventually, he's dead, overcome by fumes. Another guy slips in behind him. Same result. Another guy goes in to save the first two. Same result. Another guy goes in to save the first three. Same result. Another guy goes in to save the first four. Same result. Finally, they ran out of guys.

I have heard of similar deaths at big chicken farms. Yecch.

On the wood chipper guy, I'm thinking I might hit the off switch before using my leg to clear the pathway, but that's just me.

 

[Freelance Hack]

other nickname... Soupy

Mr. Kibble

Another nickname -- mulch

 

[Chef]

Listening to Bob and Tom this morning..........they told the sports dude about this.........his response.........."Did he die?"

NO ****!

 

[Armchair_QB]

Listening to Bob and Tom this morning..........they told the sports dude about this.........his response.........."Did he die?"

NO ****!

Wonder if he's the same guy who asked the doctor who did Mickey Mantle's liver transplant if they could speak to the donor. This was after the doctor said the donor also donated his eyes, kidneys, lungs and heart.

The doctor looked at the guy and said, "You must be a sportswriter."

 

[HandsomeHarley]

... And in other news, the man's family wins millions in court from the maker of the wood chipper because there was no warning on the machine that said, "Sticking foot into machine could cause serious injury or death."