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The Bar => The Lounge => Topic started by: thundley4 on December 07, 2010, 07:47:30 PM
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A DARWIN man has been killed while lopping a palm tree in his garden.
The 50-year-old man, whose name has not been released, died when the large foxtail palm came crashing down, striking him in the face, the Northern Territory News said.
It is believed the man's body lay unnoticed for several hours before he was found and the alarm was raised.
The freak accident happened at a property at Knuckey Lagoon on Friday. But it took police five days to release news of the death and yesterday they refused to give out any further details. Police Superintendent Daniel Sheen said the accident happened between 2pm and 5.15pm.
Australia (http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/man-killed-in-freak-gardening-accident/story-e6frfku0-1225967431771)
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I'm going to hell for this, ain't I?
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:lol:
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Unreal so he gets the Darwin award while we facepalm him!?
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:lol:
He gets the Darwin Award, but the story was coincidentally from Darwin, Australia. :lmao:
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Don't laugh. There was the lady who was on her riding mower when she rolled it, and it rolled on her.
Then there was the gent up here about a year ago doing some work on a tree when the chainsaw kicked back on him.
Not pretty.
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Don't laugh. There was the lady who was on her riding mower when she rolled it, and it rolled on her.
Then there was the gent up here about a year ago doing some work on a tree when the chainsaw kicked back on him.
Not pretty.
In this part of Missouri, the clay content in the soil is off the charts. It's so bad that septic systems don't really work since the clay won't readily disperse the "stuff" in the system.
Well, when you live out in the boonies like I do, that means that you've got a "lagoon" dug on your property into which your household sewage flows. That's right - sewage, and anything of a liquid and semi-solid nature that you put down your drain.
In essence you've got a small pond on your property that is designed to break this stuff down. The experts tell you to keep the edges of this pond largely free of leafy matter/trees, cattails, etc.
There have been more than a few instances where good ol' Bob was out there riding his mower around trimming up the area around his lagoon. He catches a wheel on the embankment and in the lagoon he goes, with the mower on top of him.
That's gotta be a helluva way to die - immersed in shit. :p
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[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAgsjJaCjC0[/youtube]
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:nelson:
That was epic!
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Looks like someone didn't take trig in high school.
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Darwin - fairly good chance that alcohol was involved.
He'd probably had a sixpack of "Darwin Stubbies" with breakfast.
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[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAgsjJaCjC0[/youtube]
I am so not a tree expert, but really, these guys have absolutely NO perception of what can fit where. Kinda like not being able to judge what container to use for leftovers. It's a spacial thing that women have the upper knowledge - we can judge that kind of stuff.
Hope the driver got out safe, I saw one guy get out, but I couldn't tell for sure. I heard the car's acceleration just before the crash..
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these guys have absolutely NO perception of what can fit where.
I'll bet all you married women say that. :p
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