Accidents
Follies of the Madmen #437
1) A bicycle tire confusingly has the same name as a razor blade company.
2) The mascot for the tire is a hyper-dimensional polar bear. These creatures apparently represent all that is desirable in a tire.
3) Even with its magic powers, the hyper-dimensional polar bear does not act to save the victim directly, but makes the human boy do all the work.
4) Moral: buy our tires to avoid snake bites?
Source (page 20).
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jul 28, 2019 -
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Category: Accidents, Anthropomorphism, Bicycles and Other Human-powered Vehicles, Business, Advertising, Corporate Mascots, Icons and Spokesbeings, Comics
Flying Body Parts Lawsuit
Ruling in what it called a "tragically bizarre" case, an appeals court found that the estate of a man killed by a train while crossing the Edgebrook Metra station tracks can be held liable after a part of his body sent airborne by the collision struck and injured a bystander.
In 2008, Hiroyuki Joho, 18, was hurrying in pouring rain with an umbrella over his head, trying to catch an inbound Metra train due to arrive in about five minutes when he was struck by a southbound Amtrak train traveling more than 70 mph.
A large portion of his body was thrown about 100 feet on to the southbound platform, where it struck Gayane Zokhrabov, then 58, who was waiting to catch the 8:17 a.m. train to work. She was knocked to the ground, her leg and wrist broken and her shoulder injured.
More details at the source.
Posted By: Paul - Mon May 20, 2019 -
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Category: Accidents, Body, Death, Lawsuits, Trains and Other Vehicles on Rails, Twenty-first Century
1968 Seatbelt PSA
Nice to see that despite being horribly scarred for life, she has maintained her mascara, eyeliner and lashes.
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Mar 22, 2019 -
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Category: Accidents, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Motor Vehicles, PSA’s, 1960s, Face and Facial Expressions
Workplace Accidents
Horrifying ways that people can get maimed at work, courtesy of Canada's Workplace Safety and Insurance Board's Prevent-It Campaign.Warning: some gruesome content!
Posted By: Alex - Tue Mar 19, 2019 -
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Category: Accidents, Movies, Work and Vocational Training
Falling Sheep
Yesterday, Paul mentioned the threat posed by cows. It's worth remembering that sheep can be pretty dangerous too. As this hiker in Ireland recently found out when, out of the blue, he was hit by a falling sheep. Both the hiker and the sheep seem to have survived the incident.
Posted By: Alex - Fri Aug 31, 2018 -
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Category: Accidents, Animals
Attack of the Killer Umbrellas
In Ocean City, Maryland a woman was recently impaled in the chest by a wind-blown beach umbrella [6abc.com]. She's alive, but I assume in serious condition.And just a week before another wind-blown umbrella stabbed a woman in the leg at the Jersey Shore.
The umbrellas are active this summer.
We've reported a number of other attacks by wind-blown umbrellas here on WU. In 1979, Paulette Fabre was killed by one on the French Riviera. And in 2010 a woman at Ocean City (again!) had an umbrella go straight through her thigh.
Forget the sharks in the water. It's the wind-blown umbrellas people need to worry about.
Posted By: Alex - Tue Jul 24, 2018 -
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Category: Accidents, Death
When Havoc Struck
It's never news or entertainment when something goes right, only when it goes wrong. The 1978 TV series WHEN HAVOC STRUCK knew what people wanted. Glenn Ford must've needed a paycheck.
Other episodes on YouTube.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Dec 30, 2017 -
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Category: Accidents, Goofs and Screw-ups, Death, Destruction, Engineering and Construction, 1970s
Doesn’t notice plane crash
If a plane crashes in your yard and you didn't heard it, did it make a sound?
Arizona Republic - Apr 24, 1993
Posted By: Alex - Mon Aug 07, 2017 -
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Category: Accidents, Air Travel and Airlines, 1990s
Armed and Clumsy: The Ancestors: 1
How far back do the roots of Chuck's "Armed and Clumsy" category extend? The Wikipedia entry on handguns says: "The first handheld firearms that might better be called "pistols" were made as early as the 15th century..." Could we find a report of some soldier of the era accidentally wounding himself? It's a challenge!In any case, here is an incident from 1949.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Mar 10, 2017 -
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Category: Accidents, Guns, 1940s
Skydiver lands on grandmother at 4th of July party
It's like the Fourth of July version of "Grandma got run over by a reindeer."Lilienthal said the sky diver kicked her in the head, tangled her in parachute lines and dragged her across a field as her family watched, horrified.
Ukiah Daily Journal - Aug 14, 1992
Posted By: Alex - Mon Jul 04, 2016 -
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Category: Accidents, Holidays, 1990s
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