Accidents
Stuck in an elevator for 3 days
The news stories about this woman's ordeal are frustratingly scant on details, and I can't find more info anywhere else. She must have been suffering from severe dehydration after being stuck in an elevator for three days. Did she just drive herself home? Was there lighting inside the elevator, or was it three days in total darkness?It's like a situation out of a horror novel.
Bellingham Herald - Dec 21, 1994
London Daily Express - Dec 14, 1994
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Category: Accidents, 1990s
Freakish Accidents No. 4
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Category: Accidents, Statues, Monuments and Memorials, 1960s
Freakish Accidents No. 1
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Category: Accidents, Death, 1950s
Bird Meets Train
I once had a flying bug arrow directly into my ear, as if fired from a gun, so I can sympathize. It took a doctor to remove the thing.
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Category: Accidents, Animals, 1900s, Trains
Up in the air
Des Moines Register - Nov 22, 1964
Posted By: Alex - Sun Dec 29, 2024 -
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Category: Accidents, Children, 1960s
Equine Hitchhiker
Posted By: Paul - Fri Dec 20, 2024 -
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Category: Accidents, Animals, Death, 1930s, Cars
Man freed from vat of anchovies
Trapping himself in a vat of anchovies should be David Blaine's next stunt.
Lancaster New Era - Oct 11, 1969
Posted By: Alex - Thu Aug 22, 2024 -
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Category: Accidents, Fish, 1960s
Accidentally launched from cannon
This would qualify as a bad day at work.
Kenosha News - Oct 17, 1972
The best illustration I could coax out of Microsoft's AI image creator. It got the general idea of a mechanic and a human cannonball machine, but it positioned the guy wrong relative to the cannon.
Posted By: Alex - Sun Feb 18, 2024 -
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Category: Accidents, 1970s, Circuses, Carnivals, and Other Traveling Shows
Accidentally dropped into shark-infested water
However, this nearly ended in disaster recently when Bigeard, nearing 60, was inadvertently dropped into a shark infested sea while visiting troops in Madagascar. He broke an arm and was saved only when his faithful staff threw themselves into the seas after him.
More info about Marcel Bigeard: wikipedia
The book referenced in the clipping below is viewable on archive.org.
London Daily Telegraph - Nov 9, 1977
Marcel Bigeard. Image source: zone militaire
Posted By: Alex - Thu Oct 12, 2023 -
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Category: Accidents, Military, 1970s
Run over by parmesan cheese
We posted a few weeks ago about a man who died recently after thousands of wheels of a "parmesan-style cheese" fell on top of him.Then I came across the case below from 1972 of two twin sisters whose legs were broken after they were struck by a wheel of parmesan while hitchhiking along a road in Italy.
Evidently there's a minor genre of weird news involving parmesan-related injuries.
Vancouver Sun - Aug 3, 1972
Posted By: Alex - Sun Sep 24, 2023 -
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Category: Accidents, 1970s
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