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But did she get overtime pay?A woman in Manhattan got stuck in an elevator Friday evening – and wasn't rescued until Monday morning.
But did she get overtime pay?A woman in Manhattan got stuck in an elevator Friday evening – and wasn't rescued until Monday morning.
And I bet he didn't get paid overtime either.Seven weeks at sea in a hut.
. . .
He had been working as a keeper on a floating fish trap called a rompong, anchored to the seabed around 75 miles off the Indonesian coast, when unusually strong winds broke his mooring ropes on 19 July, sending the wooden hut adrift.
But did she get overtime pay?
Reminds me that when Titanic sank its crew were paid up to the minute the icy Atlantic waters closed over it forever.
After that, no ship: no pay. Manning lifeboats and rescuing survivors didn't count.
Hardly an uplifting experience.
A cleaner trapped in a lift for two days was only found after she was reported missing.
The woman in her 50s, who has not been named, got trapped at Margate Adult Education Centre in Kent after the building closed last Friday. She was reported missing at 12:45 BST on Sunday and police found her at the council building. Officers were able to open the lift and free her. She was taken to a local hospital as a precaution. Kent County Council (KCC) said it was contacted on Tuesday by Kier Facilities Management, which is cleans and maintains the building, with a report that a member of its staff had been trapped in the lift.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-kent-48212853
Did you dance exotically creating a mysterious silhouette?
Based on one of my favorite Roald Dahl short stories, “The Way Up to Heaven”.Where the woman is alway kept waiting by her ignorant husband because he knows she's obsessed with being on time, and she finds a way to trap him in the lift and starve him to death.
Based on one of my favorite Roald Dahl short stories, “The Way Up to Heaven”.
Well get it right!I may've misquoted the title.
Eugene Christophe finished 2nd in 1912 & was overwhelming favourite in 1913.
halfway up the 4,100ft Tourmalet, the reigning champion and race leader, Belgium's Odile Defraye, abandoned the race in exhaustion, Christophe, who had broken away with another Belgian, Philippe Thys, was well positioned to seize an unassailable lead.
Then a careless driver clipped him with a race vehicle, throwing Christophe across the road. He was unhurt, but his front fork had been snapped in two. As Christophe stood over his ruined machine, Thys sped away alone towards the stage win and overall victory.
Another man would have given up there and then. Not Christophe. He wept, but as he did so he picked up the pieces and set off on foot. Eight-and-a-half miles away, at Sainte-Marie-de-Campan, he found a forge. The race rules forbade outside assistance, but Christophe was a skilled mechanic and forged a new fork from 22mm steel. As Christophe gripped the frame in one hand and a hammer in the other, he allowed a seven-year-old boy to work the bellows that supplied air to the fire. For this assistance, the race marshal who policed the operation imposed a 10-minute time penalty. Then Christophe filled his pockets with bread and set off over two more mountains for the stage finish. He arrived three hours and 50 minutes after Thys. Remarkably little, all things considered, but the Tour had gone.
So in 1919 there could have been no worthier winner than this resolute adventurer. Since taking the lead at the end of stage four, he had showed no weakness. Confidently he pounded through the town of Valenciennes, near the Belgian border, two thirds of the way through the penultimate stage of the race. Then, on the only cobbled section of the stage, Christophe's fork snapped once more.
This time, there was a forge within half a mile, but the repairs cost him two hours, all the same. Again, a Belgian profited from Christophe's misfortune. The new leader, Firmin Lambot, sportingly refused to accept the jersey at the start of the following stage, but Christophe insisted. Despite his bad luck, Christophe finished the 1919 Tour third.
While this was the second time that Christophe had lost the Tour de France with a broken fork, it wouldn't be the last. A cycling Sisyphus, he appeared condemned not to roll rocks up mountains but to carry broken bikes down them. In 1922, he was in the top three, contending for overall victory, when, on the descent from the Galibier in the Alps, his fork broke yet again. He never did win the Tour.
Woman forced to carry her severed arm to ambulance after dirt buggy crash in Mexico
A badly injured British woman could have used a helping hand after crashing her rented dirt buggy while vacationing in Mexico.
Instead, prison officer Chelsea Vella says she was forced to carry her severed right arm to an ambulance after wrecking her vehicle last month during an excursion in Puerto Vallarta, according to the U.K. Sun.
Vella, 26, and a friend were riding in the dirt buggy when they lost control on a wet road and the vehicle flipped, throwing them both.
“My instinct told me to put my hand out to stop myself from hitting my head, but the vehicle landed on my arm and the force ripped it off,” Vella told the Sun. “I remember looking down and my elbow was snapped the other way and my right arm was hanging on by a chunk of skin.
“At first, I had an adrenaline rush and the pain wasn’t that bad. Then I realized that my arm was literally hanging off, I could see inside it.”
Doctors also credited her friend for saving Vella’s life during the ambulance ride to a local hospital. As paramedics watched, she friend ripped Vella’s T-shirt off and made a tourniquet to slow her blood loss, a move that proved critical.
“When we arrived at the hospital, the doctor said that whoever tourniquet my arm saved my life,” Vella said to the Sun. “I would have bled to death before we got there otherwise. On way to hospital, I could feel myself dying. It was a really weird feeling and then the ambulance staff gave me a shot of something and I woke back up.”
After receiving news of the crash from the British Foreign Office, Vella’s family was horrified to hear some of the grisly details. They were also told Vella died and was revived during surgery to amputate the arm.
“She told us she had to literally carry her right arm to the ambulance using her left,” her sister, Georgia Vella, 22, told the Sun. “Doctors tried to save her arm but she was missing parts of her bone and there were so many complications with blood loss that they ended up saying the only way to save her was to take the arm off.” ...
FULL STORY: https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/25/us/philadelphia-shot-16-times-trnd/index.htmlA man was shot 16 times and walked into a hospital two miles away
Philadelphia police say it's "miraculous" that a man shot 16 times was able to walk into the hospital two miles away.
Early Friday morning, the 27-year-old was wounded in Philadelphia's Kensington neighborhood. Police say it's unclear why he was shot so many times. They haven't been able to interview him yet.
Investigators found large caliber shell casings at the scene.
Philadelphia Police Department spokesman Sgt. Eric Gripp told CNN the man was shot:
five times on his right side;
two times in his left hip;
three times in his upper chest;
once in his right shoulder;
once in the right side of his neck;
three times on his left forearm;
and once on his right forearm.
Police are not identifying the man who somehow made it to Temple University Hospital and admitted himself.
"For him to be hit that many times throughout his body ... even though he's critical, he's expected to survive," Chief Inspector Scott Small said. "That's pretty miraculous." ...
Absolutely NOBODY believes a WORD of this!Man On Surfboard!
This is the moment a British man who claims to have spent three days at sea on a surfboard after falling off a cruise ship, was plucked from the water.
Coastguards who rescued him released the picture today, showing him with a lifejacket on over a white shirt with his sleeves rolled up his arms. A spokesman for Spanish Coastguards said in a tweet, naming the vessel the tourist was pictured alongside as it approached him to pull him from the sea: 'Salvamar Vega yesterday rescued and took to Estepona a man discovered by a yacht 10 miles south-west of Marbella. He was adrift on a surfboard. The man who was rescued said he had been at sea for three days after falling from a ship.'
The 55-year-old was picked up by the coastguard near Marbella on Monday afternoon. ...
The rescue has fuelled a wave of speculation about how the mystery man ended up on a surfboard.
One social media user said: 'I'm intrigued about this story, because finding a surfboard while you're lost at sea would be even stranger than falling off a boat with the surfboard.'
Another added: 'What's the story, that they threw the surfboard to him when he fell instead of rescuing him?'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ea-fully-dressed-surfboard-near-Marbella.html