Spudrick68
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Agree, sounds like an un-appreciative moron.
Gender reveal stunt led to plane crash in Texas
Another gender reveal stunt went horribly wrong and caused the recent plane crash in Texas, according to a National Transportation Safety Board accident report released Friday.
The pilot was flying a plane at a low altitude on September 7 as part of an elaborate gender reveal for a friend, according to the report.
The pilot dumped 350 gallons of pink water from the plane, but the plane was "too low" and immediately stalled. The pilot was not injured in the crash in Turkey, Texas, about 100 miles southeast of Amarillo, The plane's other passenger had minor injuries. The plane was designed to carry only one person, the report said.
This incident was the latest in a string of gender reveal stunts gone awry. ...
Whenever I'm facing a potentially lethal assault, I always raise my phone to photograph the confrontation. It just makes sense.An arrow escape.
Mobile phones truly can be life savers - especially, it seems, when an arrow is hurtling towards you.
. . . The arrow was allegedly fired after the resident raised his phone to photograph the confrontation - only for the device to become an unlikely shield. . . .
The unnamed woman told local media her mum was being attacked at the time.
This tactic for subtly calling the emergency services has been internet lore for years, but this is a rare confirmed case of it being effective.
Officials have previously warned that the strategy is not guaranteed to work, as dispatchers are not trained to recognise a pizza order as a genuine call for help.
The dispatcher who answered the call, Tim Teneyck, told local news station 13 ABC he initially thought the woman had dialled an incorrect number.
When she insisted she was through to the right person, he realised what was happening - partly because he had seen similar scenarios being shared on social media.
"You see it on Facebook, but it's not something that anybody has ever been trained for," Mr Teneyck said. "Other dispatchers that I've talked to would not have picked up on this. They've told me they wouldn't have picked up on this."
What did the caller say?
Here's a transcript of the conversation.
Mr Teneyck: Oregon 911
Caller: I would like to order a pizza at [address redacted].
Mr Teneyck: You called 911 to order a pizza?
Caller: Uh, yeah. Apartment [redacted].
Mr Teneyck: This is the wrong number to call for a pizza...
Caller: No, no, no. You're not understanding.
Mr Teneyck: I'm getting you now.
Later in the call, the woman found creative ways to answer Mr Teneyck's yes or no questions about how much danger she and her mother were in, and what services they needed.
Mr Teneyck: Is the other guy still there?
Caller: Yep, I need a large pizza.
Mr Teneyck: All right. How about medical, do you need medical?
Caller: No. With pepperoni.
Mark Smith, 51, was alerted to her plight by Geoff Handley, who was walking his dog near St Briavels in the Forest of Dean.
The woman, who has not been named, was slipping in and out of consciousness.
Mr Smith and Mr Handley took it in turns to keep her warm until the emergency services arrived.
Mr Smith, from Coleford, Gloucestershire, told Victoria Derbyshire: "I could hear someone shouting for help. She was half in the car and half in the water.
"I just pulled her up and cuddled her to keep warm; it seemed like forever and a day.
"It was a bit worrying, really, I tried to hold her on the car but we kept slipping as the car was totally underwater."
Mr Smith said the 61-year-old woman had climbed on to the roof of her car after driving into the flooded area and getting stuck with no phone signal.
"I thought she was going to die, make no doubt about that," said Mr Handley.
I had one a some years back, when I was working for a previous firm.
I was a smoker back then, and had nipped out of the office for a quick cigarette. As I went through the revolving doors at reception, I turned right and right again which lead me into a small alley. I suddenly felt a whoosh go past the back of my head, and then heard a very loud clang from behind. I stopped, turned and looked downwards and there on the pavement was a very large scaffolding bolt (I think that’s what their called)
There is no doubt in my mind that had I been a second slower, the thing would have killed me, as the bolt had fallen from the roof of the 10 story office building.
As I was standing there, contemplating my fate, I noticed a figure standing close by, so looked over and there was this young woman staring at me with open mouth and saucer wide eyes. She told me that she saw the entire thing, and was so sure the bolt would hit and kill me, that she couldn’t get any warning out of her mouth.
I think she was in shock more than me.
She was quite attractive however, so I played it cool and come out with something like “I knew the fags would get me in the end”
Needless to say, I had something of a delayed shock reaction.
When Ms Cirillo dug the device up, she initially thought her pet Shih Tzu Cica might want to play with it. She then took it into her kitchen and cleaned it with a Brillo pad in an effort to get a closer look at her discovery.
But when Facebook users suggested it was a bomb, an "absolutely terrified" Ms Cirillo called the police and returned it quickly to the garden before it was taken away by bomb disposal experts who later detonated it on Weymouth beach.
It's quite a small bomb & probably wouldn't do much damage on it's own [apart from possibly killing the woman...
Witnesses say there was a small amount of water in the well which likely kept him alive.
Mr Roberts' cries for help were eventually heard by a local resident.
The resident had been looking for cattle feed near the area, which was in an isolated part of the village, said news outlet the Bali Sun. He alerted the local authorities.
Detroit Dam operator rides out massive Oregon wildfires inside dam, keeping it safe
Mike Pomeroy said as the fire raged around him, he realized the safest place would be inside the dam.
Forty five miles east of Salem along Highway 22, the Detroit Dam, in the Cascade Mountains, holds back some of the North Santiam River. It forms Detroit Lake and controls the amount of water flowing into the river and the valley below.
The dam is run by plant operators who carefully adjust the computers and machines that run turbines in the massive structure and control the water output.
Mike Pomeroy is one of those operators. On the afternoon of Labor Day, he reported to the dam’s control room, called the powerhouse. It's housed in a smaller building near the base of the dam. All alone, Pomeroy was about to begin one of the longest shifts of his life. ...
Clicking that link yields an 'access denied' message. How ironic.This Oregon worker found his exit road blocked when he attempted to evacuate his workplace during a raging wildfire. After barely making it back to his workplace he worked frantically to shelter in place. Luckily, his workplace is a large concrete dam, and he holed up inside as the wildfire burned the surroundings.
FULL STORY: https://www.kgw.com/article/news/lo...-dam/283-e6e053f2-e5a0-46e4-905d-41c902a5618e
Clicking that link yields an 'access denied' message. How ironic.
Better - thanks.See if you can access any of these other TV / newspaper accounts ...
https://www.oregonlive.com/business/2020/09/2-critical-dams-survive-santiam-fire-intact.html
https://www.statesmanjournal.com/st...-intact-beachie-creek-fire-oregon/5787321002/
https://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/national/article245807050.html
I got hit by a car and knocked off my bike in Manchester. When the driver gave me her business card so that I had her contact details, it turned out she was a doctor employed by the NHS. She apologised for the fact she had just stood there and let the paramedics check me over, explaining that her doctorate was in statistics...
Yeah we know, we’ve been keeping an eye on you...Not really related to the subject but I've just came back onto the forum after some time off, opened up this thread and one of the first posts quotes Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins. Weird thing is, I'm watching Mary Poppins right now AT THIS EXACT SCENE!
Pilot Saves Life By Jumping From Speeding (And Perfectly Good) Plane On Takeoff
He had a second to make the call and lived to tell the tale. Here’s what happened.
So you’re taking off…well, technically, conducting a high-speed taxi test…and there’s nothing wrong with the plane, but you realize that unless you jump out of it right now, you’re dead. Could you do it? Would you do it in time? Okay, fair enough, what’s the nature of the threat? It’s scary.
The pilot, Cliff Killeen ... , was high speed-taxiing his Yak when, suddenly, he looked down and saw, by his throttle hand, a brown snake taking a bead on him. Now, you’re thinking, how venomous could an Australian brown snake be? In short, one bite and it’s game over. It is, according to online sources, the second most deadly snake in the world. So jumping from a speeding Yak on a simulated takeoff roll has got to have at least a little better odds than that, right? Killeen wasted no time, he peeled back the canopy, unhooked his harness and bailed.
He was okay. The plane ... wasn’t.
Driver plunges off Red Mountain Pass hundreds of feet, yells for help before rescue
A driver who plunged over a cliff on Red Mountain Pass into a river was rescued after spending hours yelling for help.
According to the Ouray County Sheriff's Office, Dack Klein, a local Colorado Department of Transportation driver, came across the debris field on Red Mountain Pass and heard the man's cries for help. ...
It's unclear why the driver went off the road, but he plunged over the cliff early Thursday morning. He and his vehicle were laying in the river hundreds of feet below when Klein heard him.
A Ouray firefighter, Adam Kunz, made his way down to the motorist and helped communicate between them and rescue personnel.
Once rescued, the driver was taken to Fellin Park and then transported by Care Flight to Montrose Hospital. The status of his condition was not released.
He was a contractor working for a ground works company so after that project i havent had any contact, sorry.Do you know how he's doing now?
FULL STORY: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2021/0...-Fire-Department-Lake-Elsinore/4841622050562/Parachutist suspended from power lines rescued in California
Firefighters responded to a California road to rescue a parachutist who apparently missed his landing zone and became entangled in power lines.
The Riverside County Fire Department said crews were summoned about 11:10 a.m. Monday to an intersection in Lake Elsinore where a man's parachute was stuck on power lines, leaving him suspended about 30 feet off the ground. ...
A utility crew from Southern California Edison was summoned to the scene to shut off the power to the lines and help the man return to solid ground ...