IDIOTIC WAYS TO DIE

[samhexum]

4/3/17: A Denver man choked to death on Sunday while participating in a doughnut eating challenge.

 

Travis Malouff, 42, had been trying to scarf down a half-pound doughnut in 80 seconds when he started choking at Voodoo Doughnut in Denver, Colorado.

 

People rushed to Malouff’s aid, but were unable to successfully perform the Heimlich maneuver.

 

“They tried so hard to do everything. It was clear that nobody was trained and they were just reacting,” a witness said.

 

The Denver Office of the Medical Examiner confirmed Monday that Malouff died from “asphyxia, due to obstruction of the airway.”

 

“It’s tragic,” his father Curtis Malouff told KUSA. “It’s a loss of life that shouldn’t be.”

 

The 42-year-old’s death comes the same day that a 20-year-old college student — the daughter of a Port Authority cop killed on Sept. 11 — died after choking on pancakes during an eating competition at Sacred Heart University in Connecticut.

 

Caitlin Nelson, of Clark, New Jersey, who served as the vice president of community service at the school’s Kappa Delta sorority, was taking part in the Greek life eating contest last Thursday when she began choking after eating four or five pancakes.

 

Nelson’s father, James, was a Port Authority police officer who died during the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center when Caitlin was just 5 years old, the Connecticut Post reports. The 40-year-old cop also helped evacuate the area after the 1993 bombing.

 

Last September, 15 years after the attacks, Caitlin Nelson posted a picture on Facebook of herself with her father.

 

Nelson had several food allergies, but it was later determined by doctors that they were not a contributing factor to her death. Nelson had several friends at the competition who were aware of her allergies and she had all necessary emergency information listed in her cellphone for emergency responders, who initially thought she was suffering from anaphylactic shock.

 

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A 13-year-old girl dropped her phone on the subway tracks, then lost her life when she tried to retrieve it and was fatally hit by an arriving train at a Rego Park station on Sunday.

 

Dina Kadribasic of 64th Road climbed down off the platform on the Manhattan-bound side of the 63rd Drive station to get her fallen phone. She was reportedly attempting to get back on the platform when she was hit by the incoming R train.

 

Officers from the 112th Precinct and EMS units responded to the scene. Kadribasic was rushed to Elmhurst Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

 

Manhattan-bound local service between 71st-Continental Avenues and Roosevelt Avenue was suspended for much of the remainder of Sunday as the investigation continued.

 

The MTA reminds all riders that they should never climb off the platform onto the tracks for any reason. If you drop something on the tracks, alert an MTA employee.

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• 2017-04-12:
  A Georgia 13 year old was livestreaming a video on Instagram Monday evening when he accidentally shot himself. He was rushed to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
   
  His mother was home when her son fatally shot himself while handling the gun in his bedroom. She said he had been trying to put a clip in the gun.
   
  “I heard a big boom. I couldn’t tell if it was a gun shot or what,” she said.
   
  She said had just watched her son take out the trash moments before he went into his bedroom to record the video on Instagram Live.
   
  When she heard the gun go off, she and her daughter ran upstairs to his bedroom, but the door was locked.
   
  “We kicked in the door. We found him just laying there in a pool of blood. My daughter screamed and said, ‘Mom turn his phone off!’ As I proceeded to look at his phone he was on Instagram Live.”
   
  She said that his friends who had been watching the livestream ran over to their home.
   
  “There was about 40 to 50 kids outside,” she said. “I guess these were the kids that were watching on Live that live in the area. I guess when it happened they just ran over here.”
   
  Police are investigating how he got hold of the gun.
  
• 2017-04-14:
   
  
• Shaquille O’Neal has offered to pay for the funeral services of a Georgia teen who accidentally killed himself Monday while livestreaming a video on Instagram Live.
   
  Grieving family members were touched when O’Neal, who is from the Atlanta area, called and then paid a them visit on Thursday.
   
  “We just broke down and started crying because Malachi didn’t have any insurance,” Malachi’s godmother Shantirea Bankston told WXIA. “We wasn’t prepared to bury him this young. We didn’t have insurance for him. So to have that from Shaquille O’Neal it was a blessing and very touching, and we appreciate everything he do for the community.”
  The former basketball star said that he wanted to alleviate the financial burden for Malachi’s mother, Shaniqua Stephens.
   
  “No mother should have to go through this. I can only imagine the pain that she and all of Malachi’s family must be feeling. I just wanted to do what I could to help them at such a terrible time,” O’Neal said in a statement.
   
   
  
• 2017-05-23:
  A 29-year old man was crushed and killed by a dump truck near Times Square Monday evening when an attempted joyride turned deadly, cops said.
   
  The unidentified victim was seen moments before the fatal accident getting into an argument with the truck driver as he tried to cross into the path of the oncoming vehicle as it headed westbound on 51st Street at Broadway, according to a witness.
   
  “Him and the driver had words. Basically they was right there [51st street] and [victim] just put his hand up like ‘I’m crossing here,’ and they had attitude going back and forth,” said the witness who asked to remain anonymous.
   
  After the brief spat, the truck kept driving. But the man ran after the truck, climbed on to the driver’s side and tried to hold on before realizing he didn’t have enough room to clear a construction fence on the south side of 51st Street.
   
  He then made a desperate bid to dismount the 14-wheeler, only to be dragged under and killed, according to police sources.
   
  The victim was seen covered in a white sheet, in trench where workers had dug to a water main, across from Times Square Church, Monday night. The truck, and driver both remained at the scene, and NYPD Highway unit was investigating, cops said.
   
   
  
• 2017-06-03:
  A Tennessee teen was allegedly admiring a gun he received for graduation when he accidentally shot and killed his girlfriend.
   
  Shelby County Sheriff’s Office said Brennan Fields, 18, had just been given the firearm as a high school graduation gift from the dad of his 19-year-old girlfriend, Lucina Luna.
   
  He was showing off the new gun at her Arlington home when he accidentally shot Luna in the stomach, according to news station WMC. Did the dad give him a LOADED gun, or did he load it as he was showing off?
   
  Luna was rushed to a local hospital where she died from her injuries.
   
  Authorities do not plan to file charges against Fields.
   
  “By all indications, there was no intent for this to happen,” Shelby County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Earle Farrell told WMC.
   
  Friends of the couple said they were “distraught” over Luna’s sudden death and concerned about Fields.
   
  “This is going to hurt real bad for him. Like he’s not going to get over this for a long time. BUMMER! I am just worried about Brennan really and her parents too,” friend Kara Stubblefield said.
   
  GUNS DON’T KILL PEOPLE; IDIOTIC PARENTS AND BOYFRIENDS KILL PEOPLE.
   
   
  
• 2017-08-18:
  
   
  A Hong Kong fitness trainer died after he fell from the 12th floor of a building while trying to get the best picture of fellow fitness trainers.
   
  Will Kong Wai, a 25-year-old fitness buff, was helping an older photographer take promotional pictures of two other fitness instructors, according to an account in the South China Morning Post.
   
  Wai was standing on the railings of a tall building to get in a better position for the photos when he became unsteady and fell onto a podium on the fourth floor of the building.
   
  The fitness instructor was pronounced dead at the scene and a police spokesman has reported that initial investigations have found nothing suspicious.
   
  “We believe the victim lost his balance and fell off the building,” a source told the Post.
   
  Kong, who was also a bodybuilder and placed in several competitions, had been working at the fitness center in the building for less than two months before his fatal fall.
   
  

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[mike carey]

[+ ArVaGuy]

Darwin Award nominees for sure.

[caliguy]

Ha. That was cute. I didn't realize Metro had a sense of humor.

 

I love watching shows like 1000 ways to die. I'm surprised that I didn't add my own story to the mix in my twenties. Of coarse drug over doses are so passe at this point.

[mike carey]

Ha. That was cute. I didn't realize Metro had a sense of humor.

Indeed! Melbourne trains do not have a reputation of having a sense of humour! Occasionally they exceed our expectations!

[samhexum]

A mother of five lost control of her vehicle, crashed into a tree and died after her boyfriend cut her brake lines to get a piece of pipe for crack smoking, police said.

 

John Jenkins, of Dunmore, Pennsylvania, is facing homicide charges in the death of 38-year-old Tammy Fox.

 

A witness said the car was traveling about 60 mph on Aug. 22. The brake lights flashed, but the car never slowed down before the crash.

 

According to court documents, Jenkins told police Fox was "driving him crazy" because she was looking for a pipe to smoke crack in.

 

He allegedly told troopers he didn't want to go to the store for a pipe, so he started "hacking away" underneath Fox's vehicle to get something she could use.

 

A GoFundMe page set up to raise money for her funeral expenses and five children called Fox "a wonderful mother, daughter, sister, aunt and friend."

 

Jenkins is currently being held without bail. A preliminary hearing for is tentatively scheduled for Sept. 7.

 

A New Jersey man drowned at a bachelor party while playing a game of “Who can stay underwater the longest,” authorities said Tuesday.

 

Robert Zachary “Zack” Bunsa, 23, of Basking Ridge was at a home on Lake Sinclair in Georgia on Saturday with about a dozen other guests, including his brother, when the group started the contest.

 

“He was attempting to see how long he could hold his breath, and tragically, he drowned,” Baldwin County Sheriff’s Capt. Brad King told The Post. “I don’t know if it was the type of thing that was ongoing all afternoon or if it was a spur-of-the-moment type” game.

 

The group of 15 men didn’t realize Bunsa hadn’t gotten out of the water at first. Thinking he was already back at the house, they went up to find him, authorities said.

 

“He was missing for some time — over 7 minutes, at least — before they realized,” Cpl. Lynn Stanford told the Macon Telegraph.

 

Finally, one of the men back at the lake dove in to look for Bunsa and pulled him out of an area between 5 and 10 feet deep near the dock. Visibility in the lake is about 1 foot, Stanford said.

 

A law enforcement officer living nearby heard a call on the radio and responded to the dock, performing CPR for 10 to 15 minutes before EMS arrived.

 

A helicopter was called to airlift Bunsa for treatment — but he was already pronounced dead at the scene.

 

Bunsa was a graduate of Koinonia Academy in Plainfield, NJ, where he played on the high school’s basketball team. He worked at Urban Table Restaurant in Basking Ridge, a former employer of his, Lauren Rubio, told NJ.com.

 

“He was an awesome young man, we were blessed to have him,” Rubio said. “He always carried himself as a mature, strong person. We only have good things to say about him.”

[samhexum]

The drag racer killed in a horrific fiery crash early Sunday in Queens documented his final hours on social media.

 

Engines rev and tires squeal as souped-up cars race through the streets of Sunnyside on Jesus Montenegro-Posada’s Instagram Story, documenting his last night of racing.

 

The 35-year-old speed demon lost control of his Honda Civic on a rain-slicked Review Avenue, struck a tension wire supporting a telephone pole, twisted in mid-air, and got wedged between the phone pole and a light stand in the horrific 1 a.m. crash, witnesses said.

 

Montenegro-Posada, described by friends and fellow drivers as an avid racer and car tuner, was killed instantly in the gory wreck, that left the street strewn with car parts, bloody clothes, and shattered glass.

 

His Instagram page includes nearly exclusively shots of auto parts and cars in various stages of detailing.

[caliguy]

The drag racer killed in a horrific fiery crash early Sunday in Queens documented his final hours on social media.

 

Engines rev and tires squeal as souped-up cars race through the streets of Sunnyside on Jesus Montenegro-Posada’s Instagram Story, documenting his last night of racing.

 

The 35-year-old speed demon lost control of his Honda Civic on a rain-slicked Review Avenue, struck a tension wire supporting a telephone pole, twisted in mid-air, and got wedged between the phone pole and a light stand in the horrific 1 a.m. crash, witnesses said.

 

Montenegro-Posada, described by friends and fellow drivers as an avid racer and car tuner, was killed instantly in the gory wreck, that left the street strewn with car parts, bloody clothes, and shattered glass.

 

His Instagram page includes nearly exclusively shots of auto parts and cars in various stages of detailing.

I'm thinking the Fast and the Furious meets Final Destination.

[samhexum]

Jon James, a Canadian rapper, was killed during a music video shoot when a stunt atop an airplane wing went wrong. He was 34.

 

During a music video shoot in Vernon, British Columbia, on Saturday, the rapper -- whose full name is Jon James McMurray -- was walking on the wing of a Cessna as it was in flight.

 

He walked too far out on the wing and made the small aircraft go into a downward spiral, his management team said.

 

"Jon held onto the wing until it was too late, and by the time he let go, he didn't have time to pull his chute. He impacted and died instantly," Ryan Desrochers with the management team told CNN in a statement.

 

The pilot was able to control the plane and land safely. No one else was injured, reported CNN partner CBC.

 

According to his management team, Jon James was an accredited professional skier, but left the snow for the music studio after multiple injuries, including a broken back and shattered heel.

 

"He died filming for a project he had been working on for months. He had trained intensely for this stunt," his management team said in the statement.

 

He is survived by his wife, parents and brother.

 

"He filled everyone around him with positivity, and never spoke poorly about another person. He truly had a heart of gold," the statement said.

[samhexum]

An irate passenger who missed her bus stop triggered a catastrophe in China when she attacked the driver — who lost control of the vehicle, which plunged into the Yangtze River, killing everyone on board.

 

Thirteen bodies were found after the Sunday night crash, and two people remained missing, Chongqing police told China Daily Friday morning. Approximately 15 people were on board, cops said.

 

Bus surveillance video obtained by Chongqing police, as well as other evidence, shows that a 48-year-old female passenger, identified only by her last name, Liu, missed her stop and asked the driver to stop immediately, the outlet reported.

 

When the 43-year-old driver, also identified by his last name, Ran, refused, Liu hit him over the head with her cellphone. The video shows the pair swinging at each other, with the driver still attempting to steer the bus in between blows.

 

Suddenly, the bus swerved onto the wrong side of the road before striking another car, breaking through a guardrail and plunging into the river in Wanzhou, Chongqing.

 

The bus was airlifted out of the water by around 11:30 p.m. Wednesday, police said.

 

Zhao Hu, a lawyer, told the outlet that the victims’ families have the right to seek compensation from the bus operator as well as Liu’s family.

[+ José Soplanucas]

https://www.clarin.com/sociedad/creian-haciendo-broma-ex-boxeador-murio-atragantado-competencia-comer-medialunas_0_KAN_b3X7k.html

[caliguy]

An irate passenger who missed her bus stop triggered a catastrophe in China when she attacked the driver — who lost control of the vehicle, which plunged into the Yangtze River, killing everyone on board.

 

Thirteen bodies were found after the Sunday night crash, and two people remained missing, Chongqing police told China Daily Friday morning. Approximately 15 people were on board, cops said.

 

Bus surveillance video obtained by Chongqing police, as well as other evidence, shows that a 48-year-old female passenger, identified only by her last name, Liu, missed her stop and asked the driver to stop immediately, the outlet reported.

 

When the 43-year-old driver, also identified by his last name, Ran, refused, Liu hit him over the head with her cellphone. The video shows the pair swinging at each other, with the driver still attempting to steer the bus in between blows.

 

Suddenly, the bus swerved onto the wrong side of the road before striking another car, breaking through a guardrail and plunging into the river in Wanzhou, Chongqing.

 

The bus was airlifted out of the water by around 11:30 p.m. Wednesday, police said.

 

Zhao Hu, a lawyer, told the outlet that the victims’ families have the right to seek compensation from the bus operator as well as Liu’s family.

Well, I guess Liu finally got her bus stop. Too bad it wasn't just her.

[samhexum]

Utah man is state’s first rabies death in 74 years

 

A Utah man who caught bats and let his wife play with them, died of rabies — the first death of its kind in the state in 74 years.

 

Gary Giles, 55, first began having neck and back pain on Oct. 19 and doctors thought he’d just pulled a muscle.

 

But the pain only got worse and turned to numbness and tingling.

 

“Being touched, he felt like he had pins and needles all over his skin,” Giles’ daughter Crystal Sedgwick told Fox13. “He felt like his skin was on fire.”

 

It wasn’t until Giles died on Sunday at Utah Valley Hospital that doctors realized he’d been infected with rabies, Sedgwick said.

 

The state’s health department believe he contracted the deadly virus from bats, which literally hung around his home, but they’re still working to confirm the theory.

 

“My mom has always thought that bats were really cute, so he would sit there and hold them for her and let her pet their heads, and they would lick them,” Sedgwick said.

 

Sedgwick’s mom, Juanita Giles, said she didn’t realize the bats that infested their home could be carriers of the highly contagious ailment.

 

“I had no clue,” she told KSL. “We would wake up in the night and they would be walking on our bed.” EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!

 

“I’ve always thought bats were kind of cute, but I had no idea the kind of risk we were at.”

 

Since her husband’s death, Juanita said she and the rest of the family are getting vaccinated — just in case.

 

The last time someone died of rabies in Utah was 1944.

 

According to the CDC, there have only been 23 cases of human rabies reported in the US between 2008 and 2017.

[samhexum]

Detroit — A 21-year-old man was found dead at the abandoned Packard Plant Saturday morning, police said.

 

Police said the man was with a group of friends playing a game of hide-and-seek inside the building on St. Aubin near East Ferry. Police said the building is an extension of the 45-building plant.

 

The group was playing the game between midnight and 1:30 a.m. on the ninth floor of the building. He ran off to hide and possibly fell through the elevator shaft on the ninth floor, police said.

 

Friends were unable to find him and left the building. They returned in the morning with flashlights to search for him. They found his body inside an elevator shaft on the first floor covered by debris, police said.

 

Friends called Detroit police Saturday morning.

 

Developers of the Packard Plant project at Arte Express purchased the property, with its 43 dilapidated buildings and 45 acres of decayed landscape, in 2014.

 

The first phase of the project broke ground in May 2017, which included revitalizing the administration building and a nearby building. The project is estimated to cost $23 million and developer Fernando Palazuelo is financing the entire project himself.

 

The entire project, which has four phases across the property’s 45 acres, is expected to take up to 15 years.

 

[+ Avalon]

Detroit — A 21-year-old man was found dead at the abandoned Packard Plant Saturday morning, police said.

 

Police said the man was with a group of friends playing a game of hide-and-seek inside the building on St. Aubin near East Ferry. Police said the building is an extension of the 45-building plant.

 

The group was playing the game between midnight and 1:30 a.m. on the ninth floor of the building. He ran off to hide and possibly fell through the elevator shaft on the ninth floor, police said.

 

Friends were unable to find him and left the building. They returned in the morning with flashlights to search for him. They found his body inside an elevator shaft on the first floor covered by debris, police said.

 

Friends called Detroit police Saturday morning.

 

Developers of the Packard Plant project at Arte Express purchased the property, with its 43 dilapidated buildings and 45 acres of decayed landscape, in 2014.

 

The first phase of the project broke ground in May 2017, which included revitalizing the administration building and a nearby building. The project is estimated to cost $23 million and developer Fernando Palazuelo is financing the entire project himself.

 

The entire project, which has four phases across the property’s 45 acres, is expected to take up to 15 years.

 

 

And no doubt the developer will be sued by the family!

 

Imo those friends of the victim ought to be arrested for trespassing and more!

[RM]

Mom told her eight year old daughter to crawl under a stopped train to get to the bus stop. Turned into a tragedy.

https://www.fresnobee.com/latest-news/article223271110.html

[samhexum]

A beautiful 22-year-old student fell Sunday morning while climbing a bell tower at Fordham University with friends to snap pictures of the skyline, and later died after the 40-foot fall, cops said.

 

The group of seniors climbed the Keating Hall clock tower at about 3 a.m. when the woman fell through an opening on the first landing of the tower and tumbled inside the structure, striking her head on the ground, cops said.

 

Students told The Post it was a “rite of passage” among seniors to climb the tower, touch the bell and taking photos outside one of the top windows.

 

“I heard they were just getting a better view of the city,” a senior student, Anne, told The Post. “I think they were posting on Instagram when it happened.”

 

The news spread quickly to fearful parents, who warned their kids to steer clear of the structure.

 

“My mom texted me this morning and said, ‘stay out of the bell tower!” said Grayson Brown, 19, a freshman computer science major from Bethesda, Maryland.

 

EMS rushed the injured student to St Barnabas Hospital, where she was in critical condition.

 

“Access to that tower is always locked,” school spokesman Bob Howe told The Post. “University officials are investigating how the students gained access to the tower.”

 

But a student said it is often open at night.

 

“The doors aren’t always locked. They’re unlocked at night when they’re cleaning. They are always doing some kind of cleaning or renovation,” said a senior named Anne who declined to give a last name.

 

It was too early to tell whether the door was open or the lock had been tampered with, Howe said.

 

 

 

 

Edited January 19, 2021 by samhexum

[samhexum]

A motorist was killed when her head became trapped between her vehicle and a payment machine at a parking garage in Ohio's capital city.

 

Columbus police responded to the garage around 5:40 a.m. Tuesday after a security guard found the woman, whose name was not released. A review of security camera footage showed the incident had occurred around 11:30 p.m. Monday, as the woman was leaving the garage.

 

The woman was going to use a credit card to pay for her parking but dropped the card outside the vehicle, authorities said. When she reached down to pick it up, she accidentally stepped on the car's accelerator and the vehicle moved forward, trapping her head.

 

The woman was pronounced dead at the scene.

 

 

 

Reports of her death have been greatly exaggerated.

 

A French woman has been trying to prove she’s alive after a court wrongly declared her dead three years ago.

 

Jeanne Pouchain, 58, is alive and well, was never in a coma and did not try to commit insurance fraud. But a stunning decision by a Lyon court in 2017 deemed her dead even though no death certificate was ever produced.

 

The colossal error came at the end of a long legal battle with a disgruntled employee of Pouchain’s former cleaning company, who was seeking compensation for a job she lost two decades ago. The former worker apparently told the court that Pouchain had died because she had not answered her letters.

 

Pouchain’s lawyer says the Appeals Court of Lyon simply took the plaintiff’s word without giving them a hearing, officially declaring her dead, invalidating her driver’s license and other documents and closing her bank account.

 

“I no longer exist,” Pouchain told The Associated Press. “I don’t do anything... I sit on the veranda and write.”

 

The woman lives in the village of Saint Joseph, in the Loire region. She said her car has been seized over an unpaid debt and she fears her furniture will be taken next.

 

Her lawyer, Sylvain Cormier, said she never dealt with such a “crazy” case.

 

“At first, I had a hard time believing my client,” he said.

 

Cormier filed a motion last week seeking to invalidate the 2017 decision, blaming it on a “grave error” by the judges. He said the judges are likely too embarrassed to admit they made such a ridiculous mistake.

 

“When an error is so enormous, it’s hard to admit,” Cormier said.

 

 

[+ MysticMenace]

 

am having a hard time reading the entire post - I get stuck by these bouncing pecs... ? wouldn't mind dying getting hit by em.

[samhexum]

Man shot, killed after ‘prank’ robbery for video

 

Police in Tennessee are investigating after a man was shot and killed Friday night during a robbery “prank” for a YouTube video.

 

Nashville police responded to the parking lot of an Urban Air indoor trampoline park at 9:25 p.m., where David Starnes Jr., 23, admitted to shooting 20-year-old Timothy Wilks, according to a news release from the police.

 

Witnesses told detectives that Wilks and a friend were participating in a “prank” robbery as part of a YouTube video when they approached a group of people, including Starnes, with butcher knives. Starnes said he was unaware of the prank and

shot Wilks to defend himself and the people he was with.

 

No one has been charged in Wilks’ death. The investigation is ongoing.

 

Baby crushed to death by man jumping from building in Russia

 

A five-month-old baby in Russia was crushed to death when a man jumped from a building in an apparent suicide attempt — and landed on the infant’s stroller, according to a report Friday.

 

The freak accident unfolded Thursday when the man plunged from the 17th floor of a building in Voronezh as the mother pushed her baby below, according to video of the incident posted by the Scottish Sun.

 

Disturbing surveillance camera footage shows the jumper landing partially on the stroller, hitting the baby and knocking him out onto the street.

 

The mom, who has not been identified, then frantically checked on her child as passersby called for help — while the jumper appeared lifeless on the pavement, according to the outlet.

 

Paramedics rushed to revive the infant but he reportedly died on the way to the hospital.

 

“The 5-month-old baby, who was inside the pram, died in the ambulance,” a police source said, according to the outlet.

 

The cop added that “the man who fell upon the [stroller] died,” too.

[samhexum]

A 54-year-old woman who was waiting for her vehicle at a Queens car wash was struck and killed by an employee.

 

Authorities say the woman was walking in front of the Crossbay Car Wash in Ozone Park around 2 p.m. Monday when a worker exiting the car wash bay in a 2011 Jeep Liberty hit her. The woman suffered severe body trauma and she later died at Jamaica Hospital, police said.

 

After striking the woman, the worker also went on to hit a parked vehicle before coming to a rest.

 

The worker was immediately taken into police custody, and the NYPD on Tuesday said 43-year-old Edwin Vargas has been charged with the woman's death.

 

In addition to a vehicular manslaughter charge, Vargas was also charged with driving while intoxicated and driving while ability impaired.

 

An investigation is ongoing and no other information was immediately available.

[samhexum]

WHATEVER POSSESSED HER TO EVEN TRY?

 

An ailing 73-year-old woman died while climbing the stairs to her 19th-floor apartment during a massive power outage at her Co-Op City complex in the Bronx on Friday.

 

The woman, who emigrated from Haiti 8 years ago and worked as a home health aide until getting sick and requiring oxygen, had reached the 18th floor of her De Kruif Place building and had just one more story to go when her oxygen tank apparently gave out and she collapsed sometime around 3 p.m. She was found in the stairwell between the 18th and 19th floors. Her cause of death was under investigation, and it was possible she died from the fall.

 

Thousands of Co-Op City residents were left without power, water and heat into early Saturday after a basement transformer caught fire Friday morning.

 

“The damage caused by the transformer fire is extensive and will take a while to repair,” the Co-Op City Department of Public Safety tweeted at 6:30 p.m. Friday.

 

“If there are no further incidents, we estimate that electric, water and heat services will be restored sometime late tonight or early this morning,” the tweet said.

 

Community rooms elsewhere in the massive complex were open as warming and cell-phone-charging centers, the officials said.

 

“The power is slowly being restored!” the officials tweeted at 11 p.m.

 

Co-Op City is the largest co-op in the country (and presumably the world), and has its own power plant and doesn’t depend on Con Edison for power. The woman and her husband had 5 children… 4 daughters who are all teachers and a son who is a lawyer. To have had such a productive life and then die like that…IDIOTIC (and really sad).

 

The power plant in the foreground:

 

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Edited February 28, 2021 by samhexum

[samhexum]

A 34-year-old Ohio man fell to his death from his hotel room balcony in South Carolina during Hurricane Ian while he was trying to perform a handstand.

Markell Hope, of Akron, was staying at the Patricia Grand Hotel in Myrtle Beach when he attempted the stunt about 3:30 p.m. Sept. 30, as the storm was passing through, Horry County Chief Deputy Coroner Tamara Willard told WYFF.

He fell 15 floors to his death, officials said.

I don't know what's more idiotic-- doing a handstand on a balcony during a hurricane, or vacationing in South Carolina.

[Guest]

On 2/7/2021 at 11:46 AM, samhexum said:

Man shot, killed after ‘prank’ robbery for video

 

Police in Tennessee are investigating after a man was shot and killed Friday night during a robbery “prank” for a YouTube video.

 

Nashville police responded to the parking lot of an Urban Air indoor trampoline park at 9:25 p.m., where David Starnes Jr., 23, admitted to shooting 20-year-old Timothy Wilks, according to a news release from the police.

 

Witnesses told detectives that Wilks and a friend were participating in a “prank” robbery as part of a YouTube video when they approached a group of people, including Starnes, with butcher knives. Starnes said he was unaware of the prank and

shot Wilks to defend himself and the people he was with.

 

No one has been charged in Wilks’ death. The investigation is ongoing...

In case some of you are wondering what Wilks looked like:

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Man found dead in Jeep that crashed on collapsed bridge

The North Carolina State Highway Patrol found a 2020 Jeep Gladiator upside down and partially submerged in the water where the road was washed out. 

Troopers said barricades that were put up to warn drivers of the collapsed bridge were apparently removed, leading to the crash.

The driver, identified as Philip John Paxson, was with his wife, daughters and friends celebrating their daughter's birthday party Friday night. His wife left ahead of him with the kids, while he stayed behind to help clean up but he never came home.

His friend Jon Hopson is the one who found him the next morning.

“I pulled right where we are at and I saw the back tires of his jeep sticking up out of the water,” Hopson said. “It was the worst thing I have ever experienced in my life. I was the last person to talk to him, cooked his last meal and the one to find him.”

The road pops up on GPS.

“He could have easily put it in the GPS and gone this way because all of the neighbors say the quickest way out of here is that way. And most people choose the quickest way.”

 

“My sister’s friend drove up to that edge multiple times but thankfully it was daytime.”

“It was dark and it was raining and it could have happened to anyone.”

 

A sign just a few blocks up 24th street place NE says, “state maintenance ends here”.

The North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) said it has no authority to make improvements to this location because it is a private roadway.

"In North Carolina, counties do not maintain roads. In general, owners of private roads associated with subdivisions could be the subdivision developers, a homeowners association, or the property owners in the subdivision."

Residents could petition for NCDOT to take over maintenance of the road but it would need to meet certain criteria.

State senator Dean Proctor maintained that a private road cannot simply be taken over by the city, county, or state. He adds there are strict laws in place about the process and the owner would have to petition for it to happen. The road would also need to meet certain criteria for the state to take ownership. Until then maintenance would fall under the responsibility of the owner or residents.

 

 

I wouldn't be surprised if some bored teens removed the barriers one night for a 'laugh'.  The road is so small, they wouldn't have been very large or that heavy.

Edited October 9, 2022 by samhexum
for shits and giggles