Posted on 12/26/2019 7:47:08 PM PST by BenLurkin
"Dutta was pinned by the trunk of the 200-foot-tall (61-meter-tall) tree and died at the scene. The trunk measured more than 4 feet (1 meter) in diameter."
yes, a squishy-splat type of sound.
what makes it more interesting is when you respond to those posts that you have misread. LOL
I have done that a few times, and gotten flamed for it too!
I just hope that he died instantly and did not lay there for half an hour or more suffering. that is shytty way to go.
I used to live off winding Tyne Blvd in hilly green hills area of Nashville
After heavy rains we had a large hackberry tree fall across that well traveled road at a precise unfortunate time landing on a woman’s suv striking her but sparing her children in the back seats
She died a few days later from head trauma
It happens
He was pinned by the trunk of the tree, meaning that he was only a few feet from being clear of the trunk. Either he didn’t run away from it, or he ran right into it.
Sometimes it’s just not your day.
I feel the idiocy of my misreads deserves to be known :)
of course they NEVER make any sense and yet the human mind TRIES to make sense of insanity if it believes what the eye thinks it sees.
If even for only an instant, it’s incredible what the brain will try to resolve even in the face of preposterous absurdity :)
Where was Donald Trump when this happened?
I've hiked that trail in Muir Woods. The NPS negligently exposed me to a deadly hazard. Anybody know a lawyer?
“Dutta was pinned by the trunk of the 200-foot-tall (61-meter-tall) tree and died at the scene. The trunk measured more than 4 feet (1 meter) in diameter.”
I’m guessing a closed casket funeral?
4’ diameter? Small redwood.
I have to give you a cheer for this one!
As for falling trees and deadly encounters, even experienced loggers get caught. Trees can twist and branches can catch. In Australia, they have Gum Trees than grow well over 100 feet but can drop dead branches without warning. So also, in any forest, dead wood can get caught in the upper tier of living branches and also fall without warning.
I blame Sir Isaac Newton!
You never hear the one that kills you.
If he didn’t die instantly, he was probably unconscious. That’s always my first thought, too.
i guess not,,,
Maybe a tree fell in him, there is some evidence of that,
What do widowmakers have to do with this incident? The whole tree fell on him, not just a branch.
Legislation Needed - Muir Woods should be deemed a ”no people allowed” zone. After all a redwood might fall there every 300 years, and there might be a hiker walking under it at that moment. This would protect the people and would be one more thing liberals would not lose sleep over, AND this is Kalifornia..where such laws are common. (This certainly would be on the same level of importance as Climate Change,)
From Jurassic Park, the kids (brother and sister):
Tim: I hate trees.
Lex: They don’t bother me.
Tim: Ya, well, you weren’t in the last one.
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