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Local Runners Rescue Man Impaled by Splintered Tree Stump
Runner's World ^ | July 23, 2019 | Gabrielle Hondorp

Posted on 07/27/2019 10:22:27 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

On the morning of Saturday, July 13, Cindy Eiseler and three of her friends were running along the Lansing River Trail by Michigan State University in Lansing, Michigan, when they heard a voice calling for help from the woods nearby.

“We heard a man’s voice crying out ‘I need help, I need help!’” Eiseler told Runner’s World. “It stopped us dead in our tracks not knowing exactly where the man’s voice was coming from.”

The group did not want to venture into the woods alone, so they called 911 and assured the man that help was on the way. While waiting, another group of runners came by. Eiseler and her friends explained the situation, and two male runners in the group went in to check out what was going on.

They discovered that a man, a 37-year-old whose name was not released, had fallen from a tree onto a splintered tree trunk the night before, impaling his shoulder and trapping him to the ground. He remained there for 14 hours.

The Michigan State University Police Department confirmed the incident in a statement to Runner’s World, but could not comment on why the man was in the tree.

(Excerpt) Read more at runnersworld.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine; Local News; Miscellaneous; Outdoors; Sports; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: accident; impalement; lansing; michigan; msu; rescue; running; trail
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1 posted on 07/27/2019 10:22:27 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Unngh


2 posted on 07/27/2019 10:23:32 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The group did not want to venture into the woods alone, so they called 911 and assured the man that help was on the way.

The "Brave Sir Robin" generation.

3 posted on 07/27/2019 10:24:31 AM PDT by ElkGroveDan (My tagline is in the shop.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Nothing good happens in trees after midnight.
 
4 posted on 07/27/2019 10:26:18 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (In Italia i fascisti si dividono in due categorie : i fascisti e gli antifascisti. -- Ennio Flaiano)
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To: ElkGroveDan

They were girls. Smart decision


5 posted on 07/27/2019 10:27:52 AM PDT by Mercat
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To: ElkGroveDan

They’re girls and probably should be careful. Wish girls would be more like girls these days anyway.

Leave the heroics to the guys. World would work better.


6 posted on 07/27/2019 10:28:15 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

“Don’t tax me, don’t tax thee. Tax that fellow...um, impaled on that tree.”


7 posted on 07/27/2019 10:29:10 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: ElkGroveDan

If they had gone into the woods and they were killed, we would be calling them fools for not knowing how dangerous it could be.
Seems to me they did the right thing.
Heck, at least they did SOMETHING!


8 posted on 07/27/2019 10:29:22 AM PDT by ArtDodger
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To: ElkGroveDan

I agree with them.


9 posted on 07/27/2019 10:29:47 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

Because that’s when the party moves from the trees to the desert sands of Las Vegas...


10 posted on 07/27/2019 10:30:08 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Larry Lucido

Yeah! I second the motion!


11 posted on 07/27/2019 10:31:10 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: ElkGroveDan

A group of women afraid to go a few feet into the woods? Guy falls out of tree at night and impaled for 14 hours? What are they smoking up there?


12 posted on 07/27/2019 10:31:11 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
What was he doing is a tree? Well, it's obvious - tree sex!

I saw a hot looking tree once. It gave me a woody!

13 posted on 07/27/2019 10:32:25 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob ("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Curious what a 73 YO man was doing in a tree at night.

Anyone seen Bob Mueller?


14 posted on 07/27/2019 10:32:33 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (The media is after us. Trump's just in the way.)
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To: Bonemaker

Considering your stated hypothesis is completely in error, you should read more carefully.


15 posted on 07/27/2019 10:32:50 AM PDT by Spacetrucker (George Washington didn't use his freedom of speech to defeat the British - HE SHOT THEM .. WITH GUNS)
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Splintered tree stumps must be stopped!!! Going around impaling people and sh*t!!!


16 posted on 07/27/2019 10:38:15 AM PDT by dsrtsage (For Leftists, World History starts every day at breakfast)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie; JonPreston
Nothing good happens in trees after midnight.

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ROFL

17 posted on 07/27/2019 10:41:31 AM PDT by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it divine ...)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
“While waiting, another group of runners came by. Eiseler and her friends explained the situation, and two male runners in the group went in to check out what was going on.“

Toxic masculinity strikes again.

18 posted on 07/27/2019 10:43:55 AM PDT by TheDandyMan
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To: Spacetrucker

I give...what part are you missing?


19 posted on 07/27/2019 10:44:30 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: dsrtsage

>>Splintered tree stumps must be stopped!!! Going around impaling people and sh*t!!!<<

When stumps are outlawed only outlaws will have stumps. We need a Stump Amendment.


20 posted on 07/27/2019 10:46:34 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (As always IMHO)
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