Hiker Dies After Redwood Tree Collapses in Muir Woods National Monument on Christmas Eve

KTLA ^ | 12/26/2019

[BenLurkin]

Subhradeep Dutta, 28, was walking on a trail on Christmas Eve when the tree fell... He was visiting from Edina, Minnesota.

Emergency medical services were called at approximately 4:38 p.m. and first responders found Dutta beneath the tree. Dutta suffered “severe traumatic injuries” and was pronounced dead on the scene at 5:01 p.m., according to the sheriff’s office.

A forensic postmortem examination is scheduled for Friday to determine the cause and manner of death.

[Sacajaweau]

How sad.

[Kevin in California]

Didn’t anyone yell Timberrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr..............?

[Kevin in California]

They need an examination to determine the manner of death? Duhhhhh, a tree fell on the dude.

[Equine1952]

Run! Which way? I’ll go this way you go that way!

[E. Pluribus Unum]

They don’t call them widowmakers for nothing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widowmaker_(forestry)

[xp38]

RIP.....odd way to go.....The Redwoods are magnificent but they have relatively shallow root systems and are prone to this.

[dp0622]

I HAVE TO get glasses!!!!

I thought it said hitler dies.

That would just throw my understanding of history into COMPLETE DISARRAY!!!

[doorgunner69]

Well, when this tree in the forest fell, there was someone there to hear it, and feel it.

[Veggie Todd]

Did it make a sound?

[Yogafist]

From 2011.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ucahb5GGeo

[Eccl 10:2]

$20 says he was wearing earbuds and listening to some god awful shitty music at ear splitting volumes when it happened.

[FamiliarFace]

Very sad.

[Lurkinanloomin]

If a tree falls in the forest and you’re in the way, does it make a sound?

[US_MilitaryRules]

You would have to ask him but he’s not making any sounds either!

[Chode]

if a tree falls on a hiker in the forest, does anybody hear it???

[lee martell]

Lol! Well, even if that were the headline, it would still be true. Mel Brooks would have to redo that song about Springtime. Now, I can’t see that headline any other way.

[Eagles6]

Happened to the governor of Texas.

Happened to me but fortunately I was in a car.

Mother Nature is one cold bitch.

[Zhang Fei]

[$20 says he was wearing earbuds and listening to some god awful shitty music at ear splitting volumes when it happened.]

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People who do this while walking through the wilderness are nuts. Large predators and venomous snakes abound.

[Deaf Smith]

"Some day when they are in voice

And tossing so as to scare

The white clouds over them so

I shall have less to say

But I shall be gone."

The Sound Of Trees, Robert Frost