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Another culprit weighed in deaths of California family found on Sierra National Forest trail
SF Gate ^ | 5 Sept 2021 | Katie Dowd

Posted on 09/06/2021 8:31:24 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT

Another possibility is being investigated in a case that one sheriff has called the most mysterious of his career.

Responding agencies treated the scene as a hazmat situation because of uncertainty about the cause of the fatalities, and everything from toxic algae to dangerous mine gasses to murder has been probed. According to a New York Times feature on the family, now lightning strikes have been added into the mix.

A handful of causes of death have been ruled out. Previous autopsy data provided by the Mariposa County Sheriff's Office excluded acute trauma, such as stabbing, gunshot wounds or blunt-force trauma. They also do not believe the family was killed by toxic gas escaping from an abandoned mine shaft.

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


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: california; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; lightning; mariposacounty; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkslimes; newyorktimes; slenderman
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Having spent years hiking and climbing and our children do the same, this one is concerning.
1 posted on 09/06/2021 8:31:24 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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To: DUMBGRUNT

TV producers can solve these things in an hour, what is going on here?


2 posted on 09/06/2021 8:36:08 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Duh. FR added that right off the bat.


3 posted on 09/06/2021 8:38:58 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: PeterPrinciple

I think this looks like a movie, so two hours will be needed.


4 posted on 09/06/2021 8:40:11 AM PDT by alternatives? (The only reason to have an army is to defend your borders,)
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To: PeterPrinciple
TV producers can solve these things in an hour, what is going on here?

Paging Quincy, M.E.

5 posted on 09/06/2021 8:40:40 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

CSI California.

They will scan everybody’s eyeballs to see stored memories and find their man.


6 posted on 09/06/2021 8:42:06 AM PDT by Jonty30 (My superpower is setting people up for failure, without meaning to. )
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Probably COVID shots.


7 posted on 09/06/2021 8:42:29 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Honestly, it can’t be too concerning. We’ve never seen anything like this before. The odds are a gazillion to one.

We obviously need to worry a lot more about rattlesnakes, falling off a cliff, bears, sunstroke, cougars and flash floods.


8 posted on 09/06/2021 8:43:47 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Criminal democrats kill babies. Do you think anything else is a problem for them?”)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Cow farts. Don’t discount cow farts.


9 posted on 09/06/2021 8:46:23 AM PDT by Drango (1776 = 2021 = 1984)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Another murder committed by someone who should not have been in this country?


10 posted on 09/06/2021 8:46:33 AM PDT by Leep (Save America. Lock down Joe Biden!)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Aw, c’mon man. Let’s just say it out loud:

After over a year of being confined under edict, the immunologically-isolated family ventured out into the wild and succumbed to unknown biological hazards from which otherwise normal people - aka ‘the free’ and immunologically-exercised - would be unaffected.

There. /s

Sarcasm and dark humor aside, without regard to the actual cause, there is a certain logic to my statement as it applies to everyone else.

I thought it ‘fitting’.


11 posted on 09/06/2021 8:49:04 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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The temperature at the time, according to the sheriff's office, ranged from 103 to 109 degrees.

That alone sounds miserable.

12 posted on 09/06/2021 8:50:16 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: dfwgator

Ah man! Loved that show.


13 posted on 09/06/2021 8:51:33 AM PDT by Irenic ( )
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To: gundog

—” FR added that right off the bat.”

I recall that, and was thinking there would be burns???

Right here in DuPage County!

‘’Heard never really made it back, and neither did Nichols,’’ Trevino recalled. ‘’My heart stopped, and the doctor told me if it wasn`t in such good shape, I`d have been gone. Like two ball-peen hammers in my ear, it went from my feet through my shoulder, I`m lifted off the ground, then I`m down, shaking like a leaf. Had four burns on my back and needed two back operations. I felt real warm when it got me, and a lot of pain when I regained consciousness.’’

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1991-06-14-9102220708-story.html


14 posted on 09/06/2021 8:51:48 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Mass suicide or murder-suicide?


15 posted on 09/06/2021 8:53:43 AM PDT by Fido969 (45 is Superman!)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

I would think toxicology reports searching for poisons would be back by now. Wouldn’t they already know if the algae was responsible or not?


16 posted on 09/06/2021 8:54:49 AM PDT by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

—”Honestly, it can’t be too concerning.”

When it comes to my kids and grandkids, I’m concerned about everything little thing.

My daughter, son-in-law, and grandkids are out hiking as I type.
#1 son just returned from climbing in Idaho...


17 posted on 09/06/2021 8:56:00 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (("The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Saw this happen to a herd of cows in Alabama one time. Lightning struck the tree they were all huddled under to get out of the thunderstorm.

They were just ‘dead’. No marks, burns, etc.

The big oak tree however was just split in half.


18 posted on 09/06/2021 8:58:04 AM PDT by chaosagent (Remember, no matter how you slice it, forbidden fruit still tastes the sweetest!)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

I would think a strike in their near vicinity. It would be evident in a tree, probably. It’s odd. I’m not sure what they may have eliminated that has them still speculating.


19 posted on 09/06/2021 8:59:15 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: chaosagent

I suspect a dry lightning strike too.

Sobering.


20 posted on 09/06/2021 8:59:51 AM PDT by Persevero (I am afraid propriety has been set at naught. - Jane Austen )
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