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I had guessed that it would be farther away than that. Perhaps the stepfather is innocent.
Impossible. Some white heterosexual male or government agency is at fault.
That’s awful.
My job was to drag the branches that had been trimmed from the trees and feed them into a chipper. I quickly realized how dangerous the job was. If you stood behind the chipper and fed the branches in, it could jerk the limb in and if you were still holding onto it, you could lose your balance and get sucked in with the rest of the branch. Much safer to stand close to it on the side and pitch the branches in.
Over the years, I have thought often how horrible this type of accident would be.
“This is close to home for me, and tragic. :(”
The same thing happened to the guy that trims my trees here in Colorado. He was a super nice, honest man and very good at what he did. It’s just a shame.
A few years ago (in Phoenix, if I recall correctly), there was a guy who attempted murder-suicide, trying to kill himself and his former girlfriend by grabbing her and trying to hop into a chipper.
As events transpired, he was a little ahead of her, lost his grip, and it ended up as just a suicide.
I’m sorry to hear that. It’s so Fargo.
This happened in my state not too long ago. The guy was completely gone in twenty seconds, reduced to one inch chips. I can think of worse ways to go . . .