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Man decapitated when wood chipper sucks up rope
Houston Chronicle ^ | January 13, 2012

Posted on 01/13/2012 11:56:44 AM PST by trumandogz

A Northern California tree trimmer has been decapitated after an industrial wood chipper apparently sucked up a rope tangled around his neck.

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: woodchipper
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To: sodpoodle
The comments on this thread are horrifying.

You should hear some of the comments I've heard when working Military Casualties. The worst would have to be those involving the poor guy who died when incoming ordinance hit his "port-a-potty."

Professionals make jokes as a coping mechanism. If you are too thin skinned to deal with it you might avoid these threads.

61 posted on 01/13/2012 3:32:49 PM PST by Grizzled Bear (No More RINOS!)
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To: Oatka

I’ve always wondered if she was black and blue from bumping into the furniture due to her lack of depth perception.


62 posted on 01/13/2012 3:34:51 PM PST by Locomotive Breath
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To: meatloaf
The best/worse one I heard was about the guy who died in his bathtub. He was there long enough that his body, exceptfor the bones, dissolved.

That's no way for a man to die. No ... A parachute not opening ... That's a way to die. Getting caught in the gears of a combine ... Having your nuts bit off by a Laplander, that's the way I wanna go!

63 posted on 01/13/2012 3:40:13 PM PST by Grizzled Bear (No More RINOS!)
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To: Puppage

LOL!


64 posted on 01/13/2012 3:40:36 PM PST by rabidralph
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To: Hodar
Is there really, in any set of circumstances, a time when wrapping a rope around you neck is considered wise thing to do?

Not to mention any pledge.

65 posted on 01/13/2012 3:48:25 PM PST by Talisker (Apology accepted, Captain Needa.)
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To: Larry Lucido

I don’t do a lot of wood-chipping but I think I’d try to be aware of ropes around my neck.”

Stopping right there would be good!!!


66 posted on 01/13/2012 4:20:24 PM PST by phockthis
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To: Oatka

Bought an artificial Christmas tree last month. Made in China. The branches were made by twisting wire around green bristles. Three times my wife had to leave the room while I cut an old woman’s gray hair out of the limbs. That lady needed a swim hat.


67 posted on 01/13/2012 6:02:40 PM PST by american_ranger
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To: Oatka

Got another story for you.
In the late 80’s I was running a plant which had a lot of automated equipment that bored holes in flat panels to make cabinet components. Imagine hundreds of spinning drill bits pointing up.
One day a machine operator decided to make an adjustment without turning off the machine. This well endowed woman leaned over the rows of drill bits and suddenly her drooping t-shirt got wrapped up and ripped off of her body (Thank God she had enough strength to keep her body away from the drill bits.
She ran from her machine screaming, “Don’t look at my titties.’
Of course every man looked up and starred at her titties.


68 posted on 01/13/2012 6:08:19 PM PST by american_ranger
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To: Larry Lucido

The victims fate is sealed.

Prayers for his family.


69 posted on 01/13/2012 6:24:37 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
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To: moovova

“Confucius say, nude man should not fry bacon.”


Off topic, but:
“Confucius say: Man who walk through airport metal detector sideways maybe going to Bangkok.”


70 posted on 01/13/2012 9:10:45 PM PST by Atlas Sneezed (Author of BullionBible.com - Makes You a Precious Metal Expert, Guaranteed.)
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To: Oatka

” Been going on a long time, in various guises”

Yes every once in a while you hear of someone getting wraped up in a lathe. Not pretty. PTO shafts on tractors can be bad also.


71 posted on 01/13/2012 9:31:31 PM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (The democratic party is the greatest cargo cult in history.)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

Someone here in St. Louis was crushed by an industrial press:

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/authorities-identify-man-killed-in-st-louis-industrial-accident/article_b52b26da-3c13-11e1-82b6-001a4bcf6878.html


72 posted on 01/13/2012 10:40:08 PM PST by scott7278 ("...I have not changed Congress and how it operates the way I would have liked..." - BHO)
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