Posted on 12/27/2019 6:58:47 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie
Hiker, 28, is killed when 200-foot redwood falls on top of him on national park dirt trail
Subhradeep Dutta, 28, of Edina, Minnesota, was hiking at Muir National Woods Monument north of San Francisco with two other people Tuesday.
Five giant redwood trees suddenly fell while the trio were on a marked dirt trail about 4.30pm, including a 200-foot tree that struck Dutta. He was pronounced dead at the scene. A female hiker also was injured by falling debris and treated at a nearby hospital. A second man was not hurt The trees may have fallen due to wet ground that became soaked after a series of winter storms hit the area in recent weeks, say authorities
Subhradeep Dutta, who is from Edina, Minnesota, was pronounced dead at the scene after he was struck by the tree about 4.30 p.m. on Tuesday, confirmed the Marin County coroner's office and a park spokesman.
The trunk of the tree measured 4-feet in diameter.
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Similar could be asked of any death, for any cause, young or old.
Death is a reality of this present life that none of us can escape.
There is no prescribed manner of death for anyone, except that it happen.
One thousand years from now, it won't matter how long any of us, our children, or grandchildren lived.
“The Leaf just for Me!”
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A poem or Hiaku?
I think of that Far Side cartoon, “God At His Computer”, where there’s a piano hanging on a rope and a guy just about to walk under it, and God is poised to push the button to drop the piano on him.
I would not want to prejudge, but it appears he neglected a vector analysis of his support system.
Perhaps you should ask
what benifit was his life?
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We've had a few threads here on FR about random trees/limbs falling on and killing people.
Although sometimes distasteful at times, gallows humor has always been a part of FR....
If you don’t like it, never read past the article.....
BTW, there is humor to be found in everything, even death....we all live and we all die.... I just hope my ending is hysterical so I can read the comments on FR from heaven....
Also why if possible, the settlers camped in clearings rather than beneath trees.
Isaiah 57:1 The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.
That’s one possibility.
Maybe the guy’s life had great meaning. We don’t know what he accomplished in his life.
Maybe the guy’s meaning was to warn the rest of us that we don’t know how long any of us have.
Maybe the guy was evil (hope not) and God was sparing others.
There are many many possibilities.
And man often uses humor to deal with freakish events.
Thats terrible!
Lol
Yes, that is how to look at it. the chance of a specific catastrophic random event occurring is indeed very small, but in a world full of random catastrophic events, the chance of one of them occurring is guaranteed!
The tree might argue that the leaf existed just for the tree, and when its usefulness to the tree had come to an end the tree dropped the leaf without a second thought.
The critters living in and on the leaf litter on the forest floor might say the leaf is manna from heaven dropped into their mouths by a beneficent tree god.
The tree might say the, um, output from the critters breaking down the leaf litter into soil are worshiping and nourishing the tree as is fitting for any entity living under it.
The Lord needed a firmware engineer for a project...?
Nah, too quick, too merciful.
Let's slowly starve them by removing the essential plant nutrient CO2 from the Earth's atmosphere.
Me too!
The standard Cop-Out: "God works in mysterious ways."
Those trees are obviously dying off from lack of CO2.
You will have to take that up with God. He, and only He, determines the length of our time on earth, from the beginning to the end. The Bible teaches us that He knew us well before we were conceived in the womb of our mother.
Personally, I believe that you never want to be on an airplane, full of people whose time is up, when yours is not. You will not have a pleasant flight.
He’s pining for the fiords...or something like that.
This seems like a freak accident but something similar happened around my area two times within the past couple years. Both times it happened after a heavy rain when the tree roots weren’t strong enough to keep the tree upright in the soft earth. One jogger got killed in a park and in the other incident, a tree fell on a car and severely injured a woman.
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