No child should touch a gun or pistol, or on any account present one at another person. We behold a little boy shooting his sister dead! And: Here we see the danger of playing with lighted candles. One little girl has set the bed-curtains on fire, and the other her hair; and both are in […]
Useful information, by any standard
Posted by Ben on July 24, 2008
https://www.swordbilled.com/useful-information-by-any-standard/
Ride Accidents
With headlines like “Octopus ride accident injures two” and “Ferris wheel catastrophe kills five”, it will be hard to look at amusement park rides in quite the same light. Not that they ever seemed on par with the safety of something like, say, bonsai gardening. (via BoingBoing)
Posted by Ben on June 25, 2008
https://www.swordbilled.com/ride-accidents/
The possibly gruesome fate of D.B. Cooper
Interesting enough for the subject matter — the mysterious skyjacker who disappeared from a plane1 with some gracious amount of money, never to be found again (the skyjacker that is; some of the money was found, maybe) — this article from the AP is probably best for the very last sentence: “Maybe a hydrologist can […]
Posted by Ben on January 26, 2008
https://www.swordbilled.com/the-possibly-gruesome-fate-of-db-cooper/
But what about the pterodactyl?
When police asked the man what caused the accident, his one-word answer was “pterodactyl,” Smith said. … The man was treated and released at Central Washington Hospital, hospital officials said. No word on the pterodactyl’s injuries. (HeraldNet: “Man blames car wreck on prehistoric winged reptile,” by Rachel Schleif [29 Dec 07]; via BoingBoing)
Posted by Ben on January 10, 2008
https://www.swordbilled.com/but-what-about-the-pterodactyl/
Drop a spoon, save your life
Yes, it can happen to you. Well, maybe not you, but someone else: Dropping something may have saved Joy Horton’s life. The 73-year-old woman was preparing some food in her western New York home on Monday morning when she dropped a spoon on the floor of her kitchen. When she bent down, her house exploded. […]
Posted by Ben on December 16, 2007
https://www.swordbilled.com/drop-a-spoon-save-your-life/
Let this be a lesson to you
Three-year-old Robert Moore went fishing for a stuffed replica of Sponge Bob and ended up trapped in a vending machine. … A stuffed Sponge Bob in a vending machine’s bin caught Robert’s eye. He tried without success to fish it out with a plastic crane. “I told him I could get it for him,” his […]
Posted by Ben on October 29, 2006
https://www.swordbilled.com/let-this-be-a-lesson-to-you/
No matter how hard you look
…you won’t find very much on the internet about the elusive “out-of-control doughnut trailer”, never mind how much danger it portends. (Above: helpful illustration)
Posted by Ben on October 24, 2006
https://www.swordbilled.com/no-matter-how-hard-you-look/
Fire medicine
This is not new news, nor is it relevant in the sense of being anything anyone needs to worry about, but it certainly is curious: Seattle police launched an investigation on Friday to determine how a patient undergoing emergency heart surgery caught on fire at a local hospital in 2003. The male patient, who was […]
Posted by Ben on June 23, 2005
https://www.swordbilled.com/fire-medicine/
Caution: Sounder of Boar Ahead
BERLIN (Reuters) – A pack of wild boar wandered onto a German motorway, causing a five-car pileup and leaving one motorist injured and eight of the animals dead, police said on Saturday. The cars on the Dresden-Berlin motorway hit the boar at high speed. One car flipped, injuring the 33-year-old woman driver. (Reuters: “Pack of […]
Posted by Ben on December 1, 2004
https://www.swordbilled.com/caution-sounder-of-boar-ahead/
Who’s looking out for you?
Google saves a man’s life; The Weather Channel could have prevented a woman from falling off a second-floor balcony (although possibly not, too). The second “could have” is a little gimmicky, since it refers to the fact that the woman fell while step outside to check the weather. Whoever wrote the article’s headline presumably thought […]
Posted by Ben on November 16, 2004
https://www.swordbilled.com/whos-looking-out-for-you/