It’s a bird. It’s a plane. No, it’s a bull moose hanging by its antlers from an electrical power line in the middle of the Alaska wilderness. This is one of those truly bizarre stories that seems absolutely hilarious until you actually think about it, at which point it turns morbid and sad. (Check out […]
Of course it’s not a bird, you ninny
Posted by Ben on October 27, 2004
https://www.swordbilled.com/of-course-its-not-a-bird/
It was an honest mistake
Really, it could have happened to anybody. A 20-ton piece of road machinery mowed down a fence and a couple of trees on property belonging to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld (news – bio) after the brakes apparently slipped and the machine rolled away. “It was a freak accident,” said Michael Trujillo, director of public works […]
Posted by Ben on October 13, 2004
https://www.swordbilled.com/it-was-an-honest-mistake/
Freak Accident #3
…though there are obviously many more… BEIJING (Reuters) – A boiler that exploded at a Chinese sauna sailed over a six-story building and landed on an old man crossing the road, Xinhua news agency said. The 63-year-old pedestrian was killed instantly and three people injured in Sunday’s bizarre accident in Baotou, Inner Mongolia, Xinhua quoted […]
Posted by Ben on September 26, 2004
https://www.swordbilled.com/freak-accident-3/
More freak accidents
In the same vein as this earlier post on a freak vending machine accident, here is freak portable toilet accident #1 (still waiting for word of #2): A portable toilet exploded Tuesday after a man who was inside it lit a cigarette. Emergency workers said the man was not severely injured and drove himself to […]
Posted by Ben on August 12, 2004
https://www.swordbilled.com/more-freak-accidents/
Freak vending machine accident
Pretty much by definition, freak accidents don’t happen every day. Particularly freak accidents involving exploding vending machines that expel poisonous gas. Yes, freak accidents involving exploding vending machines that happen, through the wonders of happy coincidence, to produce something like phosgene gas (used in WWI as a chemical warfare agent)—these aren’t things that happen every […]
Posted by Ben on July 6, 2004
https://www.swordbilled.com/freak-vending-machine-accident/