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Offline DavidG02

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Re: Unpleasant Deaths
« Reply #45 on: Saturday 23 May 15 21:18 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Billyblue on Saturday 23 May 15 14:16 BST (UK)
A friend of a friend was decapitated when she drove her car under a big truck.

One of our teenage group moved on to drive trucks for a living. Carting steel plate a car cut in front of him just before the lights went red. Truck Driver slammed on brakes only to have sheets of steel keep going. Through the cab.

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Re: Unpleasant Deaths
« Reply #46 on: Saturday 23 May 15 21:24 BST (UK) »
Wow... How horrific.
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Re: Unpleasant Deaths
« Reply #47 on: Saturday 23 May 15 22:20 BST (UK) »
A friend's parents were touring in America with relatives in 1980 when the volcanic eruption occurred at Mount St. Helens, so there were clouds of dust everywhere. They were following a truck carrying huge logs which came off, crushing their car and killing all the occupants. I can still remember how shocked we all were when we heard about it.
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Re: Unpleasant Deaths
« Reply #48 on: Saturday 23 May 15 22:26 BST (UK) »
Oh my god. This thread just gets worse and worse.
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Re: Unpleasant Deaths
« Reply #49 on: Saturday 23 May 15 22:48 BST (UK) »
Searching for relatives in the newspaper archives on Findmypast, I came across this one. He's not one of 'mine' as far as I can tell, but I saved it anyway. Real 19th century sensationalist gruesome regional journalism at its finest.

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"WORKMAN CREMATED ALIVE AT WARRENBY.
"At Redcar yesterday a fireman named John Stainthorpe (19), employed at Messrs Walker, Maynard, and Co.'s ironworks, Warrenby, met with a terrible death. He was coupling bogies full of molten slag to an engine when the engine was backed on to the bogies with such force that the molten slag splashed over the sides, and completely covered the unfortunate man. The flesh was stripped from off his bones, and the body presented a fearful spectacle..."

Anyone who reckons that "health and safety has gone mad these days" is welcome to go and do his job.

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Re: Unpleasant Deaths
« Reply #50 on: Saturday 23 May 15 23:07 BST (UK) »
That's horrible.

Perhaps this thread ought to carry a warning - Not for the Squeamish.  :o
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Re: Unpleasant Deaths
« Reply #51 on: Sunday 24 May 15 00:06 BST (UK) »
Tomorrow I will have to post my coal mining deaths in Wales.

Ah yes, a warning isnt a bad idea.... But this is interesting!
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Re: Unpleasant Deaths
« Reply #52 on: Sunday 24 May 15 00:26 BST (UK) »
I have 3 suicides, all by hanging. Two cases were found by their sons and one by his mother. Not something I would like to come across.
SCOTLAND: Wardlaw Steen/Stein Tweedie McBride McEwan Pate/Peat Brown Somerville Bishop Farier/Ferrier Wood  Torrance Gibb Ross Dunlop Downs Richardson Ramsey Story Snaddon/Sneddon Auld Allan McLean McInnes Mason Law Lawson Kerr Cockburn Christie Ballingall Wardrope Weir Wallace Scott.
IRELAND: Welsh Clifford Lee Allingham Keane Dale Robinson Greer McVey Bingham Skelton Carson Broomfield Clark McEwan/McKeown McCreary McLaughlan.
YORKSHIRE: Cudworth Smith Cope Coulton Hainsworth

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Re: Unpleasant Deaths
« Reply #53 on: Sunday 24 May 15 01:38 BST (UK) »
Quote from: groom on Friday 22 May 15 15:13 BST (UK)
Very ironic. I'm surprised none of the newspapers have picked up this coincidence.

They did, there was a short article in The Times (I think Friday's edition) which told this story and stated that Thomas Cook himself would have handled the recent case much more sympathetically due to his own experience of gas poisoning.
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