Category Archives: accidents

Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill In Denver

On April 20th, an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon left 17 workers injured and 11 missing and presumed dead. Oil is spilling from a well 5000 feet below sea level, discharging 200,000 gallons of crude oil a day according to the official estimate. It is estimated that more than 6 million gallons of crude oil [...]
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Leadville Ski Joring Championships

This weekend was the 2010 Annual Leadville Ski Joring Competition. The Leadville ski joring event has been going on in since 1949 and is considered the premier event of its kind in the country. The sport it is a timed race with skiers being pulled by horses on a track with large jumps and flat [...]
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Bell Pepper Teratoma

The other night I was fixing up some fajitas for dinner. Yum. While cutting up a red bell pepper for my meal, what to my wondrous eyes did appear? A red pepper teratoma! A capsicum styled fetus in fetu, if you will. A pepper within a pepper. According to this (fairly well referenced) Wikipedia article [...]
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Lightning Striking Twice

Lightning Safety Awareness Week was last month. But to reiterate the dangers of this shocking natural phenomenon, go have a look at this flickr footage of Jessica Lynch getting struck but lightning (or click the “more” link below). She’s a very lucky girl. From Jessica’s comments: First off, just to reiterate, i’m totally fine! At [...]
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Fail Dogs

It seems I’m on a little danger dog kick here. With that stated, I present you with Fail Dogs.
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Wednesday’s Wonderful World Of Wikipedia – Inventors Killed By Their Own Inventions

This week on Wednesday’s Wonderful World of Wikipedia is a list of inventors who have been killed by inventions they either designed or were involved in.
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A Recently Found Letter Written Long Ago

To whom it may concern,       In addition to this letter and the claim report, I have included some other useful information. The circumstances of my injury are as follows: While in Australia, on the date of July 17, 1996, I fell down a flight of stairs and fractured my wrist. On July 18, I [...]
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Lifting Heavy Loads

Yesterday the IT person here at work deleted the entire list of my personal contacts from my computer. They weren’t on the network so they are irretrievable. Gone for good. Dooced. Six years of collected phone numbers and addresses: distant family, old girlfriends, close friends who have moved away, christmas card crap, long forgotten email [...]
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Candlelight And Strangers

On Saturday nigh,t at around 11:00 PM, I got bored. I bundled up in coat, hat, and gloves and trudged through the 6″ of snow to my local haunt. The place was fairly mellow for a Saturday night. The bad weather kept the crowds at home The kitchen closed early and there was room to [...]
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Blood

The night before last I smashed my finger in the apartment door. It didn’t hurt too bad. I mostly just ripped my skin. The heavy door ripped it good and deep, right around the knuckle. I began bleeding immediately. Actually it didn’t bleed as much as it gushed. I held my finger in my mouth, [...]
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Nice To Recharge

The weekend was slow. Nice but slow. It started off with a “bang”. On Friday, I was driving out to meet my mom, her friend, and her friend’s daughter (whom I used to baby-sit way back in the day) for dinner at Pasquini’s. On the way there is saw some friends on 17th Ave. I [...]
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