2,000 miles from Fargo, a real-life death by wood chipper

[KamaAina]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2012/01/13/state/n051300S24.DTL

A Northern California tree trimmer has been decapitated after an industrial wood chipper apparently sucked up a rope tangled around his neck.

Nevada County sheriff's deputies initially said 50-year-old Martin Lara was feeding brush and was pulled head-first into the wood chipper by the rope.

But coroner's Sgt. Paul Schmidt tells Sacramento's KCRA-TV ( http://bit.ly/w4SqEP) that something got caught in the wood chipper and got tangled around Lara's neck, decapitating him.

Schmidt couldn't confirm it was a rope that tightened around his neck.

[Taverner]

1. Um, ow....

[rrneck]

2. It's worse than that.

Large wood chippers that I've seen don't "snatch" the limbs quickly but rather have toothed rollers that slowly pull the limb into the chipper. Think about it.

[edbermac]

3. The Fargo guy wasn't killed by a wood chipper.

His partner whacked him with an ax, then put the remains in the wood chipper.

You betcha!

[UnrepentantLiberal]

4. How do you get a rope rapped around your neck

while you're wood chipping?

[bluedigger]

9. Like this guy.

http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/FACE/stateface/ca/10ca010.html

[UnrepentantLiberal]

10. Rope --> wood chipper. Got it.

[TreasonousBastard]

5. Woodchipper, eh?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helle_Crafts

[dimbear]

6. It's a panic situation. The important thing is not to go to pieces. Especially keep your head. n/t

[Art_from_Ark]

7. Poor guy

[Turbineguy]

8. A terrible thing

unless it happened to Rush Limbaugh.

[Odin2005]

11. UFFDA!!! Wow!