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Stoic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-03 11:44 AM
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Man Trapped in Elevator, Decapitated
Edited on Tue Aug-19-03 11:52 AM by Stoic
Deregulation and it's effects. State allows private elevator industry to regulate itself.

Man Trapped in Elevator, Decapitated

and the follow-up story...

Questions remain after doctor decapitated by elevator

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bif Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-03 11:46 AM
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1. Need to fix the first link
n/t
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Stoic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-03 11:53 AM
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4. Fixed
I ALWAYS miss something with the way this board formats links. My bad.
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Bunny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-03 11:50 AM
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2. I heard that a woman was stuck on the elevator with
the decapitated head for approx. 20 minutes until the elevator could be fixed. Wouldn't that be horrifying?
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radwriter0555 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-03 12:44 PM
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11. "I... ain't got no BOOOOOOOOODY....."
ahem, sorry, sorry.....
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Pert_UK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-03 09:00 PM
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17. At least she had someone to talk to...and something to eat in an emergency
:evilgrin:

Sorry, that's just hideous.

P.
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gWbush is Mabus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-03 11:52 AM
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3. new link
www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/breaking_news/6560227.html
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radwriter0555 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-03 11:53 AM
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5. That had to hurt......
major ouchies.
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Kellanved Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-03 12:02 PM
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6. This too: Man killed after hair gets caught in rollercoaster
http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=63866120&p=638667xx

A man was killed at an amusement park in Washington state over the weekend when his long hair became caught in the wheels of a roller coaster.

Doug McKay was pulled as high as 40ft in the air by the Super Loop 2 before it dropped him onto a fence, back first.

“It basically scalped him, and he fell and landed on the fence,” Whidbey Island sheriff’s spokeswoman Jan Smith said.

The 40-year-old from Idaho was the owner of the roller coaster, and had been spraying lubricant on the tracks at the time of Saturday’s accident.
...
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radwriter0555 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-03 12:41 PM
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10. DANG. it's hazardous to just be alive, now isn't it? At some point dang it
we're going to DIE.

I hate that!
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PinkTiger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-03 12:05 PM
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7. Good reason to take the stairs.
nt
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LincolnMcGrath Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-03 12:32 PM
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8. Less Union=Less Safety
Deregulation was the biggest ripoff ever to be bought by the American public.

The blackout was further proof of that as well. PUBLIC utilities were not effected by the rolling blackouts.
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Character Assassin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-03 12:35 PM
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9. Sheesh! What a mess.
The cleaning up alone would take at least, what, 45 minutes?
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-03 12:59 PM
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12. Dr. Crane to OR. Dr. Ichabod Crane to OR, stat!
:evilgrin:
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-03 01:08 PM
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13. latest from Houston
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cprise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-03 03:32 PM
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14. Gruesome
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FreeperSlayer Donating Member (666 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-03 08:59 PM
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15. yuck
eom
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Sean Reynolds Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-03 09:00 PM
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16. That is awesome.
Well not his death - but the way he died.
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-19-03 10:29 PM
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18. Murphy 203.756 LIVE BY THE RIDE: DIE BY THE RIDE
Come, we go kite surfing
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