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'Dead' woman found breathing in coffin at own funeral

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A video posted on social media shows her lying in an open casket and breathing heavily while several people crowd around her. Paramedics then arrive and observe Ms Montoya before moving her onto a stretcher and into an ambulance.

 

86-year-old returns George Orwell's "1984" to library 65 years late, saying it needs to be read "more than ever"

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"After re-reading, I realize that, more than ever, this book should be put back in circulation. Significant parts are as relevant today as they were 65 tears [sic] ago," they said. "...Sorry to be so tardy. At age 86, I wanted to finally clear my conscience."

 

86-year-old returns George Orwell's "1984" to library 65 years late, saying it needs to be read "more than ever"
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"...I wanted to finally clear my conscience."

I've met several retirees that had the same mentality. Now that their lives settled down, they wanted to settle old debts before they passed.

 

"...I wanted to finally clear my conscience."

I've met several retirees that had the same mentality. Now that their lives settled down, they wanted to settle old debts before they passed.

At least they've kept a sense of right and wrong, which seems to be quite scarce nowadays...

 

Four. Thousand. Feet. ... how long did it take for the poor devil to hit the ground?

Man falls more than 4,000 feet from Grand Canyon skywalk to his death

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Four. Thousand. Feet. ... how long did it take for the poor devil to hit the ground?

Long enough so the others on the walk could get their cell phone cameras recording.

 

Long enough so the others on the walk could get their cell phone cameras recording.

One one thousand two one thousand three one thousand 4…………………………

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Long enough so the others on the walk could get their cell phone cameras recording.

Truth being told ... most likely I would've looked away ... I don't need memories like that to have an interesting life ...

 

t=√(2d/g) = ~27 seconds for d=4000'(converted to meters) i.e. Plenty of time to regret his decision to jump off... Going to hell in a hurry so I hope he enjoyed the ride.

 

t=√(2d/g) = ~27 seconds for d=4000'(converted to meters) i.e. Plenty of time to regret his decision to jump off... Going to hell in a hurry so I hope he enjoyed the ride.

If you take into account air resistance, I think it must have been significantly longer than that.

 

One small step ...

 

I just gave it the south gawga guesstimate ignoring such things as friction, impact with buzzards, and terminal velocity. No need to get picky, the details just slow you up and he was in a hurry to get it all over with anyway!

 

I just gave it the south gawga guesstimate ignoring such things as friction, impact with buzzards, and terminal velocity. No need to get picky, the details just slow you up and he was in a hurry to get it all over with anyway!

Just googled it ... I was too curious to let it go ...

 

There are lots of variables including air density which in turn varies with temp and other niceties such as frontal area, shape, and surface roughness. I had to deal with them calculating surface pressure on structures subjected to hurricane force constant and gust wind velocities to prevent knockdown or overturn when I had building and tanks to design and contract out for construction.

 

Real Human Bones Were Originally Used In Disneyland's Pirates Of The Caribbean Ride

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The limitations of fake skeletons at the time similarly drove the decision to use real ones in Disneyland’s pirate-themed boat ride. According to Atlas Obscura, former Disney producer Jason Surrell revealed in his book Pirates of the Caribbean: From the Magic Kingdom to the Movies that it was thought “the faux skeletons of the period” were “just too unconvincing”.

 

Swan song:

Swans In Slovakia Are Addicted To Drugs, Refuse To Leave Poppy Fields

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Ingesting the poppies induces a narcotic intoxication effect, rendering the swans unable to fly. Since they are tired, confused, and apathetic, the swans also become easy targets for predators.

 

No FWI(flying while intoxicated) for them, smart! I would be fun to see them doing some aerial acrobatics though...

 

Swan song:

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My grandfather grew up in a small town in Western Ukraine. He told me a story from his youth when he was tasked with shepherding his family's geese. Of course he had plenty of other things he wanted to do, so he would feed the geese poppy petals and they'd fall asleep freeing him up to do whatever.

He never did tell me what trouble he got into while the geese were asleep.

 

Swan song:

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Swans and humans.