(AP,
Cairo, Egypt)
Six people drowned Monday while trying to rescue a chicken
that had fallen into a well in southern Egypt. An 18-year-old
farmer was the first to descend into the 60-foot well. He
drowned, apparently after an undercurrent in the water pulled
him down, police said. His sister and two brothers, none of
whom could swim well, went in one by one to help him, but also
drowned. Two elderly farmers then came to help, but they
apparently were pulled by the same undercurrent. The bodies of
the six were later pulled out of the well in the village of
Nazlat Imara, 240 miles south of Cairo. The chicken was also
pulled out. It survived.
(Bloomburg
News Service)
A terrible diet and room with no ventilation are being blamed
for the death of a man who was killed by his own gas. There
was no mark on his body but autopsy showed large amounts of
methane gas in his system. His diet had consisted primarily of
beans and cabbage (and a couple of other things). It was just
the right combination of foods. It appears that the man died
in his sleep from breathing from the poisonous cloud that was
hanging over his bed. Had he been outside or had his windows
been opened, it wouldn't have been fatal. But the man was shut
up in his near airtight bedroom. He was "...a big man
with a huge capacity for creating [this deadly gas]."
Three of the rescuers got sick and one was hospitalized.
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(AP,
Mammoth Lakes)
A San Anselmo man died yesterday when he hit a lift tower at
the Mammoth Mountain ski area while riding down the slope on a
foam pad, authorities said. Matthew David Hubal, 22, was
pronounced dead at Centinela Mammoth Hospital. The accident
occurred about 3 a.m., the Mono County Sheriff's Department
said. Hubal and his friends apparently had hiked a ski run
called Stump Alley and undid some yellow foam protectors from
the lift towers, said Lieutenant Mike Donnelly of the Mammoth
Lakes Police Department. The pads are used to protect skiers
who might hit the towers. The group apparently used the pads
to slide down the ski slope and Hubal crashed into a tower. It
was not clear if the tower he hit was one with its pad
removed. "With the cold temperatures, the snow was
probably pretty
(Associated
Press, Kincaid, W. VA)
Blasting Cap Explodes in Man's Mouth at Party. A man at a
party popped a blasting cap into his mouth and bit down,
triggering an explosion that blew off his lips, teeth and
tongue, state police said Wednesday. Jerry Stromyer, 24, of
Kincaid, bit the blasting cap as a prank during a party late
Tuesday night, said Cpl. M.D. Payne. "Another man had it
in an aquarium, hooked to a battery, and was trying to explode
it," Payne said. "It wouldn't go off and this guy
said, 'I'll show you how to set it off.' I just can't imagine
anyone doing something like that," Payne said. |
