Yesterday in the small New South Wales town of Moonbi near Tamworth in the states North, a 76 year old gent found himself trapped by the legs after rolling a forklift on his property. After assessing the situation, police and paramedics were forced to call in a trauma surgeon who had no option but to amputate both of the old man's legs, at the scene of the accident, to free him. He was then rushed to the Tamworth Base Hospital for emergency surgery. Sadly, the gentleman failed to survive the ordeal.
Reminds of a story dating back a few years now. It happened at the University Cricket Ground. The groundsman was working alone and somehow managed to get trapped under the heavy roller. A heavy roller weighs several tons, moves almost imperceptibly slowly and would have taken a very long time to cross him. I have always hoped that the pain caused him to pass out very early during the ordeal.
Stick, I thought I remembered a stories about people being run over by rollers. I copied the piece below. Talk about luck. AN engineer was run over by a steamroller yesterday - and lived. Workmates believe the 26-year-old survived because he was pushed into sand and gravel when flattened from head to toe. He was last night seriously ill in intensive care after the four-ton vehicle crushed one side of his body. A police spokesman said: "He almost certainly survived because there was some give in the surface under him." The victim is believed to have turned his back on the roller to talk to a colleague when the accident happened near Heathrow Airport, London. He was a site engineer in a gang working for Laing resurfacing a road for the British Airports Authority. His parents rushed from their Lincoln home to his bedside at the Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel. The bachelor, who has not been named, was taken there by air ambulance. "He suffered head and lung injuries but it's amazing he is alive because he was run over from head to foot", said an ambulance spokesman. "We do not know exactly what happened, but it seems the steamroller reversed and somehow this man was in the way." A Laing spokeswoman said: "We're all very shocked and are trying to establish why it happened." WORKMAN David Hatch, 33, survived being run over by a 10-ton steamroller three years ago in Chichester, West Sussex. He escaped serious injury when his legs sank into a newly-laid surface.
I've got to the stage where I am actually considering stopping completely with the news (be it on TV, online or wherever). There is just too much negativity in all of it, media sources seemingly intent on outdoing each other in terms of reporting bad news. That's why it is so important to have topless girls on page 3
Agreed Oddy. I stopped watching/reading news long ago. Sometimes I pick up some because it's on and I don't have the remote. If I'm in the lounge at the Ferry Port having a hot chocolate and carrot cake there is a selection of newspapers to read. I used to pick up the Sun and turn to page 3 before selecting a proper newspaper to look at the sport and/or Financials. That's one less to look at then.
