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Homes Flattened In Salford Gas Explosion
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Not one fatality... amazing really
Lucky B*stard
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Miracle escape after toddler falls seven storeys from apartment block, bounces off café awning and is CAUGHT by passerby
3rd November 2010[/align]
An 18-month-old boy had a miraculous escape when he fell from a seventh-floor apartment and survived without so much as a scratch. The toddler was playing by a window with an older sibling in the Paris block before he tumbled. Luckily his fallen was broken by a cafe awning which bounced him into the arms of a passerby who leapt forward to catch him. The off-duty doctor quickly checked over the youngster and found no injuries although the baby was taken to hospital for tests. His parents, who were not in the apartment at the time, were last night still in police custody.
The boy's fortunes were even more miraculous than it first appeared. According to reports, the cafe, in the north-eastern part of the city, had been closed for the All Saints bank holiday on Monday, an occasion that would usually see the awning closed. However there was a jam in the mechanism which meant it had been left out from the day before.
A man living in a building opposite from the apartment told France Info he saw the toddler playing by the window with a girl a few years older. The doctor who caught the boy, named by French press as Philippe Benseniot, was walking by with his wife and son when the boy spotted him falling. He said: 'I was there at the right time. My son happened to look up and he saw that a little boy was on the balcony and had somehow got through the railing and was playing on the very edge of a vertical drop into the street. I just had the time to get across the street and place myself. I said to myself: "whatever happens, I mustn't miss him". 'He didn't have a scratch. He cried for a few moments and then calmed down and fell asleep.'
Neighbours on the seventh floor then prevented the little boy's sister from falling after him after speaking with her through the locked front door. 'I said, "Where is your brother?" and she said: "He's fallen",' said witness Samia Benmoussa. 'I panicked until I discovered what had happened. It was a real miracle.'
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Miracle escape after toddler falls seven storeys from apartment block, bounces off café awning and is CAUGHT by passerby
3rd November 2010[/align]
An 18-month-old boy had a miraculous escape when he fell from a seventh-floor apartment and survived without so much as a scratch. The toddler was playing by a window with an older sibling in the Paris block before he tumbled. Luckily his fallen was broken by a cafe awning which bounced him into the arms of a passerby who leapt forward to catch him. The off-duty doctor quickly checked over the youngster and found no injuries although the baby was taken to hospital for tests. His parents, who were not in the apartment at the time, were last night still in police custody.
The boy's fortunes were even more miraculous than it first appeared. According to reports, the cafe, in the north-eastern part of the city, had been closed for the All Saints bank holiday on Monday, an occasion that would usually see the awning closed. However there was a jam in the mechanism which meant it had been left out from the day before.
A man living in a building opposite from the apartment told France Info he saw the toddler playing by the window with a girl a few years older. The doctor who caught the boy, named by French press as Philippe Benseniot, was walking by with his wife and son when the boy spotted him falling. He said: 'I was there at the right time. My son happened to look up and he saw that a little boy was on the balcony and had somehow got through the railing and was playing on the very edge of a vertical drop into the street. I just had the time to get across the street and place myself. I said to myself: "whatever happens, I mustn't miss him". 'He didn't have a scratch. He cried for a few moments and then calmed down and fell asleep.'
Neighbours on the seventh floor then prevented the little boy's sister from falling after him after speaking with her through the locked front door. 'I said, "Where is your brother?" and she said: "He's fallen",' said witness Samia Benmoussa. 'I panicked until I discovered what had happened. It was a real miracle.'
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yowser!
yowser!
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Family covered in 25 litres of white paint after crashing car
Four family members had a lucky escape after crashing into another car - but they did end up being smothered in almost 25 litres of white emulsion paint.[/align]
The two adults and two children were driving through KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa with a giant 25litre tub of paint in the back when the smash happened, sending the emulsion everywhere. It is believed that the tub, which had been placed on the back seat, was catapulted forward during the crash, covering the inside of the car and its occupants.
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The shocked family emerges from the crash (Picture: SWNS) The shocked family emerges from the crash (Picture: SWNS)[/align]
Despite the smash, the two adults and two children were able to clamber out of their newly-repainted car, looking at each other in shock. As they stood by the side of the road, several pedestrians and drivers stopped to stare at the family, causing a large traffic jam build up behind them. Some passers-by offered to help out - although unless they happened to have a handy 25litre tub of white spirit with them, there probably wasn't much they could do.
The family and the driver of the other car - which, fortunately, was already painted white - were not hurt. However, it is thought that their blue Fiat car, which had its bonnet crumpled by the crash, is likely to be a white off.
The family were said to be overcome with emulsion.
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Family covered in 25 litres of white paint after crashing car
Four family members had a lucky escape after crashing into another car - but they did end up being smothered in almost 25 litres of white emulsion paint.[/align]
The two adults and two children were driving through KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa with a giant 25litre tub of paint in the back when the smash happened, sending the emulsion everywhere. It is believed that the tub, which had been placed on the back seat, was catapulted forward during the crash, covering the inside of the car and its occupants.
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The shocked family emerges from the crash (Picture: SWNS) The shocked family emerges from the crash (Picture: SWNS)[/align]
Despite the smash, the two adults and two children were able to clamber out of their newly-repainted car, looking at each other in shock. As they stood by the side of the road, several pedestrians and drivers stopped to stare at the family, causing a large traffic jam build up behind them. Some passers-by offered to help out - although unless they happened to have a handy 25litre tub of white spirit with them, there probably wasn't much they could do.
The family and the driver of the other car - which, fortunately, was already painted white - were not hurt. However, it is thought that their blue Fiat car, which had its bonnet crumpled by the crash, is likely to be a white off.
The family were said to be overcome with emulsion.
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Cuts Protester Dives Off Romanian Parliament Balcony
Philip Thomas,
December 23, 2010[/align]
An engineer has made a dramatic protest against austerity measures in Romania - by leaping head-first from a balcony at the nation's parliament. Adrian Sobaru dived from a seven-metre (23ft) balcony into the debating chamber ahead of a no-confidence vote in the government. He suffered fractures to his face but was not seriously injured. Although politicians were sitting and standing underneath the balcony when he jumped, no one else was hurt.
Romanian prime minister Emil Boc - who had just greeted politicians ahead of the no-confidence debate - looked startled after Mr Sobaru's headlong dive and rushed over to him. Mr Sobaru was wearing a T-shirt carrying the slogan: "You've pierced us. You've killed our children's future. Freedom." The first phrase appeared to be a reference to a comment by President Traian Basescu upon winning the 2009 election - "I've pierced them", a line from a Romanian movie.
Mr Sobaru - who was identified by the country's television station as one of its engineers - was carried out of the chamber on a stretcher shouting "freedom". Authorities said he would undergo surgery and psychological counselling. The parliamentary session was postponed.
Romania recently slashed public sector wages by a quarter as part of its efforts to climb out of recession. It also raised sales taxes from 19% to 24%. Many Romanians are angered by government cuts. Mr Boc called the incident "a tragedy that shocked me" and appealed for calm "in these tough times".
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Apparently he did this because he has a child with autism who has had all benefits stopped because of government cuts. I'm not sure how trying to kill himself was going to help... but I'm glad he survived, and with hardly any serious injury!
Cuts Protester Dives Off Romanian Parliament Balcony
Philip Thomas,
December 23, 2010[/align]
An engineer has made a dramatic protest against austerity measures in Romania - by leaping head-first from a balcony at the nation's parliament. Adrian Sobaru dived from a seven-metre (23ft) balcony into the debating chamber ahead of a no-confidence vote in the government. He suffered fractures to his face but was not seriously injured. Although politicians were sitting and standing underneath the balcony when he jumped, no one else was hurt.
Romanian prime minister Emil Boc - who had just greeted politicians ahead of the no-confidence debate - looked startled after Mr Sobaru's headlong dive and rushed over to him. Mr Sobaru was wearing a T-shirt carrying the slogan: "You've pierced us. You've killed our children's future. Freedom." The first phrase appeared to be a reference to a comment by President Traian Basescu upon winning the 2009 election - "I've pierced them", a line from a Romanian movie.
Mr Sobaru - who was identified by the country's television station as one of its engineers - was carried out of the chamber on a stretcher shouting "freedom". Authorities said he would undergo surgery and psychological counselling. The parliamentary session was postponed.
Romania recently slashed public sector wages by a quarter as part of its efforts to climb out of recession. It also raised sales taxes from 19% to 24%. Many Romanians are angered by government cuts. Mr Boc called the incident "a tragedy that shocked me" and appealed for calm "in these tough times".
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Apparently he did this because he has a child with autism who has had all benefits stopped because of government cuts. I'm not sure how trying to kill himself was going to help... but I'm glad he survived, and with hardly any serious injury!
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Man shot in head sneezes out bullet
Gunshot victim Darco Sangermano stunned doctors by sneezing out a bullet that had hit him in the head.[/align]
Mr Sangermano, 28, who is expected to make a full recovery, then said he felt no pain other than a strong headache. ‘This was a very strange case and the first of its kind I am aware of,’ said Prof Sid Berrone, who carried out a ‘tidy-up operation’ on Mr Sangermano before sending him home. ‘He was a very lucky man – he could have been easily killed.’
Mr Sangermano was hit by the stray bullet as revellers fired into the air on New Year’s Eve. The .22-calibre round entered the right side of his head, passed behind his eye, hit a bone in his nose and finally lodged in his nostril, before being sneezed out in hospital. The incident happened in Naples, Italy, where two other people were hit and one was killed in similar incidents.
Mr Sangermano’s girlfriend, of Turin, who asked not to be named, said: ‘We were walking when all of a sudden there were some bangs and he said he felt a pain to his head – he was covered in blood.’
Man shot in head sneezes out bullet
Gunshot victim Darco Sangermano stunned doctors by sneezing out a bullet that had hit him in the head.[/align]
Mr Sangermano, 28, who is expected to make a full recovery, then said he felt no pain other than a strong headache. ‘This was a very strange case and the first of its kind I am aware of,’ said Prof Sid Berrone, who carried out a ‘tidy-up operation’ on Mr Sangermano before sending him home. ‘He was a very lucky man – he could have been easily killed.’
Mr Sangermano was hit by the stray bullet as revellers fired into the air on New Year’s Eve. The .22-calibre round entered the right side of his head, passed behind his eye, hit a bone in his nose and finally lodged in his nostril, before being sneezed out in hospital. The incident happened in Naples, Italy, where two other people were hit and one was killed in similar incidents.
Mr Sangermano’s girlfriend, of Turin, who asked not to be named, said: ‘We were walking when all of a sudden there were some bangs and he said he felt a pain to his head – he was covered in blood.’
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Factory worker survives being dragged through five-inch gap in machinery that broke his back, pelvis, arm, hips and ribs
24 March 2011[/align]
A factory worker was dragged through a five-inch gap in a steel processing machine - and lived to tell the tale. As father-of-one Matthew Lowe went through the machine, his back was broken in two places, his pelvis was shattered, both hips and several ribs were fractured and his stomach and bowel were ruptured. The only sound Matthew heard as his body was torn apart was his right arm snapping.
He was so badly hurt in the accident that his partner was told to 'expect the worst' when she arrived at the hospital where he was taken. But two years after the near-death experience, Matthew's only visible sign of injury is a weakened right arm. Yesterday, Matthew, from Birdwell, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, said: 'I still don't know how I didn't die. As the machine dragged me through I just relaxed because I knew I couldn't do anything and I thought that was the end for me.'
Astonishingly, the machine dragged him all the way through, before depositing him on the floor with his clothes in tatters.
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I'm sure he didn't feel too lucky at the time, but that's some story...
Factory worker survives being dragged through five-inch gap in machinery that broke his back, pelvis, arm, hips and ribs
24 March 2011[/align]
A factory worker was dragged through a five-inch gap in a steel processing machine - and lived to tell the tale. As father-of-one Matthew Lowe went through the machine, his back was broken in two places, his pelvis was shattered, both hips and several ribs were fractured and his stomach and bowel were ruptured. The only sound Matthew heard as his body was torn apart was his right arm snapping.
He was so badly hurt in the accident that his partner was told to 'expect the worst' when she arrived at the hospital where he was taken. But two years after the near-death experience, Matthew's only visible sign of injury is a weakened right arm. Yesterday, Matthew, from Birdwell, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, said: 'I still don't know how I didn't die. As the machine dragged me through I just relaxed because I knew I couldn't do anything and I thought that was the end for me.'
Astonishingly, the machine dragged him all the way through, before depositing him on the floor with his clothes in tatters.
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I'm sure he didn't feel too lucky at the time, but that's some story...
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Spanish quake: TV reporter's near miss
A Spanish reporter has a lucky escape when a large piece of masonry falls from the church near where he is standing. [/align]
Spanish quake: TV reporter's near miss
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Allan McNish - Le Mans 2011[/align]
He wasn't seriously injured... check the photographer guy legging it!
Allan McNish - Le Mans 2011[/align]
He wasn't seriously injured... check the photographer guy legging it!
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Deep Sleep: Hole Nearly Swallows Gran's Bed
July 22, 2011
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A grandmother in Guatemala City has had a lucky escape after a huge sinkhole suddenly opened up under her bed as she slept. Inocenta Hernandez woke up on July 18 to discover she was lying just inches above a 12m (40ft) deep sinkhole.
Mrs Hernandez was startled by a large booming sound which she thought was a gas explosion outside. The sound was actually the earth under her bed imploding to create a deep and almost perfectly circular hole. If the pit had been a few metres larger it may have swallowed the pensioner as she slept.
The 65-year-old said: "My son was crying because you never expect something like that in the bedroom. When they raised the bed and I stood by this big hole my son then said that we have to call the firefighters because they need to come. Thanks to God and the holy Mary that nothing bad happened, it was an accident."
In the weeks before the pit appeared neighbours had reported hearing strange sounds coming from the earth and now fear further implosions. Guatemala's national disaster relief agency have come to Mrs Hernandez's home to investigate the sinkhole and determine if there are any risks to residents in the area.
Investigator David De Leon said: "The whole city rests on volcanic material which means that some areas are not stable." Sinkholes, formed by the natural process of erosion, can be gradual but are often sudden. Guatemala City is especially prone to them.
Deep Sleep: Hole Nearly Swallows Gran's Bed
July 22, 2011
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A grandmother in Guatemala City has had a lucky escape after a huge sinkhole suddenly opened up under her bed as she slept. Inocenta Hernandez woke up on July 18 to discover she was lying just inches above a 12m (40ft) deep sinkhole.
Mrs Hernandez was startled by a large booming sound which she thought was a gas explosion outside. The sound was actually the earth under her bed imploding to create a deep and almost perfectly circular hole. If the pit had been a few metres larger it may have swallowed the pensioner as she slept.
The 65-year-old said: "My son was crying because you never expect something like that in the bedroom. When they raised the bed and I stood by this big hole my son then said that we have to call the firefighters because they need to come. Thanks to God and the holy Mary that nothing bad happened, it was an accident."
In the weeks before the pit appeared neighbours had reported hearing strange sounds coming from the earth and now fear further implosions. Guatemala's national disaster relief agency have come to Mrs Hernandez's home to investigate the sinkhole and determine if there are any risks to residents in the area.
Investigator David De Leon said: "The whole city rests on volcanic material which means that some areas are not stable." Sinkholes, formed by the natural process of erosion, can be gradual but are often sudden. Guatemala City is especially prone to them.