A police dog holds a boot during a competition in Russia's southern city of Stavropol, September 20, 2006. A would-be thief proved himself lacking in key skills like reconnaissance and driving after he tried to pull a heist beside a police-dog training site and then got stuck in the snow trying to flee.
Call him the Dudley Do-Right of Wisconsin. Kewaskum Police Chief Dick Knoebel doesn't care - as long as his story of giving himself a $235 ticket for a traffic violation reminds people to take care when driving around school buses.
"Police officers do good things every day and that doesn't get reported," Knoebel said. "All you hear about in the news is when a police officer is in trouble." Maybe that's why his story sparked such a big reaction.
He wrote himself the ticket after he accidentally drove past a stopped school bus with its emergency lights flashing. He docked himself four points on his driving record and paid the fine the next day. It happened in September but never made the news until a few weeks ago, when the fine showed up in court records and was reported by the newspaper in nearby West Bend.
After that, the story went worldwide, bringing Knoebel more than 150 congratulatory e-mails from as far away as Thailand, New Zealand and Russia. "I tried to answer every e-mail," the chief said. "If they took the time to e-mail me, I at least thank them for their comments." Two people sent $15 to help cover the cost of the ticket, but he wouldn't accept the money.
Knoebel, a veteran of 34 years with the force and 20 years as chief, said the attention has been a distraction, but "if it's brought about the fact people are going to pay more attention to school buses, then it's worth it."
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During a bad ice storm years back, an Ohio State Trooper slid into me and just tapped my bumper while I was stopped off the road on the shoulder. No damage at all.
He radioed his supervisor and when he got there, the supervisor slid into the trooper that hit me.
They wrote each other "failure to stop within assured clear distance" tickets. Real pros.
A tour group of U.S. senior citizens fought off a group of muggers in Costa Rica, killing one of the assailants, police said Thursday. The tourists bus was held up by three men armed with a gun and knife in the Caribbean coastal town of Limon after the group arrived on a cruise ship Wednesday, said Limon police chief Luis Hernandez. Hernandez said a retired U.S. serviceman whom officials estimated was in his 70s put one of the attackers aged 20 in a headlock and broke his clavicle. Don't mess with Americans.
After the other two assailants fled, the tourists drove the injured man to the local Red Cross branch where he was declared dead. He's dead, Jim.
Authorities said they did not plan to file charges against the tourists, who left on their cruise ship after the incident. Hernandez declined to give their names or hometowns. They were in their right to defend themselves after being held up, he said. This guy would never make it in Britain.
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Holy shit! - that is one septuagenarian I wouldn't push in front of! (I don't do that anyhow, I added it for dramatic effect - and I certainly wouldn't do it to older people anyhow, I was brought up proper).
Darwin award perhaps?
And unfortunately, Jackal's comment is spot on :(
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Now if they'd just raise the enlistment age so more of these old warriors can get into it.
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The human spine is composed of three sets of seven vertabrae of varying diameter. Those of the neck are the smallest in diameter, It is thinnest and weakest at the top, thicker and more sturdy at the base.
The seven vertabrae of the neck end at the smallest of the set where it attaches to the base of the skull. In effect this is a sort of power plug on the wiring( nerves ) to the brain which form the delicate HOLLOW core of the spine.
When a man is "hanged by the neck until dead" this point where the spine connects to the base of the skull is "unplugged" No signals can then reach the organs of the central body ( the heart and the lungs) and the body abruptly ceases to function (death ).
The spine ,architecturally ,is in the center of the neck as a stack of , metaphorically speaking, seven hollow plastic spools one on top of the other with that same hollow center filled with delicate krispie Kreme gossamer nerves whose consistency is like warm cheese. The whole is wrapped by a saran wrap of flesh and muscles and that in turn is ensheathed in a skin tissue much like K-Mart naughahyde.
Breaking the neck of another man is realtively simple for a man who weighs approximately 180-200 pounds. Even a woman can do it if she has the stomach to just do it.
You hug the man you are going to kill, (a close and put your arms around him hug ), chest to chest, belly to belly, face to face.
Then you slip both arms under his armpits move your arms up his back and behind his shoulders. You move in quickly and reach up and through, to grip him across his head with both outspread hands across the face.
Now you push him backwards off balance so that he begins to fall, as he falls deliberately fall with him to control his fall.
Move quickly to have your own legs ( like sitting in his lap )around his waist at the moment of impact and use his own fall weight to grasp the head and across the face and YANK the head backwards and DOWN so his own fall weight separates the base of the skull from the spine.
There are a couple of variants on this manuever but the effect is the same, the spine is broken at the base of the brain. Its as easy as opening a jar of Peanut Butter.
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You hug the man you are going to kill, (a close and put your arms around him hug ), chest to chest, belly to belly, face to face.
Sounds gay... Just kidding.
Actually, I followed you right up until the part where you ride the guy down. Not sure where you are supposed to put his head as the both of you are falling. It sounds like you push his head backward so it strikes the ground first, but i'm not clear on that.
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It also sounds like you dislocate your shoulders when the guy hits the ground.
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Costa Rica's nice, but Limon's a pit. Usually the cruise ships dock there and you get on the tour bus and go someplace else. Wouldn't walk around to take in the local color...
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It also sounds like you dislocate your shoulders when the guy hits the ground.
Good point. The guys in the movies always make it look so easy. They just give it a little twist and no more bad guy then they can just pick up the gun that has never been reloaded and fire away until the credits roll.
I say that to insult the movies, not to insult 9. His explanation sounds infinitely more feasible than anything we see out of Hollywood. I'm no doctor, but what he describes seems like it would make for one helluvalotta force on a persons neck.
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yes, The clavicle is the collarbone. With a broken clavicle you can not marshall the muscles in the shoulder to either lift that arm or to leverage the shoulderblade on that side to resist the motion of the neck muscles or the arm. Usually once you have broken a man's clavicle hold onto that arm and use the excruciating pain to bring him to his knees and get him off his feet. Then begin kicking him in the head and face ( and dont turn loose of the now useless arm). Pain works in your favor and he is in a lot of that.
Oh, as the man in your embrace ( physical killing is rather intimate ) falls he will bend a bit at the waist to try and break his fall with either his butt or his shoulder. Just think about it a moment.
Timing doesnt have to be precise ,but time the yank of the head back and down for the moment of impact. The spine will snap, the plug is less than an inch across and there is nothing holding it in the skull except cartilage and muscles.
The muscles are disengaged by a surprised awareness of the fall process. The victim doesnt know what you are going to do, his focus of awareness is surprise and is on the fall.
He wont even realize in the two seconds it takes that his life is endangered. He will have one second of surprise, and a second second of focus on the fall. The third second will be the impact. Dont turn him loose, make sure the neck turns and keep turning it and feel where it goes.
Nice thought, "focus on the fall." As easy as breaking a nose, that's mostly cartilage too.
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My long-standing agreement with Mr. Wife is that I run and fetch help, leaving him to fight in peace. The trailing daughters have expanded that to leaving them to fight in peace. I think I'd better stick with that. I'll make a point of showing them this thread tonight -- by then I'll have stopped shaking.
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Oh, as the man in your embrace ( physical killing is rather intimate ) falls he will bend a bit at the waist to try and break his fall with either his butt or his shoulder. Just think about it a moment.
Now ya lost me. I would think if you wrapped him up with your legs just below his ars, it would be difficult for him to bend much at the waist. As for the shoulder I am thinking that as long as you kept his chest to yours, he wouldn't be able to turn enough to get his shoulder to land first.
You served up some potentially life saving self defense advise here and I thank you. However, I have come to the conclusion that I am too stupid to comprehend it and will be doomed if a need to use this advise ever does arise. Some people ya just can't help.
If we ever end up meeting each other at a bar, I would appreciate a heads up so I don't get myself hurt. Lol!
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As heartwarming as the (hearsay) I read a couple of years ago about some Texan girls visiting the Eiffel Tower at night, 2 men came up to harass them and they beat the crap out of them.
The guy who overheard them talking about it the next day posted it.
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Humans are relatively easy to kill if one knows what he is doing. If one doesn't, we can be notoriously hardy. Hitting someone with anything, a bullet, a knife, a rock, or a fist, in fatty tissues or muscular areas is virtually useless. Those areas are designed to take punishment. There are relatively few major blood vessels passing through these areas, and almost no major nerve junctions lie in them. Sure, it'll hurt and it'll bleed a little bit, but it's not life threatening.
Just hit someone in any area of the chest not directly over the heart and you'll see how well they can take the punch.
Absolute, one-shot kill areas are relatively few, but nerve plexes which can stun and debilitate are part and parcel of advanced, realistic martial arts training (and I'm not talking about the stupid shit you usually get by going to some neighborhood Tae Kwon Do or Karate class where their emphasis is on physical fitness rather than actual real self defense).
Pressure points, nereve plexes which can stun or debilitate, nerve junctures where you can cause someone an immense amount of pain, or actual points where you can strike and render a victim almost instantly unconscious or dead - that's what you need to focus on for self-defense.
In my experience, a good medical anatomy reference is about as good as any neighborhood martial arts class.
Don't strike for the stomach or the head. The head is hard and the stomach is soft and doesn't overlay any really vital areas (unless you're striking from the rear). Go for the throat, the knees, the elbows, the groin, the ears, the nose. Unless you're in an ideal position even an ankle rake is likely only to get you into deeper trouble.
It only takes about 8 lbs of pressure to dislocate a person's elbow and it doesn't even have to be applied all that well from above and behind.
The biggest, strongest man on the planet will collapse if you can strike him in the back, side, or front of his knee properly.
In any fight, in any confrontation that is likely to erupt into a fight, be prepared to strike to kill and end the fight quickly. The longer a fight goes on the more the chance your opponent will get a chance to render you hours de combat.
Use every advantage you possibly can. As Larry Niven's Kzinti say "You scream and you leap!"
Scream, strike hard, strike viciously, strike to kill. Give your opponent no chance to strike back.
CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - A would-be thief proved himself lacking in key skills like reconnaissance and driving after he tried to pull a heist beside a police-dog training site and then got stuck in the snow trying to flee.
Police in Edmonton, Alberta, said officers were training with a dog at a business late Tuesday when they heard an alarm sound from the building next door. When they went to investigate, a car smashed through a garage door and zoomed past an officer and his dog, Wizzard, Edmonton police spokeswoman Karen Carlson said. "He didn't get very far because he got stuck in a snow bank," Carlson said. The car turned out to be stolen.
The suspect tried to make a break for it on foot, but was quickly forced to give himself up when Wizzard caught up with him. "There was a marked police car parked outside and they were inside the building doing training, which is normal for us," Carlson said. "Then, sure enough, this goes on right next door to them."
Police recovered a cash box taken from the building. A 23-year-old male faces charges.
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Watch Detroit - a lousy city at best for the last couple decades, now with a strong Muslim population and proximity to extremists who might come in through Canada.
Prediction: we'll see more jihadi recruits from there as the MI economy predictably tanks.
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From 1980 through 2000 the unemployment rate in Michigan was typically 2 points less than the national rate. As of Dec 2006, the Michigan rate was about 7% and the national rate about 4.5%.
Granholm (her administration is part of the problem but by no means all of it) was reelected in Nov 2006.
I'm not familiar with national trends in cosmetic surgery from 2005 to 2006; the article gave the decline in Michigan operations but didn't compare them to a national figure.
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Me to Jackal (Farmington) - I would never live in S.E. Michigan again - maybe way up north after I retire and do the winters (after deer season of course) down in the Carolinas or GA.
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Michigan is going to go into a vicious cycle of economic dislocation leading to more unrest and politicians responding with more subsidization of unemployed youth. Michigan, really Metro Detroit) will start to look like Palestine with an elderly population of former UAW members on top. It's not just Granholm. Levin, Stabenow, Dingell, Conyers, Levin Jr.
SAN FRANCISCO For the first time since admitting to porking a sexual affair with a top aide's wife and beginning treatment for alcohol abuse, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom on Wednesday discussed his personal problems in a wide-ranging, candid interview with CBS Station KPIX-TV in San Francisco that he described as "liberating." "Thash righ', dammit! Liberatin'!"
"I'm trying to reconcile things, make amends," said the mayor, "but it's something that's been challenging." "I mean, I wuzh sooooo busted! Thish is Shan Franshishco, but even here there'zh limitsh. Kinda. Sorta. Not many, o' course..."
Earlier this month Newsom, 39, admitted to a sexual liaison in 2005 with Ruby Rippey-Tourk, the wife of his now-former campaign manager Alex Tourk. Newsom on Wednesday denied any knowledge or involvement in a $10,000 sick time payback to Rippey-Tourk when she left her city post as his appointments secretary. "I dunno. Wudn't me."
A few days after the sex scandal broke, the mayor announced he was entering counseling for alcohol use. "Thash righ'! 'Mgonna dry out."
"I am who I am, a lush imperfect and a work in progress," said Newsom when asked about his counseling sessions with Mimi Silbert, the founder and director of the famed Delancey Street Foundation in San Francisco. "I'm tryin' to nail Mimi, too, but she won' hol' still, damn her!"
"I don't need to drink wine, and I don't think it's helpful right now," Newsom said. "I need a slug of gin little bit more time to self-reflect on why it is that I made the choice I made a year and a half ago." "How'na hell did I get so busted?"
When asked if he was an alcoholic, Newsom replied, "I don't know if that's the case," although he acknowledged that drinking had "gotten in the way of my job performance." "Y'shee, shome people, they go to meetin's. Thash yer bashick alcoholic. Me, I don' go to meetin's. I'm a drunk."
He said that as mayor, "I've got to be ready. I've got to be focused. I gotta be clear." "Shometimes Everclear."
Newsom denied rumors that he has used cocaine or other illicit drugs, calling them "laughable" and "gratuitously erroneous." "An' that thing widda German shepherd? That never happened. There ain' no proof it did."
Delancey Street, founded in 1971, provides a residential program for hard-core addicts, including ex-convicts and prostitutes, although Newsom is receiving nightly outpatient treatment sessions that he said does not interfere with his city duties. In fact, the mayor described his job these days as a "therapeutic" help in his recovery efforts. Delancey Street does not rely on the 12-step philosophy of Alcoholics Anonymous, but rather it works to address the underlying reasons for excessive drinking. "Y'mean availability?"
"The wine consumption is pushed aside," explained the now-sober mayor, who said the treatment is helping him examine why he ever felt the need to guzzle direct from the bottle "drink to an extreme." Newsom said the recent "attention to my drinking ... has given me focus," but added he was trying to avoid the on-going media "obsession" with his personal problems. "Yeah. It don't bozher me, why'zh it bozher them? Riddle me dat!"
"The hardest part is not reading the papers, watching the news on TV," he explained, comparing the scope of media coverage of his personal foibles to that when the Iraq war began. Before taking office in 2004, Newsom founded a wine store, a string of highly successful restaurants and the PlumpJack Winery in the Napa Valley. He is running for a second term in November and dismissed speculation about what his political future might hold down the road. "I just want to do a better job in San Francisco (as mayor)," he said. "I care about going before the voters and making my case for re-election."
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I'll say it again. Watch out for Hostess Twinkies™.
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I only hope Fred didn't use up his allocation of snark in this one story; but if he did, it is most priceless!!! (bows down)
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Who posted that photo? The man in the illustration is obviously suffering from TF not drunken-beyond-redeptioness. Terminal Flatulence is not funny anymore.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A man sleeping in a trash receptacle was injured Thursday after being dumped into a trash truck and then compacted. The extent of the man's injuries is not clear, said Joe Vitale, battalion chief with the Kansas City Fire Department. Talk about getting trashed!
The incident happened early Thursday at a shopping center on U.S. 40, east of downtown Kansas City. As the waste-truck worker was driving away, he started the compacter. The driver heard screams coming from the front of truck, where he had dumped trash from the receptacle, Vitale said. Help! I'm being repressed!
Tom Coffman, spokesman with the waste company, Deffenbaugh Disposal Service, said the driver quickly stopped the compactor. "He jumped in and tried to dig the guy out, and found out he couldn't," Coffman said.
A file cabinet in the trash heap had pressed against the man's legs. The driver called 911 and firefighters arrived and rescued the unidentified man. It's amazing what some people throw away.
Coffman said the man was lifted over the top of the truck and then dropped 12 to 15 feet from the receptacle to the truck. The compactor has a pressure level of about 2,000 pounds per square inch.
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The compactor has a pressure level of about 2,000 pounds per square inch. I always wondered if we were really supposed to believe that McQueen and MacGraw's 'Getaway' characters could survive being compressed in that trash truck. This idiot was clearly fortunate.
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I used to make these things, the reporter used sloppy reporting, the HYDRULIC PRESSURE is 2000 lbsThe piston it pushes is typicaly 4 inch diameter so the actual push on the sliding part is about 8000 pounds But here's the part left out the sliding compactor is usualy 4 feet by 6 feet, so the total pressure is much less than 8000 lbs, multiply 4X6=800 lbs per square footSurvivable, especialy if the compactor is full of something soft, like uncrushed paper, or even better bubble wrap.
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Fancy that, a reporter using sloppy reporting! They'll be making news up next - waitaminute...
Thanks for the info RJ...
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the file cabinet that was against his legs doesn't sound too soft
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NEW YORK (AP) - Beavers grace New York City's official seal. But the industrious rodents have not been seen in the flesh here for as many as 200 years - until this week.
OK, the editors will be watching this thread real close, so behave.
Except for this editor, who's been trying all day long to think up the perfect smartassed, off-color remark and just can't...
"It had to happen because beaver populations are expanding, and their habitats are shrinking," said Dietland Muller-Schwarze, a beaver expert at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse. "We're probably going to see more of them in the future."
With a name like Dietland, this is as close as he's gonna get to, well, you know.....
Beavers gnawed out a prominent place in the city's early days as a European settlement, attracting fur traders to a nascent Manhattan. The animal appears in the city seal to symbolize a Dutch trading company that factored in the city's colonial beginnings, according to the city's Web site. But amid heavy trapping, beavers disappeared from the city in the early 1800s, according to the city Parks & Recreation Department.
The beaver that has made its way to the Bronx appears to be a male, several feet (a meter) long and two or three years old, said Patrick Thomas, the mammals curator at the nearby Bronx Zoo. Biologists have nicknamed the animal "Jose," as a tribute to U.S. Rep. Jose Serrano's work to revive the river. The Bronx Democrat lined up federal money for a cleanup.
One rodent named after a bigger one. How fitting
"But I don't know to what extent I imagined things living in it again," he said.
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Oh, please.
Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford spotted more than their share from the dugout at Yankee Stadium back in the 50's and 60's. It's all in my book.
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I remember down in Alabama, when a beaver dammed a firebreak creek, causing it to flood. These two city boy NCOs decided to go into the wood line and chase that little beaver away.
A few minutes later they came high stepping and screaming out of the forest, yelling that they were being chased by a bear.
Nope, but I don't blame them for the mistake. That was a BIG buck beaver. And he was pissed.
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But what'll happen when the beaver builds a dam and floods a bunch of choice property? I have a friend who lost 1/2 his back yard to one and he couldn't do a dam thing about it due to environmental laws.
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Yup, we've got lots of beavers in Alabama, my home state, and Tennessee, my adopted state. I've certainly taken my share of beaver pelts over the years. We've even got what one mught call Eager Beavers. All kidding aside, I once saw one drown a coon dog in Alabama.
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Dietland Muller-Schwarze, a beaver expert at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse
so, I'm not the only one claiming to be a beaver expert in college.... and my name was sure as hell better that Dietland Hyphen-Hyphen
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#9: But what'll happen when the beaver builds a dam and floods a bunch of choice property? I have a friend who lost 1/2 his back yard to one and he couldn't do a dam thing about it due to environmental laws.
Yes he can, it's called three ess, shoot, shovel and shut(up).
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Oh - I read the headline as "spotted beaver".
I avoid them.
I know we've been warned but. . . .
Doesn't anyone (com where are you?) have the cartoon of a woman holding said rodent in the kitchen sink shaving it and saying "I don't understand why he asked me to do this."
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Can't be - I've seen couple of Beaver + Pairs in NYC in early 1990's. Maybe ala FUTURAMA, they're living in the ruins of old New York, i.e. the Sewers???
Nikita Khrushchev, the grandson and namesake of the late Soviet leader, died Thursday, his aunt said. He was 47.
Khrushchev had been hospitalized after suffering a stroke Sunday, Rada Khrushcheva told The Associated Press.
Khrushchev - one of six grandchildren of the Soviet leader - had worked as a journalist at the liberal weekly newspaper Moskovskiye Novosti from 1991 until his contract expired in December.
The RIA-Novosti news agency said that, since leaving Moskovskiye Novosti, he had worked for a newspaper connected with the Union State - a proposed, on-again, off-again union between Russia and Belarus.
Khrushchev had long worked to help his father, Sergei, gather material for his books in Russian archives and other institutions. Sergei - a former missile engineer turned writer and the Soviet leader's only remaining son - emigrated to the United States in the 1990s and now is a senior fellow in international studies at Brown University.
In a 1999 newspaper column, he complained that once his father had applied for U.S. citizenship, the young Khrushchev found that doors previously open to him were shut in his face.
Khrushchev, who lived with his mother, Galina, was not married and did not have any children, his aunt said.
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The life expectancy of males in Russia is shocking - many third world agricultural nations have better indicators.
Must be all the vodka and unfiltered cigarettes...
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Even drinking the water is a hazzard in the ole USSR.
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Man Compacted in Trash Truck Gets Hurt
