Freak Accident
Noun
freak accident (plural freak accidents)
- An incident, especially one that is harmful, occurring under highly unusual and unlikely circumstances.
The First Freak Accident Friday Post 07/21/2017
First off, sorry for leaving such a sad and teary post for so long. I have since been brought out of my doldrums by my browsing of the morning news and was blessed with a new idea. A new line of posts. I ran across so many freak accidents within the hour that I decided to start cataloging them. Now every Friday I will post the newest of my discovered freak accidents, and as always please remember… Be careful out there loves…
There are times when people argue. Times when they fight. There are those moments when other random people such as neighbors or friends become involved in those fights. Sometimes it is of their own doing, sometimes it is completely involuntary. It was definitely involuntary in this gentleman’s case and I’m sure he wished he never moved in next door to these arguing lovebirds.
When it comes to freak accidents, fire is a common culprit. Things like lightening, electrical fires, sparks flying into dry wood… accidents. What happens though when a taser causes a man to be set on fire? In a display that only the police could truly admire in it’s freakishness.
Some people never know where they are standing in life. Even when they are looking around and paying attention, their final destination may come looming up at them from right under their feet. Whether it is the Earth or the Sea, sometimes things that are freakishly terrifying, wind up with a freakishly miraculous ending…
I hope you have enjoyed these four stories brought to you on a late Friday evening… I leave you with this thought: Be grateful out there, life is so fleeting. Live, Love and Try to find some small nice thing in everything. Our days are numbered and short. Until next Friday my friends…
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07/28/2017
Happy Friday All! Or… Maybe Not… This week was not too bad though. Only one current freak accident. Very good news and it encouraged me to look up some from the past, of which there are many. One of them in particular comes to you today from the archives of Old Jacksonville himself and if you ever think that simply standing on the roof of a building is harmless… Read this testimony and think again.
Quoted story from John W. Cowart’s book Heroes All – A History of Firefighting in Jacksonville, Fl. John W. Cowart. Bluefish Books 2008.
In the cold night of December 12, 1941, close to midnight, Pvt. O.Conner guarded the bridge approach from the roof of the Educator Biscuit Co. The Florida Times-Union newspaper reported: From out of the sky, without warning, an automobile fell on top of Pvt. O’Conner. No wailing siren. No blazing searchlight. No ack-ack of protecting artillery. No Zeros, no dive-bombers… Just, KA-BAM! All of a sudden Pvt. O.C. O’Conner was under a car. The good news was that he suffered only a broken ankle. Firemen from Station Five on Riverside Avenue responded as did military and police units. When all was sorted out, it was determined that Pvt. O’Conner’s post on the roof of the biscuit company overlooked the vital railroad tracks. His post lay 13 feet below the roadway of the viaduct and in a straight line from the bridge roadway. A drunk driver, an insurance salesman from Marietta, Ga., drove straight off through the T, crashed through fence and guardrail, sailed through the air and landed on all four wheels right on top of the unsuspecting guard. The belligerent drunk fought first responders but was overwhelmed and jailed on a number of charges. At dawn, military and civil authorities increased security about vital targets such as Jacksonville’s hospitals, power plants, schools, bridges, shipyards and railroads. A fresh guard was stationed atop the Educator Biscuit Company. Such precautions proved necessary.
pg. 93 Heroes All – A History of Firefighting in Jacksonville, Fl. John W. Cowart. Bluefish Books 2008.
Pretty wild. That soldier had a good story to tell after that huh?
It does seem Jacksonville, Florida and Florida in general will always produce some good and freakishly interesting stories. If I’m ever at a loss I will be sure to tap this source again lol! Here’s another, more recent freak accident from the city of Jacksonville. Warning – This is some graphic content. But first I ask you this: Why on Earth would anyone eat anything laying out on a table at a strip club? WHY??? Do you know where it’s been? What’s been on it? In it? Sometimes people just don’t learn until it’s too late… Then you may wish you had brought an umbrella to shield you from the shit storm…
Man that is nasty… So we will move on to cleaner things…
Like clean justice, revenge, kismet or whatever you may want to call what happened to the lady in this next story. Of course it was a freak accident but what made it incredibly uncanny is that it almost seemed as if the tree had asserted some sort of revenge on the human. Feast your eyes on this very strange story of a coconut palm’s revenge that occurred this week in Mumbai India.
Coconuts. Cool, white, milky fresh coconuts… As opposed of course to some fiery, hot, dry and powdery spice like cinnamon. When it comes to food we humans like to do many things with it and not all of those things involve actually eating it. This young Danish man was having quite a bit of fun playing with his food. Until it spontaneously combusted all over him that is. Yes, according to the history of the ancient tradition an event like this had never happened before and they still are not quite sure what caused it. Check out this article and video of this freak accident which happened in Denmark and maybe you can discover what set this young man’s heart afire…
Ima wrap it up with that one y’all. Here’s to a wonderful, spontaneously fiery, coconut bangin’, buffet eatin’ and flying cars kinda week! Until next time… Be Safe Out There.
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08/04/2017
So here we are… Another Friday.
Another Friday is almost over and those of us who should be; should be thankful… grateful even, that our Fridays have not been plagued with the kind of freakish accidents that some people’s are…
Like this poor woman who made the news this week. Her mysterious situation is something to ponder on and if you are walking down a long, deserted and quite beach… just remember that the sands are shifting ones…
The beaches do seem to be dangerous places these last few days. One finds oneself keeping their eyes on the ground below them and the sky above… This was an unfortunate accident like all others and again, one is thankful not only for those who are with us, but those strangers who may be holding our hand when we pass on…
There were a few classic lightning strikes as well and be assured I will always make room on the page for those. One can never predict where the lightning will strike making it a constant freak accident just waiting to happen. Here in Florida one cannot ever be too careful. It is the lightning capital of the United States you know. Unfortunately for this gentleman though, sometimes being careful just isn’t enough… I mean, really. What can you do anyway?
Speaking of my fine home state… I leave you all with one freakish accident from a few months ago that happened right here in this very city. Of course it could be and probably will be one of many as Jax is a very strange place. But it was the street sweeper going by this early morning that reminded me what day it was…. Friday.
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08/11/2017
Freak Accident Fridays – Warning! May Contain Graphic Content
Here we are again… 10:30 AM Eastern Time… Friday morning. Last Friday I felt I posted just one second too early. As soon as I closed the page, I was relaxing with the Daily Mail and came across the mother of all freak accidents. It was okay though, rather than amend the page, I chose to make the story El Numero Uno for today…
If you ever are driving through a bad thunderstorm it is always good to follow a few short and simple rules. One is to make sure that you are paying attention. Two is usually to drive slowly and use caution. Three would be most definitely to not video or text in the midst of the storm.
Rules are good but of course they are only guidance. Human made and have nothing to do with the forces of nature. Forces of nature which will time and time again show us who is really boss and leave us suspended in the air, in our cars, in the middle of a busy road for no good reasons we may ever know.
Speaking of forces of nature. Two weeks ago I brought you a story of a yoga instructor on the losing end of a beef with a Palm tree. Well the trees were at it again last week and I tell you people… These are revenge acts against humanity as a whole. Be wary of the trees you think are the gentle giants that you can strap your hammocks to… Your day may not be spent swaying in the cool shade of this pillar from the Earth, but laying in the freezing emergency room of the nearest hospital… Beware the Trees Humans.
It’s not only the trees either. Here in Florida we are used to the Earth sucking us down into it at the whim of Mother Nature. Sinkholes are all too common, freakish in their discrimination, and land a place right under lightening in the blog. Especially if they occur in places where they are not common at all. Such as New York. A city covered in concrete where a bit of grass is elusive at best. Concrete that is sturdy and firm. Apparently it is as firm as the nearest sand dune here in FLA according to this article. Of course, these things don’t happen every day…
Something else that doesn’t happen every day is walking down a beach and finding a particularly large and beautiful piece of natural amber. But it could happen… probably in a forest somewhere, but someone could have dropped it. You never know. What you really could never know (unless you were there) is what a piece of phosphorous left over from WWII will look like. But what I know now, is that if you pick up a wet piece of amber on the beach, let it dry off first before you stick it in your pocket… Be safe out there my friends.
