Knormal posted:

The New York Times article has this picture of some of the bystanders, that one dude on the right just doesn't' give a gently caress about no assassinations.

quote:

Political violence in Turkey became a challenging problem in late 1970s.[2] The violence was even described as a "low-level war".[3] The death squads of Turkish right-wing ultra-nationalist groups against left-wing opposition inflicted some 5,000 casualties. The wave of violence dimmed after the 1980 Turkish coup d'état.

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Unprecedented political violence had erupted in Turkey in the late 1970s. The overall death toll of the 1970s is estimated at 5,000, with nearly ten assassinations per day.[3] Most were members of left-wing and right-wing political organizations, then engaged in bitter fighting. The ultra-nationalist Grey Wolves, youth organisation of the MHP, claimed they were supporting the security forces.[4] According to the British Searchlight magazine, in 1978 there were 3,319 fascist attacks, in which 831 were killed and 3,121 wounded.[5] In the central trial against the left-wing organization Devrimci Yol (Revolutionary Path) at Ankara Military Court the defendants listed 5,388 political killings before the military coup. Among the victims were 1,296 right-wingers and 2,109 left-wingers. The others could not clearly be related.[6] The 1978 Bahçelievler Massacre, the 1977 Taksim Square massacre with 35 victims and the 1978 Kahramanmaraş Massacre with over 100 victims are some notable incidents. Martial law was announced following the Kahramanmaraş Massacre in 14 of (then) 67 provinces in December 1978. At the time of the coup martial law had been extended to 20 provinces.

Knormal posted:

The New York Times article has this picture of some of the bystanders, that one dude on the right just doesn't' give a gently caress about no assassinations.

Mr. Flunchy posted:

Poke around in this this ruined building in Murmansk, Russia and you might find this mysterious hatch.



Crack that open and you'd be standing above the deepest man-made hole ever created, sinking down to 12,226 metres (40,112 ft). Kind of crazy that it's just a rusted, unlabelled welded up hatch in the middle of nowhere

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Superdeep_Borehole

TapTheForwardAssist posted:

Brittannee Drexel disappeared from a resort in South Carolina over Spring Break in 2009, basically a by-the-books Pretty Missing White Girl, and still no trace of her.

FBI says a guy they have in on another charge claims he has the whole story on what happened to her, but it's unclear if it's true or a ruse to curry favor. But in whatever case, it's reaaaaaally not warm and fuzzy. Per their informant, she was kidnapped, held prisoner at a stash house for multiple days for gang rape, then shot and fed to alligators: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/brittanee-drexel-missing_us_57c4274be4b085c1ff2a1e54

whiteyfats posted:

I'm the bad hair.

Josef K. Sourdust posted:

It is doubly sad because Dora (his lover) wanted to keep the papers private. So she didn't hand them to Max Brod, who was publishing and saving everything. As a consequence of having the papers at her flat in Berlin in the 1930s (not terribly wise) they were confiscated and lost, perhaps forever. So instead of saving the material, her actions caused their loss.

Read about it here: http://www.kafkaproject.com/mission.html

Mr. Flunchy posted:

Poke around in this this ruined building in Murmansk, Russia and you might find this mysterious hatch.



Crack that open and you'd be standing above the deepest man-made hole ever created, sinking down to 12,226 metres (40,112 ft). Kind of crazy that it's just a rusted, unlabelled welded up hatch in the middle of nowhere

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Superdeep_Borehole

cloudchamber posted:

Isn't that a good thing though from her perspective, if she wanted the diaries to remain private and unpublished?

FutureCop posted:

I don't think this has been brought up yet (and if it has, not within many a page), but here is the tale of a mountain climber who caught his arm under a boulder and needed to amputate it with a dull pocket-knife, Aron Ralston (who wrote about his tale in his aptly-named autobiography, Between a Rock and a Hard Place)

Paraphrasing from Wiki:

While climbing a canyon alone in Utah, he had his right arm crushed under a dislodged boulder, trapping him. Due to the fact that he was alone, without a phone, and did not inform anyone of his venture, he had to find out a way to get out by himself, or he would die. After three days of rationing food and water while attempting to free his arm through conventional means (lifting/breaking the boulder), he eventually came to the conclusion that he would have to amputate, but did not have any tools sharp enough to cut through his bones. Two days later, out of supplies and left to drink his own urine, Ralston began to carve his epitaph in the rock with his tiny swiss army knife (which he described as a cheap knife you'd get in a value-combo pack with a flashlight) until, in his delirium, he came to the conclusion that he could break his arm bones using torque force. After that, he was able to amputate the rest of his arm using the pocket knife which he had just unfortunately dulled by carving his epitaph.

Free from the rock, he then climbed down the canyon one-handed and hiked back to his car for four hours. It was then that he came across some vacationers who were able to get him the attention he needed to save his life. This was a stroke of luck, for if they did not show up, medical reports afterwards estimated that he would have bled to death making the 8 mile trek to his car.

Nowadays he serves as a motivational speaker and still climbs mountains, eventually accomplishing his goal of solo-climbing all 59 of Colorado's 'fourteeners' (mountains with peaks over 14,000 feet).

I first came across this story while listening to Karl Pilkington on his old XFM days: when quizzed on his ideal guests for a dinner party, he wanted to include 'that feller who lost his arm while climbing that mountain,' much to Ricky Gervais' chagrin.

Knormal posted:

The New York Times article has this picture of some of the bystanders, that one dude on the right just doesn't' give a gently caress about no assassinations.

8 Ball posted:

Could that dude in the middle look any more Russian

Knormal posted:

The New York Times article has this picture of some of the bystanders, that one dude on the right just doesn't' give a gently caress about no assassinations.

quote:

Copied from facebook: Ashley Brown went out with some friends in Nashville Friday night. They went on a trolley to see some lights, then went to a bar (Santa's Pub). They had a few drinks there then headed over to a friends apartment near Vanderbilt University. About 330 in the morning Ashley said something about cigarettes and left the apartment. This is the last time anyone has spoken to or seen her. She left her keys, purse, wallet (with ID and her debit/credit cards) and her car at the apartment.

Infinitum posted:

Mr. Flunchy posted:

The Archduke Franz Ferdinand just got assassinated in an art gallery:

Here's the Archduke.



The guy behind him, Gavrilo Princip, is the assassin. Moments later he shot him in the back.

IShallRiseAgain posted:

Nobody is going to start a world war over Turkey.

IShallRiseAgain posted:

Nobody is going to start a world war over Serbia .

moonsour posted:

It seems like she went to her car to get cigarettes and disappeared.

Solice Kirsk posted:

Pork, on the other hand.

thatbastardken posted:

moonsour posted:

Personally unnerving: Someone I've known online since I was 15 has gone missing after a party Friday night.

https://www.reddit.com/r/nashville/comments/5j8pfc/help_missing_person/

It seems like she went to her car to get cigarettes and disappeared.

quote:

[Ashley Brown has] multiple tattoos (giraffe on fire on foot, a party cat on inside bicep, "die young and save yourself" on her back, sugar skull on her collarbone

quote:

"die young and save yourself"

Erghh posted:

In the central trial against the left-wing organization Devrimci Yol (Revolutionary Path) at Ankara Military Court the defendants listed 5,388 political killings before the military coup. Among the victims were 1,296 right-wingers and 2,109 left-wingers.

whiteyfats posted:

Wonder if the police are interviewing the guy she was with?

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On September 13, 1987, taking advantage of the absence of the guard,[7] Roberto dos Santos Alves and Wagner Mota Pereira illegally entered the partially demolished facility. They partially disassembled the teletherapy unit, and placed the source assembly – which they thought might have some scrap value – in a wheelbarrow, taking it to Alves's home.[1] There, they began dismantling the equipment. That same evening, they both began to vomit. Nevertheless, they continued in their efforts. The following day, Pereira began to experience diarrhea and dizziness and his left hand began to swell. He soon developed a burn on this hand in the same size and shape as the aperture – he eventually underwent partial amputation of several fingers.[8]

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The day before the sale to the second scrapyard, on September 24, Ivo, Devair's brother, successfully scraped some additional dust out of the source and took it to his house a short distance away. There he spread some of it on the concrete floor. His six-year-old daughter, Leide das Neves Ferreira, later ate a sandwich while sitting on this floor. She was also fascinated by the blue glow of the powder, applying it to her body and showing it off to her mother. Dust from the powder fell on the sandwich she was consuming; she eventually absorbed 1.0 GBq and received a total dose of 6.0 Gy, more than a fatal dose even with treatment.[10]

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Byers began taking enormous doses of Radithor, which he believed had greatly improved his health, drinking nearly 1,400 bottles.[6] By 1930, when Byers stopped taking the remedy, he had accumulated significant amounts of radium in his bones resulting in the loss of most of his jaw. Byers' brain was also abscessed, and holes were forming in his skull. His death on March 31, 1932, was attributed to "radiation poisoning" using the terminology of the time, but it was due to cancers, not acute radiation syndrome.[4][7] He is buried in Allegheny Cemetery in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in a lead-lined coffin.[5]

bean_shadow posted:

Another person who died of extreme radiation but didn't work around it was Eben Byers. He was a Yale graduate, socialite, industrialist, golfer, and professional gadabout. He took massive amounts of Radithor, water with a ton of radium. Like massive amounts.


His remains are still extremely radioactive to this day.

moonsour posted:

I should be glad that at least her body was recovered quickly enough to still gather evidence, but right now I'm just numb with occasional chest pain. We weren't close at all but for some reason it's hitting me harder than any death in my life to date. Hell, it's not even the first murder. Reading about exactly this kind of thing is a hobby that I'm really interested in, but that doesn't make it any less sickening to have someone I know just tossed in a dumpster.

Cat Potency posted:

I love this thread, but sometimes I feel like it gets into really tiresome "PYF serial killer/child rapist" territory when i'd much prefer more of the "PYF unsolved airline disaster/medical mystery/catastrophic expedition". stuff.

THE TOXIC LADY OF RIVERSIDE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_Ramirez

Haven't seen any mention of this fairly well-known case in this thread, so I thought I'd do a short write up about a fascinating medical mystery.


Meet Gloria Ramirez, a resident of Riverside, California. On February 19, 1994, Ramirez was brought into the emergency room of Riverside General Hospital by paramedics. Gloria, clad in shorts and a T-Shirt,was awake, but she responded to questions with only brief and sometimes incoherent utterances. During her ambulance trip to the hospital, paramedics drew her blood without incident. She was taking shallow, rapid breaths. Her heart was beating too rapidly to allow its chambers to fill before they pumped, so her blood pressure was plummeting. The only thing unusual about her was her age - most patients who show up in an emergency room with such symptoms are elderly people.This woman, the paramedics reported, was 31 years old and had advanced cervical cancer - a diagnosis she had recieved 6 weeks earlier.


Once she arrived at the emergency room, medical staff hooked up an IV and injected Ramirez with a host of drugs that were standard protocol for her condition. Air was forced into Ramirez’s lungs with an Ambu-bag, and when it became clear that she was responding poorly to treatment, staff tried to defibrillate her heart with electricity. When they removed her shirt to apply the defribilators to her chest, some staff noticed an oily sheen on her skin, and others noticed a garlicky, fruity odor that they thought may have been on her breath.

After an attempted defribilation, one of the nurses used a syringe to draw Ramirez's blood. That's when all hell seemingly broke loose.

Velocity Raptor posted:

Re: radiation chat

One story I'm fascinated with is the Demon Core.

A ball of super radioactive plutonium that accidentally killed two scientists on separate occasions taking all necessary precautions because of one small mistake.

tardwrangler posted:

http://www.independent.co.uk/us/das...m-a6889171.html