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Solice Kirsk posted:I've been trying to convince my family on doing a cruise for Xmas this year, but now I'm rethinking it. Not because I'm afraid of the boat sinking, but because if anything goes wrong out there and it can escalate into a nightmare quickly. http://www.businessinsider.com/how-carnival-went-from-fun-ship-to-poop-cruise-2013-2 
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I have a cabin in the woods you can use instead
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Solice Kirsk posted:I've been trying to convince my family on doing a cruise for Xmas this year, but now I'm rethinking it. Not because I'm afraid of the boat sinking, but because if anything goes wrong out there and it can escalate into a nightmare quickly. I mean honestly between this thread and the OSHA thread, never leave your bed again. And even then your sheets might strangle you. 
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china bot posted:http://www.businessinsider.com/how-carnival-went-from-fun-ship-to-poop-cruise-2013-2 Man I've heard of a poop deck before but that's ridiculous
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The other thing that scares me with the Dutch girls is that as far as anyone can tell they were doing everything more or less right once getting lost, with the possible exception of going over a lovely bridge, and that can be excused by ignorance, not stupidity. Once things start to go wrong and you're isolated, you can go to absolutely heroic lengths to stay alive and still die with nobody knowing what happened to you. And then a bunch of strangers will probably try to make it about aliens or something, which is really just adding insult to injury.
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There was an old show called "Will They Survive" or something like that where they would tell two stories of people getting into serious trouble and at the end of the episode you find out if they made it out alive or died. There was one episode where this guy did absolutely everything right. Told people where he was going When to expect him back The route he was planning on hiking He had water, food, flares, a tent, etc And he still got lost in the woods and died. I think it was almost a year before someone stumbled on his camp. It's a little sobering to think about, but we're all gonna die, and we're usually only one silly mistake away from bringing it about quicker.
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Mar 20, 2018 23:21
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Earth is Big.
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Pick posted:Earth is Big. Explain the phrase "small world" ,in that case
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And sometimes you do everything wrong: meet the Death Valley Germans The guy who found their remains, Tom Mahood, has a website at otherhand.org with an amazing and incredibly in-depth series of articles about his search, but it looks like the site is having problems. When it comes back up, definitely give it a read.
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Mar 21, 2018 00:46
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Probably had to bury their kids...
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Azathoth posted:And sometimes you do everything wrong: meet the Death Valley Germans This is my favorite story. So well written.
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Seconding all of Tom Mahood’s stories being great. I reread them periodically.
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Azathoth posted:And sometimes you do everything wrong: meet the Death Valley Germans I read this last year and it’s honestly my fav story ever posted in this thread. I love the desert; it’s beautiful but brutal and will kill you in no time if you’re not prepared.
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That drat Satyr posted:Jesus Christ. That is loving panic attack inducing. That's just one bad way to go after another. Even if you get off the ship, you're still in the loving Baltic, at night, in a storm, the life rafts suck, and the lifeboats are hosed and heading down wind faster than you can swim. No loving thanks.
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Azathoth posted:And sometimes you do everything wrong: meet the Death Valley Germans I was just talking about this the other day so this means I must read this again when the site is back up. Echoing it's a must read and probably my favorite story in the thread.
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If anyone wants to hear the story told in an entertaining way, I highly recommend The What If? Podcast take on it.
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You can also get to the story on the internet archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20170808123754/http://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/the-hunt-for-the-death-valley-germans/
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Mar 21, 2018 08:45
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Cops tasered a kid on his testicles until he died and then refused to release video of it until the statute of limitations had passed https://www.mystatesman.com/news/mesquite-police-video-showing-taser-shock-teen-groin-misleading/hHT9OVpwdOukYQaUSqCniK/
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china bot posted:http://www.businessinsider.com/how-carnival-went-from-fun-ship-to-poop-cruise-2013-2 I was on that cruise. The media reports were very sensationalized. Want some photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/82933936@N00/albums/72157632798182700
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Mar 21, 2018 16:42
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PhotoKirk posted:I was on that cruise. The media reports were very sensationalized. Want some photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/82933936@N00/albums/72157632798182700  for burgers without condiments
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Looks pretty lovely man. Not doubting stories were overblown, but it still looks like a garbage time. Add fart smells to all those pictures and I'd be pissed beyond belief too.
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Delivery McGee posted:Speaking of shipwrecks, 75% of WWII u-boat sailors never made it home. The escort squadron my grandfather served in was responsible for some of that and I'm proud of him for it. Being on a merchant ship sunk by a U-boat was a death sentence.
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Poker player/video game streamer Sven Reichardt once told the stream about the time he got lost/got fairly close to being lost and dead from a snake bite in the jungle 30 minutes from civilization. He ended up on a hill somewhere in pitch blackness on very uneven ground. What he and his cousin ended up doing was using their camera's flash to illuminate a section of ground in front of them, cross that, take a new picture and repeat. I suspect that this is what might have led to the weird pictures on the recovered phone from the Dutch girls. source: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/185510785 story time starts at 43:50:00(it's a 2 day continuous stream).
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Aesop Poprock posted:Cops tasered a kid on his testicles until he died and then refused to release video of it until the statute of limitations had passed Oh god, I feel like I just watched a Robert Berdella snuff movie.
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Solice Kirsk posted:Looks pretty lovely man. Not doubting stories were overblown, but it still looks like a garbage time. Add fart smells to all those pictures and I'd be pissed beyond belief too. Meh, I've gone two weeks without power after a hurricane. Four extra days on a cruise ship with partial power was easy. We had movies, comedy shows, smuggled liquor, food. We also got that cruise free, a future cruise free, and $500 each.
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I live in a trailer house in tornado alley, two weeks without power is best-case scenario after a bad storm. One of the perks of losing power on a ship: free ice cream for everybody.
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Bad Angus! Bad!
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Delivery McGee posted:I live in a trailer house in tornado alley, two weeks without power is best-case scenario after a bad storm. I live in a trailer in an area that gets tornadoes and hurricanes, so any storm I survive is a win.
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I've been lucky with hurricanes and tornadoes. I was in Diamond IL a few years ago and got to hear a tornado rip through my buddy's neighbor's house and we didn't even lose power in his basement as we sat there watching football and drinking. When we finally got the all clear we went out to make sure the neighbors were all right (they were) and then they tried to drive me back to Chicago but all the streets were closed. So really I got a little bit of excitement and an extra day of drinking in the burbs with my friends! Hurricane-wise I went through Hugo and Andrew when I was a kid in Florida, and then Jeanne knocked down part of the hotel I was staying at in the 2000's for my cousin's wedding. During Jeanne my cousins and I went across the street during the storm because we thought the bar was open, but I guess they had just left the lights on so we ran back to the hotel. I was 24 years old and got screamed at by my mom for going out in it, but we were fine. Cat 3 might as well just be a thunderstorm.
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Solice Kirsk posted:I was 24 years old and got screamed at by my mom for going out in it 
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Asehujiko posted:Poker player/video game streamer Sven Reichardt once told the stream about the time he got lost/got fairly close to being lost and dead from a snake bite in the jungle 30 minutes from civilization. He ended up on a hill somewhere in pitch blackness on very uneven ground. What he and his cousin ended up doing was using their camera's flash to illuminate a section of ground in front of them, cross that, take a new picture and repeat. I suspect that this is what might have led to the weird pictures on the recovered phone from the Dutch girls. When I played Deus Ex I had my flashlight bound to the same key as screenshot so I ended up with a lot of screenshots of dark corners
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PhotoKirk posted:I was on that cruise. The media reports were very sensationalized. Want some photos: https://www.flickr.com/photos/82933936@N00/albums/72157632798182700 That view of the two ships in the sea from the deck is really lovely, thanks for sharing.
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Anyone have a link to a good write-up or something on the murder of Bridget Cleary?
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Randaconda posted:I live in a trailer in an area that gets tornadoes and hurricanes, so any storm I survive is a win. Just tornadoes here but I live in a 12X40 singlewide and it once took on 70 mph straight line winds. I figured it'd rip the box off the trailer but it just sounded like what I imagine skydiving sounds like. Life in tornado areas is an adventure. In my last house we lost all power completely and the last report we heard was "TORNADO COMING. GET TO SAFE SPACE" so we were hiding in the lowest closet. I figured it was safe after a few minutes and ran upstairs to take a poo poo. While I was deucin' the tornado touched down about a block from my house. It blew out windows and threw window mounted air conditioner units back into the house. I rode it out on the toilet, determined to die making GBS threads.
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Don’t recall if it’s been posted here before, but Lonely Grave in the Sierra is an enjoyable read in the vein of the Death Valley Germans. The author pieces together the backstory of the long-forgotten grave of two . . . Germans.
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The Schlitterbahn Indictment thread in GBS reminded me of this gem of an FDA citation I stumbled across at work: https://www.fda.gov/ICECI/EnforcementActions/WarningLetters/2017/ucm557859.htm I'd venture to say most of us know not to buy a miracle cure combination antivenom/MRSA treatment but it horrifies me to know there were people potentially relying on these "medications" for the treatment or serious ailments. They eventually got caught but the FDA is so resource thin it takes years for things like this to be flagged and shut down. The Schlitterbahn/Verrückt case reminded me of this because it's another example of "regulations in place being flagrantly ignored or compliance flat out lied about for economic gain," at the cost of human life. The fact that there is zero nationalized standard for ride safety, inspections, etc. outside of a handful of ASTM regulations (that your own park engineer can sign off on and have zero inspection to confirm) in the United States doesn't help either. The indictment is here: http://www.kansascity.com/latest-ne...readmore_inline "The market" doesn't correct dick. Had the kid who died not been a state rep's (white) kid this ride would likely still be operating.
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Oh my god. And as noted in the other thread, there are images of a pool of blood at the bottom of the slide. That is a bad loving picture.
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This was a totally different accident. 
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Is "injuries incompatible with life" a medical term because jesus christ
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EmmyOk posted:Is "injuries incompatible with life" a medical term because jesus christ It is, actually.
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