Jerry Cotton posted:

The most infamous one I remember was the Polish pilot who ejected himself but the plane kept going, ran out of fuel in Belgium (I think) and killed a dude by demolishing the house it hit.

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The incident started as a routine training flight. Colonel Nikolai Skuridin, the pilot, departed from the Soviet Bagicz Airbase near Kołobrzeg, Poland. During takeoff, the afterburner failed and the engine began losing power. At an altitude of 150 meters and descending, the pilot assumed he had a complete engine failure and ejected without incident. The engine had not failed completely, and the aircraft remained airborne, flying on autopilot in a westerly direction.[1][2] The unmanned aircraft left Polish airspace, crossing into the airspace of East Germany and then West Germany, where it was intercepted by a pair of U.S. Air Force F-15s of the 32d Tactical Fighter Squadron, of the United States Air Forces Europe, stationed at Soesterberg Air Base in the Netherlands.[3] As the MiG-23 crossed into Dutch airspace the F-15 pilots reported the plane having no pilot, radioing "There is definitely no pilot in the plane" and continuing the intercept into Belgian airspace. The escorting F-15s were instructed to down the plane over the North Sea. As the MiG ran out of fuel, it started a slow turn to the south. The French Air Force put armed Mirage fighters on readiness in case the MiG approached French territory. After flying over 900 km (560 mi) the MiG crashed into a house, killing a Belgian teenager.[1]

John Denver Hoxha posted:

Isn't that the same guy that did the 'mining' for platinum along the highway with a dust pan (because of the microscopic amount everybody's cat converter puts out adding up over time)

Carbon dioxide posted:

Today I saw a truck from a company that, according to their site, sells OSHA-related gear such as fire extinguishers, teaches workers about safety, and so on.

Their biggest mystery to me is their logo.

Bloody Hedgehog posted:

I want to believe this isn't a clever edit and that kid is now traveling down the garbage conveyor belts under the city.

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One evening we went to dinner with our parents. While waiting for dinner Harry, Lucas and I got bored so we looked for things to do. We found an empty trash can and we said lets take a video of Harry popping out of the trash can. I promised Harry I would get in after him and so he went first. I stood by the lid and Lucas recorded as Harry got into the trash can. I closed the lid. At first I thought it was funny because I heard bumping and I thought the lid had bumped his head or something. Then a few seconds later I heard screaming from inside the trash can. I opened the lid and Harry was gone.

We heard screaming from beneath the trash can this time and Lucas told me to keep the lid open. I held it open while Lucas went into the restaurant where our parents were waiting for dinner. Lucas in the video explained how Harry got stuck in the trash can and I believe he was told to just get him out. So my dad comes out after a while with the other parents. He then inserts his leg into the trash can and closes the lid upon his leg in order to kick the bottom open, then he reaches his arm down and manages to grab a hold of Harry and pull him out of the storage beneath the trash can. Harry suffered only a few minor scrapes.

Tokamak posted:

someone uploaded an imgur album of a rural chinese bitcoin farm.
http://imgur.com/a/WAROS


powered by a small hydro dam

JoelJoel posted:

Yeah, well, not sure about the US (though I have a pretty good guess) but up here past the wall our organ donor programs are all opt in. Anecdotally, this means smart, mature people are donors and morons prone to dangerous poo poo aren't. So the useful parts of most idiots who shoot themselves in the neck during a selfie are going to waste anyway.

Oh and families can override your decision in many cases, so even if you're a sensible, forethinking moron, your usable bits may still end up worm food.

JoelJoel posted:

So if you're a donor they can harvest regardless, or they harvest regardless.?

I know it gets sticky due to cultural or religious blah blah but it's pretty hosed that people have to die or have a much worse life because some other people insist on keeping their organs after they die.

Plus it's pretty that our species harvests the organs of its own members _{(for good)}

Lemon posted:

Doesn't anaesthetic in general have that variable effect? I remember the only time I had general when I woke up I had a bit of a freakout. My old boss had a general and apparently when he woke up he started getting violent so they just knocked his rear end out again.

Das Butterbrot posted:

and in hospital, they typically use propofol or midazolam to make you fall asleep afaik, depending on the type of procedure.

chitoryu12 posted:

I'm kind of intrigued as to what the OD symptoms are.

Theris posted:

So this is "oh you think we need double blind testing for medical treatment but not parachutes? Checkmate, athetits " in joke paper format?

I think the more notable thing here is that somewhere there's someone who believes in homeopathy/chiropractic/whatever but also knows how to write an abstract for a scientific paper.

HEY NONG MAN posted:

This is absolutely nothing without the audio and the accompanying Nirvana remix.

Bum the Sad posted:

If you were able to utter sounds you weren't under true general. True general involves shoving a tube in your trachea, or lodging a device in the back of your throat to assist you breathing. You remembering a bit is not unexpected, or unacceptable. You were just under heavy sedation.

EVIL Gibson posted:

I would love to go get all my fillings ripped out whenever I take a flight

Thumposaurus posted:

I like that they mention it's recalled but don't say who made it so people at home can check if they have a potential bomb waiting to go off.
I use them all the time at work too, but I always make sure that it is put together properly and I don't try to cram as many cartridges into it as I can.
Some times it takes two charges to get a good consistency coming out of it and even that makes me nervous.

Gumbel2Gumbel posted:

Listen I have enough pointless poo poo I desperately need from Amazon already

shame on an IGA posted:

I think the stock advice for police recruits right now is to say you've smoked weed a few times during the polygraph even if you haven't because no one will ever, ever believe you didn't.

PainterofCrap posted:

PainterofCrap posted:

Although I explained the voltage/amperage difference to my wife, not all of it got through, or she was tired, or something. First morning there, we’re preparing to go out & there’s this cry from the bathroom...I smell burning hair. Wife comes out with her bangs burned off. She plugged her curling iron straight into the wall with the adapter. Fortunately, she wasn’t burnt.

I have a picture somewhere of the poor thing.

(edit) Ah: here we go:

boner confessor posted:

pedestrian deaths increased in the united states by 11% between 2015 and 2016, the largest increase on record

data is too spotty or limited to prove it but everyone assumes it's because of people playing with their phones while walking which includes wandering into traffic and getting hit

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Using police accident reports for Tippecanoe County, Indiana, and exploiting the introduction of the augmented reality game Pokémon GO as a natural experiment, we document a disproportionate increase in crashes and associated vehicular damage, injuries, and fatalities in the vicinity of locations where users can play the game while driving. We estimate the incremental county-wide cost of users playing Pokémon GO while driving to be in the range of $5.2 to $25.5 million over the 148 days following the introduction of the game. Extrapolating these estimates to nation-wide levels yields a total ranging from $2.0 to $7.3 billion.

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Schooley faces charges of second-degree murder, aggravated battery and aggravated endangerment of child. He is due to be arraigned, then sent to Kansas, the Marshals Service said in a news release.

Besides Schooley, two water park executives and two companies also face criminal charges related to the death of Caleb Schwab, who was decapitated in 2016 while riding what was billed as the world’s tallest waterslide.

The co-owner of the Schlitterbahn Waterpark, Jeffrey Henry, faces a second-degree murder charge, and the park’s former director of operations, Tyler Austin Miles, has been charged with involuntary manslaughter. The construction company involved in designing and building the slide and the Schlitterbahn park also face charges, according to indictments unsealed in March.

All five defendants are charged with aggravated battery and aggravated child endangerment for injuries suffered by 13 others, including four children, on the water slide before Caleb’s death.

Powershift posted:

I'm sure they do, but only use it to train the algorithm in general instead of targeting specific spots. They probably believe they can fix all corners based on what's learned from a few, rather than needing the data to fix that specific corner.

boar guy posted:

lol whut

PostNouveau posted:

That was like 6 years ago you may as well be talking about how to game the Dewey Decimal System.

They replaced all them people with RankBrain.