It looks like I didn’t grab the picture of the aftermath of my car’s windshield properly there, but it’s on facebook if one wants to look it up. July 2017… all my facebook posts are public.
Deaths from 2014 in the U.S. from animal encounters:
Barton Keyes : Yeah, in the front office. Come now, you’ve never read an actuarial table in your life, have you? Why they’ve got ten volumes on suicide alone. Suicide by race, by color, by occupation, by sex, by seasons of the year, by time of day. Suicide, how committed: by poison, by firearms, by drowning, by leaps. Suicide by poison, subdivided by types of poison, such as corrosive, irritant, systemic, gaseous, narcotic, alkaloid, protein, and so forth; suicide by leaps, subdivided by leaps from high places, under the wheels of trains, under the wheels of trucks, under the feet of horses, from steamboats. But, Mr. Norton, of all the cases on record, there’s not one single case of suicide by leap from the rear end of a moving train. And you know how fast that train was going at the point where the body was found? Fifteen miles an hour. Now how can anybody jump off a slow-moving train like that with any kind of expectation that he would kill himself? No. No soap, Mr. Norton. We’re sunk, and we’ll have to pay through the nose, and you know it.
Italian farmer, 74, crushed to death by thousands of falling parmesan-style cheese wheels
A 74-year-old dairy farmer got creamed during a meltdown at his sprawling cheese warehouse in northern Italy on Sunday night when thousands of wheels of hard parmesan-style formaggio collapsed on top of him.
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Giacomo Chiapparini, the owner of the eponymous Chiapparini cheese-making company in Lombardy, was killed in the freak accident when giant shelves holding the 90lb wheels of grana padano cheese suddenly buckled.
Chiapparini was using a machine to rotate and clean the cheese wheels at various stages of ripening when one of the metal shelves caved, creating a “domino effect,” firefighter Antonio Dusi told the news agency AFP.
The storehouse, which had been stocked with 25,000 cheese wheels, was left in shreds.
Thousands of 90-pound cheese wheels, arranged in stacks of 20, tumbled to the ground from long, narrow shelves — some towering at 33 feet high — burying Chiapparini alive.
… The cause of the deadly accident is under investigation, but Bortolo Ghislotti, president of the local agricultural district, suggested in an interview with the Italian news outlet Il Giorno that the machine used to automatically clean the cheese may have malfunctioned, leading to the disaster.
Ghislotti said that Chiapparini’s family is now in a race against time to salvage the precious wheels of cheese and transfer them into the climate-controlled warehouses of neighboring businesses before they spoil in the summer heat.
