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If you think you are safe while sitting on your
couch, think again and read following examples. Like this one "Michelle
and Kevin McCarthy returned to their home in Santa Rosa, California to
find it destroyed after a 90 ft., 50-ton crane toppled over, crashing
into their house and cutting it virtually in half".
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Michelle and Kevin McCarthy returned to their home in Santa Rosa,
California to find it destroyed after a 90 ft., 50-ton crane toppled
over, crashing into their house and cutting it virtually in half.
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A southern Utah woman is badly injured but grateful to be alive after a
boulder the size of a small car broke free from a cliff above her house,
crashed through her bedroom wall, and hit her like a "giant fist" while
she slept. Wanda Denhalter was sleeping alone at 3 a.m. in the middle of
a king-sized bed when a 12-by-9-foot boulder came barreling through the
wall of her St. George home after breaking off from a cliff above the
house. Though Wanda Denhalter survived, the boulder did plenty of
damage. She was in surgery for four hours at the St. George hospital, as
doctors stitched up a gash that went to the bone.
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The Shark became the most famous resident of Headington when it landed
in the roof of 2 New High Street in the early hours of Saturday, 9
August 1986. This ordinary home (built as a semi-detached house in about
1860 but now attached by a link to a second house to the north) suddenly
became the center of world attention, and the headless shark still
excites interest today. Bill Heine commissioned the shark and still owns
the house. An American who studied law at Balliol College, he was
running two Oxford cinemas at the time, but since 1988 he has been
better known as a Radio Oxford presenter.
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According to authorities, a school bus driver passed out behind the
wheel and crashed into a house on Long Island while children were
aboard. The driver, Frederick Flowers, 66, has been arrested and charged
with driving while intoxicated. He was leaving a Catholic elementary
school, St. Edward the Confessor School, when he had what fire officials
initially referred to as a "medical emergency of some kind" and veered
into the house on Teibrook Avenue. The five children on the bus ranged
in age from 5 to 8, but police said that none were injured.
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A family-of-three had a lucky escape when a boat crashed into the duplex
they are renting while they were on holiday. Horrified neighbors watched
helplessly as the boat became unhitched from the U Pull and Save trailer
towing it and slammed into the 4806 Leonard Boulevard home. Maria Pepin,
who lives nearby, saw the unusual scene and rang 911 before calling the
owner, Gloria Sobalvarra, to break the news. The boat and trailer were
being towed by a truck belonging to U Pull and Save in Fort Myers. It is
unclear what caused it to come unhitched, but a witness said that, after
breaking fee, it crossed a yard before hitting the bungalow.
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A terrified gran has told of her narrow escape after a Ford Mondeo
ploughed into her lounge. The silver car crashed through wheelie bins
and a fence after the driver lost control. It finally stopped next to
Andrea Barr's fireplace — moments after she left the room to go to her
kitchen. Former health and safety officer Andrea, 55, said that at the
time of the 5.45 pm accident she would normally have been in the living
room. But multiple sclerosis sufferer Andrea, who walks with a stick,
added, “I'd been out with my daughter and granddaughter so I was hungry.
I was in the kitchen with my partner when I heard a big bang. At first I
thought it was the chimney pot falling in. I'd normally have been in the
lounge. I would have been dead. I often sit on the piano stool near
where the car stopped. I would have been in the path of the car."
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A tractor left a trail of destruction in its wake when its driver fell
out of the cab, smashing into cars and walls before finally coming to
rest in a living room. The driver had fallen out of the cab when the
huge machine and its trailer demolished a garden wall and brought down
the porch of the house in Exhall, Coventry. Incredibly, nobody was
injured as the family was out of the property when the vehicle ploughed
into their home. Neighbors heard a huge bang at about 4.10 pm and, when
they went to investigate, found the huge machine poking out of their
neighbor's house.
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This pilot broke his leg and was seriously injured. The pilot was flying
his small white Cessna 172 airplane when it crashed into the side of a
house on 21st and Navy in Santa Monica, California. Luckily, there was
only damage to the house and no fatalities. The crash happened less than
a block from the Santa Monica airport. It was not known what caused the
crash. Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Allen Kenitzer says the
National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the cause of the
crash. One thing is certain, the pilot is one lucky man! A group of
children on bicycles were very close, and Oliver Peake, aged 12, took
the photo shortly before police closed off the street to traffic. |