Woman Decapitated in Freak Lawnmower Accident

[npk]

TOWNSVILLE, Australia - A woman died in a freak accident when a lawnmower accidentally kicked up a stray piece of metal that decapitated her.

Police say the 42-year-old woman was walking to work when she was struck in the head by a 2-foot long piece of steel pipe.

Safety officials are still investigating the tragedy, that happened in the northern Queensland town of Townsville.

A landscaper towing a grass cutter behind a small tractor accidentally hit the pipe as it was lying in the long grass.

According to the Daily Telegraph, the landscaper was so distraught, he was hospitalized for shock.

Witnesses said the woman was in the wrong place at the wrong time.


http://www.myfoxdfw.com/dpp/news/weird/030510-Woman-Decapitated-in-Freak-Lawnmower-Accident

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[scarletwoman]

2. The fickle finger of fate. Ain't nothing you can do.

My sympathies to her loved ones. How strange and dreadful. :(

[Ed76638]

3. my mistake.

a survey of stray objects before lawn mowing would do.

[MrScorpio]

4. You never know when... Do you?

Hug a loved one, while you can.

[omega minimo]

5. Someone make this disgusting POS and fucked up "jokes" go away.

Maybe it's a Gungeon thread. :puke:

[Lil Missy]

6. What a horrible tragedy.

[babylonsister]

7. Cripes. Very sad. nt

[TheDebbieDee]

8. How sad. This same sequence of events was depicted in one ot the

Final Destination movies.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

14. This is why I don't go to violent movies.

Nightmares.

[KittyWampus]

9. tell you what, I also feel sympathy for the first responders who had to deal with finding the woman

with her head ripped off.

Happened here from a car accident involving a guy driving a convertible into oncoming landscaping truck towing a heavy grated trailer full of equipment.

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

15. That's very kind. Unfortunately it goes with the line of work.

[Maru Kitteh]

10. I feel terribly for the landscaper as well. His pain continues.

How completely horrible, all the way around.

[smalll]

17. No, you feel terrible for him.

Unless you're his go-to chiropractor/massage therapist/etc...

How's things down under? :hi:

[Maru Kitteh]

20. I stand corrected. Please insert the word "awful" where appropriate.

Thank you. :-)

[proteus_lives]

11. Knowing Australia, they'll ban lawnmowers.

[smalll]

16. Should they even HAVE lawns in Australia? Isn't it supposed to be awfully dry?

Kind of a whole continent of southern California?

[hyphenate]

23. The interior is very dry

But all along the coast is very nice. Some of the whitest sand beaches in the world are in Melbourne. IIRC.

[SammyWinstonJack]

12. How sad.

:-(

[Shell Beau]

13. Something similar happened here to a woman riding down the road.

The lawn mower mowing the median kicked up something and shot it through her car. Killed her instantly. Her children were in the car and were uninjured. Freaky indeed. And so sad. I would have to be hospitalized too. I can't imagine witnessing that.

[NeedleCast]

18. Obviouslly the sensible thing to do is ban lawnmowers

Probably high grass as well, who knows what could be hidden in there?!?

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

19. I smell exaggeration

It is quite hard to get a human head off the body with one blow of a blade, let alone a pipe.

Visualize a two foot pipe being thrown by even very fast and powerful blades and we're still talking about maybe 100 yards/second.

And that could hit a person in the head (as the article states) and carry the whole head away off the body? (Keep in mind that the pipe is flying through air and subject to deflection.)

A blow to the head that yanks off the head? No. A blade to the neck cuts through things, but in the incident as described the head would have to be pulled off.

By "decapitated" they probably mean having lost a chunk of head, not actual decapitation.

The unfortunate pedestrian is equally dead either way, of course.

[Maru Kitteh]

21. Just speculating here.

If the pipe were cut diagonally and contacted the victim dorsally rather than ventrally, it is quite possible most relevant structures could have been severed.

Unfortunate to be sure, either way.

[npk]

24. No clue

I don't think I would ever want to see a head completely come off. I know it is possible from other accidents. Sometimes without being there who knows.

[Mimosa]

22. Time to LOGOUT. n/t