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Luckiest People Who Survived The Impossible – Part 9 · Be Amazed

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[SPEAKER_00]: The other day I was racing at over 100 miles per hour down the freeway when I lost control of the car, flipped over 10 times and ended up halfway down the set of a cliff.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I got out without a scratch.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, admittedly I was just playing GTA, but some people have escaped from much crazier situations in real life.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Would the help of a whole lot of luck?
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[SPEAKER_00]: From an exploding toilet, falling into a vat of liquid chocolate, let's take a look at even more luckiest people who survived the impossible.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I've never been skiing because when someone says vacation, I think of warm sunny beaches, not freezing my tissue off on a mountain.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I recently saw a horrifying video that only put me off even further.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Back in April 2022, an experienced skier was hitting the slopes in that franchise when something went horribly wrong.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The footage is genuinely sickening to watch.
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[SPEAKER_00]: One moment he's gliding across powdery snow the next, he's simply gone, swallowed by a hole that opened underneath him without warning.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The man plummeted straight through the ice into a deep crevice and dropped out a terrifying 49 feet before managing to wedge his skis in and scrape to a stop on a thin ledge.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh my gosh.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm getting chills just looking at that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Thanks to a heap of luck and a skilled team of fellow skiers this guy was pulled out of the icy hellhole by a rope and pulling.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But the whole process took hours.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He wasn't alone in his traumatic experience either because 2022 was warmer than usual, and more people took to the slopes and crevice falls rose drastically from around 38 to 70.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And sadly, six of those 17 never made it back out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: which makes our boys incredible escape that much more impressive.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a whole load of noops to this loaps for me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: A daily commute into work can be long, cramped, and boring.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In April 2022, however, one commuter ended up in a situation so terrifying you wouldn't wish it on your worst enemy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The woman was waiting for a train at a station and Buenos Aires, Argentina when she suddenly started feeling light-headed.
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[SPEAKER_00]: People around her watched in horror as she stumbled forward and fell over, straight into the path of a moving train.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Surely, that was the end for her.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It certainly looked like it, the woman didn't just hit the moving carriage, she disappeared beneath it entirely.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The train screeched to a halt in a huge crowd gathered around the spot where she'd fallen.
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[SPEAKER_00]: but there was no sign of her.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That isn't till they heard somebody calling for help.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What?
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[SPEAKER_00]: She was alive?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Unbelievably, the woman had slid mere inches beneath the carriages as they raised above her and was pressed to the side of the platform edge.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Just a moment later, and she'd have been a human smoothly.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Astonish, the witnesses pulled her back out and were even more astonished to see she was mostly unarmed.
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[SPEAKER_00]: After going to the hospital, doctors told her she'd experienced a freak drop in blood pressure which had led to the fall.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But after just a couple of days, she was, right as rain again.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Pressured I say, right as rain.
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[SPEAKER_00]: OK, I'm not proud of it, but I've left my toilet in a state that would scare even Pennywise the Cloud.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But it's never been dangerous.
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[SPEAKER_00]: However, when 58-year-old New Yorker Michael B.A.
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[SPEAKER_00]: went to the bathroom one-fateful day in 2013, he couldn't have known the terror that was about to buff all him.
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[SPEAKER_00]: After finishing up, Michael grabbed hold of the toilet handle and flushed.
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[SPEAKER_00]: only it didn't flush.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It exploded.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The entire toilet shattered into hundreds of tiny pieces of porcelain each one shooting in a different direction like a giant poopy grenade.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The shock of the blast sent Michael flying backwards into the opposite while knocking him unconscious.
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[SPEAKER_00]: When he awoke, he was lying in a pool of water and broken porcelain.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Shot hurt, but thankfully very much alive, Michael called emergency services and was taken to hospital where he got 30 stitches and made a full recovery.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Alright, so what the heck happened?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, it wasn't an evil toilet clown.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Turns out, water to the building had been shut off for plumbing work that day.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Because of the work they were doing, when Michael flushed the toilet, it created a huge build-up of pressure in the pipe, which bursts not only Michael's toilet, but three others in the building too.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Man, I'm used to explosions in the restroom, but not ones that come from the toilet itself.
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[SPEAKER_00]: trees are one of Earth's most precious resources, vital lifelines that pump oxygen into the air in keep us alive.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They can also be incredibly dangerous, something Canadian tree-feller Jeremy Cadote found out the hard way back in 2017.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Jeremy was sawing a particularly big tree down when he suddenly heard a loud, cracking sound.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The footage shows the Trump splitting upwards with a sound like a gunshot.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The whole top half whipping backwards towards Jeremy as he scramble sideways at the last possible second.
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[SPEAKER_00]: One wrong move, and they have needed a spatula to peel them off the floor.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It looks like the base of the tree was rotten, something Jeremy didn't realize until he'd sell deep into it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Because of the rot, the trunk was weak and split vertically up the middle, something called a barber chair after the old barber chairs that used to position a person set back and feed up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: By sheer chance, our boy jumped the right way though, and saved himself from a nasty
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[SPEAKER_00]: Ever since reading Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory when I was a kid, I've always loved the idea of working in one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Turns out though, the reality is less unbelievable, stupidity do and more, oh geez, I'm gonna die.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Or at least it was for Pennsylvania and chocolate factory worker Patricia Bores back in April 2023.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was an ordinary day at the factory, apart from one thing, there was a strange smell of gas in the air.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Patricia reported it to her supervisor, but they just said someone higher up with deal with it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Big mistake.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Just 30 minutes later, a huge explosion ripped through the factory and sent the whole place up in flames.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The blast set Patricia alight, panicking she started to run, but the floor gave way but neither and she plummeted, and to a huge vet of liquid chocolate in the basement.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The liquid in the van was only just high, but it had extinguished the flames and broken her fall enough to save her life.
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[SPEAKER_00]: However, she'd also broken her feet on impact and was far too short to climb out of the van.
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[SPEAKER_00]: She was trapped.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Firefighters arrived to put out the flames, but they couldn't see Patricia or hear her cries for help.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Water from their hoses gradually poured in from above and Patricia managed to use the rising water level in the van to climb out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Then she heaved herself over the edge, felt again, and landed in a waist-high pool of water on the basement floor.
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[SPEAKER_00]: On a little walk, she clutched onto a bit of plastic, tuming, and screamed for help.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Nobody came.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Our space like this, however, just as she was giving up hope, a team of rescuers found her.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Baddard freezing cold and confused Patricia was carried out of the factory and taken to the hospital.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Phew, I don't know about Willy Wonka, but that was an absolutely bonkers story of survival.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Some people absolutely love DIY, me though, not a fan, and it's all because of videos I've seen online, such as one showing a guy misusing an angle grinder.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Essentially, it's a spinning blade used for cutting metal.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you think that sounds dangerous, you are completely right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: supposedly halfway through using it the Bladebroke flew off and got latched and his hat, holy moly.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If that a quarter-right bucket hat hadn't been there, it would have gone straight into his head.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Wait, what a bucket hat really stopped a speeding blade, I mean, it's very unlikely, but possible I suppose?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, here's where it gets fresh-y.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In the footage, it's possible to observe that he's operating the grinder right-handed, but when the camera cuts to his face after the supposed accident, the embedded blade is on the wrong side of his head.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And if you're listening to anyone who's analyzed the clip frame by frame, the on-screen
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[SPEAKER_00]: Flip it back, and the blade is actually on his left.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Convenient, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Either he switched hands, mid grind, or someone wedge that blade in their afterwards, and even if it had really shared off mid-spin, would a bit of corduroy fabric have really been enough to stop it?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Really conveniencing as he is not wearing any other safety equipment?
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[SPEAKER_00]: A little too convenient if you as way.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Personally, I think the whole thing's been staged for TikTok club, but you tell me, what do you reckon?
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[SPEAKER_00]: The brain is a remarkable organ, not only is it responsible for everything we do and feel it can also keep working despite major injury, and back in 2016, one unfortunate 12-year-old girl from India found this out the hard and very gross way.
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[SPEAKER_00]: She'd been suffering from seizures, headaches, and general weakness for over two years, but nobody knew why.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Then her symptoms suddenly got so bad she became paralyzed down the right side of her body and couldn't even feed herself.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Her parents rusted a hospital where she had an MRI scan and doctors made a horrifying discovery.
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[SPEAKER_00]: A tapeworm larva had been living inside a cyst in her head for almost 10 years.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah!
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[SPEAKER_00]: Needle probably ate the larva when it was smaller and some contaminated food then it made its way to were brain and began growing there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is to gotten so huge that it weighed over one and a half pounds.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was so big it was nearly the size of our entire brain, but that is horrendous.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Doctors were astonished.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The giant growth could have ruptured at any point in ended her life instantly, but by some miracle it had.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Because it was so close to her brain though, it had caused a whole bunch of issues which meant her paralysis endured.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was only one thing for it, surgery.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Incredibly, after a two-and-a-half hour operation, the cyst was successfully removed in tech and need to pull through.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Two weeks later,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Wow, he does now an ordinary girl again enjoying life to its fullest.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You're smart, you don't need me to tell you why driving can be dangerous?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I hope, but there are far more risks of the road than you might imagine.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like I don't know, trees randomly collapsing as you drive past.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's dashcam footage from a quiet residential street where a massive healthy looking tree just without warning, topples directly across the road, missing a passing car by what looks like a single second.
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[SPEAKER_00]: No wind, no warning, just gravity deciding it was time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yep, nature can be a very cruel mistress, as one man from Kenya will testify.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It made 2023 the Galana River flooded and rushed into his truck overturning it and leaving him stranded amidst the rising waters for over six hours.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Thankfully the shell-jerk wildlife conservation area team were called out, but these guys were only really equipped to deal with animal rescues in the area rather than humans.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Nevertheless, using their helicopter they made a daring attempt to rescue the driver by getting as close to the upturn truck as possible, and not a moment too soon.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In the rescue they can be seen hovering inches above the swirling brown water while the upturn truck disappears and resurfaces in the current.
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[SPEAKER_00]: One rescue release halfway out of the cabin door and halls the soap driver up by the wrists as the helicopter lifts away.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Wow, even with nature on your side though trucks come with their own set of wrists, especially if you're driving behind them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And Florida, back in 2018, one woman was driving down Interstate 95 when a plywood sheet in the truck in front of her came loose and flew backwards, smashing straight through her windscreen.
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[SPEAKER_00]: By sheer luck the sheet didn't touch her, but it had gotten terrifyingly close to her neck.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's a miracle she managed to stop the vehicle with a four-losing control.
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[SPEAKER_00]: See the truck driver, hadn't tied the sheet down properly, and it's a problem plaguing more than just pick-up drivers.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Tick-tucker ALO420 captured the aftermath of an even more nightmarish version while driving behind a log truck.
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[SPEAKER_00]: According to his account, one of the heavy logs Jolted Loose came barreling off the back of the truck and smashed straight through his windshield while he was doing highway speeds.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He survived, but only just.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Honestly, the whole thing sounds like something straight out of final destination.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So this is a general service announcement to anyone hauling anything on trucks, double triple, then quadruple check that your loads are secure.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Hey, quintuple sextuple and septuple check if you've got the time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I wouldn't even be mad at an octuple check.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But even if you'd never drive behind another truck again, you could still end up in some sticky situations.
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[SPEAKER_00]: One of my viewers was driving past a truck when that brake pad flew off the wheel well and you guessed it, hit their windscreen.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They slammed on that brakes and thankfully the pad broke free without injuring anybody, but it just goes to show you can never be truly prepared.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Something nobody knows more than Mauricio Henal from California.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Mauricio was sitting parked below a hillside near his house with his girlfriend called him and told him to go back in their home to check something.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Mauricio got out of the car and walked back into the house, but as soon as he crossed the threshold there was a loud rumbling, followed by an even louder crash.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Shocked Mauricio turned around and was horrified at what he saw.
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[SPEAKER_00]: A huge rock was buried in the roof of his car completely crushing it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It had fallen down the hill in a landslide, and if his girlfriend had called him just moments later, it would have smashed straight into him.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, talk about a rocky start to the day.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes I hear a story that stuns me as much as it makes my stomach churn.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is one of those stories.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In a small Indian village in Atara Pradesh, a young woman called Tybo went out for a walk.
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[SPEAKER_00]: While wandering, she came across a construction site and intrigued, decided to explore it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This sit turns out was a very bad move.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The place was littered with rocks and half-enished structures, and Tybo wasn't being super careful with where she was looking.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Suddenly, she tripped and she landed neck first on a long metal rod that was protruding from a brick.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Luckily, however, there were people nearby who saw the whole thing happen.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They ran to get help and it wasn't long before paramedics came to the shocking scene.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They knew they had to act on the spot.
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[SPEAKER_00]: To have a couldn't be moved in our current state, so slowly, carefully, they cut the rod from the brick.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But she needed to be taken to hospital for any chance of removing from her face.
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[SPEAKER_00]: When they got there, the doctor's work got smacked.
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[SPEAKER_00]: By some miracle, the right had missed all of the vital nerves and blood vessels in her head.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The docs got to work gradually pulling it out and after 35-grilling minutes, it was over.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Amazingly, Tyva survived and was discharged just three days later without any lasting consequences.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Wow.
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[SPEAKER_00]: My job just hit the floor.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Luckily, there were no metal rounds down there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Back in 2012, following an ordeal that's too shocking to discuss a woman named Micolina Kazabrock found herself tied up and locked in darkness inside a cardboard box buried in the ground.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Upon realizing the reality of her situation, trying to keep her breathing as shallow as possible to preserve oxygen, she began frantically thinking for a way to escape.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you've never been stuck in a deteriorating relationship counter-self-lucky,
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[SPEAKER_00]: But usually it doesn't end in attempted murder.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Kyu Mikalina.
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[SPEAKER_00]: A Polish woman living in the UK.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Back in 2012, she was in just such a relationship with her fiance, Marisen.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It had been going downhill for a while, though.
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[SPEAKER_00]: She was surprised when he invited her to go shopping with him.
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[SPEAKER_00]: At exactly the most romantic of gestures, but obviously more than she was used to, which says a lot.
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[SPEAKER_00]: She accepted and went into the bathroom to get ready when she opened the door to leave however Morrison was waiting for, with a taser.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Make Alina didn't have time to react before she felt intense pain shooting through a neck as he used the taser on her, knocking her unconscious with 50,000 volts of electricity.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The next thing she knew she'd been bound by her wrist and ankles and put inside a cardboard box which was taped shut.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In total darkness, Micolina felt herself being picked up and bundled into what must have been the back of their car.
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[SPEAKER_00]: How is this even happening?
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[SPEAKER_00]: She tried to stay calm but things only went from bad to worse.
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[SPEAKER_00]: After a short journey, she felt herself being lifted out of the car again and set on the ground, then sheer panic, something was being shoveled on top of her.
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[SPEAKER_00]: With a pain in her gut, she realized she was being buried alive.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Trying to keep her breathing as shallow as possible to preserve oxygen she waited until the shoveling stopped.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and began frantically thinking for a way to escape.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Suddenly she remembered she was still wearing her engagement ring.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The diamond was said so that it stood out of the ring which she could use as a very basic cutting tool.
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[SPEAKER_00]: With a desperate determination she started cutting away at the blinds around her wrist and eventually managed to break through them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now it was time for the box.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Assuming she'd never get this far, Marcin had only used a cheap cardboard box to put her in.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Even so it proved tougher than it looked, but after an enormous effort and countless punches and scratches, make a Lena managed to punch through.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Dirt fell down on her face and clothes,
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[SPEAKER_00]: and with one final burst of strength she smashed out of the hole and saw the sky again.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There was no sweeter side.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Exhausted but very much alive, she clambered out of the box, staggered to the road and flagged down a motorist who called the police.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The individual responsible for all this, Marston, was arrested shortly afterwards and sentenced to 20 years in prison.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Good riddance.
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[SPEAKER_00]: A whole lot of strength, perseverance, and willpower got make a lean out of that hole.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But if she hadn't chosen to keep her engagement ring, it could have been a very different story.
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[SPEAKER_00]: As far as jobs go history is shown that mining is one of the worst, aside from the long hours and persistent danger, the conditions are unpleasant to say the least.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Glastrophobic damn cold, it's akin to a tomb down there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But in some parts of the world, people are still forced to brave terrible conditions and go down into the mines to scrape a living.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like Cobalt miners in the Congo, Cobalt is an important mineral used to make batteries and the Congo has over 70% of the world supply.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In other words, it's big business.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The problem is mining operations are plagued with human rights issues corruption and poor safety standards.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Back in March, 2023, a group of miners were working underground when the worst thing possible happened, a mine collapsed and on them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Trapped and pinned down in a tiny pitch black cavern with the ceiling crumbling in by the second, things look dire.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This may sound like a nightmare, but this is a very real way many miners meet their end.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Officially, more than 15,000 miners perish every year, but that number is likely much higher
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[SPEAKER_00]: some estimates put that figure closer to hundreds of thousands.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Those are not good odds.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Luckily for our miners, they were other workers on the surface, they jumped to rowically into action and started digging wildly at the ground with their hands.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But there wasn't much time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The mine was in the side of a hill and the collapse had destabilized the ground further up causing rocks to come hurtling down to directly at the rescuers.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Undeterred they kept digging and thanks to some deaf dodging worthy of Muhammad Ali they broke through without being hit.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Amazingly, all nine of the buried miners came bursting out of the occluded mine entrance one by one and were pulled to safety.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Phew.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Even so, I'd highly consider a career change.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I love the feeling of flying, and I am absolutely adored, and I can't get enough of it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Some people however aren't so keen, and after I heard about British Airways Flight 5390, I can totally see why.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It all started a couple of days before the airplane was due to take off.
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[SPEAKER_00]: While performing schedule maintenance, the shift manager realized the captain's side windscreen needed to be replaced, so they said to work doing so.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Only he, stupidly, hadn't read the plan's instruction manual and used the wrong screws to screw it back in with, ones that were too narrow to hold the pain's end.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But after self-certifying is on work, the plan was clear to fly.
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[SPEAKER_00]: No, boy!
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[SPEAKER_00]: Two days later, 81 passengers and 6 crew boarded the plan in Birmingham, UK, ready to travel to Malaga.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Little did they know they were about to have the most terrifying journey of their lives.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Everything started out normally, 10 minutes after take off the two copilots kept in Lancaster and first officer, Alistair Etchison, were in the cockpit with their flight attendant Nigel Ogden.
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[SPEAKER_00]: While the cabin crew prepared for food service, and the plane hits 17,300 feet in everything changed.
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[SPEAKER_00]: At this altitude, the pressure difference between the outside and inside was too much for the poorly installed side window.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The screws holding it in place popped off and the entire plane flew off.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Immediately, the whole plane erupted into chaos.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The decompression tore the cockpit, door off its hinges, and its slams straight into the throttle levers, blocking them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Even worse Captain Landcaster was pulled halfway out of the plane, where he remained pinned with his feet still inside pushing against the control column.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Ogden rushed to his head and luckily grabbed hold of his legs just on time to stop and flying out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But that wasn't the only problem, because Lancaster's feet were pushing against the control column, the autopilot disconnected and the plane plunged into a nose dive.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And with the throttle lever's block, Acheson couldn't do anything to stop it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The plane was shooting back down to Earth like a speeding bullet.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Acheson desperately tried to radio and help, but Wind was whipping so violently around the cabin, that he couldn't hear anything.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Suddenly two more flight attendants fought their way into the cockpit and stamped on the door breaking it in two, the throttles were free.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Then they rushed to eight Ogden, who by now was suffering from frostbite and struggling to hold onto the captain.
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[SPEAKER_00]: With the controls for Echeson managed to get the plane under control, but it looked
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[SPEAKER_00]: The captain's body and slid around the side of the plane and now he was face first against the window, his skin gray and his eyes wide and unblinking.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But they could and release him in case he was thrown into the engines which could bring the whole plane down.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Eventually, Acheson slowed the plane to a reasonable enough speed that he could attempt a landing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: However, he was over South Hampton as city he was utterly unfamiliar with.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Reliant purely on the guidance of an air traffic controller and without his cap to an adjacent pulled off what he thought impossible.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He landed the plane.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Not only that, but he landed it safely with all 81 passengers shaking, but unharmed.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Wow.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The crew weren't so lucky with injuries ranging from frostbite to a dislocated shoulder, but that's nowhere near as bad as it could have been.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and then there was Captain Landgaster.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Heatman penned outside the plane amid brutal 370 mph winds and freezing temperatures as cold as one degree Fahrenheit, yet within just a few minutes of touchdown, he opened his eyes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Incredibly against all odds, the man was alive.
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[SPEAKER_00]: After being rushed to hospital, he was treated for frostbite and bone fractures, then made a full recovery.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The thank-day survived is nothing short of a medical miracle.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The whole incident sparked off a huge investigation and led to an overhaul in the way maintenance staff are trained, so don't worry it should never happen again.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Not that it put Lancaster off, within just five months he was back playing Jets.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Croaky!
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[SPEAKER_00]: If I was him, I'd be keeping my two feet firmly on the ground.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I can't think of many words more commonly associated with accidents than heavy and machinery.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I also can't think of any accidents as horrendous as the one I'm about to tell you about.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Get ready because this is intense.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Back in 2008, 25-year-old factory worker Matthew Low was working beside a computer-controlled conveyor near Barnesley, UK when his overalls got caught in the machinery.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Before he could react, he was dragged back and penned to the conveyor, which was rolling straight towards a tiny 5-inch gap in the machine.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He panicked.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There was nowhere else for his body to go, and his overalls were still firmly entangled.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He'd be completely crushed.
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[SPEAKER_00]: At the last second, he noticed a slightly bigger gap just below the tiny one and quickly pushed his head through it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But it was too late for the rest of him.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, a CD case?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Imagine your entire body getting pulled through a hole the size of one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I can't imagine what that must have sounded like little on felt like.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The machine chewed Matthew up like he was made of polystyrene and sped him out on the floor.
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[SPEAKER_00]: His clothes were tattered and almost all the bones in his body were completely broken.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yet somehow he was still alive and even conscious.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's when the pain hit.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He screamed.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Some of his fellow workers heard Rush to his aid and called an ambulance.
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[SPEAKER_00]: When the paramedics came, they couldn't believe Matthew was still breathing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He was a total mess.
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[SPEAKER_00]: As carefully as they could, they put him on a stretcher and took him to hospital, but the urdeal was far from over.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The surgery required for such a serious case, and Valve pinning his shattered bones back together piece by piece, with metal rods.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I mean lots of metal rods.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All-in-all doctors had to perform six operations before Matthew was whole again.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Rack honestly though, he pulled through in 18 months later he'd made a near-full recovery.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yep, incredibly he'd escaped the RDO with only some slight arm issues to show for it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Perhaps even more surprisingly, he went back to work with the same company.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Geez, at the very least, I hope they didn't make him wear any more overalls.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Phew, I had just about brings us to the end of this installment of our Lucky Is Survivor series, which of those crazy tales shocked you the most, and do you know any I haven't covered yet?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Thanks for listening.