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They tried to jump, but they MELTED. · Crime and Horror

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Speaker 1: Today, I'm going to tell you two stories that highlight
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Speaker 1: how the world around us and even our own eyes,
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Speaker 1: for them to change their minds, and as you'll see today,
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Speaker 1: of our uploads. Okay, let's get into today's stories. Around
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Speaker 1: one thirty pm on the afternoon of May eighteenth, two
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Speaker 1: thousand and seven, a fifty seven year old woman named
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Speaker 1: Yvonne de Hoorde arrived at a park in Rotterdam, which
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Speaker 1: is a city in the Netherlands. She was there to
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Speaker 1: meet up with her friend, and she had to cut
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Speaker 1: through the park to get to his house. Yvonne went
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Speaker 1: to her friend's house almost every day, and usually when
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Speaker 1: she walked through the park during the week, there weren't
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Speaker 1: that many people around, but on this day it was
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Speaker 1: really crowded because it was the friday of a long
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Speaker 1: weekend and there was just a lot of families and
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Speaker 1: visitors that were enjoying the spring weather, which meant the playground,
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Speaker 1: the pathways, and the park's little cafe were all packed.
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Speaker 1: But Yvonne didn't pay that much attention to the crowds
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Speaker 1: because she was busy thinking about her friend. They'd known
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Speaker 1: each other for years, and they had what she considered
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Speaker 1: to be a very special connection that Yvonne didn't think
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Speaker 1: she had with anybody else.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: Yvonne knew that a lot of people might say her
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Speaker 1: and her friend's relationship was sort of more strange than special.
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Speaker 1: In fact, some people in her life actually openly disapproved
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Speaker 1: of it, But for Yvonne, it seemed like the main
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Speaker 1: reason for that was, you know, Yvonne was generally pretty
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Speaker 1: friendly and social and sort of an outgoing, normal person,
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Speaker 1: but her friend was extremely reclusive and never left his house,
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Speaker 1: and so it just seemed like an odd pairing. Her
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Speaker 1: friend was originally from Germany, but even though he'd lived
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Speaker 1: in the Netherlands now for years, he had never learned
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Speaker 1: the language, so he really couldn't communicate with anybody, including Yvonne,
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Speaker 1: at least not in her native tongue. But for Yvonne,
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Speaker 1: if anything, the fact that people didn't necessarily think this
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Speaker 1: was a good idea for them to be friends.
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Speaker 2: Just made her feel more protective of her friend.
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Speaker 1: And also she was especially sympathetic to the fact that
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Speaker 1: her friend had actually been abandoned by his mother as
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Speaker 1: a child, and so in a way, she's sort of
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Speaker 1: felt like she was stepping in as sort of a
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Speaker 1: maternal figure in her friend's life. And so Yvonne she
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Speaker 1: rounded a corner on the park's path and up ahead
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Speaker 1: there was her friend's house, and she could actually see
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Speaker 1: her friend through one of the windows, and he did
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Speaker 1: not look particularly happy. He looked sort of dejected, and
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Speaker 1: so as she approached, you know, she made a big
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Speaker 1: scene to be very smiley and happy, and she's waving
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Speaker 1: to her friend, and sure enough, her friend at some
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Speaker 1: point turned and looked out the window and saw Yvonne approaching,
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Speaker 1: and he broke into a big smile and he waved back.
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Speaker 1: You know, It's like, even though they didn't speak the
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Speaker 1: same language, there clearly was a connection there, and Yvonne
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Speaker 1: was just filled with happiness, you know, so glad that
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Speaker 1: she was here to see him. And so Yvonne she
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Speaker 1: made her way over to her friend, and that day
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Speaker 1: really was spent the same way they spent all their
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Speaker 1: other days together, which again they don't speak the same language,
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Speaker 1: so it was just sort of a lot of you know,
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Speaker 1: body language and gestures and sort of just sitting together
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Speaker 1: and just sort of enjoying each other's company. There wasn't
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Speaker 1: really any direct communit unication happening, but this was a
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Speaker 1: unique relationship and for Yvonne, whatever it was was enough
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Speaker 1: for her, and she felt like for her friend it
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Speaker 1: was reciprocated. He appreciated their time together and that was enough.
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Speaker 1: But even though Yvonne in particular really looked forward to
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Speaker 1: these visits and was having a really nice time on
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Speaker 1: this particular day, she couldn't stay forever. She had a
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Speaker 1: family and other things she needed to get done. So
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Speaker 1: at around two thirty pm, after having spent about an
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Speaker 1: hour with her friend, she said goodbye to him, and
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Speaker 1: then she turned.
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Speaker 2: And left, knowing that the two of them would see
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Speaker 2: each other again soon. And so Yvonne.
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Speaker 1: After turning and leaving her friend's house, she only got
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Speaker 1: a few steps down the path she came in on
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Speaker 1: when two things happened at once. The first thing was
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Speaker 1: she noticed there was a group of kids in the
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Speaker 1: park who were throwing rocks, and she knew instinctively like
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Speaker 1: the kids should not be throwing rocks, so that's sort
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Speaker 1: of registered. She wasn't doing anything about it, but she
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Speaker 1: was just aware that there are children throwing rocks nearby.
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Speaker 1: And then the second thing she noticed is she heard
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Speaker 1: splashing coming from behind her.
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Speaker 2: She didn't think it was coming from the kids throwing rocks.
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Speaker 1: She's thinking it didn't rain anytime recently, so there's no
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Speaker 1: reason that there'd be splashing.
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Speaker 2: Sounds around her. There's no puddles or anything.
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Speaker 1: The only splashing that made sense was it was coming
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Speaker 1: from the stream that was sort of off limits in
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Speaker 1: the park. Nobody had access to it. There was no
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Speaker 1: reason to get down there to that stream. But it
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Speaker 1: sounded very much like that was the splashing that she
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Speaker 1: was hearing, and so Yvonne, she's just consciously aware of
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Speaker 1: these things happening.
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Speaker 2: This was not something that was alarming. She's just aware.
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Speaker 1: And so she found herself turning around to see in
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Speaker 1: particular what that splashing sound was, and as she turned around,
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Speaker 1: something huge smashed into her, pinned her to the ground.
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Speaker 1: All she could hear was screaming throughout the park, and
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Speaker 1: the last thought she had before she blacked out was,
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Speaker 1: oh my God, I'm about to die. Not far away,
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Speaker 1: a man named Arvid Hendrix, who had also come to
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Speaker 1: the same park with his wife and his two kids,
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Speaker 1: heard the screams echoing through the park. He was right
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Speaker 1: outside the cafe that Yvonne had been walking towards, and
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Speaker 1: he had just been about to go inside when all
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Speaker 1: this commotion had started.
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Speaker 2: So this particular cafe sat on a path that cut
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Speaker 2: through the park itself.
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Speaker 1: It was a small place, almost like a glorified snack bar,
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Speaker 1: and it had a big pavilion right in front of
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Speaker 1: it with outdoor seating that looked out over the park,
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Speaker 1: and from Arvid's perspective, as he was standing on that
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Speaker 1: pavilion near the cafe, entrance. He could hear these people
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Speaker 1: screaming and actually started to see them running in his direction.
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Speaker 1: But Arvid had no idea what they were screaming about
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Speaker 1: or what they were running from.
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Speaker 2: It just seemed like, all of a sudden, everybody's.
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Speaker 1: Panicking and coming this way, and so instinctively, Arvid's thinking, Okay,
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Speaker 1: there's something threatening going on, and he needs to make
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Speaker 1: sure his family is safe before he even knows.
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Speaker 2: What the threat is.
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Speaker 1: So he grabbed his kids in his wife, and he
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Speaker 1: ran into the restaurant along with everybody else. And remember
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Speaker 1: this restaurant, this cafe was not huge inside it sort
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Speaker 1: of felt like a dining hall with large communal tables,
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Speaker 1: and so with all these people rushing inside, this place
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Speaker 1: quickly became chaotic. And then after all these people came inside,
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Speaker 1: a few of the people went forward and did their
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Speaker 1: best to barricade the front doors, even though they were
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Speaker 1: glassed and would be pretty easy to break through, they
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Speaker 1: did what they could to sort of block them off.
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Speaker 1: After this, despite there still being this really intense energy
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Speaker 1: sort of buzzing around the room, things actually kind of
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Speaker 1: calmed down. You know, our VD and probably many other
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Speaker 1: people in this cafe did not know what was going on.
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Speaker 1: They had just sort of reacted instinctively and went in here,
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Speaker 1: assuming there has to be some real thread out there,
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Speaker 1: let's take shelter.
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Speaker 2: And so there's this weird.
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Speaker 1: Lull period where everyone's kind of looking around, our ved included,
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Speaker 1: trying to figure out is there really a big thread
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Speaker 1: out there or are we overreacting here, And as they're
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Speaker 1: all sitting they are kind of wondering what's going on
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Speaker 1: the front doors. The glass doors suddenly shatter, and once again,
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Speaker 1: the whole group is thrust into absolute chaos once again,
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Speaker 1: as all the parents are grabbing their kids, and even
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Speaker 1: though they still don't really know what's going on, they're
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Speaker 1: trying to rush towards those shattered doors to get out,
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Speaker 1: get out of this place, which now feels like it
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Speaker 1: is dangerous in some ways, worse than outside. And so
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Speaker 1: it's this huge bottleneck as the door, as everyone's screaming,
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Speaker 1: there's just madness happening, and our vid he could tell
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Speaker 1: there was no way he could get through this cluster
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Speaker 1: of people desperately trying to get out, and so he
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Speaker 1: just grabbed his wife and his kids and they went
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Speaker 1: under one of the tables and they hit, and for
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Speaker 1: the next couple of minutes, everything all around our Vid
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Speaker 1: and his family continued to be absolutely chaotic and madness.
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Speaker 2: But then eventually.
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Speaker 1: Everything just went quiet as everybody else made their way
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Speaker 1: out of the cafe and it was just Arvid and
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Speaker 1: his family sitting there wondering what the heck is going on,
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Speaker 1: And for a moment, Arvid felt like, Okay, I'm safe.
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Speaker 1: You know, I don't know what's going on, but you know,
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Speaker 1: me and my family.
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Speaker 2: We are safe.
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Speaker 1: However, before he instructed his kids and his wife to
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Speaker 1: come out of their hiding spot, he heard the sound
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Speaker 1: of more glass shattering, and then he heard these loud
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Speaker 1: stomping sounds as something huge was making its way through
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Speaker 1: those front doors into the cafe. And suddenly it hit
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Speaker 1: our Vid when he looked out and saw what it
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Speaker 1: was why everybody was running, and he also realized that
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Speaker 1: he and his.
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Speaker 2: Family were now trapped.
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Speaker 1: It would turn out all the people in Yvonne's life
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Speaker 1: who frowned on her special friendship had been right to
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Speaker 1: do so, because although Yvonne loved her daily routine with
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Speaker 1: her friend, her friend did not actually feel the same way.
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Speaker 1: Every day when Yvonne went to visit. She would sit
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Speaker 1: with her friend and keep him company, and Yvonne's friend
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Speaker 1: would smile back at her.
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Speaker 2: This was sort of the rapport they had developed.
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Speaker 1: At least in Yvonne's mind, the smiling back and forth
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Speaker 1: suggested they were friends. What Yvonne didn't realize is that
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Speaker 1: them smiling back and forth was actually something.
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Speaker 2: Her friend hated. And on that.
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Speaker 1: Particular Friday afternoon, her friend was already in a very
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Speaker 1: bad mood. The park that surrounded his house was so
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Speaker 1: crowded and so loud, and those kids whom Yvonne saw
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Speaker 1: throwing rocks when she left had been doing it earlier.
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Speaker 1: They were throwing rocks that whole time that she was
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Speaker 1: visiting with her friend, and some of those rocks were
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Speaker 1: hitting her friend's house and it was making him so
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Speaker 1: agitated and mad. And then the whole time through this interaction,
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Speaker 1: Yvonne is smiling over and over at her friend, thinking
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Speaker 1: this is so great, and it just totally sent her
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Speaker 1: friend over the edge. And so when Yvonne finally left
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Speaker 1: and walked away, the friend, you know, should have felt
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Speaker 1: relieved because now you know, one of the things that
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Speaker 1: was really agitating him was gone. Yvonne she was gone,
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Speaker 1: but the friend knew she wasn't.
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Speaker 2: Really leaving for good.
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Speaker 1: She would just come back tomorrow like she always did,
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Speaker 1: with that same enraging smile on top of all the
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Speaker 1: other things that were so annoying, and the friend just
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Speaker 1: could not take it any longer, so he snapped. He
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Speaker 1: stormed out of his house, splashing through that off limit
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Speaker 1: stream in the park to get to Yvonne as she
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Speaker 1: walked away, and just before he reached her, she turned
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Speaker 1: around and saw him. This time, he smiled at Yvonne
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Speaker 1: before she could smile at him, and for once.
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Speaker 2: She didn't smile back. Instead, she looked terrified.
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Speaker 1: And this was because Yvonne's friend was a four hundred
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Speaker 1: pound silverback gorilla named Bokeito, and the park he lived
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Speaker 1: in was a zoo to silverback gorilla's smiling is not
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Speaker 1: a sign of friendship, it's a sign of aggression and hostility.
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Speaker 1: So it's very likely that from Bokeito's point of view,
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Speaker 1: almost every day for years, Yvonne had been coming to
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Speaker 1: his enclosure in essence to threaten him, at least that's
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Speaker 1: very likely how he interpreted it, and he had been
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Speaker 1: basically threatening her back whenever he smiled by showing his teeth,
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Speaker 1: and he thought maybe that would get her to go away.
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Speaker 2: But it never worked.
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Speaker 1: She always came back and just continued to threaten him,
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Speaker 1: and so eventually, like the story goes, it became too much. Luckily, though,
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Speaker 1: Boqito didn't harm really anybody except for Yvonne. He bit
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Speaker 1: her over a hundred times and broke multiple bones, but
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Speaker 1: Yvonne did survive, but no other guests were harmed, including
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Speaker 1: our Vide and his family. You know, they were trapped
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Speaker 1: in that cafe with Boqito, who, after attacking Yvonne, had
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Speaker 1: charged in there and was walking around, but Boqito never
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Speaker 1: attacked and so at a certain point our Vide and
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Speaker 1: his family.
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Speaker 2: Were able to run to safety.
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Speaker 1: After she recovered, Yvonne would tell the media that Boqito
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Speaker 1: was still her darling, that's what she called him, and
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Speaker 1: in fact, she would go back to the zoo to
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Speaker 1: see Bokito after that, but this time she didn't smile.
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Speaker 1: At three am on August eleventh, nineteen sixty five, a
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Speaker 1: nineteen year old student named Ali Dogan sat in the
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Speaker 1: front seat of a passenger bus as it headed down
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Speaker 1: a dark, narrow road in northwest Turkey. Ali and about
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Speaker 1: fifty other passengers were on their way from the city
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Speaker 1: of Ancora to Eastanbul, which is the largest city in Turkey,
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Speaker 1: and they were about three hours into a five hour trip.
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Speaker 1: Ali had passed the time so far by speaking with
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Speaker 1: the man who just happened to be sitting.
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Speaker 2: Next to him. He was an Air Force lieutenant.
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Speaker 1: The lieutenant told Ali that originally he had actually been
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Speaker 1: booked to take a flight to Istanbul, but he had
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Speaker 1: missed the flight and.
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Speaker 2: So here he was on the bus.
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Speaker 1: But he told Ali that actually he was really enjoying
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Speaker 1: this bus ride, never been on a long bus ride before,
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Speaker 1: and critically he had scored the very front seat in
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Speaker 1: the bus, so he could basically see out the front
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Speaker 1: window of the bus, and so for him that was
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Speaker 1: kind of exhilarating. And for Ali, he had actually switched
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Speaker 1: spots with a previous passenger who had been sitting next
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Speaker 1: to the lieutenant when they first boarded. He had switched
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Speaker 1: with that person because Ali the reason he was switching
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Speaker 1: was he wanted that view too, and so he and
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Speaker 1: this lieutenant were sort of bonding over their shared excitement
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Speaker 1: over watching the road as they drove for hours on end,
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Speaker 1: Ali and the lieutenant spoke in very quiet voices, since
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Speaker 1: almost everybody else on the bus was fast asleep. But
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Speaker 1: you know, these two, they're pumped, they're watching the road,
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Speaker 1: they're talking about it quietly. But at a certain point, Ali,
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Speaker 1: despite his enthusiasm for this ride, he started to feel
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Speaker 1: pretty drowsy too. Ali was on his way back to Istanbul,
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Speaker 1: where he went to college, and later that day, because
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Speaker 1: right now it's three am, later that day he had
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Speaker 1: a big exam, and he knew that as much as
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Speaker 1: he wanted to stay up and sort of enjoy the ride,
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Speaker 1: he really needed to get some sleep. So he took
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Speaker 1: his sweatshirt and rolled it up like a pillow, put
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Speaker 1: it behind his head, told the lieutenant he was going
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Speaker 1: to sleep for a bit, and then he put his
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Speaker 1: head back and closed his eyes. However, about fifteen minutes later,
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Speaker 1: when Ali was just really beginning to actually fall asleep,
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Speaker 1: the bus was suddenly filled with screams, and Ali he
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Speaker 1: opened his eyes and he was looking out forward in
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Speaker 1: the direction the bus was going, and he saw these
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Speaker 1: bright headlights bearing down on the bus, and he knew
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Speaker 1: they're about to collide with somebody on the road. And
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Speaker 1: then the bus hard swerved to the right, and Ali's
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Speaker 1: trying to hold onto the.
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Speaker 2: Partition to keep himself seated.
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Speaker 1: Then he's getting ready to smash into this other vehicle,
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Speaker 1: but right at the last second, the bus turns and
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Speaker 1: slams off the road and comes crashing down in this ditch,
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Speaker 1: right off the side of the road. And then the
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Speaker 1: bus kind of lurched to a stop because the bus
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Speaker 1: driver was able to stop the crash. And for a second,
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Speaker 1: you know, Ali's looking around. Everyone's so shaken up by this,
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Speaker 1: and he's feeling, you know, very relieved that they did
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Speaker 1: not smash into an oncoming car. But despite feeling that relief,
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Speaker 1: Ali quickly realized they had another problem. The bus was
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Speaker 1: starting to fill with smoke, and so Ali and the
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Speaker 1: lieutenant and Virtue of sitting at the very front of
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Speaker 1: the bus, were the closest to the door leading off
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Speaker 1: the bus, and now clearly everybody needs to evacuate. There's
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Speaker 1: some kind of fire that's happening because of the crash
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Speaker 1: they've just been in, and so Ali and the lieutenant
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Speaker 1: they stand up and the bus is kind of at
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Speaker 1: a slant are because they're in this ditch, and they
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Speaker 1: go up to the very front of the bus and
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Speaker 1: they actually look out the cracked front windshield and they
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Speaker 1: see there's this huge truck also in the ditch on
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Speaker 1: the side of the road, and they're figuring that they
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Speaker 1: must have collided in some way, like that was the
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Speaker 1: truck that forced the bus off the road, and so
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Speaker 1: it's like, okay, they've gotten into this accident.
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Speaker 2: There's clearly a fire. We just got to get off
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Speaker 2: this bus.
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Speaker 1: And so Ali and the lieutenant they get to the
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Speaker 1: door and they try to open it, but the way
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Speaker 1: the bus kind of crashed into this ditch, it's sort
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Speaker 1: of warped the frame of the bus, and so the
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Speaker 1: lieutenant he got down there and he begins smashing on
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Speaker 1: this door to try to open it up. And as
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Speaker 1: this is happening, the smoke is getting much more intense
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Speaker 1: inside of this bus, and all the people on the bus,
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Speaker 1: the fifty some odd passengers behind them, they're starting to panic.
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Speaker 1: Everyone's rushing forward, bumping into Ali and the lieutenant trying
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Speaker 1: to get off this bus. And then finally the lieutenant
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Speaker 1: he manages to force open the doors, and the second
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Speaker 1: he does, this additional rush of black smoke comes pouring
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Speaker 1: into the bus.
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Speaker 2: It's like you can't even see anything.
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Speaker 1: Everyone's choking and screaming, and the lieutenant he just yells
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Speaker 1: to Ali to go get out, jump out, and so
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Speaker 1: Ali he's the first one off the bus. He climbs
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Speaker 1: down the steps. All he sees is smoke everywhere. He
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Speaker 1: really has no idea where the fire is actually coming from,
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Speaker 1: and so instinctively he just jumps out of the bus,
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Speaker 1: just jumps as high and as far as he possibly can,
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Speaker 1: and he actually hits the other side of the ditch
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Speaker 1: and he kind of stumbles and climbs up and gets
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Speaker 1: away from the bus. And as soon as he did,
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Speaker 1: he turned around and he's looking at the bus and
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Speaker 1: it's night time, but even still in the darkness, he
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Speaker 1: just sees the bus is completely engulfed in all this smoke.
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Speaker 1: He can't quite tell where the fire is.
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Speaker 2: He's thinking, you know, the engine must.
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Speaker 1: Have caught fire, and it's spreading across the undercarriage of
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Speaker 1: the bus. But it's getting so bad, and he's hearing
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Speaker 1: all the people on board desperately trying to get off
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Speaker 1: out that door the lieutenant had forced open, but there's
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Speaker 1: some kind of bottleneck they're not getting out. It's like
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Speaker 1: they're stampeding towards the front of the bus. People are screaming,
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Speaker 1: it's chaos. And then Ali hears some of the windows
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Speaker 1: being pushed open. People start jumping out the windows. I mean,
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Speaker 1: they are desperate to get off this bus. And at
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Speaker 1: first what Ali hears are screams of what sounds like
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Speaker 1: desperate and scared people just trying to evacuate. But quickly
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Speaker 1: those screams when the folks started coming out of the bus,
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Speaker 1: turned to pure agony. But as Ali is listening to
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Speaker 1: this and watching this disaster unfold, he's thinking, Okay, well,
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Speaker 1: the reason they're is because it's possible they could be
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Speaker 1: catching on fire here, or maybe you know, they're jumping
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Speaker 1: off and breaking bones or getting hurt from leaping out
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Speaker 1: the window, and that's all terrible. But people are getting
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Speaker 1: out of this bus, and before long they're gonna come
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Speaker 1: up and over that side of the ditch and they're
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Speaker 1: gonna join me. Like these people they're coming out of
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Speaker 1: the bus, I'm seeing it happen. But all that happened
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Speaker 1: is the screams of agony got louder and louder, and
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Speaker 1: nobody came over that ditch. It was Ali all alone,
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Speaker 1: and he had no idea why. All he sees his
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Speaker 1: smoke and all he hears is screams. And then at
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Speaker 1: some point authorities show up, and they clearly are right
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Speaker 1: into the fray, trying to extinguish whatever fire is going
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Speaker 1: on and trying to get people.
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Speaker 2: Out and away from the bus.
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Speaker 1: But despite this huge effort that Ali's watching happen right
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Speaker 1: in front of him, granted it's obscured by the smoke,
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Speaker 1: still nobody, including the lieutenant, came over the ditch to
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Speaker 1: come be with Ali.
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Speaker 2: He was all alone.
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Speaker 1: But eventually Ali noticed a few of the authorities that
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Speaker 1: had shown up to assist in this emergency were walking
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Speaker 1: away from the smoke and the bus, carrying what appeared
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Speaker 1: to be bodies. But as Ali stared at these people
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Speaker 1: carrying these bodies, he realized they weren't whole bodies.
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Speaker 2: They were body parts.
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Speaker 1: It would turn out most of Ali's and the rest
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Speaker 1: of the passenger's assumptions about exactly what happened in that
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Speaker 1: crash were correct. The bus they were riding in did
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Speaker 1: swerve after seeing the headlights of an oncoming vehicle, and
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Speaker 1: it did hit that big truck they saw on the
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Speaker 1: side of the road when Ali and the lieutenant first
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Speaker 1: got to the front of the bus and looked out,
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Speaker 1: that was the.
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Speaker 2: Truck they hit. Now, it was not a head on collision.
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Speaker 1: It was sort of a glancing blow as the bus swerved.
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Speaker 2: To avoid a head on collision.
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Speaker 1: But that crash sent the bus off the road into
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Speaker 1: the ditch. And it was that crash into the ditch
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Speaker 1: that ultimately prompted all that smoke. But they were all
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Speaker 1: wrong about what was causing that smoke.
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Speaker 2: There was no fire.
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Speaker 1: The truck that the bus narrowly avoided the head on
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Speaker 1: collision with but did ultimately strike, causing both the bus
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Speaker 1: to crash and the.
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Speaker 2: Truck to crash.
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Speaker 1: That truck was a shipping truck and it was transporting
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Speaker 1: a huge amount of freight to Istanbul, and the collision
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Speaker 1: burst the truck shipping containers, and so the contents of
21:25
Speaker 1: those containers, the freight itself poured out into that ditch.
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Speaker 1: And that ditch that basically the bus had landed inside
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Speaker 1: of that Alliott sort of jumped over on his way
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Speaker 1: to get out of the bus, and that others were
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Speaker 1: sort of falling into when they were coming out of
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Speaker 1: the bus to avoid this fire, or so they thought
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Speaker 1: it already had some water in it when that freight
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Speaker 1: entered into the ditch.
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Speaker 2: So the freight and the water combined, and that.
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Speaker 1: Combination caused a chemical reaction, and that chemical reaction caused
21:56
Speaker 1: the smoke, because that freight was nitric acid, a highly corrosive,
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Speaker 1: highly toxic liquid chemical that now, despite being diluted by
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Speaker 1: the water in the ditch, had basically filled the ditch.
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Speaker 1: The ditch is now effectively an acid bath that's smoking,
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Speaker 1: giving the impression the bus is on fire.
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Speaker 2: And so all these folks are.
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Speaker 1: Leaping out of the bus and landing in the ditch,
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Speaker 1: which again is an acid bath, and they're being dissolved
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Speaker 1: by the acid. Ali When he left the bus first,
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Speaker 1: he leapt out of the bus. He thought there was
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Speaker 1: the fire right there, and he jumped up and out
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Speaker 1: trying to clear the fire. And what he really did
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Speaker 1: is he cleared the acid bath and landed on the
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Speaker 1: other side, avoiding dissolving in the acid.
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Speaker 2: But virtually everybody else in the bus.
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Speaker 1: Was going right into the acid, and so in the
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Speaker 1: end of the nearly fifty people on board that bus,
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Speaker 1: twenty six literally dissolved to death.
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