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They tried to jump, but they MELTED... (1) · 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: not what's really going on at all. But once people
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Speaker 1: have convinced themselves of something, it can be very hard
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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. Now. Yvonne knew that a
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Speaker 1: lot of people might say her and her friend's relationship
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Speaker 1: was sort of more strange than special. In fact, some
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Speaker 1: people in her life actually openly disapproved of it, But
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Speaker 1: for Yvonne, it seemed like the main reason for that was,
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Speaker 1: you know, Yvonne was generally pretty friendly and social and
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Speaker 1: sort of an outgoing, normal person, but her friend was
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Speaker 1: extremely reclusive and never left his house, and so it
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Speaker 1: just seemed like an odd pairing. Her friend was originally
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Speaker 1: from Germany, but even though he'd lived in the Netherlands
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Speaker 1: now for years, he had never learned the language, so
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Speaker 1: he really couldn't communicate with anybody, including Yvonne, at least
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Speaker 1: not in her native tongue. But for Yvonne, if anything,
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Speaker 1: the fact that people didn't necessarily think this was a
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Speaker 1: good idea for them to be friends just made her
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Speaker 1: feel more protective of her friend. And also she was
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Speaker 1: especially sympathetic to the fact that her friend had actually
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Speaker 1: been abandoned by his mother as a child, and so
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Speaker 1: in a way she felt like she was stepping in
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Speaker 1: as sort of a maternal figure in her friend's life.
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Speaker 1: And so Yvonne she rounded a corner on the park's
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Speaker 1: path and up ahead there was her friend's house, and
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Speaker 1: she could actually see her friend through one of the windows,
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Speaker 1: and he did not look particularly happy. He looked sort
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Speaker 1: of dejected, and so as she approached, you know, she
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Speaker 1: made a big scene to be very smiley and happy,
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Speaker 1: and she's waving to her friend, and sure enough, her
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Speaker 1: friend at some point turned and looked out the window
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Speaker 1: and saw Yvonne approaching, and he broke into a big
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Speaker 1: smile and he waved back. You know, It's like, even
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Speaker 1: though they didn't speak the same language, there clearly was
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Speaker 1: a connection there, and Yvonne was just filled with happiness,
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Speaker 1: you know, so glad that she was here to see him.
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Speaker 1: And so Yvonne she made her way over to her friend,
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Speaker 1: and that day really was spent the same way they
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Speaker 1: spent all their other days together, which again they don't
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Speaker 1: speak the same language, so it was just sort of
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Speaker 1: a lot of you know, body language and gestures and
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Speaker 1: sort of just sitting together and just sort of enjoying
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Speaker 1: each other's company. There wasn't really any direct commune unication happening,
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Speaker 1: but this was a unique relationship and for Yvonne, whatever
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Speaker 1: it was was enough for her, and she felt like
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Speaker 1: for her friend it was reciprocated. He appreciated their time
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Speaker 1: together and that was enough. But even though Yvonne in
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Speaker 1: particular really looked forward to these visits and was having
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Speaker 1: a really nice time on this particular day, she couldn't
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Speaker 1: stay forever. She had a family and other things she
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Speaker 1: needed to get done. So at around two thirty pm,
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Speaker 1: after having spent about an hour with her friend. She
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Speaker 1: said goodbye to him, and then she turned and left,
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Speaker 1: knowing that the two of them would see each other
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Speaker 1: again soon. And so Yvonne, after turning and leaving her
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Speaker 1: friend's house, she only got a few steps down the
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Speaker 1: path she came in on when two things happened at once.
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Speaker 1: The first thing was she noticed there was a group
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Speaker 1: of kids in the park who were throwing rocks, and
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Speaker 1: she knew instinctively like the kids should not be throwing rocks,
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Speaker 1: so that's sort of registered. She wasn't doing anything about it,
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Speaker 1: but she was just aware that there are children throwing
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Speaker 1: rocks nearby. And then the second thing she noticed is
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Speaker 1: she heard splashing coming from behind her. She didn't think
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Speaker 1: it was coming from the kids throwing rocks. She's thinking
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Speaker 1: it didn't rain anytime recently, so there's no reason that
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Speaker 1: there'd be splashing 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. This was not something that was alarming.
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Speaker 1: She's just aware. And so she found herself turning around
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Speaker 1: to see in particular what that splashing sound was, and
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Speaker 1: as she turned around, something huge smashed into her, pinned
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Speaker 1: her to the ground. All she could hear was screaming
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Speaker 1: throughout the park, and the last thought she had before
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Speaker 1: she blacked out was, oh my God, I'm about to die.
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Speaker 1: Not far away, a man named Arvid Hendrix, who had
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Speaker 1: also come to the same park with his wife and
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Speaker 1: his two kids, heard the screams echoing through the park.
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Speaker 1: He was right outside the cafe that Yvonne had been
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Speaker 1: walking towards, and he had just been about to go
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Speaker 1: inside when all this commotion had started. So this particular
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Speaker 1: cafe sat on a path that cut 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. It just seemed like,
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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, everybody's panicking and coming this way,
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Speaker 1: and so instinctively, Arvid's thinking, Okay, there's something threatening going on,
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Speaker 1: and he needs to make sure his family is safe
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Speaker 1: before he even knows what the threat is. So he
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Speaker 1: grabbed his kids and his wife and he ran into
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Speaker 1: the restaurant along with everybody else. And remember this restaurant,
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Speaker 1: this cafe was not huge inside it sort of felt
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Speaker 1: like a dining hall with large communal tables, and so
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Speaker 1: with all these people rushing inside, this place quickly became chaotic.
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Speaker 1: And then after all these people came inside, a few
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Speaker 1: of the people went forward and did their best to
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Speaker 1: barricade the front doors, even though they were glassed and
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Speaker 1: would be pretty easy to break through, they did what
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Speaker 1: they could to sort of block them off. After this,
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Speaker 1: despite there still being this really intense energy sort of
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Speaker 1: buzzing around the room, things actually kind of calmed down.
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Speaker 1: You know, our VD and probably many other people in
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Speaker 1: this cafe did not know what was going on. They
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Speaker 1: 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. And so there's this weird lull period
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Speaker 1: where everyone's kind of looking around, our Ved included, trying
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Speaker 1: to figure out is there really a big thread out
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Speaker 1: there or are we overreacting here? And as they're all
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Speaker 1: sitting they are kind of wondering what's going on the
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Speaker 1: 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 Ved 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 1: But then eventually everything just went quiet as everybody else
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Speaker 1: made their way out of the cafe and it was
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Speaker 1: just Arvid and his family sitting there wondering what the
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Speaker 1: heck is going on, And for a moment, r Vid
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Speaker 1: felt like, Okay, I'm safe. You know, I don't know
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Speaker 1: what's going on, but you know, me and my family,
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Speaker 1: we are safe. However, before he instructed his kids and
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Speaker 1: his wife to come out of their hiding spot, he
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Speaker 1: heard the sound of more glass shattering, and then he
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Speaker 1: heard these loud stomping sounds as something huge was making
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Speaker 1: its way through those front doors into the cafe. And
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Speaker 1: suddenly it hit our Vid when he looked out and
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Speaker 1: saw what it was why everybody was running, and he
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Speaker 1: also realized that he and his 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. This was sort of the
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Speaker 1: rapport they had developed. At least in Yvonne's mind, the
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Speaker 1: smiling back and forth suggested they were friends. What Yvonne
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Speaker 1: didn't realize is that them smiling back and forth was
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Speaker 1: actually something her friend hated. And on that particular Friday afternoon,
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Speaker 1: her friend was already in a very bad mood. The
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Speaker 1: park that surrounded his house was so crowded and so loud,
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Speaker 1: and those kids whom Yvonne saw throwing rocks when she
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Speaker 1: left had been doing it earlier. They were throwing rocks
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Speaker 1: that whole time that she was visiting with her friend,
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Speaker 1: and some of those rocks were hitting her friend's house
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Speaker 1: and it was making him so agitated and mad. And
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Speaker 1: then the whole time through this interaction, Yvonne is smiling
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Speaker 1: over and over at her friend, thinking this is so great,
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Speaker 1: and it just totally sent her friend over the edge.
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Speaker 1: And so when Yvonne finally left and walked away, the friend,
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Speaker 1: you know, should have felt relieved, because now you know,
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Speaker 1: one of the things that was really agitating him was gone. Yvonne,
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Speaker 1: she was gone, but the friend knew she wasn't really
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Speaker 1: leaving for good. She would just come back tomorrow like
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Speaker 1: she always did, with that same enraging smile on top
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Speaker 1: of all the other things that were so annoying, and
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Speaker 1: the friend just could not take it any longer, so
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Speaker 1: he snapped. He stormed out of his house, splashing through
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Speaker 1: that off limit stream in the park to get to
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Speaker 1: Yvonne as she walked away, and just before he reached her,
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Speaker 1: she turned around and saw him. This time, he smiled
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Speaker 1: at Yvonne before she could smile at him, and for once,
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Speaker 1: she didn't smile back. Instead, she looked terrified. And this
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Speaker 1: was because Yvonne's friend was a four hundred pound silverback
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Speaker 1: gorilla named Boqito, and the park he lived in was
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Speaker 1: a zoo. To silverback gorilla's smiling is not a sign
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Speaker 1: of friendship, it's a sign of aggression and hostility. So
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Speaker 1: it's very likely that from Bokeito's point of view, almost
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Speaker 1: every day for years, Yvonne had been coming to his
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Speaker 1: enclosure in essence to threaten him. At least that's very
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Speaker 1: likely how he interpreted it, and he had been basically
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Speaker 1: 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 1: but it never worked. She always came back and just
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Speaker 1: continued to threaten him, and so eventually, like the story goes,
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Speaker 1: it became too much. Luckily, though, Boqito didn't harm really
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Speaker 1: anybody except for Yvonne. He bit her over one hundred
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Speaker 1: times and broke multiple bones, but Yvonne did survive, but
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Speaker 1: no other guests were harmed, including our Vide and his family.
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Speaker 1: You know, they were trapped in that cafe with Boqito, who,
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Speaker 1: after attacking Yvonne, had charged in there and was walking around,
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Speaker 1: but Boqito never attacked and so at a certain point
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Speaker 1: our Vide and his family 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 next to him.
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Speaker 1: He was an Air Force lieutenant. The lieutenant told Ali
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Speaker 1: that originally he had actually been booked to take a
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Speaker 1: flight to Istanbul, but he had missed the flight and
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Speaker 1: so here he was on the bus. But he told
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Speaker 1: Ali that actually he was really enjoying this bus ride,
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Speaker 1: never been on a long bus ride before, and critically,
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Speaker 1: he had scored the very front seat in the bus,
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Speaker 1: so he could basically see out the front window of
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Speaker 1: the bus, and so for him that was kind of exhilarating.
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Speaker 1: And for Ali, he had actually switched spots with a
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Speaker 1: previous passenger who had been sitting next to the lieutenant
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Speaker 1: when they first boarded. He had switched with that person
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Speaker 1: because Ali the reason he was switching was he wanted
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Speaker 1: that view too, and so he and this lieutenant were
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Speaker 1: sort of bonding over their shared excitement over watching the
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Speaker 1: road as they drove for hours. On end, Ali and
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Speaker 1: the lieutenant spoke in very quiet voices, since almost everybody
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Speaker 1: else on the bus was fast asleep. But you know,
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Speaker 1: these two, they're pumped, they're watching the road, they're talking
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Speaker 1: about it quietly. But at a certain point, Ali, despite
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Speaker 1: his enthusiasm for this ride, he started to feel pretty
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Speaker 1: 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 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 air 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. There's clearly
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Speaker 1: a fire. We just got to get off 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. 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, but even still in the darkness, he just
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Speaker 1: 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. He's thinking,
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Speaker 1: you know, the engine must have caught fire, and it's
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Speaker 1: spreading across the undercarriage of the bus. But it's getting
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Speaker 1: so bad, and he's hearing all the people on board
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Speaker 1: desperately trying to get off out that door the lieutenant
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Speaker 1: had forced open, but there's some kind of bottleneck. They're
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Speaker 1: not getting out. It's like they're stampeding towards the front
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Speaker 1: of the bus. People are screaming, it's chaos, and then
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Speaker 1: Ali hears some of the windows being pushed open. People
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Speaker 1: start jumping out the windows. I mean, they are desperate
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Speaker 1: to get off this bus. And at first what Ali
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Speaker 1: hears are screams of what sounds like desperate and scared
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Speaker 1: people just trying to evacuate. But quickly those screams when
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Speaker 1: the folks started coming out of the bus, turned to
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Speaker 1: pure agony. But as Ali is listening to this and
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Speaker 1: watching this disaster unfold, he's thinking, Okay, well, the reason
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Speaker 1: they're screen is because it's possible they could be catching
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Speaker 1: on fire here, or maybe you know, they're jumping off
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Speaker 1: and breaking bones or getting hurt from leaping out the window,
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Speaker 1: and that's all terrible. But people are getting out of
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Speaker 1: this bus, and before long they're gonna come up and
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Speaker 1: over that side of the ditch and they're gonna join me.
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Speaker 1: Like these people they're coming out of the bus. I'm
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Speaker 1: seeing it happen. But all that happened is the screams
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Speaker 1: of agony got louder and louder, and nobody came over
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Speaker 1: that ditch. It was Ali all alone, and he had
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Speaker 1: no idea why. All he sees his smoke and all
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Speaker 1: he hears is screams. And then at some point authorities
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Speaker 1: show up, and they clearly are right into the fray,
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Speaker 1: trying to extinguish whatever fire is going on and trying
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Speaker 1: to get people out and away from the bus. But
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Speaker 1: despite this huge effort that Ali's watching happen right in
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Speaker 1: front of him, granted it's obscured by the smoke, still nobody,
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Speaker 1: including the lieutenant, came over the ditch to come be
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Speaker 1: with Ali. He was all alone. But eventually Ali noticed
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Speaker 1: a few of the authorities that had shown up to
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Speaker 1: assist in this emergency were walking away from the smoke
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Speaker 1: and the bus, carrying what appeared to be bodies. But
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Speaker 1: as Ali stared at these people carrying these bodies, he
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Speaker 1: realized they weren't whole bodies. They were body parts. It
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Speaker 1: would turn out most of Ali's and the rest of
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Speaker 1: the passenger's assumptions about exactly what happened in that crash
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Speaker 1: were correct. The bus they were riding in did swerve
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Speaker 1: after seeing the headlights of an oncoming vehicle, and it
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Speaker 1: did hit that big truck they saw on the side
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Speaker 1: of the road, when Ali and the lieutenant first got
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Speaker 1: to the front of the bus and looked out, that
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Speaker 1: was the truck they hit. Now, it was not a
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Speaker 1: head on collision. It was sort of a glancing blow
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Speaker 1: as the bus swerved 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. 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 truck to crash. That truck was
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Speaker 1: a shipping truck and it was transporting a huge amount
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Speaker 1: of freight to Istanbul, and the collision burst the truck
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Speaker 1: shipping containers, and so the contents of those containers, the
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Speaker 1: freight itself poured out into that ditch. And that ditch
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Speaker 1: that basically the bus had landed inside of that Alliot
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Speaker 1: sort of jumped over on his way to get out
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Speaker 1: of the bus, and that others were sort of falling
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Speaker 1: into when they were coming out of the bus to
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Speaker 1: avoid this fire or so they thought it already had
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Speaker 1: some water in it when that freight entered into the ditch.
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Speaker 1: So the freight and the water combined, and that combination
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Speaker 1: caused a chemical reaction, and that chemical reaction caused the smoke,
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Speaker 1: because that freight was nitric acid, a highly corrosive, highly
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Speaker 1: toxic liquid chemical that now, despite being diluted by the
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Speaker 1: water in the ditch, had basically filled the ditch. The
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Speaker 1: ditch is now effectively an acid bath that's smoking, giving
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Speaker 1: the impression the bus is on fire. And so all
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Speaker 1: these folks are leaping out of the bus and landing
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Speaker 1: in the ditch, which again is an acid bath, and
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Speaker 1: they're being dissolved by the acid. Ali When he left
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Speaker 1: the bus first, he leapt out of the bus. He
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Speaker 1: thought there was the fire right there, and he jumped
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Speaker 1: up and out trying to clear the fire. And what
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Speaker 1: he really did is he cleared the acid bath and
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Speaker 1: landed on the other side, avoiding dissolving in the acid.
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Speaker 1: But virtually everybody else in the bus was going right
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Speaker 1: into the acid, and so in the end of the
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Speaker 1: nearly fifty people on board that bus, twenty six literally
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Speaker 1: dissolved to death. Thank you so much for watching today's episode.
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