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  Speaker 1: Today, we're going to look at three places you can't
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  Speaker 1: go and people who went there anyways. But before we
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  Speaker 1: let's get into today's stories. On Monday May twenty third,
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and five, thirty seven year old John Wilson
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  Speaker 1: got home from a very long day at work and
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  Speaker 1: immediately just collapsed into a sofa. John was an oil
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  Speaker 1: pipeline inspector in Houston, Texas, and that day it had
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  Speaker 1: been extremely hot, and he'd been driving around all these
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  Speaker 1: different job sites and he'd been out in the sun
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  Speaker 1: and he hadn't had a break, and so now that
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  Speaker 1: he was home, he was totally exhausted and knew he
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  Speaker 1: should probably just go to bed, but he didn't want to.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't want to just go right to bed and
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  Speaker 1: then have to get back up again. He got right
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  Speaker 1: back to work. He wanted to unwind before calling it
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  Speaker 1: a night, and so he decided what he would do
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  Speaker 1: to unwind would be to go fishing, something he really
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  Speaker 1: loved to do. Normally, John did a lot of freshwater fishing,
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  Speaker 1: but tonight he decided he would do some saltwater fishing,
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  Speaker 1: and so at about seven thirty pm that night, he
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  Speaker 1: grabbed his fishing rod and his tackle box. He threw
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  Speaker 1: it in the back of his pickup truck and then
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  Speaker 1: he hit the road. About an hour and a half later,
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  Speaker 1: he had driven all the way south to the very
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  Speaker 1: coast of Texas to a beach called Crystal Beach, which
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  Speaker 1: is right on the Gulf of Mexico, and instead of
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  Speaker 1: parking in one of the parking spaces in the lot, John,
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  Speaker 1: like he always did, just drove right through the gate
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  Speaker 1: out onto the actual beach. This beach actually had a
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  Speaker 1: reputation for having really hard packed sand, almost like cement,
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  Speaker 1: because so many people like John would drive their vehicles
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  Speaker 1: out onto the beach. And so he goes through the
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  Speaker 1: gate and he drives straight out towards the water, and
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  Speaker 1: although it wasn't completely low tide yet, it was making
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  Speaker 1: its way towards low tide, and so there was a
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  Speaker 1: lot of beach exposed, and so John drove for quite
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  Speaker 1: a while, and then he parked, still in the tidal zone,
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  Speaker 1: but well away from the water. John probably figured that
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  Speaker 1: he would not be there long enough for it to matter,
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  Speaker 1: because high tide was not for several hours, and so
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  Speaker 1: John hops out of his truck, he preps his fishing rod,
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  Speaker 1: and he walks out into the actual surf and he
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  Speaker 1: begins to fish. And it would have been very, very peaceful,
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  Speaker 1: as there was not really anyone else down there, as
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  Speaker 1: it was pretty much the middle of the night. There
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  Speaker 1: might have been a couple other fishermen nearby, but that
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  Speaker 1: was about it, and for a while John probably just
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  Speaker 1: enjoyed the peace and quiet he enjoyed fishing. And then
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  Speaker 1: after a while John got overwhelmingly tired. Maybe it was
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  Speaker 1: from all the work earlier in the day out in
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  Speaker 1: the sun that was just finally catching up to him,
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  Speaker 1: or maybe it was all the moving around and the
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  Speaker 1: surf getting knocked around by the water that was making
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  Speaker 1: him tired, or maybe it was both, but either way
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  Speaker 1: John decided he wanted to take a nap before he
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  Speaker 1: headed home again, and so he left the surf zone.
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  Speaker 1: He dropped his fishing rod in the back of his truck,
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  Speaker 1: and then he crawled underneath his truck to take a nap.
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  Speaker 1: The following morning, a man who was out for a
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  Speaker 1: walk near Crystal Beach looked out into the water and
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  Speaker 1: he saw a truck was half submerged in the serf zone,
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  Speaker 1: and so he called the police, and then the police
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  Speaker 1: called a tow truck, and then the tow truck driver
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  Speaker 1: showed up to the beach, and when he got there,
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  Speaker 1: it was still relatively high tide, and so he had
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  Speaker 1: to wait until it was low tide enough that he
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  Speaker 1: could actually attach the chains and start pulling this truck
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  Speaker 1: out of the surf zone. And so finally, when it
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  Speaker 1: was low tide enough, the tow truck driver walked down
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  Speaker 1: and as soon as he was standing next to this
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  Speaker 1: partially submerged vehicle, he saw there was a body poking
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  Speaker 1: out from underneath it, and that body belonged to John Wilson.
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  Speaker 1: No one knows for sure what happened to John after
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  Speaker 1: he climbed underneath his truck, but the best guess is
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  Speaker 1: after he went under there, he fell asleep, and he
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  Speaker 1: slept for longer than he anticipated. And in that time frame,
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  Speaker 1: even though the sand of this speech had this reputation
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  Speaker 1: for being really, really hard, while after a couple of hours,
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  Speaker 1: his truck would have begun to sink in the sand.
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  Speaker 1: It would have settled into the sand, and so John,
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  Speaker 1: as he's laying there, at some point would have been
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  Speaker 1: trapped by the underside of his truck. And then from
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  Speaker 1: that point, either the truck just continued to settle, ultimately
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  Speaker 1: crushing John to death, or it kept him pinned there
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  Speaker 1: but he was still alive, and then the tide came
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  Speaker 1: in and eventually he drowned. Either way, John's final moments
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  Speaker 1: must have been torture. Sevnica is a gorgeous town right
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  Speaker 1: in the heart of Slovenia, situated right along the Sava River,
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  Speaker 1: which is one of the longest rivers in Europe. The
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  Speaker 1: section of the Sava that flows past Sevnica was a
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  Speaker 1: popular destination for kayakers and canoeists up until two thousand
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  Speaker 1: and eight, when a hydro electric dam was built across it,
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  Speaker 1: creating a sort of dead end for anyone trying to
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  Speaker 1: go through that section of the river, they would have
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  Speaker 1: to stop at the dam, get out, walk around, and
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  Speaker 1: then pick up the river on the other side, or
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  Speaker 1: that would mark the end of their trip that day.
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  Speaker 1: In two thousand and eight, while this dam was still
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  Speaker 1: under construction, the mayor of Sevnica, who was in favor
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  Speaker 1: of the construction of this dam, he understood that this
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  Speaker 1: was kind of a bummer for the people in town.
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  Speaker 1: While the dam itself was going to provide more electricity
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  Speaker 1: for the town, it did kind of end an era,
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  Speaker 1: and so he decided he would organize a final trip
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  Speaker 1: down the Sava River passed the dam while they could
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  Speaker 1: still go right past it, and he was calling this
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  Speaker 1: trip the final descent, And so he went all around
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  Speaker 1: town asking people if they wanted to come, and he
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  Speaker 1: finally recruited twenty seven other people to come with him
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  Speaker 1: on this final trip. And so a few weeks later,
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  Speaker 1: on July third, after all preparations were made, the mayor
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  Speaker 1: and the rest of his crew, they made their way
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  Speaker 1: upstream to this loading area where four canoes have been
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  Speaker 1: set out for them, and the staff people that had
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  Speaker 1: actually provided these canoe news they offered the group life jackets,
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  Speaker 1: and virtually everyone in the group turned it down. It's
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  Speaker 1: unclear why they turned down the life jackets, but one
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  Speaker 1: could guess that, you know, the river itself was incredibly calm,
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  Speaker 1: and they were not expecting to be on the water
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  Speaker 1: for very long, and so they just decided they didn't
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  Speaker 1: need one. And so, after all twenty eight people got
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  Speaker 1: into their canoes, seven people per canoe, they pushed off
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  Speaker 1: the shore and they began their slow trip down the river.
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  Speaker 1: And the mayor had actually hired a photographer to come
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  Speaker 1: along with them to document their journey. So as soon
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  Speaker 1: as they take off, the photographer is looking around taking
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  Speaker 1: pictures and filming. The weather was beautiful and the water
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  Speaker 1: was calm, and everything was just going really, really well.
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  Speaker 1: But about fifteen or twenty minutes into their journey, they
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  Speaker 1: turned this corner and they got a clear view of
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  Speaker 1: the dam, which was about one thousand feet away from
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  Speaker 1: them at the time. Now, the dam was not done yet,
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  Speaker 1: but it was pretty close to being done, and so
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  Speaker 1: the actual structure of the dam it was built, and
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  Speaker 1: so even from one thousand feet away, it was very
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  Speaker 1: obvious to tell that up ahead there's these big smells
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  Speaker 1: archways where the water flows down over the dam, and
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  Speaker 1: the whole group pretty much immediately saw they had a problem.
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  Speaker 1: The plan, according to the mayor, had been they would
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  Speaker 1: get to this dam, but on the left side of
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  Speaker 1: the dam there was going to be a strip of
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  Speaker 1: waterway that had not been blocked off yet, because when
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  Speaker 1: this dam was complete, it would completely obstruct the river
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  Speaker 1: side to side. But because it wasn't actually done yet,
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  Speaker 1: the construction crew had told the mayor that, yep, the
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  Speaker 1: left side, there's going to be an area where you
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  Speaker 1: can basically just casually go right past. You won't go
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  Speaker 1: down the dam. It's totally safe. But here this group
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  Speaker 1: is on the water looking at the dam, and even
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  Speaker 1: from a thousand feet away, it was obvious there was
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  Speaker 1: no side way to get around the dam. You clearly
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  Speaker 1: had to go through the dam, or you had to
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  Speaker 1: get out and go around the dam. Now, the river
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  Speaker 1: was moving very very slowly, there wasn't a strong current,
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  Speaker 1: and so there wasn't some urgent decision that needed to
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  Speaker 1: be made about what they were going to do. The
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  Speaker 1: group intuitively knew that the right choice here is to
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  Speaker 1: go to the side, get out of your canoes, and
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  Speaker 1: either go around or just end the trip right there.
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  Speaker 1: But the mayor and a few of the other people
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  Speaker 1: in the other canoes got the idea that, hey, why
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  Speaker 1: don't we just go over the dam. I know we're
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  Speaker 1: not supposed to, and the construction crew explicitly said, don't
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  Speaker 1: go over the dam. It's extremely dangerous. But from the
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  Speaker 1: looks of it, it didn't look that bad, and truthfully,
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  Speaker 1: it did not look too bad. This was not some
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  Speaker 1: enormous dam with some huge drop off. It was actually
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  Speaker 1: a pretty small dam where the water kind of went
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  Speaker 1: down this fairly small embankment. It was maybe ten or
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  Speaker 1: fifteen feet long, and at the bottom of this embankment
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  Speaker 1: was some semi rough water. But overall, it just looked
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  Speaker 1: like it might be kind of fun to go down
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  Speaker 1: the dam, like you'd be going down a slide with
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  Speaker 1: your canoe, And so the mayor was really keen on
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  Speaker 1: doing this. He made it seem like it was going
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  Speaker 1: to be fun, it was going to be an adventure.
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  Speaker 1: So before long, three of the four canoes were fully
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  Speaker 1: on board with the idea of just going over the dam.
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  Speaker 1: The fourth canoe that was not prepared to go over
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  Speaker 1: the dam had the photographer in it, and they said,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we're not comfortable with this, but we'll pull
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  Speaker 1: up next to the dam and we'll just film you
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  Speaker 1: guys going over the dam. It'll be really cool. And so,
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  Speaker 1: after making their plans about who is going to do what,
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  Speaker 1: the four canoes continued down the river, and when they
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  Speaker 1: got about maybe one or two hundred feet away from
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  Speaker 1: the entrance to this dam, the fourth canoe with the photographer,
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  Speaker 1: pulled off on the left side of the river. They
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  Speaker 1: got out and the photographer lifted up his camera and
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  Speaker 1: he began filming the other three canoes as they made
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  Speaker 1: their approach into the dam. Now, the video from this
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  Speaker 1: photographer that was released to the public, it shows the
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  Speaker 1: first of these three canoes actually going into the dam,
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  Speaker 1: and you see these seven people on this canoe. They're
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  Speaker 1: kind of happy and excited looking. They have nervous anticipation,
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  Speaker 1: like they're about to start a roller coaster or something,
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  Speaker 1: and they're making their way into this dark section inside
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  Speaker 1: of the dam. They're basically going through the gates of
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  Speaker 1: the dam where they're going to go down this embankment.
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  Speaker 1: And as they go into the darkness, as you begin
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  Speaker 1: to lose sight of them, you see the back end
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  Speaker 1: of the canoe suddenly pops up because now they're going
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  Speaker 1: down the actual dam itself. They start sliding down and
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  Speaker 1: then you hear someone in the canoe start to stream,
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  Speaker 1: and then it goes completely silent, and then the video
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  Speaker 1: just ends. That canoe right after it slid down that downslope.
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  Speaker 1: It would reach the waters below, but the canoe would capsize,
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  Speaker 1: throwing everyone on board into the water. And these seven
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  Speaker 1: people they didn't even have a chance to catch their
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  Speaker 1: breath before they were sucked under, not only because the
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  Speaker 1: water was rough at the bottom of the dam and
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  Speaker 1: kind of was churning and pulling them under, but also
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  Speaker 1: because this is a hydro electric dam, and at the
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  Speaker 1: bottom of the dam, underneath the water where they were
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  Speaker 1: were all these big openings to underwater tunnels, and these
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  Speaker 1: tunnels functioned like vacuums. It pulled water down inside and
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  Speaker 1: then ran the water past a turbine, causing it to spin,
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  Speaker 1: and that would generate the electricity. That's what the dam
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  Speaker 1: actually did, and so after the water was pushed past
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  Speaker 1: this turbine, it would be jettisoned out somewhere else downstream. Now,
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  Speaker 1: even though this dam was not fully operational yet, these
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  Speaker 1: tunnels and the turbines at the bottom of them. They
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  Speaker 1: were operational. So as these seven people are dumped into
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  Speaker 1: these incredibly dangerous waters and they're getting pulled down towards
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  Speaker 1: these tunnels the other two canoes, they have no idea
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  Speaker 1: what's going on with this first canoe, and so they
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  Speaker 1: just continue on and they go over the dam. The
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  Speaker 1: second canoe that went down the dam, they also capsized
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  Speaker 1: at the bottom. All seven occupants were thrown out and
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  Speaker 1: they were sucked down underwater almost immediately. The third canoe
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  Speaker 1: that went over the dam, they did not capsize, and
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  Speaker 1: so after they cleared the dam and kind of paddled away,
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  Speaker 1: they began looking around for the other two canoes that
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  Speaker 1: should have already been down there, and there was nobody
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  Speaker 1: out in front of them, and so they turned around,
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  Speaker 1: thinking maybe they're closer to the dam, and they don't
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  Speaker 1: see anyone, but they see one of the canoes is
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  Speaker 1: completely flipped over and the other canoe has been broken
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  Speaker 1: apart in the churning waters right at the base of
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  Speaker 1: the dam, and they see the wood from this canoe
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  Speaker 1: just getting tumbled around, and so this third canoe immediately
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  Speaker 1: turns and tries to paddle over to the base of
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  Speaker 1: this dam to try to start pulling people out of
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  Speaker 1: the water. But when they get over there, there's no
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  Speaker 1: one there. The fourteen people that had been in these
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  Speaker 1: two canoes, they're gone. Ultimately, thirteen of the fourteen people
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  Speaker 1: that fell in the water that day would perish, and
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  Speaker 1: one of the fatalities was the mayor. The only person
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  Speaker 1: who survived who fell in the water was actually the
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  Speaker 1: mayor's wife, who by some miracle, managed to swim out
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  Speaker 1: of the grasp of these tunnels under the water and
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  Speaker 1: made it to shore. Over the next several days and weeks,
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  Speaker 1: police divers were able to eventually find all thirteen bodies,
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  Speaker 1: one of which had traveled twenty five miles away to Croatia.
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  Speaker 1: No information was given about the state of the bodies
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  Speaker 1: when they were found, and so we don't know if
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  Speaker 1: having been sucked down through these tunnels and forced past
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  Speaker 1: these underwater turbines played a role in their death. All
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  Speaker 1: the public knows is that all or most of these
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  Speaker 1: thirteen people were sucked down into these tunnels and then
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  Speaker 1: they died. Transparency this next story was pretty difficult to
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  Speaker 1: put together because the details of what actually happened to
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  Speaker 1: the victim are just really difficult to decipher. And so
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  Speaker 1: i think I've been very thorough and I've done a
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  Speaker 1: good job describing what happened. But I'm willing to accept
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  Speaker 1: it if I'm not right and this is actually inaccurate,
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  Speaker 1: And if you think I am, feel free to let
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  Speaker 1: me know in the comments. With that said, here we go.
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  Speaker 1: In nineteen seventy four, eighteen year old Debbie Stone landed
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  Speaker 1: what she considered to be an amazing summer job. She
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  Speaker 1: was hired to work at Disneyland in Anaheim, California. Her
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  Speaker 1: specific role was to be a hostess at a brand
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  Speaker 1: new attraction called America Singhs. Disney had basically converted an
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  Speaker 1: old carousel, which is a ride that spins around in
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  Speaker 1: a circle. They had converted it into a rotating stage,
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  Speaker 1: and they put up partition walls all along this rotating
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  Speaker 1: stage to create six distinct stages on this rotating stage,
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  Speaker 1: and so on. Each of these six stages were different
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  Speaker 1: sets of these robotic animals that played different songs about America.
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  Speaker 1: And so the way this would work if you were
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  Speaker 1: in the audience is you would walk into this theater
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  Speaker 1: that looked like a single theater with one stage right
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  Speaker 1: in front of you, but really what you were looking
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  Speaker 1: at is one of the six stages, and so the
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  Speaker 1: audience would sit down, they would see one of the acts.
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  Speaker 1: They'd see one performance on one of the stages, and
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  Speaker 1: then the stage would rotate, and so the audience would
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  Speaker 1: remain in the theater until all six stages had rotated
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  Speaker 1: in front of them and played their two to four
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  Speaker 1: minute long act. Debbie's job at America Sings was at
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  Speaker 1: the beginning of these shows, where the audience would watch
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  Speaker 1: all six acts. She would go up before the very
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  Speaker 1: first act. She'd go on stage and she would greet
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  Speaker 1: the audience, and then the show would start. It would
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  Speaker 1: filter through all six of the stages, and then Debbie
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  Speaker 1: would get back on stage and she would say goodbye
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  Speaker 1: to that group of audience members. It was a simple gig,
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  Speaker 1: and Debbie seemed to like it. And so on July
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  Speaker 1: ninth of that year, which was nine days after this
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  Speaker 1: attraction had opened, and so it was nine days after
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  Speaker 1: Debbie had started her job, Debbie was asked to come
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  Speaker 1: in for an evening shift, and so she left her
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  Speaker 1: house and she made it out to the attraction at
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  Speaker 1: about ten pm, which was right at the start of
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  Speaker 1: a show, and so she went right inside. She hopped
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  Speaker 1: on stage, she greeted the audience, and then she left
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  Speaker 1: the stage and the show began, and so over the
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  Speaker 1: next thirty minutes, all six of the stages performed their acts,
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  Speaker 1: and then after the sixth act was done, Debbie dutifully
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  Speaker 1: climbed back onto the stage. She said goodbye to the audience,
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  Speaker 1: and then as that audience was leaving the theater, she
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  Speaker 1: turned around and walked towards the back of the stage
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  Speaker 1: she was on. What happened next requires some additional explanation.
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  Speaker 1: Each of these six stages that made up this attraction
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  Speaker 1: had a fairly tall back wall, and behind each of
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  Speaker 1: these six back walls that were kind of in a ring,
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  Speaker 1: was the center of the actual attraction, and in the
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  Speaker 1: center was the circular, fairly tall store storage room. This
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  Speaker 1: storage room did not rotate. It was stationary. These stages
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  Speaker 1: and their respective back walls they rotated around this storage room.
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  Speaker 1: The gap between the outside of the storage room at
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  Speaker 1: any point around it and the inside of the back
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  Speaker 1: of the back wall was maybe a couple of inches.
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  Speaker 1: It was pretty narrow, but it was big enough that
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  Speaker 1: a person in theory could get stuck back there, so
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  Speaker 1: it was a real hazard. However, Disney did not put
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  Speaker 1: any specific safeguards in place to prevent their staff from
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  Speaker 1: intentionally or unintentionally going into this space. They just told
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  Speaker 1: their staff to not go back there and be careful.
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  Speaker 1: So back on July ninth, after Debbie has said goodbye
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  Speaker 1: to the audience and she's walked towards the back of
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  Speaker 1: the stage she's on, she decides to move from the
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  Speaker 1: stage she's on to the adjoining stage, and when she
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  Speaker 1: does that, she either trips or falls or something happens
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  Speaker 1: which causes her to fall into the narrow between the
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  Speaker 1: two back walls of the two stages she was on,
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  Speaker 1: and so she falls through that gap and then gets
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  Speaker 1: wedged between the outside of the storage room and the
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  Speaker 1: back of one of the back walls. She tries to
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  Speaker 1: pull herself up and pull herself out of the space,
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  Speaker 1: but she realizes she's stuck, and so she starts to panic,
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  Speaker 1: and she starts screaming for help. None of the staff
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  Speaker 1: hear her, or they don't recognize that this is a
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  Speaker 1: real call for help, and this new wave of people
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  Speaker 1: that are coming in the new audience they're all talking loudly,
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  Speaker 1: there's music playing. They don't really hear her, and anyone
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  Speaker 1: that actually did hear her calling for help, they would
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  Speaker 1: later say they thought it was part of the show.
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  Speaker 1: And so as Debbie is screaming bloody murder, she cannot
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  Speaker 1: get out of this gap, this narrow gap, she's stuck
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  Speaker 1: in these stages, they start to move because the show
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  Speaker 1: is going to start, and because Debbie has nowhere to go.
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  Speaker 1: When the stage began to rotate, she got forcibly dragged
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  Speaker 1: and twisted and rolled, and her body began tot and
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  Speaker 1: bone started to break, and she was forced to continue
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  Speaker 1: moving through this narrow space because the stage was just
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  Speaker 1: going to keep ongoing until it reached its next position.
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  Speaker 1: And so finally, after it dragged her all the way
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  Speaker 1: to its next position, Debbie didn't die. She was grievously injured,
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  Speaker 1: she probably had dozens of broken bones, but she was alive.
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  Speaker 1: And she's still totally stuck, and she's screaming with every
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  Speaker 1: ounce of energy she has. But again, the audience, even
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: though they heard her screaming, they assumed it was part
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  Speaker 1: of the show. And apparently the staff also heard her
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  Speaker 1: screams and convinced themselves it was just no big deal.
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  Speaker 1: And so two to four minutes later, when the act
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  Speaker 1: was complete, the stage began to rotate again, and so
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  Speaker 1: Debbie again is rolled and contorted and crushed and dragged
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  Speaker 1: and smashed and broken as the stage again rotates to
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  Speaker 1: its next position, and she's still not dead. She's screaming
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  Speaker 1: out for help. No one is going to help her,
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  Speaker 1: and so the entire show would play out with the
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  Speaker 1: stage rotating through all of its sections, and then finally
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the show, when one of the
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  Speaker 1: go check out that screaming we heard, And at that
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  Speaker 1: point they went for a look and they discovered Debbie
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  Speaker 1: and she was very obviously deceased. Disney would pay a
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  Speaker 1: up a number of safeguards on the America Things attraction
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