[Emirates 24/7] In a horrific incident, a 50-year old man committed sucide by chopping his own head with a chainsaw in an intricate plan involving a timer, snooker table and sticky tape. C'mon, buddy, there's easier ways. Nobody likes a showoff. Or liked a showoff...
During an inquest it was learnt that he did so because he didn't want to get thrown out of his own home, thetelegraph.com.au reported. Phyall's block of flats was to be demolished. He had refused 11 offers of alternative accommodation.
The daily explained the process: "Phyall tied the Black & Decker tool to a leg of a snooker table in his lounge with string, taped up the on button and plugged it into a timer. Please continue, Lieutenant Columbo...
He then lay down under the snooker table face up and placed the chainsaw against his neck, Winchester Coroner's Court heard."
"Disturbingly, the plan went off without a hitch," the paper commented. Electricity is like that... Britannia's The Sun newspaper reports his elderly parents raised the alarm when they could not contact their son in the council flat in Bishopstoke, Hampshire.
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Ambitious, inventive, maybe a grant for this sort of thing is in order.
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I remember an incident when an old guy was logging, and cut halfway through his neck with his chainsaw, by accident, yet amazingly was able to walk a quarter mile to a dispensary.
After the medical people worked through their unrestrained hysteria, they got him to a hospital, where he spent the next several days pretty much in around the clock surgery. It generally worked, however.
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This almost tops the classical Greek philosopher who strangled himself to death with his own bare hands...now THAT is persistence.
I would say, seriously, that what we have here is an undiagnosed case of Borderline Personality Disorder. BPD is one of the most difficult to diagnose..Psychiatrists want to diagnose it as Bipolar with psychotic features...they can sell more drugs that way, but in reality, many people living on meds for bipolar behavior are actually BPD.
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Nothing another warning label can't cure.
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So when do we swear in the new president of the United States of America?
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"Phyall tied the Black & Decker tool to a leg of a snooker table in his lounge with string, taped up the on button and plugged it into a timer.
Sorry this man was so depressed about getting tossed from his house. I know of a guy who committed suicide by fastening himself to the railroad track. He carefully left one arm loose so he could drink his final 6-pack while he waited for the train.
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Lawsuit by his family against Black & Decker in 5, 4, 3....
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"Disturbingly, the plan went off without a hitch,"
Disturbingly? Hell, as anyone who has ever kludged some lash-up together, if it works the first time, it's a miracle and cause for rejoicing. And maybe a beer.
[Bangla Daily Star] A rickshaw puller died on Sunday after a bamboo fell on his head from an under-construction high-rise in Bogra.
The victim was identified as Chan Mia of Matihash village in Kahalu upazila.
This is the third such incident of people getting killed or hurt due to falling of construction materials from high-rises in the last 25 days.
On July 6, Habibur Rahman Munna, a student of Tejgaon College, died in a similar incident at a roadside construction site of Sagufta Group on Panthapath in the capital. A brick fell on him from the 10th floor of the under-construction building.
Another student, Usha-e-Marma, 20, sustained injury as a brick from an under-construction structure fell on his head at Muradpur in Chittagong on July 19.
In yesterday's incident in Bogra town, a piece of bamboo fell from the eighth floor of Gahar Plaza on Chan Mia around 11:30am when he was passing by the building on Temple Road in Kendrasthall Sathmatha area, said a witness.
At first, critically maimed Chan Mia was rushed to Bogra Mohammad Ali Hospital, and then he was shifted to Shahid Ziaur Rahman Medical College Hospital where doctors on duty declared him dead.
Manjurul Islam Bhuiyan, sub-inspector of Bogra Sadar Police Station, said Gahar Haji, owner of the building; the contractor for the construction, and the construction workers went into hiding after the accident. Uh-oh, dead guy. Time to go on vacation, boys...
He said a case will be filed in connection with the fatal incident. Ever wonder what happens to all the cases they file? Yeah. They'll probably show it to Gahar Haji when they find him and shake him down.
Local businesspeople alleged that no safety measure was taken by the owner or the contractor since the beginning of the construction of the commercial building.
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When we dump construction materials over the side, it is not our fault if someone gets hurt. Allah chooses the life and death of everyone, so don't come crying to us for compensation.
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Pretty sad. People here in the US do not realize how good we have it here, with care for human life built into our building codes, workplace regulations, highway safety, food safety, etc. Of course, we can bring it down on the installment plan, given the sellout our politicians have done these past years. Be warned.
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I'm not sure I see the humor there.
Black humor, methinks. Gromky is an expat residing in China (a.k.a. Little Corner of Paradise). The PRC and Pakistan aren't much different with regards to safety.
Britain's anti-terrorist police are now asking shopkeepers and members of the public to report information about anarchists. This was announced in a newsletter produced last week by the "counter terrorist focus desk" in the central London district of Westminster.
The newsletter defines anarchism, as "a political philosophy which considers the state undesirable, unnecessary and harmful, and instead promotes a stateless society, or anarchy." It adds that "Any information relating to anarchists should be reported to your local police."
The newsletter is part of Project Griffin, which aims to bring together police, local government and businesses "to protect our communities from terrorism, extremism and crime."
Police blame anarchists for violence that has erupted during protests against government spending cuts and student fee hikes in the past year. But anarchists said Monday they were supporters of a broad and legitimate political philosophy who were being unfairly targeted.
Andy Meinke of anarchist publisher Freedom Press said police should "arrest people for committing crimes, and not for what they believe."
"It's obviously ridiculous," he said. "They know exactly who we are. We get followed on demonstrations. Everyone who's prominent in British anarchism is known to the police."
Still, he said, there was an upside to the attention. "This is the best publicity we've had in years," Meinke said. The list of anarchists under surveillance include "Anarchists" (including quotation marks), ("Anarchists") (with quotation marks and round, but not square brackets, which are only for the [Anarchist-mathematicians/algebratian], The Raving Looney Anarchists, The Socialist-Anarchists, The "Bob" Collective, The Communist-Anarchists, The Communist-Anarchists Leninist-Trotskyites, The Libertarian-Anarchists, The Wig (not Whig) Anarchists, The Was (not Was) Anarchists, The People's Front of Anarchism, The Anarchist People's Front, the Anarchist Popular People's Front, the Campaign for a Free Anarchism, and the Popular Front of Anarchism.
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The "anarchists" *brag* about committing violence. If they actually believed what they spout, they'd be daring the police to arrest them, not whining about their civil liberties.
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A friend once said he was thinking of becoming an anarchist, but could not afford their uniform.
In a rundown patch of Detroit, enclosed by a cyclone fence and barbed wire, stands an unremarkable warehouse that investment bank Goldman Sachs has transformed into a money-making machine. The derelict neighborhood off Michigan Avenue is a sharp contrast to Goldman's bustling skyscraper headquarters near Wall Street, but the two operations share one important element: management by the bank's savvy financial professionals.
A string of warehouses in Detroit, most of them operated by Goldman, has stockpiled more than a million tonnes of the industrial metal aluminum, about a quarter of global reported inventories. Simply storing all that metal generates tens of millions of dollars in rental revenues for Goldman every year.
There's just one problem: much less aluminum is leaving the depots than arriving, creating a supply pinch for manufacturers of everything from soft drink cans to aircraft.
The resulting spike in prices has sparked a clash between companies forced to pay more for their aluminum and wait months for it to be delivered, Goldman, which is keen to keep its cash machines humming and the London Metal Exchange (LME), the world's benchmark industrial metals market, which critics accuse of lax oversight.
Analysts question why London's metals market allows big financial players like Goldman to own the warehouses which store huge quantities of metal even as they trade the commodity. Robin Bhar, a veteran metals analyst at Credit Agricole in London says the conflict of interest is so acute he wants U.S. and European anti-trust regulators to weigh in.
"I think it makes a mockery of the market. It's a shame," Bhar said. "This is an anti-competitive situation. It puts (some) companies at an advantage, and clearly the rest of the market at a disadvantage. It's a real, genuine concern. And I think the regulators have to look at it." Read on...
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Yeah, put our money in the stock market.. its a sure thing.
This is getting ridiculous, only insiders can profit at this point. I don't even put into my 401k right now for this exact reason. I'd like, at least a long shot chance at least.
[An Nahar] A dispute between young men from the Joud and Ismail families in the Akkar town of Sahlat al-Qammouha erupted into a fistfight that was followed by a grenade attack on the house of one of the quarrelling men in the Akkar town of Fnaideq, state-run National News Agency reported Sunday. Why'm I thinking of Uncle Earl Joud acting up at the annual clan barbecue? Mahmoud! Fetch my grenades!
The quarrel and the grenade attack caused no casualties, NNA added. Uncle Earl never could shoot straight when he was sloshed. Uncle Earl couldn't shoot straight when he was stone cold sober. Then again, he was never sober...
A Lebanese army unit then intervened to restore calm in the town, arresting a number of people suspected of being involved in the incident, NNA said, adding that army troops were still pursuing several suspects.
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In a rundown patch of Detroit, enclosed by a cyclone fence and barbed wire, stands an unremarkable warehouse that investment bank Goldman Sachs has transformed into a money-making machine. The derelict neighborhood off Michigan Avenue is a sharp contrast to Goldman's bustling skyscraper headquarters near Wall Street, but the two operations share one important element: management by the bank's savvy financial professionals.
[An Nahar] A dispute between young men from the Joud and Ismail families in the Akkar town of Sahlat al-Qammouha erupted into a fistfight that was followed by a grenade attack on the house of one of the quarrelling men in the Akkar town of Fnaideq, state-run National News Agency reported Sunday.
