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Related: Culture Forums, Support Forums2,000 miles from Fargo, a real-life death by wood chipper
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2012/01/13/state/n051300S24.DTLA Northern California tree trimmer has been decapitated after an industrial wood chipper apparently sucked up a rope tangled around his neck.
Nevada County sheriff's deputies initially said 50-year-old Martin Lara was feeding brush and was pulled head-first into the wood chipper by the rope.
But coroner's Sgt. Paul Schmidt tells Sacramento's KCRA-TV ( http://bit.ly/w4SqEP) that something got caught in the wood chipper and got tangled around Lara's neck, decapitating him.
Schmidt couldn't confirm it was a rope that tightened around his neck.
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2,000 miles from Fargo, a real-life death by wood chipper (Original Post)
KamaAina
Jan 2012
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Taverner
(55,476 posts)1. Um, ow....
rrneck
(17,671 posts)2. It's worse than that.
Large wood chippers that I've seen don't "snatch" the limbs quickly but rather have toothed rollers that slowly pull the limb into the chipper. Think about it.
edbermac
(15,919 posts)3. The Fargo guy wasn't killed by a wood chipper.
His partner whacked him with an ax, then put the remains in the wood chipper.
You betcha!
UnrepentantLiberal
(11,700 posts)4. How do you get a rope rapped around your neck
while you're wood chipping?
bluedigger
(17,077 posts)9. Like this guy.
UnrepentantLiberal
(11,700 posts)10. Rope --> wood chipper. Got it.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)5. Woodchipper, eh?
dimbear
(6,271 posts)6. It's a panic situation. The important thing is not to go to pieces. Especially keep your head. n/t
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)7. Poor guy
Turbineguy
(37,212 posts)8. A terrible thing
unless it happened to Rush Limbaugh.
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)11. UFFDA!!! Wow!