Yesterday, a guy got squashed in my backyard, by a tree.

[XNASA]

We had some major tree work done at the ol' hacienda yesterday. And one of the workers got squashed by a six or seven-hundred pound tree trunk. I understand it was quite a scene and drew the paramedics, the police, a fire engine (?) and a respresentitive of the village Parks Department (??).

I just heard from the owner of the tree service and he told me his guy is doing fine, except that now he's able to squeeze under a door.

Ouch.

[GOPisEvil]

1. Ouch! That's scary!

Glad the guy's OK.

[BlueJazz]

2. I was playing Baseball yesterday and a hitter

...hit a ground ball to me.
Just before the ball got to me a rabbit stuck his head out of the ground.
I couldn't get to the ball so I picked up the Bunny and threw him to first base.
The good news is though, the hitter was out by a hare.

[Don_G]

3. Trees Can Be Dangerous

Depending on the environment, they can grow twisted or have weak spots because of hardware or branches. I've helped cut a few down and won't do it without cables and a good come-a-long.

[ProudGerman]

4. True story, but you probably won't believe me

I once worked with this one guy who wasn't the brightest light in the chandelier. Great guy, just not someone you ask, "got any ideas?".

Anyways, I was asking him why he was limping at work one day, and his response was a short story he very much regretted telling shortly after telling it. He was helping his granddad with some brush clearing, and granddad decided that a small tree also needed to be cut down. So Doyle (fitting name, huh?) got the chainsaw and started cutting the tree down. He didn't get his cutting angle right, and instead of the tree falling away from him, it sorta hopped off the stump it was now free from, and began falling towards him. Now, at this point, most people would look up, and see where the tree was falling, and run away from that spot. Not Doyle, in true cartoon fashion, he decided against sidestepping the tree, and tried to outrun the length of the tree.

He didn't make it.

[underseasurveyor]

5. Tree trimming can be very dangerous work

The guy that use to live down the block from me was killed a few years ago. Not from a tree falling on him but the boom bucket he was in, trimming 30 or 40 feet in the air (in front of our local hospital no less), broke and crashed to the street below. Dead on impact.

Glad that your unlucky tree guy is still alive.