Garlic CAN kill you!

Today's Weighed Down Yet Truly Morbid Fact!

In May 2004, fifteen Chinese workers were killed when storage shelves stacked high with garlic collapsed in central China. Some 34 workers were buried by tonnes of garlic after 10-metre (30 foot) high shelving broke at Chenzhai Cold Storage in Zhengzhou city, Henan province. A major rescue operation was launched - with 15 bodies recovered and 19 people pulled out alive and taken to hospitals. Chinese newspapers said the accident happened on Wednesday morning as the workers were stacking garlic cloves. Rescuers worked throughout the day and into the night to dig out the workers weighed down by the garlic and metal beams. The cause of the accident is under investigation. Thousands of people are killed by accidents at work in China every year.

Culled from: BBC
Generously submitted by: Amos Quito

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Wretched Recommendations!

Sam Mori has a book recommendation for us - sounds like a winner to me!

Plagues and Peoples by William H. McNeill

"I had to read this my freshman year of college and could not put it down. It details the spread of disease and infection through the course of human history. I think it provides an interesting perspective on disease epidemics of the past - it doesn't romanticize the situations one way or the other. For once."

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Morbid Link Du Jour!

Here's a useful site which contains links to haunted places in all 50 states: The Shadow Lands Places So you can be disappointed at not seeing ghosts everywhere you go!! (Sorry, that's my bitterness creeping in again...)