Seeing your mother killed by a sand yacht
Today's Horrifying Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
A teenager told of the horrifying moment he saw his mother killed by a sand yacht on a crowded beach. Steffan Cruz was holding his mother Carole's hand when Adrian Warren careered into her at 45MPH, severing her legs and breaking her back. The boy managed to jump out of the way and ran to his mother, whose first words were: 'I'm a cripple, I want to die.' Steffan, 14, who was 12 at the time, said: 'I just froze. It just felt like a nightmare. I felt really lightheaded. You just can't believe seeing your mum like that. A part of me knew she was dying. I just tried to make her feel better, just to make her feel that she wasn't alone, I was there with her. I know I couldn't, but I have got this feeling I could have moved her out of the way. It was impossible, but I have got that sinking feeling inside me that I could have done something. They're the worst things because they haunt you. She was being brave because she probably knew she was going to die.'
Mrs. Cruz, 38, was dragged 100 yards along the beach by the sand yacht. When Steffan reached her, he grabbed her hand to comfort her. He recalled: 'First of all she said, "I'm a cripple, I want to die," and then we heard her groaning. I told her it would be OK and everyone loved her. Then she said she believed me and we said it was going to be OK, and then I kissed her and then she started wheezing. I thought she was just having a little bit of a problem breathing, but it turned out her lungs were collapsing. Her eyes just looked straight forward and I thought she was actually focusing on something. She didn't blink or anything and then her stomach was going up and down really rapidly, but there didn't seem to be any air coming out of her mouth.'
Mrs. Cruz was pronounced dead in hospital about an hour later. Just before the tragedy, she and her son had been discussing how dangerous the yachts were. In police interviews played to the court, Steffan said: 'It must have been a couple of minutes before she got hit that she said that the sand yachts could go really fast. So I turned round and said that somebody's going to get hit by one of them one of these days. She agreed with me. Then a sand yacht came back down towards us and I saw it first. I don't think she saw it, and I told her to watch out. I jumped a few metres away from it and then it hit her. It came up behind her and she got hit right on the back of her legs. I don't think she even saw it coming. She came hurtling into the air and then, as if her legs went numb, she dropped straight to her knees. It was moving, so it took her underneath it, like a dummy or something.'
Warren admitted being preoccupied with his race when he hit Mrs. Cruz at St. Anne's, near Blackpool. Witnesses said the yachts were 'dodging' beachgoers, and one spoke of 'an accident waiting to happen.' Warren, a 49-year-old married lorry driver, was racing 12 others when Mrs. Cruz was struck by the wooden offside rear axle of the yacht - which weighed 37-stone with the pilot in it. Both her legs were 'virtually amputated' above her ankles. Her back was broken after being lashed by the securing wire which runs from the mast of the yacht to the offside axle.
Culled from: Daily Mail
Generously submitted by: Katchaya
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Horrific Hollywood!
David has a morbid heads-up from the latest James Bond movie:
"I don't know if you're a 007 fan or not, but there is a scene in Casino Royale that involves an exhibit of Gunther von Hagen's Body Worlds. In addition to being a good movie, it's fun to see some good morbidity thrown in."
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Morbid Mirth Du Jour!
Cavity juice is a strong formalin (formaldahyde) used in embalming. Here's a joke for all you would-be morticians out there:
Q: What do maggots do when you pour cavity fluid on them?
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A: The backstroke.
You can thank Jamie for that one!
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"My Brush With Morbidity" by number 9
"I was driving down I-75 with a friend of mine near Cincinnati, not paying too much attention, when traffic came to a screeching halt. I saw a woman standing in the middle lane (of three) frantically waving me to the left. I pulled off to the left shoulder to drive by the accident. A few feet past the woman, I saw a man lying face down in the left lane. As I got closer, I saw that the back of his head was missing. My friend who was sitting in the passenger seat let out an 'oh my God' gasp, looking down on the body from the window. I found out later that he had been thrown from a car by a collision and then smacked by a semi, knocking him out of his shoes (and skull). What I'll never forget is when driving by, I drove through a pool of blood leaking from his head. Every time I pass through a puddle, I hear the sound of blood splashing into my wheel wells."
Blood in the tracks, quite literally!
Nice semi-Bob Dylan reference. (Blood On The Tracks)
A teenager told of the horrifying moment he saw his mother killed by a sand yacht on a crowded beach. Steffan Cruz was holding his mother Carole's hand when Adrian Warren careered into her at 45MPH, severing her legs and breaking her back. The boy managed to jump out of the way and ran to his mother, whose first words were: 'I'm a cripple, I want to die.' Steffan, 14, who was 12 at the time, said: 'I just froze. It just felt like a nightmare. I felt really lightheaded. You just can't believe seeing your mum like that. A part of me knew she was dying. I just tried to make her feel better, just to make her feel that she wasn't alone, I was there with her. I know I couldn't, but I have got this feeling I could have moved her out of the way. It was impossible, but I have got that sinking feeling inside me that I could have done something. They're the worst things because they haunt you. She was being brave because she probably knew she was going to die.'
Mrs. Cruz, 38, was dragged 100 yards along the beach by the sand yacht. When Steffan reached her, he grabbed her hand to comfort her. He recalled: 'First of all she said, "I'm a cripple, I want to die," and then we heard her groaning. I told her it would be OK and everyone loved her. Then she said she believed me and we said it was going to be OK, and then I kissed her and then she started wheezing. I thought she was just having a little bit of a problem breathing, but it turned out her lungs were collapsing. Her eyes just looked straight forward and I thought she was actually focusing on something. She didn't blink or anything and then her stomach was going up and down really rapidly, but there didn't seem to be any air coming out of her mouth.'
Mrs. Cruz was pronounced dead in hospital about an hour later. Just before the tragedy, she and her son had been discussing how dangerous the yachts were. In police interviews played to the court, Steffan said: 'It must have been a couple of minutes before she got hit that she said that the sand yachts could go really fast. So I turned round and said that somebody's going to get hit by one of them one of these days. She agreed with me. Then a sand yacht came back down towards us and I saw it first. I don't think she saw it, and I told her to watch out. I jumped a few metres away from it and then it hit her. It came up behind her and she got hit right on the back of her legs. I don't think she even saw it coming. She came hurtling into the air and then, as if her legs went numb, she dropped straight to her knees. It was moving, so it took her underneath it, like a dummy or something.'
Warren admitted being preoccupied with his race when he hit Mrs. Cruz at St. Anne's, near Blackpool. Witnesses said the yachts were 'dodging' beachgoers, and one spoke of 'an accident waiting to happen.' Warren, a 49-year-old married lorry driver, was racing 12 others when Mrs. Cruz was struck by the wooden offside rear axle of the yacht - which weighed 37-stone with the pilot in it. Both her legs were 'virtually amputated' above her ankles. Her back was broken after being lashed by the securing wire which runs from the mast of the yacht to the offside axle.
Culled from: Daily Mail
Generously submitted by: Katchaya
**********************************************************************
I must sadly inform you that Morbid Fact Du Jour will be on hiatus until November 28th while The Comtesse is away visiting her family in Catatonia. Please stay morbid in her stead!
*******
Horrific Hollywood!
David has a morbid heads-up from the latest James Bond movie:
"I don't know if you're a 007 fan or not, but there is a scene in Casino Royale that involves an exhibit of Gunther von Hagen's Body Worlds. In addition to being a good movie, it's fun to see some good morbidity thrown in."
*******
Morbid Mirth Du Jour!
Cavity juice is a strong formalin (formaldahyde) used in embalming. Here's a joke for all you would-be morticians out there:
Q: What do maggots do when you pour cavity fluid on them?
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
A: The backstroke.
You can thank Jamie for that one!
*******
"My Brush With Morbidity" by number 9
"I was driving down I-75 with a friend of mine near Cincinnati, not paying too much attention, when traffic came to a screeching halt. I saw a woman standing in the middle lane (of three) frantically waving me to the left. I pulled off to the left shoulder to drive by the accident. A few feet past the woman, I saw a man lying face down in the left lane. As I got closer, I saw that the back of his head was missing. My friend who was sitting in the passenger seat let out an 'oh my God' gasp, looking down on the body from the window. I found out later that he had been thrown from a car by a collision and then smacked by a semi, knocking him out of his shoes (and skull). What I'll never forget is when driving by, I drove through a pool of blood leaking from his head. Every time I pass through a puddle, I hear the sound of blood splashing into my wheel wells."
Blood in the tracks, quite literally!
Nice semi-Bob Dylan reference. (Blood On The Tracks)
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