Unwittingly falling off a bridge, war photos, ravens and spirits
Today's Dark Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
A Massachusetts native and popular captain of a sightseeing riverboat in Tuscaloosa fell to his death from an interstate bridge following a traffic crash. Michael Medeiros, 59, originally from Fall River, Mass., was driving behind his wife, Nikki, in the southbound lane of Interstate 20/59 when several 18-foot flatbed trailers fell off a truck onto the roadway. Nikki Medeiros and the driver of another vehicle, Angelina Spyre, 26, of Eutaw, crashed into each other while trying to avoid the spilled trailers. When Michael Medeiros stopped his car on the bridge after the crash to check on his wife, Sartain said he stepped over a barrier rail in the darkness and fell 70 feet. Sartain said Medeiros apparently didn't realize he was on a bridge. His wife was not injured in the accident. Spyre was taken to a local hospital with injuries.
Culled from: The Tuscaloosa News
Generously submitted by: T.S.
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You know, I can completely understand how this could happen to the guy. Once upon a time, I was doing my customary 3-hour-drive home from a concert, and started getting sleepy and swerving around the road at 3 AM. Seeing the cop lights in my rear view mirror woke me up and I immediately pulled over. The cop told me to go to the mini mart down the street and get out and walk around to wake myself up. And he left me with, "Next time, don't pull over on a bridge." I didn't even realize I was on a bridge. So, see, if it can happen to me, it can happen to Michael...
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Ghastly!
Rob stumbled across an amazing photograph at the World War II National Archives. It is the execution of a French Resistance fighter by the Nazis in 1944. Taken the instant the bullets hit his body, you can see the rope he was tied with being severed and the wood stake splintering. Here's a link to the full site.
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Wretched Recommendations!
Black-Haired-Lass has a fiction recommendation for us:
A Fine & Private Place by Peter Beagle
"A beautifully-written novel about two spirits, trapped in the graveyard in which their bodies are buried, who fall in love, aided by a man living in a mausoleum and a talking raven. It's truly engrossing and not schmaltzy!"
A Massachusetts native and popular captain of a sightseeing riverboat in Tuscaloosa fell to his death from an interstate bridge following a traffic crash. Michael Medeiros, 59, originally from Fall River, Mass., was driving behind his wife, Nikki, in the southbound lane of Interstate 20/59 when several 18-foot flatbed trailers fell off a truck onto the roadway. Nikki Medeiros and the driver of another vehicle, Angelina Spyre, 26, of Eutaw, crashed into each other while trying to avoid the spilled trailers. When Michael Medeiros stopped his car on the bridge after the crash to check on his wife, Sartain said he stepped over a barrier rail in the darkness and fell 70 feet. Sartain said Medeiros apparently didn't realize he was on a bridge. His wife was not injured in the accident. Spyre was taken to a local hospital with injuries.
Culled from: The Tuscaloosa News
Generously submitted by: T.S.
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You know, I can completely understand how this could happen to the guy. Once upon a time, I was doing my customary 3-hour-drive home from a concert, and started getting sleepy and swerving around the road at 3 AM. Seeing the cop lights in my rear view mirror woke me up and I immediately pulled over. The cop told me to go to the mini mart down the street and get out and walk around to wake myself up. And he left me with, "Next time, don't pull over on a bridge." I didn't even realize I was on a bridge. So, see, if it can happen to me, it can happen to Michael...
*******
Ghastly!
Rob stumbled across an amazing photograph at the World War II National Archives. It is the execution of a French Resistance fighter by the Nazis in 1944. Taken the instant the bullets hit his body, you can see the rope he was tied with being severed and the wood stake splintering. Here's a link to the full site.
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Wretched Recommendations!
Black-Haired-Lass has a fiction recommendation for us:
A Fine & Private Place by Peter Beagle
"A beautifully-written novel about two spirits, trapped in the graveyard in which their bodies are buried, who fall in love, aided by a man living in a mausoleum and a talking raven. It's truly engrossing and not schmaltzy!"
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