If you think these terrible tragedies are freak accidents, think again.
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"Many articles refer to the incidents as 'freak accidents,'" he said.
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From corporate malfeasance to freak accidents, the 2010s were full of scandals that rocked the tech industry.
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As I've said elsewhere, things that look like freak accidents, glitches of technology, could be acts of war.
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Unfortunately for Alex, this was one of those freak accidents where he got his foot caught the wrong way.
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Or is it neither — and we just got a series of freak accidents that led us to Donald Trump?
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"To play as long as he had, the injuries he had were more just freak accidents on the field," Hopkins said.
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There have been an unusual amount of freak accidents and deaths on the lake - in 2011, there were 17 deaths alone.
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The doctors behind the report say the best possible way to prevent these sort of freak accidents from happening should be pretty simple.
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" Dietz said it appeared Yelchin hadn't properly put his car in park – he added that it was "just one of those freak accidents.
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Freak accidents or the results of the behavior of others tend not to generate as much remorse as one's own actions and inactions.
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Where broken low kicks on checks are still considered freak accidents by some, they happen to even elite kickboxers when they mistime their kicks.
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And sometimes, a rash of freak accidents puts a particular park in the spotlight, such as the four deaths at Grand Canyon since March.
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As long as viruses keep escaping the lab — in freak accidents, fires, explosions, equipment malfunctions, and human mistakes — we run a risk of catastrophe.
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Freak accidents happen all the time, but few are quite as bizarre as the tale of Philip Metzger, a former NASA planetary physicist who almost lost his hearing after dropping a toilet lid.
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But September and October have seen the US Air Force hit by freak accidents and severe weather causing damage that seems to have crippled the force more than enemy fire has in decades.
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I lack moral fortitude, apparently, because I choose not to suffer through the slings and arrows of ill-advised signings, freak accidents and inadvertently lopsided trades that sink a team in any given year.
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I thought of Edward Gorey's deadpan alphabet books, visiting upon his innocent, tall-collared children the bloodiest freak accidents; and of the great Jackie Chan, mowing down scores of eager antagonists like a weaponized Gene Kelly.
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During sex, masturbation, or freak accidents, a penis can bend so forcefully that the sheath around one or both of the spongy tubes holding the blood creating an erection tears, audibly and painfully, resulting in rapid flaccidity.
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Practically every smartphone in history has had examples of overheating batteries, but most are treated as isolated events and freak accidents — except in Samsung's case, even one malfunctioning Galaxy S8 battery would result in a deluge of negative press.
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Two of his sons died in freak accidents—3-year-old Steve Allen Lewis drowned in a neighbor's swimming pool, while Jerry Lee Lewis, Jr was killed after flipping his Jeep, and two of his wives also died premature deaths.
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Others have been freak accidents—such as the Amazon worker who was crushed by a forklift in Indiana, the one killed by a truck in Pennsylvania, or the two instances of warehouse workers being exposed to bear spray—that, in their totality, paint an unflattering picture of Bezos's empire.
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It generally features narrated videos of criminal behavior, police pursuits, robberies, and freak accidents.
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Overlook began a brain tumor center in 1999. It had 538 beds in 2003. The hospital sometimes treats victims of freak accidents; for example, in 2005 at the PGA Golf Championship Golf at the Baltusrol Golf Club, a tree branch toppled and seriously hurt one man who was taken to Overlook.
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He and his pupil Lom (Лом - rus. "Crowbar") decide to set sail for the starting port, although by one of the many freak accidents that occur during the adventure, their ship's name is changed from "Pobeda" (ПОБЕДА - rus. "Victory") to "Beda" (БЕДА - rus. "Trouble"). Throughout almost the entire journey, Wrongel and Lom have no idea about the hidden purpose of the regatta.
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Emotions are heightened, repressed feelings and secret desires awakened, and inhibitions weakened, turning what once were friendly competitions into bitter rivalries, romantic rivals into violent enemies, and so on. Freak "accidents" have a way of befalling those with whom Christina becomes angry. Sinister forces have their eye on Christina, believing it is the girl's destiny, as the "child of darkness", to "bring [the world] to its knees". Christina is the Antichrist, the child of Satan.
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Nevertheless, no arrests were ever made. A newspaper in Ocala reported a rumor that the coroner's jury had returned a verdict that the seven lynching victims had died in freak accidents, such as running into a barbed wire fence and bleeding to death, or falling out of a tree and choking to death or breaking their necks. Archivist Rebecca Fitzsimmons at the Matheson History Museum has noted that legal documents pertaining to the lynchings have not been found.
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This allows Koichi to finally befriend Mei for good. Koichi and Mei gather more information about the freak accidents from their teacher, Tatsuji Chibiki. Chibiki tells them the truth about the accidents, which are actually a curse connected to Misaki Yomiyama, a student of Class 3-3 who died 26 years ago. After his death, his classmates, unable to let him go, kept pretending that he was still around, even leaving an empty chair for him.
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Freak accidents destroyed much of the wood intended for the fort's construction. As a result, only one duplex of the five planned officers quarters (four duplexes and post commandant's house) was built by 1844, and the intended enlisted barracks were not completed. In his 1844 inspection of the fort, Colonel George Croghan reported that, in comparison to other frontier forts, he considered Fort Scott "above average". Due to the rising tensions that escalated in the Mexican–American War, the US Army redeployed troops to the Southwest.
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The damaged state of the flat reaching its peak, Mark witnesses two consecutive freak accidents; a bookshelf falls and kills his dog, and the living room chandelier collapses and crushes David. Reeling in horror from the events, Mark looks on as Jack appears to repair a high lightbulb atop a wobbly stool, only to fall and pierce his throat with his screwdriver. Pierce then arrives and discovers the corpses, causing him to panic. Hiding in the bathroom, Mark and Pierce plot to control the situation, only for Sally to return.
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Serling's time in Leyte shaped his writing and political views for the rest of his life. He saw death every day while in the Philippines, at the hands of his enemies and his allies, and through freak accidents such as that which killed another Jewish private, Melvin Levy. Levy was delivering a comic monologue for the platoon as they rested under a palm tree when a food crate was dropped from a plane above, decapitating him. Serling led the funeral services for Levy and placed a Star of David over his grave.
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In DC Comics' DC Universe, a metahuman is a human with superpowers. The term is roughly synonymous with both mutant and mutate in the Marvel Universe and posthuman in the Wildstorm and Ultimate Marvel Universes. In DC Comics, the term is used loosely in most instances to refer to any human-like being with extranormal powers and abilities, either cosmic, mutant, science, mystic, skill or tech are in nature. A significant portion of these are normal human beings born with a genetic variant called the "metagene", which causes them to gain powers and abilities during freak accidents or times of intense psychological distress.
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Initially, the Black Cat had no superhuman abilities. Later, a test induced by the Kingpin gave her the psionic ability to affect probability fields; essentially, she could produce "bad luck" for her enemies.Spectacular Spider-Man #89 The "bad luck" power entails that under stress she is subconsciously able to cause anyone in her immediate vicinity that she perceives as a threat to be susceptible to freak accidents, like guns jamming and exploding, or tripping on objects. This ability also had the side effect of eventually causing problems for anyone spending long periods of time around her.
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Since black rats do cluster together during winters for warmth, it could be remotely possible for it to be naturally-occurring. Regarding some of the preserved specimens being fakes, the fabrication would have most likely been done on dead ones, given how difficult it would be if the rats were alive. Proper observation of the phenomenon, under scientific scrutiny, occurring naturally with live rats from the start till the end, has yet to happen. However, experts support it being cases of freak accidents with well-observed instances of it occasionally happening to squirrels—also from the rodent family.
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The hero discovers he is both cursed with bad luck and blessed with a miraculous power - the power to occupy other people's minds - provided he dies first. A series of freak accidents bring him closer and closer to death, until at last he does die - but miraculously transmigrates into the nearest body around. His power to occupy minds is involuntary, and when it happens, he overwhelms those he invades, though he is able to communicate with them. Unwilling to depart from the bodies he occupies, he learns that the only way out of the body he is possessing is by dying, presenting him with an unusual ethical conflict.
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The boys now believe that education is impressive due to Skinner's saving the day, and so Skinner reads Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to the boys until they arrive, which they enjoy. Meanwhile, Homer is late making an insurance payment, and will not be insured until 3:00 PM, so he cannot hurt himself until then. Images of injuries flood his mind when he gets home, envisioning Marge's book club being killed by a series of freak accidents (and Marge making out with Lindsey Naegle). He has to keep the entire book club safe while he is still uninsured, but ends up throwing a knife in Mr. Burns' head at 3:01 as he randomly walks onto the Simpsons' property.
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On May 14, 1993, during game seven of the Patrick Division finals between the New York Islanders and the favored defending Stanley Cup champion Pittsburgh Penguins not only saw one of the greatest upsets in NHL playoff history (with Islanders' overtime goal by David Volek ) but one of the worst freak accidents to ever occur on the ice. Early in the first period, the puck went into the Islanders' corner. The Penguins' star power forward, Kevin Stevens, skated in hard and attempted to hit Pilon who was battling for the puck, but instead was met by Pilon's visor which knocked Stevens unconscious in mid-air. The unprotected fall left Stevens to smash his face on the ice upon impact.
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Chen Tao starts losing his family one by one to freak accidents set up by Luo Xiang while the relationship between him and Chen Jia-bo become strained. Furthermore, when the skeleton of Xiang's son is examined and shows similar structure to Jia-bo's skeletal X-ray scans, Chen Tao begins acting erratically to the point that he murdered some of his former associates, including one of the neighbors that had helped him kill the Luo family. The ghost specialist is called on again and another banishing ceremony is performed after Chen-To recovers the skeletons of Luo Xiang and his wife. Luo Xiang's skeleton is cast into the fire, forcing the ghost into the afterlife.
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Although these policies have existed since 1964, they were not enforced until general managers voted to enforce it in the 2013–14 season. Some reporters suggested that enforcing uniform rules was the National Hockey League's attempt to reduce freak accidents where a player's body was cut by skate blade while others said the league was laying down rules for eventually selling advertising space that would display prominently on the entire jersey. In a September 2013 pre-season game between the Carolina Hurricanes and the Columbus Blue Jackets, Alexander Semin became the first player penalized for this infraction. After receiving an official's initial warning in that game, his jersey became tucked in again after scoring the second goal in that game.
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As numerous criminals and convicts around the world begin to die of inexplicable freak accidents and heart attacks, the global media begin to believe that a single mastermind is responsible for the mysterious murders and name him , who is both feared and beloved by the public and law enforcement agencies. Hoping to apprehend Kira, Interpol requests the assistance of an enigmatic and highly esteemed international consulting detective, known as L, who has cracked numerous crime cases around the world, to assist them in the investigation. After deducing that Kira is based in Japan, L stages a TV broadcast in which he tricks Light into revealing that he is in the Kanto region of Japan by manipulating him to kill a decoy. Furious, Light vows to kill L, whom he views as obstructing his plans.
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