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Police said the unidentified driver told them he was 'trying to travel through time.'
Instead, he traveled through two present-time businesses, causing huge amounts of damage.
'He stated that he was driving at high speeds on the interstate in an attempt to enter a time portal, and that he did not leave the time portal until the crash occurred,' according to a police report.
The driver has reportedly been issued a citation for reckless driving and is also in the hospital being evaluated
Man who said he was trying to 'travel through time' smashes car through two Florida businesses (should have been driving a De Lorean) | Daily Mail Online
Instead, he traveled through two present-time businesses, causing huge amounts of damage.
'He stated that he was driving at high speeds on the interstate in an attempt to enter a time portal, and that he did not leave the time portal until the crash occurred,' according to a police report.
The driver has reportedly been issued a citation for reckless driving and is also in the hospital being evaluated
Man who said he was trying to 'travel through time' smashes car through two Florida businesses (should have been driving a De Lorean) | Daily Mail Online
Police said the unidentified driver told them he was 'trying to travel through time.'
Instead, he traveled through two present-time businesses, causing huge amounts of damage.
'He stated that he was driving at high speeds on the interstate in an attempt to enter a time portal, and that he did not leave the time portal until the crash occurred,' according to a police report.
The driver has reportedly been issued a citation for reckless driving and is also in the hospital being evaluated
Man who said he was trying to 'travel through time' smashes car through two Florida businesses (should have been driving a De Lorean) | Daily Mail Online
Not really a Darwin award is it? Unless the accident resulted in the castration of the driver.
Man dies in Germany after blowing up condom machine
Reuters
First posted: Monday, December 28, 2015 08:44 AM EST | Updated: Monday, December 28, 2015 09:21 AM EST
BERLIN - A man died on Christmas Day in Germany after he was hit in the head by a flying piece of metal from a condom machine that he and two accomplices blew up in an apparent robbery attempt, police said on Monday.
The 29-year-old man was taken to hospital in the western town of Schoeppingen, near the Dutch border, by the two other men who fled the scene of the explosion in a car, leaving behind condoms and money scattered around the gutted vending machine.
The two men told hospital officials that their friend had fallen down the stairs, injuring his head. Suspicious of their story, the officials called the police.
During questioning, police said, one of them admitted that the three had blown up the condom machine, and that their cohort was hit in the head by metal as he tried to take cover from the explosion.
Man dies in Germany after blowing up condom machine | World | News | Toronto Sun
Reuters
First posted: Monday, December 28, 2015 08:44 AM EST | Updated: Monday, December 28, 2015 09:21 AM EST
BERLIN - A man died on Christmas Day in Germany after he was hit in the head by a flying piece of metal from a condom machine that he and two accomplices blew up in an apparent robbery attempt, police said on Monday.
The 29-year-old man was taken to hospital in the western town of Schoeppingen, near the Dutch border, by the two other men who fled the scene of the explosion in a car, leaving behind condoms and money scattered around the gutted vending machine.
The two men told hospital officials that their friend had fallen down the stairs, injuring his head. Suspicious of their story, the officials called the police.
During questioning, police said, one of them admitted that the three had blown up the condom machine, and that their cohort was hit in the head by metal as he tried to take cover from the explosion.
Man dies in Germany after blowing up condom machine | World | News | Toronto Sun
So close yet so far away........
A 24-year-old man slipped and fell to his death as he and a friend tried to scale the Four Seasons Hotel in Midtown Manhattan on Wednesday night using scaffolding near the top of the tower, the police said.
The man, Conner Cummings, of Rockaway, N.J., and his friend had reached the 51st floor of the 52-story hotel around 11:15 p.m. after getting access to one of the building’s midlevel roofs and clambering up scaffolding attached to an air shaft.
Man trying to climb NY's 4 Seasons Hotel plunges to death - Press of Atlantic City: Ap
A 24-year-old man slipped and fell to his death as he and a friend tried to scale the Four Seasons Hotel in Midtown Manhattan on Wednesday night using scaffolding near the top of the tower, the police said.
The man, Conner Cummings, of Rockaway, N.J., and his friend had reached the 51st floor of the 52-story hotel around 11:15 p.m. after getting access to one of the building’s midlevel roofs and clambering up scaffolding attached to an air shaft.
Man trying to climb NY's 4 Seasons Hotel plunges to death - Press of Atlantic City: Ap
California wingsuit flier dies after jump from Arizona cliff
Felicia Fonseca, The Associated Press
First posted: Thursday, January 14, 2016 09:46 AM EST | Updated: Thursday, January 14, 2016 09:58 AM EST
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- A California man has died while wingsuit-flying among remote cliffs on the Arizona-Utah border, authorities said.
The Coconino County Sheriff's Office said Wednesday that it is devising a plan to recover the body of Mathew Kenney, 29, of Santa Cruz. It is trapped in a crevice about 600 feet below where he jumped Tuesday in the Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness -- a rugged, desolate landscape that is hard to navigate, sheriff's Lt. Bret Axlund said.
Kenney hit a wall after jumping with a wingsuit, but investigators said they're not sure exactly how it happened. Once they reach his body, they will examine his equipment, Axlund said.
Patches of ice and steep terrain atop the canyon walls kept a helicopter from landing Tuesday to try to reach the body.
Wingsuit flying is one of the most extreme forms of BASE jumping -- BASE being an acronym of the different platforms, "building, antenna, span and earth." Wingsuit fliers glide frighteningly close to cliffs and trees in their suits that resemble flying squirrels. It is illegal in national parks but not in the wilderness area where Kenney jumped.
Kenney's close friend, Matt Frohlich, said Kenney was an experienced, talented jumper who had travelled around the world. He said he was thankful for the respect and professionalism that authorities have shown Kenney's friends and family.
"It's a pretty big hit to the community," he said. "It is sad."
In an early 2015 interview with Phoenix television station KPHO, Kenney described the nervousness and anticipation that comes with BASE jumping. He and a fellow skydiving instructor had jumped from the roof of a Tempe apartment complex and spent the night in jail for trespassing, the station reported.
"We get a bad rap from everybody because there's a lot of misunderstanding as to what we do," Kenney told the station. "They just think we are crazy adrenaline junkies that are jumping off cliffs with primitive parachute technology, when really what we do, if practiced properly, is pretty safe and pretty cool and pretty fun."
Kenney's death is the first attributed to BASE jumping in the Bureau of Land Management's Arizona Strip District, which encompasses much of the far northwestern corner of the state north of the Grand Canyon, BLM spokeswoman Rachel Carnahan said. The area is popular with hikers for its slot canyons and a formation known as The Wave, a geologic formation with swirls of searing reds, oranges and yellows that fold into a bowl.
The agency is not considering any restrictions on BASE jumping as a result of Kenney's death, Carnahan said.
"We're constantly monitoring safety in backcountry areas," she said. "Certainly we would take a look at the regulations and policies again if it looked like it was becoming a trend."
Authorities in northern Arizona have had to respond to other BASE-jumping fatalities in recent years. A Norwegian man died in 2012 when a gust of wind blew him into a canyon wall and his parachute malfunctioned. The sheriff's office said he fell about 1,000 feet onto the canyon floor near the Little Colorado River.
More recently in 2014, a Canadian man wearing a wingsuit died after trauma from a fall near the confluence of the Little Colorado and Colorado rivers. His friends reported seeing him about 2,000 feet below the top of a canyon.
This Jan. 13, 2016 photo provided by the Arizona Department of Public Safety shows an area of the Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness in Marble Canyon, Ariz., a rugged, desolate landscape that is hard to navigate, where a California man died while wingsuit flying among the remote cliffs on the Arizona-Utah border, authorities said. (Arizona Department of Public Safety via AP)
California wingsuit flier dies after jump from Arizona cliff | World | News | To
Felicia Fonseca, The Associated Press
First posted: Thursday, January 14, 2016 09:46 AM EST | Updated: Thursday, January 14, 2016 09:58 AM EST
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- A California man has died while wingsuit-flying among remote cliffs on the Arizona-Utah border, authorities said.
The Coconino County Sheriff's Office said Wednesday that it is devising a plan to recover the body of Mathew Kenney, 29, of Santa Cruz. It is trapped in a crevice about 600 feet below where he jumped Tuesday in the Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness -- a rugged, desolate landscape that is hard to navigate, sheriff's Lt. Bret Axlund said.
Kenney hit a wall after jumping with a wingsuit, but investigators said they're not sure exactly how it happened. Once they reach his body, they will examine his equipment, Axlund said.
Patches of ice and steep terrain atop the canyon walls kept a helicopter from landing Tuesday to try to reach the body.
Wingsuit flying is one of the most extreme forms of BASE jumping -- BASE being an acronym of the different platforms, "building, antenna, span and earth." Wingsuit fliers glide frighteningly close to cliffs and trees in their suits that resemble flying squirrels. It is illegal in national parks but not in the wilderness area where Kenney jumped.
Kenney's close friend, Matt Frohlich, said Kenney was an experienced, talented jumper who had travelled around the world. He said he was thankful for the respect and professionalism that authorities have shown Kenney's friends and family.
"It's a pretty big hit to the community," he said. "It is sad."
In an early 2015 interview with Phoenix television station KPHO, Kenney described the nervousness and anticipation that comes with BASE jumping. He and a fellow skydiving instructor had jumped from the roof of a Tempe apartment complex and spent the night in jail for trespassing, the station reported.
"We get a bad rap from everybody because there's a lot of misunderstanding as to what we do," Kenney told the station. "They just think we are crazy adrenaline junkies that are jumping off cliffs with primitive parachute technology, when really what we do, if practiced properly, is pretty safe and pretty cool and pretty fun."
Kenney's death is the first attributed to BASE jumping in the Bureau of Land Management's Arizona Strip District, which encompasses much of the far northwestern corner of the state north of the Grand Canyon, BLM spokeswoman Rachel Carnahan said. The area is popular with hikers for its slot canyons and a formation known as The Wave, a geologic formation with swirls of searing reds, oranges and yellows that fold into a bowl.
The agency is not considering any restrictions on BASE jumping as a result of Kenney's death, Carnahan said.
"We're constantly monitoring safety in backcountry areas," she said. "Certainly we would take a look at the regulations and policies again if it looked like it was becoming a trend."
Authorities in northern Arizona have had to respond to other BASE-jumping fatalities in recent years. A Norwegian man died in 2012 when a gust of wind blew him into a canyon wall and his parachute malfunctioned. The sheriff's office said he fell about 1,000 feet onto the canyon floor near the Little Colorado River.
More recently in 2014, a Canadian man wearing a wingsuit died after trauma from a fall near the confluence of the Little Colorado and Colorado rivers. His friends reported seeing him about 2,000 feet below the top of a canyon.
This Jan. 13, 2016 photo provided by the Arizona Department of Public Safety shows an area of the Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness in Marble Canyon, Ariz., a rugged, desolate landscape that is hard to navigate, where a California man died while wingsuit flying among the remote cliffs on the Arizona-Utah border, authorities said. (Arizona Department of Public Safety via AP)
California wingsuit flier dies after jump from Arizona cliff | World | News | To
It doesn't get any sadder than that! I would have thought perhaps the exhaust would have melted the snow.
Not sure how this would meet the "Darwin" criteria. More like a horrible accident.
Man sets himself on fire outside London palace of Prince William
Reuters
First posted: Tuesday, February 09, 2016 08:25 AM EST | Updated: Tuesday, February 09, 2016 08:33 AM EST
LONDON - A man died on Tuesday after setting himself on fire outside Kensington Palace, the London home of Prince William and his wife Kate, police said.
The incident was not being treated as suspicious or related to terrorism, they added.
Police said they had been alerted just after midnight by officials from a central London hospital to say a man in their care had failed to return.
Three hours later, officers were called to a site near the locked parks of the palace, located in Kensington Gardens in central London, after reports of a man acting suspiciously. When they arrived they found the man, in his 40s, ablaze.
He was declared dead not long afterwards.
Kensington Palace is the official London residence of William although he, Kate and their two children, George and Charlotte, spend most of their time at their country mansion in Norfolk, eastern England, close to where the prince works as an air ambulance helicopter pilot.
Man sets himself on fire outside London palace of Prince William | World | News
Reuters
First posted: Tuesday, February 09, 2016 08:25 AM EST | Updated: Tuesday, February 09, 2016 08:33 AM EST
LONDON - A man died on Tuesday after setting himself on fire outside Kensington Palace, the London home of Prince William and his wife Kate, police said.
The incident was not being treated as suspicious or related to terrorism, they added.
Police said they had been alerted just after midnight by officials from a central London hospital to say a man in their care had failed to return.
Three hours later, officers were called to a site near the locked parks of the palace, located in Kensington Gardens in central London, after reports of a man acting suspiciously. When they arrived they found the man, in his 40s, ablaze.
He was declared dead not long afterwards.
Kensington Palace is the official London residence of William although he, Kate and their two children, George and Charlotte, spend most of their time at their country mansion in Norfolk, eastern England, close to where the prince works as an air ambulance helicopter pilot.
Man sets himself on fire outside London palace of Prince William | World | News
Man who fell through Keg Mansion skylight dies
By Jenny Yuen, Toronto Sun
First posted: Wednesday, February 17, 2016 03:26 PM EST | Updated: Wednesday, February 17, 2016 03:35 PM EST
TORONTO - A 23-year-old man who broke into the downtown Keg Mansion and fell through the restaurant’s third-floor skylight has died.
Toronto Police arrived at the heritage Massey property on Jarvis St., north of Wellesley St., just after 6:30 a.m. Sunday and found a man unconscious in the lobby. He was taken to hospital, but died on Monday.
“They’ve got security video footage and there were people inside the Keg Mansion when he fell,” Const. Jenifferjit Sidhu said Wednesday. “He wasn’t supposed to be in there. I’m not sure if he was in there to get warm, but I don’t think so.”
The Mississauga man may have gained access to the top of the building through a side stairway, police said.
Officers have contacted his mother as next-of-kin, but are not releasing his name.
He was not an employee of the restaurant.
Investigators say it’s unclear why the man broke into building prior to falling through the stained glass window.
“This whole thing is weird,” Sidhu said.
jenny.yuen@sunmedia.ca
Man who fell through Keg Mansion skylight dies | Toronto & GTA | News | Toronto
By Jenny Yuen, Toronto Sun
First posted: Wednesday, February 17, 2016 03:26 PM EST | Updated: Wednesday, February 17, 2016 03:35 PM EST
TORONTO - A 23-year-old man who broke into the downtown Keg Mansion and fell through the restaurant’s third-floor skylight has died.
Toronto Police arrived at the heritage Massey property on Jarvis St., north of Wellesley St., just after 6:30 a.m. Sunday and found a man unconscious in the lobby. He was taken to hospital, but died on Monday.
“They’ve got security video footage and there were people inside the Keg Mansion when he fell,” Const. Jenifferjit Sidhu said Wednesday. “He wasn’t supposed to be in there. I’m not sure if he was in there to get warm, but I don’t think so.”
The Mississauga man may have gained access to the top of the building through a side stairway, police said.
Officers have contacted his mother as next-of-kin, but are not releasing his name.
He was not an employee of the restaurant.
Investigators say it’s unclear why the man broke into building prior to falling through the stained glass window.
“This whole thing is weird,” Sidhu said.
jenny.yuen@sunmedia.ca
Man who fell through Keg Mansion skylight dies | Toronto & GTA | News | Toronto
Man taking selfies with gun fatally shoots himself
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First posted: Wednesday, March 02, 2016 10:09 PM EST | Updated: Wednesday, March 02, 2016 10:17 PM EST
CONCRETE, Wash. -- A 43-year-old man has died after authorities say he accidentally shot himself in the face while taking selfies.
The Skagit Valley Herald reports the man and his girlfriend were photographing themselves with the weapon on Sunday at a residence when he shot himself.
Skagit County Sheriff's Office Patrol Chief Chad Clark says the woman reported that she and the man had taken photos with the gun several times that day and that the man had loaded and unloaded bullets multiple times.
Clark says a bullet apparently remained in the gun the final time he fired.
The death is being investigated as accidental. The man's name has not been released.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First posted: Wednesday, March 02, 2016 10:09 PM EST | Updated: Wednesday, March 02, 2016 10:17 PM EST
CONCRETE, Wash. -- A 43-year-old man has died after authorities say he accidentally shot himself in the face while taking selfies.
The Skagit Valley Herald reports the man and his girlfriend were photographing themselves with the weapon on Sunday at a residence when he shot himself.
Skagit County Sheriff's Office Patrol Chief Chad Clark says the woman reported that she and the man had taken photos with the gun several times that day and that the man had loaded and unloaded bullets multiple times.
Clark says a bullet apparently remained in the gun the final time he fired.
The death is being investigated as accidental. The man's name has not been released.
A 32-year-old Walton County man’s leg was severed just below the knee with a piece of shrapnel when he and his friends blew up a lawn mower in a rural location near his home on Saturday.
The men were using Tannerite to blow up the riding mower, according to the Walton County Sheriff’s Office. Tannerite is a combination of chemicals sold legally at most gun and sporting goods stores.
David Thomas Presley was airlifted to Grady Hospital in Atlanta, where his condition was unavailable Wednesday.
One of the men at the site explained they put about three pounds of Tannerite inside the mower and Presley was shooting a gun at the Tannerite to ignite an explosion.
When a piece of the metal sheared Presley’s leg off, the friends placed him in a vehicle and drove to the end of a driveway, where they were met by an ambulance, according to the report.
Tannerite is composed of two chemicals and only explodes if hit by a high velocity object such as bullet. The mixture is sold as an exploding target. One state, Maryland, has banned its sale to the public except those with a license to have explosives.
The Walton County Sheriff’s Office urged users on its Facebook page to be careful with the substance.
“Yes, it is legal and no, we can’t make people stop doing it. But why folks, just why,” the post read. “Please adhere to the warnings and use this dangerous material with caution or maybe consider other less dangerous hobbies.”
About six months ago near Muskegon, Mich., a man had his leg severed when he used Tannerite to blow up a 55-gallon metal drum, according to a report by Muskegon’s Fox 32. That man was standing about 50 yards away from the drum.
Walton County man's leg severed while blowing up lawn mower | Online Athens
The men were using Tannerite to blow up the riding mower, according to the Walton County Sheriff’s Office. Tannerite is a combination of chemicals sold legally at most gun and sporting goods stores.
David Thomas Presley was airlifted to Grady Hospital in Atlanta, where his condition was unavailable Wednesday.
One of the men at the site explained they put about three pounds of Tannerite inside the mower and Presley was shooting a gun at the Tannerite to ignite an explosion.
When a piece of the metal sheared Presley’s leg off, the friends placed him in a vehicle and drove to the end of a driveway, where they were met by an ambulance, according to the report.
Tannerite is composed of two chemicals and only explodes if hit by a high velocity object such as bullet. The mixture is sold as an exploding target. One state, Maryland, has banned its sale to the public except those with a license to have explosives.
The Walton County Sheriff’s Office urged users on its Facebook page to be careful with the substance.
“Yes, it is legal and no, we can’t make people stop doing it. But why folks, just why,” the post read. “Please adhere to the warnings and use this dangerous material with caution or maybe consider other less dangerous hobbies.”
About six months ago near Muskegon, Mich., a man had his leg severed when he used Tannerite to blow up a 55-gallon metal drum, according to a report by Muskegon’s Fox 32. That man was standing about 50 yards away from the drum.
Walton County man's leg severed while blowing up lawn mower | Online Athens
