Ryan McGeeney spent six months in Afghanistan as a Marine, and thought that working at the Standard-Examiner as a newspaper photographer would be safer work. Well, there are no guarantees in life. He was speared through the leg by an errant javelin while working at a high school state track meet, but was fortunate enough [...]

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This picture is from a bizarre incident near Dallas, Texas, when a plane landed on top of another plane. Both of the pilots seemed to think the other would give way, one plane was trying to take off and one plane was trying to land. The planes collided on the runway, with the landing plane [...]

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Preparing for a good old-fashioned car-ba-que?
This is not how you get a party started. A man having a barbecue in southern Germany turned an average grill party into a $60,000 fiasco with a simple incindiery mistake. The man poured a beaker of fluid into the charcoal of his balcony grill in order to start the [...]

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A Forth Worth man trying to deal with a pesky itch on his back left his poker game to find something to scratch the itch. Finding nothing better than a gun (not pictured), the man figured what other way to get rid of the itch than to shoot it off. Pretty logical right? No, not [...]

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No, Fonz, it wasn’t a “happy day” for this guy…
In Rock Island, Tennessee, Justin Hill went from having a decent day to probably one of the worst in his life. Turning into his driveway without yielding to an oncoming car, Hill’s car was hit and injured by the accident. Since it was in his driveway, [...]

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It’s a little warped, but Jeffery Ely believes that the Munthe family owes him $1,100 for the damage done to his car by their dog, a dog that he hit with his 1997 Honda Civic. Fester, the miniature pinscher, ran into the street and Ely apparently couldn’t avoid striking the dog. He is now suing [...]

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“Do as I say, not as a do,” is an adage that fits perfectly for this story. In Riverdale, Utah, Police Chief Dave Hansen, a 23-year-old veteran, recently shot himself with a gun during a training exercise. While trying to show recruits the best way to fix a gun with a jammed round Hansen accidentally [...]

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A traffic accident in Silverdale, WA took a different turn after the driver at fault drove away from the scene of the crime. At that point, the 23-year-old driver of the Ford Explorer led police on a short chase before eventually giving up and pulling to the side of the road. Thinking the guy decided [...]

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