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8urnMeTwice t1_irhbnki wrote

That makes me think of the family in Colorado who were killed when a steel girder fell from the bridge they were passing under. Sheared the roof off the car and killed the family.

The crazy thing was the dad had been in one of the towers on 9/11 and moved his family to Colorado afterwards to be safer...

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substantial-freud t1_irismq9 wrote

According to Pliny, the Greek playwright Aeschylus spent a lot of time in the countryside to avoid a prophecy that he would be killed by a falling object. Supposedly, he was killed at the age of 67, when an eagle dropped a tortoise on his head. The eagle is believed to have mistaken his bald head for a rock and tried to use it to crack the shell of its prey.

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