The WTF News Files

[mariomike]

Ya, that's tough. Unrestrained bodies, or parts thereof, can submarine into spaces you wouldn't think possible. I had a fatal on Hwy 401 where a K-car (remember those?) was sandwiched between two semis. The resulting car was rendered quite small. It was the Friday of a holiday weekend and we didn't know for about 4 hours if it had one occupant or a family.

But, here's what gets me,

Hours later, police received reports of a missing 20-year-old woman whose last known location, confirmed through a shared tracking app,

So, were it not for her "shared tracking app", ( what ? ) she may have never been found.

How many people over the years, without "shared tracking apps" has that happened too?

I was stationed at Emergency Services HQ. You are likely familiar with the location.

They used to load wrecks onto flat-bed trucks , cover with a tarp, deliver them to us for removal of the bodies.

Being on the bus, we didn't have much else to do, and HQ had the facilities for that sort of thing.

 

[Retired AF Guy]

I don't know if any one has been following the trials and tribulations of everyone's favourite thespian, Kim Kardashian, but she has a new star-studded TV series out called All's Fair which is about an all-female law firm in LA.

Personally, I couldn't care a frig about Kim Kardashian and the rest of the people she hangs around with, let alone a TV series they star in, but in this case the critics have been absolutely brutal in their take-down of this series. The UK Guardian has an excellent piece that eviscerates the show! Enjoy!

Is Kim Kardashian’s legal drama All’s Fair really the worst TV show of all time?

Ryan Murphy’s glossy, star-packed new show has received some of the most shocking reviews we’ve seen for a long time, including many zero-star takes

www.theguardian.com

 

[Colin Parkinson]

Gold:

Kardashian’s central performance, which is so relentlessly listless and monotone that it just sort of sits there like a fart cloud at an all-you-can-eat Chinese buffet.

 

[RangerRay]

Probably about 20 years ago, a kid driving from Vancouver to Prince Rupert went missing. Search crews looked for him all along the highway found didn’t find a trace. He was found by a helicopter 8 days later, still alive trapped in the car. He fell asleep and drove off the highway somewhere between there were no skid marks on the highway where he went off. Also, the vegetation was supple enough that it didn’t show signs of damage and sprang back in place concealing the car from the highway.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/missing-b-c-teen-found-trapped-in-week-old-wreck-1.257042

He was was lucky to be found alive. I’m not sure if cell coverage has improved since then. Coverage was spotty at best along main highways between towns there.

 

[mariomike]

The Yonge Boulevard Viaduct are four separate highway bridges over the Don River Valley. They carry 14 lanes of the 401.

Even busier than the Brooklyn Bridge. Busiest in North America. Canada's busiest section of highway.

It was not all that uncommon for people getting out of their cars at accident scenes to get knocked Into the Valley.

Without the electronic tracking devices people carry today, you never really knew where anyone was.

 

[lenaitch]

But, here's what gets me,



So, were it not for her "shared tracking app", ( what ? ) she may have never been found.

How many people over the years, without "shared tracking apps" has that happened too?

I was stationed at Emergency Services HQ. You are likely familiar with the location.

They used to load wrecks onto flat-bed trucks , cover with a tarp, deliver them to us for removal of the bodies.

Being on the bus, we didn't have much else to do, and HQ had the facilities for that sort of thing.

If that's the one that is/was on Steeprock Dr., that's where we took the vehicle in my post to 'unfold' it.

The Yonge Boulevard Viaduct are four separate highway bridges over the Don River Valley. They carry 14 lanes of the 401.

Even busier than the Brooklyn Bridge. Busiest in North America. Canada's busiest section of highway.

It was not all that uncommon for people getting out of their cars at accident scenes to get knocked Into the Valley.

Without the electronic tracking devices people carry today, you never really knew where anyone was.

Guys working to 'big highway' learned that if you heard squealing tires, you dove over the guiderail basically out of instinct. Each of those bridges are separated by a few feet and more than once a member was grabbed before they instinctively dove over the edge.

If it's summer, golfers will find the bodies below.

 

[mariomike]

If that's the one that is/was on Steeprock Dr., that's where we took the vehicle in my post to 'unfold' it.


Guys working to 'big highway' learned that if you heard squealing tires, you dove over the guiderail basically out of instinct. Each of those bridges are separated by a few feet and more than once a member was grabbed before they instinctively dove over the edge.

If it's summer, golfers will find the bodies below.

Yes, Steeprock.