Kinda sucks, don't it?
I don't get it.
This is particularly topical for me. I'm reading Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk, with the infamous story "guts". I can picture this scene a little too clearly for my own comfort.
@3~ I totally wondered what Mr. Palahnuik thought of that news item when it was first reported. I was unlucky (or foolish enough) To have read that story over lunch.
Megan—this post is a Lydia Davis story. In fact, Lydia Davis is crying right now because she didn't write it first.
Robert A. Heinlein wrote a sci fi story called "Gentlemen, Be Seated!" where they survive an air leak in a tunnel on the moon by sitting on the hole. Obviously now we know that wouldn't have worked.
Good fucking God!
Just read the article. Wish I hadn't.
That is so sad! :(
@6 Little different. That was a pinhole leak, and he used his cheek.
Still, I'm with the other commenters who are thinking about "Guts."
Dude what the fuck.
Christ, was that just a few months ago? Seems like I heard about it a loooong time ago.
My sympathies to the family.
This was just absolutely senseless and preventable.
I really don;t get why pool drains should be so powerful. Really, why not set it to painful hickey as opposed to disemboweling. Is there something I'm missing?
i'm with you, giffy. this kind of thing has happened repeatedly over the years. how hard could it be to change the technology?
@13, Exactly. Why can't there be five or ten intake ports instead of one?
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