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Kayla Tsukino @kaylachan (84824) • Daytona Beach, Florida 6 Mar

Good afternoon. I would've gotten here sooner, but I ran into a little emergency. My neighbor from across the street came and asked me to call a cab for her. Her daughter is in the hospital, and she doesn't drive. If our van...

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Good and bad

Vicki, #1 Creek Girl @1creekgirl (44560) • United States 8 Sep

The good news, relatively speaking, is I got my Botox injections today for my migraines. They hurt, but not unbearably and they're certainly better than headaches every day. Today is our son Robert's birthday...I'm cooking a nice...

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10.08.2025. A dark month for Kenya as over 50 die in accidents within 10 days of the new month

SIDDI KIMPOLE @SIDIKIMPOLE (3480) • Eldoret, Kenya 10 Aug

Within the first few days of August, we’ve lost over 50 Kenyans in separate road and air accidents. Of the number, 8 died when an aircraft owned by AMREF flying doctors descended and crashed in a residential estate near Nairobi...

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Wow, That's One Magnet

Jim Bauer @porwest (112876) • United States 19 Jul

MRI accidents are rare, but they do happen, and every time I read about one, I am amazed at the power of these machines. You've heard of oxygen tanks whirling through the air, guns going off, even wheelchairs in flight, and people...

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Failure to Signal

Jim Bauer @porwest (112876) • United States 7 Jul

Picture this. It was 1990 and I was 17 and still driving my first car. A 1980 powder blue Ford Fiesta I bought for $425. At the time, during the summer months, I worked for our local school district, cleaning classrooms, waxing...

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Very bad weather out there!

DJ @dilleo (1077) • Canada 7 Feb 25

Wow. Is the weather EVER bad out today. Lots and lots of snow. It sounds like one of the major highways around here is shutdown, both northbound and southbound lanes. I would say it's only about a 10 or 15 minute drive away, where...

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It Happened One Day

Jim Bauer @porwest (112876) • United States 17 Jan 25

It was during the holidays, and I was probably around 11 years old or so. At the time we lived in Illinois and we were visiting with my grandparents and extended family in Milwaukee, WI. When we stayed there, my dad would park his...

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This blew my mind

Aparajita Bhattacharjee @apsmine9 (358) 27 Feb 24

I always knew that the physical ailments we suffer from are byproducts of psychological aberrations. But true to it's term, 'emotions' (energy-in-motion'), it is the energy which has resulted in all forms of accidents and...

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Have You Ever Been in a Car Accident?

LindaOH @LindaOHio (222534) • United States 7 Nov 23

I can thank God that I never have. The only thing that happened to me was that I was driving on a very bad, slushy, s**wy day; and I slid into a guard rail. No damage was done; and that was about 30 or 40 years ago. I've never...

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I'm Alive!

Valerie J. Routhieaux @just4him (323168) • Green Bay, Wisconsin 5 Aug 23

And shouldn't be. I was listening to the news this morning about water toxicity. We all know water is good for us, but did you know it can also kill you if you drink too much of it? There are four times in my life when I faced...

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A Dent in the Escape

Jim Bauer @porwest (112876) • United States 8 Nov 21

Ah Mondays. You just have to love them. My mom went over to my niece's house to babysit for her great-grandchild while my niece went to work, and lo and behold somehow my niece managed to back into my mom's Ford Escape. It's a...

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I’ll Never Forget

Michelle Renee Kidwell @Michellekidwell (29953) • Sonora, California 12 Oct 21

I’ll never forget this day in 2014, not the date so much, but the events that led up to this day, a few weeks prior my cousin F was severely burned on both hands while working on a car, he ended up having to be rushed to the...

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Falling Down is an accident. Staying down is a choice!!

Rashna Gandhi @Rashnag (30597) • Surat, India 20 Aug 21

Hi guys, Hope all of you are doing good. I am doing good too. I believe in this quote completely. Sometimes in life we may fall down by accident but staying down or rising up again is a choice....

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My Husband Broke his Neck

Barbara Radisavlejvic @bagarad (14283) • Paso Robles, California 18 Mar 21

That's one reason I haven't been here for a while. I was suddenly thrust into the role of full-time caregiver. He is healing well and I'm finally able to leave the house for a short time to shop, etc. Our friends and church have...

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Accidental Inventions : Thank Fido for Velcro

AmberLynn @ScribbledAdNauseum (104615) • United States 3 Feb 21

The inventor of velcro was out hunting with his faithful hound when he became agitated with burrs sticking to both himself and his dog. Apparently, George De Mestral was a man who looked at things from a scientific mind. He wanted...

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Accidental Inventions : Synthetic Dye

AmberLynn @ScribbledAdNauseum (104615) • United States 2 Feb 21

Sort of spinning off from yesterday's post about liquid paper, today's is about synthetic dye. Now the man was only 18 years old (in 1856) when he came across this happy mistake that propelled him into a new career. William Henry...

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Accidental Inventions : Liquid Paper

AmberLynn @ScribbledAdNauseum (104615) • United States 1 Feb 21

The term "liquid paper" wasn't known to me until today. I, like most people here, know this as "white out". It's a liquid formula that adheres to and covers up a mistake on a piece of paper. But how was it invented? I...

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Chocolate Chip Cookies Were An Accident

AmberLynn @ScribbledAdNauseum (104615) • United States 30 Jan 21

First called, Butterdrop Do cookies, these cookies were invented at the Tollhouse Inn by a lady expecting the chocolate to melt Ruth Wakefield placed broken up pieces of chocolate in her batter one day in the...

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Head-on Collision

DianneN @DianneN (254926) • United States 25 Aug 20

The photo has nothing to do with my post, but was taken from our very last cruise out of New York to Bermuda. That’s all I saw from our terrace. Our furnace was due to be cleaned this morning, but on the way to our home, the...

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Great Molasses Flood

J.N.R Dutton @jnrdutton (3452) • United States 22 Aug 20

I recently learned about one of the strangest accidents in history. It is called the Great Molasses Flood. It occurred in the early 1900's (1919 to be exact) in Boston,Mass. On the surface, a flood of molasses may sound humorous,...

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