Man accidentally chainsaws wife to death!

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3chordcharlie

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Originally posted by: Kev
Originally posted by: 3chordcharlie
Originally posted by: cliftonite
Sucks :( I thought those things shut off when you let go of the trigger?

I think some (at least some electric ones) have lock-on features. Which seem like accidents waiting to happen to me. I used to use a hedge-trimmer with one of these, and nearly electrocuted myself when I tripped and it kept running and sliced through the cord.

a chainsaw fell on a 50 year old woman's neck.

i don't think it necessarily needed to be on anyway

True enough - her being 50 probably isn't that important though. 50 isn't exactly 'old'.
 

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Lifer
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I guess chazdraves' parents are right, DoomIII does make you a homicidal maniac!


On a more serious note...:(
 

csiro

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Highly suspicious.. I mean we've all thought of doing this one time or another... :)
 

Aharami

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Originally posted by: BladeWalker
Tell me why you have the thumbs up again. This is just horribly sad. :(

didnt you get the memo? ATOT is apathetic to everything
 

myusername

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If someone was pruning a tree with a chainsaw and pieces of tree were falling right and left, of course I would think that right underneath that would be the perfect place and time to kneel down and plant some bulbs or pull some weeds.
 

Beau

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Originally posted by: Citrix
Originally posted by: Spooner
Originally posted by: cliftonite
Sucks :( I thought those things shut off when you let go of the trigger?

exactly.... what the hell kind of chainsaw was he using?


one made in England.

Didn't say how it killed her... just that he hit her with the chain saw... could have been blunt force trauma to the head.


Sad story :(
 

Grakatt

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Man, a whole slew of bad-luck particles must've had a nanoitic party around that guy, and even invited some pretty bad neighbours :/
 

thirdlegstump

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Originally posted by: cliftonite
Sucks :( I thought those things shut off when you let go of the trigger?

Yea you try surviving after a big ass chainsaw lands on the back of your neck after tumbling down a few feet from a tree......
 

Lazy8s

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I thought they shut off automaticaly. I dropped one once and it cut the zipper of my pants and down through my boxers, luckily enough everything important was saved due to auto shut-off.
 

RobCur

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heh, so it happens due to wreckless individual who don't know safety. next we have a mexican guy fell off the roof while standing backward!!!
:shocked:
 

PingSpike

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Originally posted by: Lazy8s
I thought they shut off automaticaly. I dropped one once and it cut the zipper of my pants and down through my boxers, luckily enough everything important was saved due to auto shut-off.

Jesus. Buy some fvcking chainsaw chaps. If that happened to me, I would have taken it as a sign from god to never use a chainsaw ever again.
 

mobobuff

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Bahaha, I know it's tragic and sad but the title of the thread made me laugh.

I wonder if he was in shock from the fall or from seeing his wife's neck get broke.