Man's leg lands in yard

[Gan]

FLORAL PARK, New York (AP) -- The body of an apparent stowaway was ripped in half during flight Tuesday and his leg crashed into a suburban neighborhood, where a homeowner found the severed limb in the middle of her lawn, authorities said.

Pam Hearne heard "a loud crash" and later was stunned to see a foot clad in an Adidas sneaker and a sock in her yard, said Officer Thomas Blanchard. The leg, with hip and spine attached, dented the shingled roof of her garage before bouncing into the lawn.

Police suspect the remains are from a stowaway who may have been crushed as the South African Airways jet lowered its landing gear on its approach to Kennedy Airport.


Story:
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/06/08/plane.body.ap/index.html

"Its raining men, hallelujia its raining men!" sorry I couldnt resist...

[Snapp]

Originally posted by Ganalon
The leg, with hip and spine attached,
:barf:

[Overlord]

erm.... http://forum.gsplayers.com/viewthread.php?tid=15229

[Edited on 8-6-2005 by Overlord]

[Snapp]

I missed that too.. I tend to ignore Stanley-made topics anymore.

[Wezas]

Originally posted by Snapp
I missed that too.. I tend to ignore Stanley-made topics anymore.

Pwned!

[Overlord]

And rightly so, as I stated yesterday....tends to run off on a sugar high of spamming.

[Lookkin]

I lived in Long Beach NY for awhile - its on Long Island. We lived on one of the approach paths to/from JFK. When we were out surfing, we would see things fall out the wheel wells all the times. They mainly dropped their wheels when they were finally land, but other times, they would open up over the ocean. We've paddled out a few times and found small luggage pieces, knapsacks and shoes after they fell into the ocean. It was a trip because you knew that it belonged to someone that’s still hanging on to the struts for the ride of their lives. That should be a new X-Sport!

I didn't see this one, but a couple years ago a body was found in the parking lot of our hospital. They didn't know how it got there, but speculated that it had to have dropped out of one of the planes when the wheel wells opened up.

What people would do to come to America - thank gawd I just was born here.

[Gan]

Originally posted by Snapp
I missed that too.. I tend to ignore Stanley-made topics anymore.

Guess I'm guilty of that as well. Cest la vie.

[CrystalTears]

Especially since the thread subject made zero sense to me, so I didn't go there.

I heard this on the news this morning. All we could say was Ew ew ew ew.

[Toxicvixen]

Yeah Stanley's topic made me think something scary was done with genetics. :weird:

As for the leg, god I would hate to find something like that in my yard.

Originally posted by CrystalTears
Especially since the thread subject made zero sense to me, so I didn't go there.

I heard this on the news this morning. All we could say was Ew ew ew ew.

OMG-NOT-HAVING-APPRECIATION-FOR-TRAVOLTA-IN-BATTLEFIELD-EARTH! :nono:

For those of you with broken links, here's what Stanley plagiarized:

Can man-animals fly?

No:

FLORAL PARK, N.Y. (AP) - The body of what appears to be an apparent stowaway was ripped in half during flight Tuesday and his leg crashed into a suburban neighborhood, where a homeowner found the severed limb in the middle of her lawn, authorities said.

Pam Hearne heard "a loud, hollow thump'' and later was stunned to see a foot clad in an Adidas sneaker and a sock in her yard, said Officer Thomas Blanchard. The leg, with hip and spine attached, dented the shingled roof of her garage before bouncing into the lawn.

Police suspect the human remains are from a stowaway who may have been crushed as the South African Airways jet lowered its landing gear on its approach to Kennedy Airport.

Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Jim Peters said the pilot of flight 203 would have probably started lowering the plane's landing gear in the sky over the home in Floral Park, about 5 miles from the airport.


Peters said a Customs agent that met the flight at the airport found the other leg hanging from the wheel well.


The airline said in a statement that the flight landed with "no impact whatsoever'' on the passengers and crew and it was working closely with authorities to investigate how someone may have stowed away.


The flight originated in Johannesburg, and made one stop in Senegal. Authorities had not identified all of the remains, which were hauled away from Hearne's yard in a plastic bag.


Hearne, a special education teacher, said that when she first saw the mangled leg in the grass, "it didn't look real.''


"But I am very glad that I live where I do,'' she said, "so I don't have to run for my life like this man probably was doing.''


There have been cases of stowaways being chopped up by the mechanism in aircraft wheel wells and perishing from the extreme cold at high altitude.

[Toxicvixen]

Some of us skipped watching Battlefield Earth.

[Jorddyn]

Originally posted by Snapp

Originally posted by Ganalon
The leg, with hip and spine attached,
:barf:

I imagine that was quite painful for the tiny fraction of a second the person lived - certainly gave me a shiver.

:injured:

Jorddyn

[CrystalTears]

Originally posted by Stanley Burrell
OMG-NOT-HAVING-APPRECIATION-FOR-TRAVOLTA-IN-BATTLEFIELD-EARTH! :nono:


This explains some things about you, Stanley. I hated that movie, and I'm not one to dislike movies easily. I think Travolta is still in therapy for filming that. :D

The above statement has literally, no bullshitting, hurts me emotional, mentaly and physically.



Anti-Battlefield Earth sentiment gets you here :banghead:

...but it really gets you here :heart:

:cry: