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Three Canadian YouTube travel bloggers killed after falling over a waterfall in British Columbia
Ryker Gamble, Alexey Lyakh and Megan Scraper were part of High On Life, a video blog group which posts videos of their travel adventures on social media.

The trio were swimming at the top of Shannon Falls in Squamish, British Columbia on Tuesday when they slipped and fell into a pool 98ft below, local police said.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/three-canadian-youtube-travel-bloggers-180213736.html
 
A few minutes ago I awoke with a loud crashing sound coming from the kitchen.

Thought there might be a burglar in the house so lay dead still and silent just listening. Couldn’t hear anything so after a few minutes decided to get up and investigate.

I find two cupboard doors open, the large chopping board in the sink and two smashed dinner plates on the bench.

When I went to bed the plates were on the bench, the cupboard doors were shut and there definitely wasn’t a chopping board in the sink.

Apart from assuming the chopping board struck the plates on its way to the sink and broke them the cause remains a mystery......
 
In folklore and parapsychology, a poltergeist (/ˈpoʊltərˌɡaɪst/; German for "noisy ghost" or "noisy spirit") is a type of ghost or spirit that is responsible for physical disturbances, such as loud noises and objects being moved or destroyed. They are purportedly capable of pinching, biting, hitting, and tripping people. Most accounts of poltergeists describe the movement or levitation of objects such as furniture and cutlery, or noises such as knocking on doors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poltergeist
 
I don’t have a news link but a runaway freight train (without a driver) was deliberately derailed to bring it to a halt at Devonport (Tas) today.

Some minor injuries to a couple of nearby pedestrians apparently but thankfully nothing serious.
 
This is the shocking moment a petrol station pump burst into flames after a driver forgot to return the hose.
The pump was dragged and toppled over as the nozzle was left attached to a truck’s gas tank when it drove away in Parana, Brazil on June 16.
CCTV footage shows the pump being engulfed in flames before a quick-thinking worker calmly took a fire extinguisher as the others tried to flee.
Soon after two more workers arrived with extinguishers and the fire was out in less than a minute.
No one was hurt in the incident as the fire was controlled right away.
The petrol station manager Leandro da Silva Valim said: ‘I happened so fast but during fire incidents, we needed to act fast before it could be out of control. ‘We received training to know what to do.
Thanks to training, we were able to contain the fire. We were relieved the damage was not serious and no one was hurt.’
 

Child dies of head injuries after falling from his wheelchair​

Gus Mccubbing For Australian Associated Press

MSN

www.msn.com
 

The London Beer Flood of 1814

On Monday 17th October 1814, a terrible disaster claimed the lives of at least 8 people. A bizarre industrial accident resulted in the release of a beer tsunami onto the streets of London...
www.historic-uk.com
 
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