I’m calling shens on this....
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Topic: I’m calling shens on this....
Posted By: .Ryan
Subject: I’m calling shens on this....
Date Posted: 31 March 2007 at 11:11am
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http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=bizarre&id=5169556 -
Five year old boy falls 9 stories and lives.... But look at this picture....  Does that seriously happen? C'mon....  -------------  |
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Posted By: Farcry0092
Date Posted: 31 March 2007 at 11:13am
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im gussing shens too. but its possible to not have hit as hard as he could have. even then i dont think that it would have left an imprint. EDIT: after reading the article, it ses he broke his legs and left an imprint of his body. if he really broke his legs, he wouldnt have landed flat. |
Posted By: *Stealth*
Date Posted: 31 March 2007 at 11:17am
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Well, given the fact the ground has just begun to melt, and is still quite wet and squishy... If you couple that with the rains and such that the northern regions (Story comes from Canada) have been having... It seems to me that the ground would be soggy enough/almost mud like (As mentioned in the article) to have a good majority of "give" on impact. And you don't have to land on your legs for them to break. ------------- |
Posted By: .Ryan
Date Posted: 31 March 2007 at 11:22am
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Yeah, but your arms and legs aren't that stiff....they would give with the ground a bit, rather than just pushing down into it like your torso would....I dunno...Funny freakin picture though, looks like something out of the Loony Toons....
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Posted By: Squishey
Date Posted: 31 March 2007 at 11:24am
| the picture is shens the story is true, i live fairly close to hamilton and this has been in the news alot. if i can find the real picture ill post it. |
Posted By: Cedric
Date Posted: 31 March 2007 at 12:22pm
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John Locke Jr.?
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Posted By: phil_stl
Date Posted: 31 March 2007 at 12:30pm
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Hamilton!?!... wow you live closer to me than I thought. The best and safest way to fall (actors falling onto skinny mats in theater productions, plays etc) is on your back. He could have fallen unto his back and you can see the part that his torso hit it looks more like soft dirt (lighter shade) but his legs didn't sink in and they hit what looks like : - either a more shaded part of the picture because of the angle of the photographer. - or maybe the the ground in that area doesn't have as much give, it looks darker for sure and therefore it could have been more dried up dirt and therefore the reason why he broke his legs... seems sorta plausible if you think about it. |
Posted By: Destruction
Date Posted: 31 March 2007 at 12:34pm
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FΔt=mΔV
It's possible. A longer impact time caused by the soft ground means a lesser force exerted on his body. Simple high school physics. It's sort of like how a paintball that bounces hurts more than one that breaks. ------------- u dont know what to do ur getting mottor boatted Men are from Magmar, women are from Venusaur. |
Posted By: Destruction
Date Posted: 31 March 2007 at 12:40pm
 ------------- u dont know what to do ur getting mottor boatted Men are from Magmar, women are from Venusaur. |
phil_stl wrote:Posted By: carl_the_sniper
Date Posted: 31 March 2007 at 2:04pm
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I live 10 mins from hamilton squishey I thought you lived in belleville? and so it's said, hamilton is half an hour from the border, so we get the same weather you guys do in northern states. (if not better because of lake ontario) I'm almost tempted to see if I could find the imprint lol. ------------- <just say no to unnecessarily sexualized sigs> |
Posted By: .Ryan
Date Posted: 31 March 2007 at 2:58pm
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Do it....
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Posted By: carl_the_sniper
Date Posted: 31 March 2007 at 3:00pm
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trying to find the apartment ------------- <just say no to unnecessarily sexualized sigs> |
Posted By: .Ryan
Date Posted: 31 March 2007 at 4:12pm
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Find it?
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Posted By: Tae Kwon Do
Date Posted: 31 March 2007 at 4:15pm
This looks like a job for:  ------------- 
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Posted By: carl_the_sniper
Date Posted: 31 March 2007 at 4:16pm
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Posted By: carl_the_sniper
Date Posted: 31 March 2007 at 4:22pm
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ok, found a pic of the building. doesn't look familiar. http://www.therecord.com/home_page_main_story/home_page_main_story_999736.html - http://www.therecord.com/home_page_main_story/home_page_main _story_999736.html we have a street http://www.cfrb.com/node/502746 - http://www.cfrb.com/node/502746 we have a mapquest: http://www.mapquest.com/directions/main.adp?go=1&do=nw&rmm=1&un=m&cl=EN&ct=NA&rsres=1&1ffi=&1l=&1g=&1pl=&1v=&1n=&2ffi=&2l=&2g=&2pl=&2v=&2n=&1pn=&1a=orchard+parkway&1c=grimsby&1s=on&1z=&2pn=&2a=jackson+street&2c=hamilton&2s=on&2z=&r=f - http://www.mapquest.com/directions/main.adp?go=1&do=nw&a mp;rmm=1&un=m&cl=EN&ct=NA&rsres=1&1ffi=& amp;1l=&1g=&1pl=&1v=&1n=&2ffi=&2l=&a mp;2g=&2pl=&2v=&2n=&1pn=&1a=orchard+park way&1c=grimsby&1s=on&1z=&2pn=&2a=jackson +street&2c=hamilton&2s=on&2z=&r=f I have no car ------------- <just say no to unnecessarily sexualized sigs> |
Posted By: .Ryan
Date Posted: 31 March 2007 at 4:31pm
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Noooooo....You should go later if you can....
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Posted By: carl_the_sniper
Date Posted: 31 March 2007 at 5:00pm
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will try... but really only worth it if it's still there maybe ill call random people that live on the street and ask them ------------- <just say no to unnecessarily sexualized sigs> |
Posted By: little devil
Date Posted: 31 March 2007 at 5:04pm
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i live in hamilton and yes that happened http://hamiltonspectator.com/media_archive/mar-28-2007_b.html - http://hamiltonspectator.com/media_archive/mar-28-2007_b.htm l heres a video and the pic is real |
Posted By: Pariel
Date Posted: 31 March 2007 at 5:17pm
Exactly what I thought. It all depends on how squishy the ground was--but I'm still thinking 9 stories is a little much. I don't have my physics binder at home (woot! Spring break 2007!), but I'm betting he'd be going pretty fast, and even with the ground wet, it's unlikely it would absorb enough force (although obviously his legs absorbed some of the force as well--probably hit first, but I'm betting he fell roughly horizontally). I do think it's possible, but I doubt it was from 9 stories--90+ feet (~27 meters for you Canooks)? Seems unlikely. |
Posted By: *Stealth*
Date Posted: 31 March 2007 at 9:59pm
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Make note that in that photograph, the "dent' in the photo is hardly any impact of the ground, it appears to be mostly flattened grass... and the uncut grass is casting a shadow that makes it appear deeper. As for the survivability factor, it all really hinges on how much the kid weighed... than we could roughly figure how fast he was falling and what his impact rate would have been. Sounds like a job for Buster if you ask me. ------------- |
Posted By: carl_the_sniper
Date Posted: 31 March 2007 at 10:21pm
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I may be able to check it out tomorrow. But not gona bother if it's been filled in ------------- <just say no to unnecessarily sexualized sigs> |
Posted By: Hitman
Date Posted: 01 April 2007 at 2:47am
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Who publicly announces that they suck at being parents and let their baby fall nine stories.
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Posted By: Destruction
Date Posted: 01 April 2007 at 5:17am
 ------------- u dont know what to do ur getting mottor boatted Men are from Magmar, women are from Venusaur. |
Posted By: little devil
Date Posted: 01 April 2007 at 11:24am
| thats was just a bad angle, there was a piicture of it on the front of the paper and you could clearly see that he had went in at least 4-6 inch's. they say he broke both his hips, but i think he may still be in intensive care |