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Killer Trees

Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
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How many people do you know of, either directly or indirectly - known either yourself or via friend or friends of friends have been killed by a Tree?

I'd say I know of at least 4 people:

2 people that were killed (separately) crashing their cars into a tree
1 clipped his microlight on a tree and killed himself
1 was killed by a falling coconut that hit him on his head

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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I know someone that was mugged by a tree.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Was it a stick up?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Seriously though, yes I knew someone who was killed by a tree. He was in my year at school and a tree branch fell on him and he died :(
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Knee High Stripy Socks wrote: »
    Was it a stick up?

    *splutter*
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    There was a story when I was a kid about another kid who lived pretty near me who ate some seeds and a tree grew inside him and he died.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    When I was at school someone's dad was in a car that was crushed by a tree. I'd forgotten 'til now. How depressing...
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I once knew somebody who ate an apple from a tree. 59 years later she died from heart failure.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Is it really that common? My street has those small trees growing all along the pavement in their own little enclosure type things but I'll have to watch one doesn't fall on me :lol:
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    It's probably about as common as the number of people who have had their leg broken by a swan ...
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Jazza wrote: »
    Is it really that common? My street has those small trees growing all along the pavement in their own little enclosure type things but I'll have to watch one doesn't fall on me :lol:

    They're mini tree prisons. Maybe they're bad trees. Killer ones.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    My entire class had their legs broken by swans on a school trip to a country park once.
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    littlemissylittlemissy Posts: 9,972 Supreme Poster
    Knee High Stripy Socks wrote: »
    It's probably about as common as the number of people who have had their leg broken by a swan ...

    When I was about 10, I was bitten by a swan on my thigh and I had a really massive, tender bruise for ages. It was sore.

    True story :yes:
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Crocidolite wrote: »
    They're mini tree prisons. Maybe they're bad trees. Killer ones.
    :lol: :nervous:
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    In tropical rainforests the #1 cause of death isn't some kind of big cat or some poisonous frog or even the natives, it's actually falling tree branches. If you ever do a thing where you stay out they'll teach you it's one of the important bits of making a tent.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Bri-namite wrote: »
    I once knew somebody who ate an apple from a tree. 59 years later she died from heart failure.


    :lol:
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Bet there's such a thing as a tree phobia :chin:
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Arborophobia? :D
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Knee High Stripy Socks wrote: »
    It's probably about as common as the number of people who have had their leg broken by a swan ...

    It happen to You did'nt it
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    Indrid ColdIndrid Cold Posts: 16,688 Skive's The Limit
    DiamondGeezer wrote: »
    1 clipped his microlight on a tree and killed himself
    What does that mean? What's a microlight, how do you clip one on a tree and how does that kill you? :confused:
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Indrid Cold wrote: »
    What does that mean? What's a microlight, how do you clip one on a tree and how does that kill you? :confused:

    A microlight is like a very miniture plane. Think of a handglider with a very small engine on that sounds like a moped.
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    Indrid ColdIndrid Cold Posts: 16,688 Skive's The Limit
    ShyBoy wrote: »
    A microlight is like a very miniture plane. Think of a handglider with a very small engine on that sounds like a moped.
    Ohhhh ok. I was imagining someone dying because his small flashlight got caught in a twig. :lol:
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    For a tragic topic, this thread has given me more laughs than most recently!

    Hmm, I'm not sure I'd describe someone who had driven into a tree as being killed by a tree, I'd be more likely to say they'd died in a car accident. When you put it that way, I just have images of trees leaping out in front of cars...

    And no, I've never known anyone killed by a tree. I haven't really known that many people who have died though, really, so I guess the odds are slim :chin:
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    A friend of a friend died when he crashed into a fence post and it went through his chest. It's wood so nearly like a tree :chin:
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    damn, what a way to go...
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I know one person. One of my best friends/ex bf crashed into a tree and died about a year and a half ago.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    "Killer Trees"

    Sounds like some shit horror film :razz:
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    only one way to kill a killer tree.

    chainsaw.

    problem solved.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    johnnyboy503 wrote: »
    only one way to kill a killer tree.

    chainsaw.

    problem solved.

    Tut tut, your not going to be popular with the tree hugging brigade now are you :D
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