FREE SAMPLE · Experiments
The parachute suit that never opened.
A tailor. An experimental parachute suit. A test from the Eiffel Tower that should never have used a human subject.
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MEMBER STORY · Fatal assumptions
The lawyer who became his own evidence.
A defence lawyer wanted to demonstrate an accidental shooting. The gun he believed was unloaded was not.
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MEMBER STORY · Famous names
The handshake that put him in Rocket’s path.
Britain’s new railway was making history. An MP stepped out of his carriage during a stop, with disastrous consequences.
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MEMBER STORY · Workplace accidents
When the cheese racks came down
A rack gave way in a warehouse near Bergamo, burying the owner beneath the cheese he’d spent years making.
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MEMBER STORY · Wildlife
The plane that came to take them home
Timothy Treadwell had spent thirteen summers filming Alaska’s brown bears. When a pilot arrived to take him and Amie Huguenard home, a bear was still in their camp.
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