{"id":2512,"date":"2007-11-08T12:08:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-08T20:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=2512"},"modified":"2007-11-08T12:08:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-08T20:08:00","slug":"what-a-way-to-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=2512","title":{"rendered":"What A Way To Die"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three stories from today&#8217;s news truly fall into the bizarre death categories. If the writer&#8217;s weren&#8217;t on strike, I&#8217;d expect these to show up on a future CSI episode:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>From the \u201c<b>Chip off the Old Block<\/b>\u201d Department:<\/i> The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-woodchipper9nov09,0,2983821.story?coll=la-home-center\">LA Times is reporting<\/a> that an Anaheim resident was working with a wood-chipping machine when suddenly, \u201che was gone\u201d. One minute, he was throwing branches in the chipper. The next minute&#8230;. Well, according to the article, authorities took the wood chipper and the truck attached to it to a parking structure at the coroner&#8217;s office, where they plan to dismantle it. \u201cWe&#8217;ll just be trying to gather as much of the remains as we can,\u201d said Supervising Deputy Coroner Larry Esslinger.\n<li><i>From the \u201c<b>He Makes Quite an Impression<\/b>\u201d Department:<\/i> The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.signonsandiego.com\/news\/northcounty\/20071108-9999-1m8vistanew.html\">San Diego Union Tribune is reporting<\/a> that a 27-year old worker from Vista was killed when he was crushed in a hydraulic press Tuesday afternoon. The employee was working with the press when he tried to retrieve a piece of plastic and became caught between the two halves of the heavy machinery. Ugh.\n<li><i>From the \u201c<b>Shades of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chuckles_Bites_the_Dust\">Chuckles the Clown<\/a><\/b>\u201d Department:<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,309496,00.html\">Fox News is reporting that<\/a> a Southhampton VA man was found dead and buried under a large pile of peanuts in a warehouse at the Severn Peanut Company where he worked. Worker reported him missing around noon Tuesday, and two hours later, he was found&#8230; dead in a warehouse where the peanuts are funneled into loose piles and then later pumped out into trucks. There was no indication of foul play.<\/ul>\n<p>Now, I know these are tragic losses for their family, but as an outside observer&#8230; all that I can think of is all that Chuckles asked for, \u201cA little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three stories from today&#8217;s news truly fall into the bizarre death categories. If the writer&#8217;s weren&#8217;t on strike, I&#8217;d expect these to show up on a future CSI episode: From the \u201cChip off the Old Block\u201d Department: The LA Times is reporting that an Anaheim resident was working with a wood-chipping machine when suddenly, \u201che <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=2512\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,113,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-chum","category-obituaries","category-lj-xfer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}