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Pacific Cruise Ship Horror: CCTV Footage Captures Moment When Severe Storm Sends Furniture Crashing & Passengers Flying Like Rag Dolls [Pics + Video]

Posted by ChasinDatPaper on September 18, 2010 at 4:30pm

Video And Pics After The Jump Shocking video footage of a P&O cruise caught in severe storms that left 42 people injured has been published online. The Australian Pacific Sun cruise liner was around 400miles from the coast of New Zealand when giant waves hit the boat causing it to list violently. And as the ship struggles in the high seas, staff and guests are sent flying backwards and forwards, trying to grab on to anything nailed down - and failing.

Heads up: A lady careens into a pillar on the fifth floor after the cruise liner was caught up in heavy storms The waves were so powerful that they lashed as high as the fifth deck. The receptionists are shown clinging on to their desks and computers before the more severe waves hit the liner. But soon they, and the guests, are sent careering across the floor like rag dolls, helpless and out-of-control. The Pacific Sun was on the return leg of an eight-night sailing to the Islands of Vanuatu when the storm hit. Diners were sitting down for their evening meal shortly after dark...one described the scene as 'like being in a disaster movie

Sent flying: A cook holds on for dear life while another man is whizzed, head first, across the floor

Tables, chairs and passengers are hurled from side to side. Several people are injured by sliding tables and chairs, as well as by getting slammed into columns. P&O offered passengers a 25 per cent discount on their next cruise - but after this ordeal one would suppose that all of those involved would be happier on terra firma. The CCTV footage from the incident, which took place in 2008, has just been released by the Liveleaks website. One passenger, Elizabeth Basher, suffered a fractured knee during the storm: 'We were getting a pre-dinner drink at the bar, moved to a safe place to be on the carpet to get some traction, and suddenly it happened, and we were just thrown across towards a plate-glass window,' she said A second video taken below deck shows heavy equipment, including a forklift, being tossed around like toys and narrowly missing a crew member. A Carnival Australia spokesperson, the parent company for P&O, said the footage had been seen before and described the conditions at sea as 'extreme'. David Johns said: 'A series of waves buffeted the ship, having an impact for people onboard. 'This was an exceptionally rare occurrence.The incident was fully investigated and lessons learnt have been heeded, including the securing of tables and other furnishings aboard.' Source: Daily Mail twitter-5d.gif
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Amazing Video: 1 Year Old Baby Lives After Stroller Hit By Train. 2nd Time Within A Year This Happened In Melbourne

Posted by ChasinDatPaper on May 26, 2010 at 2:00pm


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In what can only be described as a miracle. A 15 month old baby was hit by a train in Melbourne, Australia and lived after its stroller rolled onto train tracks.

The baby's grandmother looked away for a second and that was enough time for what could have been a tragedy to happen.

Remarkably, the child only suffered a few cuts and bruises even though the stroller was pushed a few feet by the train.

Railway staff praised the driver for reacting quickly and hitting the brakes.

This is the second time within a year a baby stroller has rolled onto the train tracks in Melbourne. Last October a similar incident happened. Luckily the baby was fine in that instance as well.

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Man engulfed in flames after being Tasered

Posted by ChasinDatPaper on July 21, 2009 at 10:21pm

MSNBC Reports SYDNEY - A man whose relatives say had been sniffing gasoline burst into flames after a police officer Tasered him as he ran at officials carrying a container of fuel, police said Tuesday. The man, identified by his family as 36-year-old Ronald Mitchell, was in critical condition at a Perth hospital in Western Australia state following Monday's incident in Warburton, an Aboriginal community 950 miles northeast of Perth. Western Australia police said they were responding to a complaint at a house when Mitchell ran outside carrying a cigarette lighter and a large plastic bottle containing what they believe was fuel. When he refused to stop running toward them, one officer Tasered him, police said in a statement. The man was immediately engulfed in flames. The officer threw him to the ground and smothered the blaze with his hands, the statement said. Mitchell was charged with assault to prevent arrest and possession of a sniffing substance. An 18-year-old woman threw rocks at the officer as he tried to help, and he was later treated for a cut on his head and burns to his hands, police said. Police say man sniffed gas The woman was charged with two counts of assaulting an officer, police Sgt. Graham Clifford said. Two others at the house were charged with possessing a sniffing substance. Mitchell's sister, Morinda West, told The Australian newspaper that her brother had been sniffing gasoline and that when he ran out of the house he was carrying a lighter and an orange juice container full of gasoline. Police spokeswoman Susan Usher said Mitchell appeared to have received third-degree burns to about ten percent of his body. Western Australia Police Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan defended the officer's actions on Tuesday, calling Mitchell a known gasoline sniffer and violent offender. "The police officers were concerned that they were going to be burnt so they deployed a Taser," O'Callaghan told reporters in Perth. "The only other choice they would have had is to use a police-issue firearm and the circumstances would almost certainly have been far more grave." O'Callaghan also said that while Mitchell did burst into flames after the Taser was deployed, it wasn't immediately clear if the stun gun actually sparked the fire. "There is a very strong possibility the fire was caused by the lighter in the hand of the offender," he said. The officer who Tasered Mitchell was not suspended, Clifford said.
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