A missing Indonesian woman has been found dead inside the belly of a 23-foot-long python, village officials said.
Wa Tiba, 54, was last heard from on Thursday before she went to check on her vegetable garden near her village on Muna Island in central Indonesia, reported The Associated Press.
A search party on Friday discovered a reticulated python with a swollen belly about 50 yards from the garden where Tiba’s family found a few of her belongings earlier in the day, according to The Jakarta Post.
The villagers killed the snake and sliced it open to reveal Tiba’s dead body.
“When they cut open the snake’s belly they found Tiba’s body still intact with all her clothes,” said the village chief, Faris. “She was swallowed first from her head.”
To kill their prey, reticulated pythons wrap themselves around an animal and crush it, causing it to suffocate or go into cardiac arrest, according to the BBC.
This specific species of snake is common in Indonesia and other parts of Southeast Asia, though it is extremely rare for the animal to attack humans. In March 2017, a 25-year-old man was found dead inside a python’s belly in central Indonesia. He had been working on his family’s palm oil plantation.
Via: https://www.apnews.com/4b3ee37689754e83bf94638875e720db/7-meter-long-python-swallows-Indonesian-woman
Tuesday, June 19, 2018
Man Mistakes Vest as Stab-Proof
A British man who believed he was wearing a "stab-proof vest" died last summer after he took a knife to his own chest, local newspaper Teesside Gazette reported Saturday, citing an investigation into his death.
Jordan Easton, 22, of Thornaby, reportedly was in a friend's kitchen on Aug. 23, 2017, when he stabbed himself.
"While in the kitchen, he took hold a knife to demonstrate it was stab-proof and sadly realized it wasn’t the case," assistant coroner Karin Welsh said during a court hearing.
Easton reportedly was rushed to the hospital, where he died.
The newspaper reported that while his injuries were self-inflicted, there was no evidence that proved Easton purposely tried to harm himself.
Easton's death was ruled a "misadventure," which Welsh said meant he victim died from consequences which were not intended.
"It seems clear that's the situation with Jordan," she said.
Via: https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/tragic-jordan-turned-knife-himself-14791313
Jordan Easton, 22, of Thornaby, reportedly was in a friend's kitchen on Aug. 23, 2017, when he stabbed himself.
"While in the kitchen, he took hold a knife to demonstrate it was stab-proof and sadly realized it wasn’t the case," assistant coroner Karin Welsh said during a court hearing.
Easton reportedly was rushed to the hospital, where he died.
The newspaper reported that while his injuries were self-inflicted, there was no evidence that proved Easton purposely tried to harm himself.
Easton's death was ruled a "misadventure," which Welsh said meant he victim died from consequences which were not intended.
"It seems clear that's the situation with Jordan," she said.
Via: https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/tragic-jordan-turned-knife-himself-14791313
Wednesday, June 13, 2018
Man plunges to his death taking pictures at Glacier Park
Officials with Montana's Glacier National Park say a visitor who was taking photographs of the scenery fell into a creek, was swept into a culvert and plunged off a steep cliff to his death.Park officials said in a statement Monday that 26-year-old Robert Durbin of Corvallis, Montana, died Saturday.
They say Durbin was taking photos along Haystack Creek next to the Going-to-the-Sun Road, which is known for its dramatic scenery and vertigo-inducing heights.
He fell into the creek and was washed through a culvert that goes beneath the road and empties into a 100-foot drop down a cliff.
The popular road was closed to traffic for about an hour while rangers and rescuers found and recovered the man's body.
Via: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/07/26/tourist-plunges-to-his-death-in-montanas-glacier-park-while-taking-photos.html
Couple Fall 100 Feet Taking Selfie on Wall
A British woman and Australian man have died after falling 100 feet off a beach wall in Portugal while taking a selfie.
Michael Kearns, 33, and his partner Louise Benson, 37, were apparently taking a picture on top of a wall that overlooks Pescadores beach in Ericeira when they plunged to their deaths between 1 a.m. and 6 a.m.
Their bodies were found by a beach cleaner on Tuesday morning and a cell phone was found at the top of the wall.
"Everything seems to indicate that the fall happened when they were probably trying to take a selfie," said Rui Pereira da Terra, a captain of the local naval authority.
"It seems they dropped their mobile phone and fell down while leaning over to retrieve it."
Local fishermen told Portuguese site Jornal de NotÃcias that they discovered a “horror scene” when they found the bodies around 6.30 a.m.
“At first the fishermen thought the corpses, from far away, might be people sleeping on the beach,” according to the report. “Only when they got closer did they realize that it was a dead couple and they were shocked with what they saw. Their bodies were shattered."
Kearns was a fly-in, fly-out employee on Chevron's Wheatstone project in the Pilbar and was a keen diver in his spare time, according to Perth Now.
He had left Australia in January on vacation with Benson, and they had attended a friend's wedding in Portugal in recent weeks, according to his mother.
Benson, a British expat who lived in Perth with Kearns, worked for non-profit Sea Shepherd Australia, according to her Facebook page, and also appears to have been a diver.
A spokesman for Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade told news.com.au that it was providing consular assistance to the man’s family.
Britain’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office added: "We are in touch with local authorities following the death of a British woman in Portugal and are providing support to her family."
Praia dos Pescadores – or Fishermans Beach - on Portugal’s Atlantic coast, is around 25 miles from Lisbon and is popular with tourists and surfers.
Via: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/06/13/tourists-plunge-100-feet-to-their-death-while-taking-selfie-on-wall-above-popular-portuguese-beach.html
Via: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/06/13/tourists-plunge-100-feet-to-their-death-while-taking-selfie-on-wall-above-popular-portuguese-beach.html
Tuesday, June 12, 2018
Boater dies as sinkhole opens in river
At least one boater has died after a sinkhole developed on the bed of a north Arkansas river, creating a whirlpool.Arkansas Game and Fish Commission spokesman Trey Reid told The Washington Post Monday that the victim has been identified as Donald Wright, 64, from Searcy, Ark.
Reid told The Post that when the sinkhole opened and formed the whirlpool on Saturday afternoon, boaters were ejected from their boats. Wright, who was in a kayak, paddled toward the whirlpool to try to help them.
The 57-mile-long river, which runs through Arkansas and Missouri, is known for water sports, such as canoeing, kayaking and rafting, and fishing, The Post reported.
AGFC issued a warning Monday for boaters on the Spring River to avoid an area known as Sadler Falls near Dead Man’s Curve, about 150 miles 150 northeast of Little Rock.
The area has been roped off and is marked with buoys.
“The river is still open, but the barricaded area should not be breached,” AGFC officials said, according to Fox 25 Boston.
The commission says engineers will examine the area this week.
Via:http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/06/11/boater-dies-after-sinkhole-creates-whirlpool-on-arkansas-river.html
Monday, June 11, 2018
Woman eaten by alligator walking dogs
One moment, Shizuka Matsuki was out for a walk with her pit bulls, standing next to a pond at Silver Lakes Rotary Nature Park in Davie, Fla., roughly 30 miles north of Miami.
The next moment, she was gone.
The only sign that the 47-year-old woman had ever been there Friday morning were the dogs, now alone and barking near the water, refusing to leave. One sported a fresh, bloody wound.
A witness who ultimately called authorities walked toward the dogs and spotted a large alligator in the water, according to Miami ABC-affiliate WPLG. And only one car was in a nearby parking lot — registered to Matsuki and her husband.
Still, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission warned people not to jump to conclusions about what had happened on the side of the pond until they could investigate.
By late Friday, they revealed the grisly news.
A trapper hired by authorities removed a 12-foot-6-inch alligator from the pond and killed it. Inside the animal, authorities found “evidence … that indicates that the victim of this incident was bitten by the alligator that was captured.”
Authorities located her body a short time later, the FWC announced on Twitter.
Neighbors at the gated Isla del Sol community in Plantation, where Matsuki lived, told the Miami Herald she was a “soccer mom” whom they frequently saw walking her dogs in the morning while wearing workout gear.
Her husband was away in Chicago on Friday, neighbor Peter Limia told the Herald, but had warned Matsuki to be careful — or to possibly avoid walks alone at the nature park altogether.
“He had warned her not to take the dogs over to that place because they had seen gators before and it isn’t safe,” Limia said, relaying what he had heard from other neighbors.
But people in Matsuki’s neighborhood had received other warnings about another body of water where she frequently walked her dogs.
On Wednesday, one of her neighbors snapped a picture of an alligator lounging on a front porch, the Herald reported.
Police were called, and the gator was removed.
According to the Florida Sun-Sentinel, the Isla del Sol Homeowners Association sent an email to its residents shortly after the six-foot gator was trapped.
It urged people to “exercise caution with our families and pets, mindful that alligators, snakes, and other wildlife may be in the area.”
It’s unclear if Matsuki ever received or read that message, or if it had encouraged her to put her dogs in the car and take them for a walk at a spot farther from home.
She was a frequent visitor to Silver Lakes Rotary Nature Park, but authorities have not said why she opted to go there Friday morning.
Nate Fischer, a neighbor of Matsuki’s, wrote on Facebook that Matsuki would frequently let her dogs off their leashes, allowing them to swim in the water. He saw them occasionally when he was fishing in the neighborhood.
The warning from the neighborhood association about alligators in the water may have prompted her to change things up and go to a lake farther away.
“I think she stopped walking her dogs behind our house when one of our neighbor’s dogs was taken by [an] alligator,” he wrote.
“She probably thought that Lake was [a] safer alternative, after so many gators have been showing up around here lately.”
Via:https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/06/09/the-body-of-a-woman-attacked-by-a-12-foot-alligator-while-walking-her-dogs-has-been-found/?utm_term=.e6365a8b0a94
The next moment, she was gone.
The only sign that the 47-year-old woman had ever been there Friday morning were the dogs, now alone and barking near the water, refusing to leave. One sported a fresh, bloody wound.
A witness who ultimately called authorities walked toward the dogs and spotted a large alligator in the water, according to Miami ABC-affiliate WPLG. And only one car was in a nearby parking lot — registered to Matsuki and her husband.
Still, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission warned people not to jump to conclusions about what had happened on the side of the pond until they could investigate.
By late Friday, they revealed the grisly news.
A trapper hired by authorities removed a 12-foot-6-inch alligator from the pond and killed it. Inside the animal, authorities found “evidence … that indicates that the victim of this incident was bitten by the alligator that was captured.”
Authorities located her body a short time later, the FWC announced on Twitter.
Neighbors at the gated Isla del Sol community in Plantation, where Matsuki lived, told the Miami Herald she was a “soccer mom” whom they frequently saw walking her dogs in the morning while wearing workout gear.
Her husband was away in Chicago on Friday, neighbor Peter Limia told the Herald, but had warned Matsuki to be careful — or to possibly avoid walks alone at the nature park altogether.
“He had warned her not to take the dogs over to that place because they had seen gators before and it isn’t safe,” Limia said, relaying what he had heard from other neighbors.
But people in Matsuki’s neighborhood had received other warnings about another body of water where she frequently walked her dogs.
On Wednesday, one of her neighbors snapped a picture of an alligator lounging on a front porch, the Herald reported.
Police were called, and the gator was removed.
According to the Florida Sun-Sentinel, the Isla del Sol Homeowners Association sent an email to its residents shortly after the six-foot gator was trapped.
It urged people to “exercise caution with our families and pets, mindful that alligators, snakes, and other wildlife may be in the area.”
It’s unclear if Matsuki ever received or read that message, or if it had encouraged her to put her dogs in the car and take them for a walk at a spot farther from home.
She was a frequent visitor to Silver Lakes Rotary Nature Park, but authorities have not said why she opted to go there Friday morning.
Nate Fischer, a neighbor of Matsuki’s, wrote on Facebook that Matsuki would frequently let her dogs off their leashes, allowing them to swim in the water. He saw them occasionally when he was fishing in the neighborhood.
The warning from the neighborhood association about alligators in the water may have prompted her to change things up and go to a lake farther away.
“I think she stopped walking her dogs behind our house when one of our neighbor’s dogs was taken by [an] alligator,” he wrote.
“She probably thought that Lake was [a] safer alternative, after so many gators have been showing up around here lately.”
Via:https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/06/09/the-body-of-a-woman-attacked-by-a-12-foot-alligator-while-walking-her-dogs-has-been-found/?utm_term=.e6365a8b0a94
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