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Article from TwinCities.com He lingered near the wood chipper ... then he dove in Roseville work crew unable to stop apparent suicide attempt; man lives By Tad Vezner and Elizabeth Mohr tvezner@pioneerpress.com Article Last Updated: 05/17/2008 02:26:18 AM CDT From 13 feet up, Josh Thompson saw the man coming, jogging, actually — and then, suddenly, breaking into a sprint. By the time the man dove arm-first into the massive tree chipper — meant to grind 21-inch-diameter trunks in a matter of seconds — Thompson had leapt to the ground. Frantically, he yanked on a safety lever, shutting the machine down. But it was bad: The man — who had been wandering uncomfortably close to the industrial-grade tree chipper for about 15 to 20 minutes — had his arm and shoulder pulled into the teeth of the machine. Heavy, block-shaped teeth — meant to grip and pull, rather than grind — were closing upon the man's head with 13,000 pounds of pressure. His hand may have reached the spinning grinders 3 feet inside. But he was alive. "A split-second later, and it would've been over. The rpm on that thing probably wouldn't drop half a point with a human body going through it," said Cory Groholski, vice president of Precision Landscape & Tree Inc. Groholski's crew was contracted to remove trees at 2611 Rice St. in Roseville when the Thursday afternoon incident took place. "If Josh would've taken his time, done the safe thing and stepped down the ladder, the guy would be gone. They (the crew) saved him, whether he wanted to be saved or not," Groholski said. Thompson, in the high seat of an adjacent log loader, was angling a massive log toward the chipper at the time, a good story before landing upon the side of the 9-foot-tall wood chipper. Two other crewmembers pulled the man out. A fourth called 911. Though the man's right arm, shoulder and chest area were badly mangled, there was hardly any blood, the workers noted with surprise. They told the man to relax. He appeared to, saying not a word, his eyes rolling back and forth. "It bothers us a lot. That was our last piece for the day. Fifteen seconds more, and we would have been out of there," Groholski said. Crew members — including Groholski, who left the site just minutes before the incident happened — had yelled at the man several times to stay back. They thought he was an employee at a nearby hardware store, just getting off his shift. "He looked kind of mopey, head down. I yelled at him to stay back once. He said, 'OK,' and walked away," Groholski said. "He looked like he was contemplating before he did it," said witness Jerel Payne, who lives besides the land where the trees were being cut down. Payne described the man as white, 5-feet-11 to 6-feet tall, slim, with scraggly brown hair. "He just looked like an ordinary guy," Payne said. Until he dove. "Have you seen the movie 'Fargo'?" Payne asked, referring to the 1996 movie with an infamous wood chipper murder scene. "I saw his feet in the air. That's something you would never imagine happening. ... His arm was dangling; his guts were hanging out; his head was cut up." "There is no way on earth to prevent that kind of intentional entry into the machine," said Ivan Brand, senior technical coordinator for product safety for Vermeer Corp., which makes the BC2100 industrial chipper, the model at the scene. Police said it was clear the 20-year-old Roseville man was attempting suicide. They would not identify him. "It's a medical situation, and we feel that information is protected under data privacy," said Roseville police Lt. Lorne Rosand. Some media reports say the man lived nearby, but Rosand would not confirm or deny that. Employees at a business across the street from the scene said the man's torso and head appeared to be entirely wrapped in gauze as he was placed into the ambulance. The man was taken to Regions Hospital. Rosand was unsure whether the man would survive and was unable to report his condition Friday. Suicide by wood chipper is not unheard of. In 2001, a 43-year-old Canadian woman left a four-page suicide note before throwing herself into a wood chipper on her family's acreage near Ottawa. She died. In 2000, a Phoenix man killed himself with a wood chipper, and tried to drag his fiancee in with him. The fiancee survived. Brady Gervais contributed to this report. Tad Vezner can be reached at 651-228-5461. Elizabeth Mohr can be reached at 651-228-5162.
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trailrider2
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Well that made my day. 
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Russell
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Well, I guess he got the attention he was seeking. Dang fools and their issues.
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QUADAHOLIC "BLUE CREW" 
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I know some of those BIG chippers can have some serious horsepower behind them, If your gonna jump in, do it while it's at top rpm. What was that movie  Dakota or North something, where they have that chipper scene.
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trailrider2
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Fargo, it's in the news story. I wonder if fmj talks like them? LOL.
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QUADAHOLIC "BLUE CREW"
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Well there I go a gain, speed read and miss.
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Revicm Lifer on parole as a Mod 
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  trailrider2 wrote: Fargo, it's in the news story.
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cementhead1 Member 
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That movie did no justice for Minnesota or North Dakota they made us look like we are retards.
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QUADAHOLIC "BLUE CREW"
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Now, you've left yourself wide open for alot of comebacks there. Shoes fitting or not, comes to mind. 
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trailrider2
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I thought it was an awesome movie. No disrespect meant at all. It's a classic.
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cementhead1 Member
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Nobody sezs yah sure you betcha EH if your from around this area you know I -94 doesn't run thur Brainerd and isn't alot of big farm fields in area. It is also just about as bad as the time your worthless republican president SHRUB came to Duluth and called the Iron Range the Iron Ridge what a friggen IDIOT I just tired of people looking at us as backwoods idiots that don't know what we are doing.
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trailrider2
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I never got the impression anyone was an idiot, I just thought it was a great movie. I guess I know how you feel though, I'm airing myself out on another website that loves to blame every rut in the trail on a utility quad. Sport quads can do no harm.
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BrianE Member 
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What other web site? I must see. 
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trailrider2
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 Last edited on Mon May 19th, 2008 12:58 pm by trailrider2 ____________________ Pain is weakness leaving the body. |
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 this sure got turned 
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fmj40 Behave or you'll be MODulated! 
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Once again I find my name being blashphemed on another thread without me being privy to it!!!!!!!!!!!! TR2, no, I don't talk like that.. I am originally from maine so I have a different, yet still made fun of, accent. With that said, and in keeping with the spirit of this thread, I think I'll go fiyah up the wood "chippah", drink a "beeyah" and jump in feet first! That should be "wicked" fun! Oh, and I might even eat a "lobstah" while I am in theyah...
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fmj40 Behave or you'll be MODulated!
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Oh, and for the record, I don't know about cementheads area of MN, but up in this area there does seem to be a bit of an accent, nothing like in the movie in magnitude, but its there. They also do use a few words that are unique. I have heard a few "oofda's" in my time. (meaning, "wow") . And one thing they say a bit around this area is when they so something cute, like a kid, or a dog, they say "Oh-for-cute!". Don't ask me why, I am just reporting.
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trailrider2
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I knew you were from Maine, just giving you hell again. Dang, I need to quit that. You da man, oh for cute.
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Russell
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Good thing you are not from West Virginia. Last edited on Thu May 22nd, 2008 12:48 am by Russell ____________________ Don't ask for an easier life; ask to be a stronger person. |
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QUADAHOLIC "BLUE CREW"
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Which vid?
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Russell
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ok. Didn't work. How about this one? Failed again! Last edited on Thu May 22nd, 2008 12:44 am by Russell ____________________ Don't ask for an easier life; ask to be a stronger person. |
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