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Icicle kills woman in St. Petersburg
RIA Novosti ^ | December 28, 2012

Posted on 12/28/2012 3:10:52 PM PST by ConservativeStatement

A woman was killed by an icicle that fell from the roof of a building in Russia’s northwestern city of St. Petersburg, a spokeswoman for local emergencies services reported on Thursday.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.az ...


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It's time for an icicle buyback program.
1 posted on 12/28/2012 3:10:57 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
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I thought it was St. Petersburg, Florida. Now THAT would be unusual.


2 posted on 12/28/2012 3:14:01 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (The one thing that Hollywood gets right about guns is that crminals will always get them.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

~ouch~


3 posted on 12/28/2012 3:16:41 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Sometimes your number comes up.


4 posted on 12/28/2012 3:16:54 PM PST by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
Heat Miser would never allow it.
5 posted on 12/28/2012 3:17:57 PM PST by ConservativeStatement (Obama is the "Disco Duck" president. A no-substance novelty that reached number one.)
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I was giving a tour of Chicago to a girl from Spain the day after a blizzard. I had just gotten done telling her not to walk too close to the buildings, and gotten the "look," when WHAM! The chunk had to have been close to 50lbs., and travelling at velocity. She listened carefully, after that.

Walker and LaSalle. Let's be careful out there.

6 posted on 12/28/2012 3:18:30 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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I remember when a falling pane of glass killed a woman in Chicago (1999):

“Glass kills Loop woman Pane falls from CNA building”

http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-4516900.html


7 posted on 12/28/2012 3:29:38 PM PST by ConservativeStatement (Obama is the "Disco Duck" president. A no-substance novelty that reached number one.)
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Ralphie, those icicles have been know to kill people!

8 posted on 12/28/2012 3:35:42 PM PST by freedombird (When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness. -A. DeTocqueville)
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“Those responsible for keeping the building free of dangerous icicles face up to three years in prison.”

Ah, the Democrats must be wiping their eyes of frozen tears, their Communist leader is so good at big government control.


9 posted on 12/28/2012 3:41:49 PM PST by Beowulf9
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I heard incident of similar late 70’s/early 80’s in US.
Didn’t read newspaper back then so it was probably word of mouth.


10 posted on 12/28/2012 3:42:30 PM PST by Morris70
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To: ConservativeStatement
On a related note:

Neglected, Rotting Trees Turn Deadly

11 posted on 12/28/2012 3:44:56 PM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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Wow, Ralphie Parker’s mom was right. Icicles really DO kill people!


12 posted on 12/28/2012 3:54:52 PM PST by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (Some cultures are destined to remain stupid and we need to quit trying to uplift them.)
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Great minds think alike...


13 posted on 12/28/2012 3:55:46 PM PST by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (Some cultures are destined to remain stupid and we need to quit trying to uplift them.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

damien!!!!!!!


14 posted on 12/28/2012 3:56:32 PM PST by MestaMachine (It's the !!!!TREASON!!!!, stupid!)
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Happened to an elementary school classmate of my then future wife, in Wisconsin, mid-1930s.


15 posted on 12/28/2012 4:05:15 PM PST by Elsiejay
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To: freedombird

First thing I thought when reading the title!


16 posted on 12/28/2012 4:20:05 PM PST by autumnraine (America how long will you be so deaf and dumb to the tumbril wheels carrying you to the guillotine?)
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Perfect crime. Stab someone in the right spot and the evidence melts away.


17 posted on 12/28/2012 4:24:55 PM PST by Amberdawn
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Emergency Decree:

All icicles shall be registered in the Ministry of Hazardous Materials.
All icicles shall be sampled and analyzed by Gas Chromatography / Mass Spectrometry. A record of the chemical fingerprint of each icicle shall be stored at the Bureau of Chemical Fingerprints.
All icicles longer than 5 cm and with diameter larger than 5 mm shall be banned.
All icicles manufactured prior to the enactment of this Decree shall be covered retroactively by said Decree (unless they have melted or been rendered harmless by sawing off the tip such that the dimensions are within the allowable limits).


18 posted on 12/28/2012 4:33:20 PM PST by rfp1234 (Arguing with a liberal is like playing chess with a pigeon.)
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Maybe instead of pumping CO2 into the ground we should send it over there and save these people from their icycles.


19 posted on 12/28/2012 4:36:19 PM PST by Uncle Chip
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Icicle kills woman in St. Petersburg

That's the danger of "global warming".

Global warming somehow caused the weather in St Petersburgh to get unusually cold, which caused water to form icicles, which eventually have to fall, and which can kill whatever happens by at the moment.


20 posted on 12/28/2012 4:59:32 PM PST by adorno (Y)
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