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little big man [TotalFark]
2023-01-31 9:48:31 PM  
I haven't read anywhere how fast they were driving but I've seen a picture of the damaged car and it's hard to reconcile.
 
Dave and the Mission [TotalFark]
2023-01-31 11:55:33 PM  
I mean, sure, they should have had that gate secured, but it's nothing to lose your head over.
 
Oysterman
2023-02-01 5:18:31 AM  
As the couple was leaving the park, gusts of wind swung the gate around rapidly, enough to slice through the passenger side door of the couple's car, decapitating Nakajjigo as her husband sat feet away in the driver's seat.


...what the non-Newtonian fark?
 
khatores
2023-02-01 5:23:40 AM  

little big man: I haven't read anywhere how fast they were driving but I've seen a picture of the damaged car and it's hard to reconcile.


You wouldn't have to be going that fast. A car door in many spots is just thin sheet metal, some insulation and plastic on the inside. It would be a very, very low chance of it actually being at exactly the right angle to penetrate but obviously it's possible.

https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/car-crash-force

Assuming the car is 3000 lbs and going 35 mph, the crash force is nearly 1 million ft lbs. Probably more with two people and luggage. It's easily enough to do some dramatic fatal damage.

You would calculate the victim as being part of the car here since a foreign body actually entered the vehicle. She would have had the full weight and velocity of the vehicle pushing her forward into the post. This is basically a jousting match with a steel gate. The human loses every time.
 
khatores
2023-02-01 5:25:41 AM  

Oysterman: As the couple was leaving the park, gusts of wind swung the gate around rapidly, enough to slice through the passenger side door of the couple's car, decapitating Nakajjigo as her husband sat feet away in the driver's seat.


...what the non-Newtonian fark?


Car moves forward, gate swings out like a lance, penetrates car door sort of head on and slightly at an angle, slices through and gets her in the head. Little if any braking happened because he didn't anticipate it or probably see it.
 
Wine Sipping Elitist [TotalFark]
2023-02-01 5:27:05 AM  
As the couple was leaving the park, gusts of wind swung the gate around rapidly, enough to slice through the passenger side door of the couple's car, decapitating Nakajjigo as her husband sat feet away in the driver's seat.

Wow

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Yeah I can see how that big metal pole would knock someone's head off. Terrible way to go.

I would blame the driver but I lack context. You didn't see that gigantic metal gate coming right at you? Maybe step on the gas pedal and save your new wife? I'd hate to be him. He has to live with that memory.
 
Oysterman
2023-02-01 5:33:45 AM  

khatores: Oysterman: As the couple was leaving the park, gusts of wind swung the gate around rapidly, enough to slice through the passenger side door of the couple's car, decapitating Nakajjigo as her husband sat feet away in the driver's seat.


...what the non-Newtonian fark?

Car moves forward, gate swings out like a lance, penetrates car door sort of head on and slightly at an angle, slices through and gets her in the head. Little if any braking happened because he didn't anticipate it or probably see it.


Still boggles the mind. Is the gate rotating clockwise or counterclockwise? How fast are they driving? If the driver doesn't see it coming when it's already within 90 degrees of the correct angle, how is that still wrongful and not homicide?
 
derpes_simplex
2023-02-01 5:39:41 AM  
Just think of how little speed and energy it takes to impale yourself on a spear.  Now make that spear out of steel and anchor it to the ground and encounter it at say 20 MPH while weighing 4000 Lbs.  This is not that hard to understand.
 
Mr_Vimes
2023-02-01 5:41:37 AM  

Oysterman: khatores: Oysterman: As the couple was leaving the park, gusts of wind swung the gate around rapidly, enough to slice through the passenger side door of the couple's car, decapitating Nakajjigo as her husband sat feet away in the driver's seat.


...what the non-Newtonian fark?

Car moves forward, gate swings out like a lance, penetrates car door sort of head on and slightly at an angle, slices through and gets her in the head. Little if any braking happened because he didn't anticipate it or probably see it.

Still boggles the mind. Is the gate rotating clockwise or counterclockwise? How fast are they driving? If the driver doesn't see it coming when it's already within 90 degrees of the correct angle, how is that still wrongful and not homicide?


We have to wait and see how wife number two dies.
 
Sexy Jesus [recently expired TotalFark]
2023-02-01 5:43:55 AM  

derpes_simplex: Just think of how little speed and energy it takes to impale yourself on a spear.  Now make that spear out of steel and anchor it to the ground and encounter it at say 20 MPH while weighing 4000 Lbs.  This is not that hard to understand.


I am American but I cannot imagine weighing two tons.
 
Summoner101
2023-02-01 5:46:23 AM  
Uganda be kidding me!
 
fzumrk [BareFark]
2023-02-01 5:59:36 AM  

Wine Sipping Elitist: As the couple was leaving the park, gusts of wind swung the gate around rapidly, enough to slice through the passenger side door of the couple's car, decapitating Nakajjigo as her husband sat feet away in the driver's seat.

Wow

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Yeah I can see how that big metal pole would knock someone's head off. Terrible way to go.

I would blame the driver but I lack context. You didn't see that gigantic metal gate coming right at you? Maybe step on the gas pedal and save your new wife? I'd hate to be him. He has to live with that memory.


I'm going to guess the gate was swung open towards the interior of the park on the passenger side of the on coming car. If it started to swing into the traffic lane just as the car approached it, the driver would have little time to react.
Very sad accident and example of how neglecting a seemingly unimportant detail can have dire consequences.
 
Sexy Jesus [recently expired TotalFark]
2023-02-01 6:06:24 AM  
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TheOtherGuy
2023-02-01 6:10:15 AM  

khatores: little big man: I haven't read anywhere how fast they were driving but I've seen a picture of the damaged car and it's hard to reconcile.

You wouldn't have to be going that fast. A car door in many spots is just thin sheet metal, some insulation and plastic on the inside. It would be a very, very low chance of it actually being at exactly the right angle to penetrate but obviously it's possible.

https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/car-crash-force

Assuming the car is 3000 lbs and going 35 mph, the crash force is nearly 1 million ft lbs. Probably more with two people and luggage. It's easily enough to do some dramatic fatal damage.

You would calculate the victim as being part of the car here since a foreign body actually entered the vehicle. She would have had the full weight and velocity of the vehicle pushing her forward into the post. This is basically a jousting match with a steel gate. The human loses every time.


The remaining question, to me, being how the gate impacted so high on the vehicle as to miss the body, and all that reinforced steel frame & force-absorbing crumple zones.  I'm picturing a fence gate like you see on ranches, but obviously I have no idea.
 
FutureWars
2023-02-01 6:12:04 AM  
$10.5 million? This will definitely help her family get ahead in life.
 
Wine Sipping Elitist [TotalFark]
2023-02-01 6:23:09 AM  

fzumrk: Wine Sipping Elitist: As the couple was leaving the park, gusts of wind swung the gate around rapidly, enough to slice through the passenger side door of the couple's car, decapitating Nakajjigo as her husband sat feet away in the driver's seat.

Wow

[Fark user image image 425x283]

Yeah I can see how that big metal pole would knock someone's head off. Terrible way to go.

I would blame the driver but I lack context. You didn't see that gigantic metal gate coming right at you? Maybe step on the gas pedal and save your new wife? I'd hate to be him. He has to live with that memory.

I'm going to guess the gate was swung open towards the interior of the park on the passenger side of the on coming car. If it started to swing into the traffic lane just as the car approached it, the driver would have little time to react.
Very sad accident and example of how neglecting a seemingly unimportant detail can have dire consequences.


Yeah, I can see that. Terrible way to go
 
6nome
2023-02-01 6:25:56 AM  
Usually husbands like the wife giving head.
 
Oneiros [OhFark]
2023-02-01 6:35:30 AM  

fzumrk: I'm going to guess the gate was swung open towards the interior of the park on the passenger side of the on coming car. If it started to swing into the traffic lane just as the car approached it, the driver would have little time to react.
Very sad accident and example of how neglecting a seemingly unimportant detail can have dire consequences.


That was my suspicion, too.

There's a gate that I sometimes have to unlatch and drive past at work... I know that I'm always going to be walking it forward now, rather than back towards me if I'm the one unlatching it.

... especially as there's nothing to attach it to when it's open.
 
ArcadianRefugee
2023-02-01 6:41:47 AM  

Oysterman: khatores: Oysterman: As the couple was leaving the park, gusts of wind swung the gate around rapidly, enough to slice through the passenger side door of the couple's car, decapitating Nakajjigo as her husband sat feet away in the driver's seat.


...what the non-Newtonian fark?

Car moves forward, gate swings out like a lance, penetrates car door sort of head on and slightly at an angle, slices through and gets her in the head. Little if any braking happened because he didn't anticipate it or probably see it.

Still boggles the mind. Is the gate rotating clockwise or counterclockwise? How fast are they driving? If the driver doesn't see it coming when it's already within 90 degrees of the correct angle, how is that still wrongful and not homicide?


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What it would look like on the way out. Hinge on far side, so gate swings clockwise to close ("pointy" part pointing toward exiting vehicles before pointing across roadway).
 
BiffSpiffy
2023-02-01 6:45:25 AM  
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No head tonite?
 
ArcadianRefugee
2023-02-01 6:50:53 AM  

ArcadianRefugee: Oysterman: khatores: Oysterman: As the couple was leaving the park, gusts of wind swung the gate around rapidly, enough to slice through the passenger side door of the couple's car, decapitating Nakajjigo as her husband sat feet away in the driver's seat.


...what the non-Newtonian fark?

Car moves forward, gate swings out like a lance, penetrates car door sort of head on and slightly at an angle, slices through and gets her in the head. Little if any braking happened because he didn't anticipate it or probably see it.

Still boggles the mind. Is the gate rotating clockwise or counterclockwise? How fast are they driving? If the driver doesn't see it coming when it's already within 90 degrees of the correct angle, how is that still wrongful and not homicide?

[Fark user image image 425x295]

What it would look like on the way out. Hinge on far side, so gate swings clockwise to close ("pointy" part pointing toward exiting vehicles before pointing across roadway).


Oh, and the speed limit at that point (at that gate) is 15mph.
 
kittyhas1000legs [TotalFark]
2023-02-01 7:07:22 AM  

ArcadianRefugee: ArcadianRefugee: Oysterman: khatores: Oysterman: As the couple was leaving the park, gusts of wind swung the gate around rapidly, enough to slice through the passenger side door of the couple's car, decapitating Nakajjigo as her husband sat feet away in the driver's seat.


...what the non-Newtonian fark?

Car moves forward, gate swings out like a lance, penetrates car door sort of head on and slightly at an angle, slices through and gets her in the head. Little if any braking happened because he didn't anticipate it or probably see it.

Still boggles the mind. Is the gate rotating clockwise or counterclockwise? How fast are they driving? If the driver doesn't see it coming when it's already within 90 degrees of the correct angle, how is that still wrongful and not homicide?

[Fark user image image 425x295]

What it would look like on the way out. Hinge on far side, so gate swings clockwise to close ("pointy" part pointing toward exiting vehicles before pointing across roadway).

Oh, and the speed limit at that point (at that gate) is 15mph.


If you're going downhill toward the visitor's center, it's easy to pick up speed and be going over 15. Still, you shouldn't have to worry about a gate coming out and spearing your car at any speed.
 
PunGent
2023-02-01 7:25:10 AM  

Oysterman: khatores: Oysterman: As the couple was leaving the park, gusts of wind swung the gate around rapidly, enough to slice through the passenger side door of the couple's car, decapitating Nakajjigo as her husband sat feet away in the driver's seat.


...what the non-Newtonian fark?

Car moves forward, gate swings out like a lance, penetrates car door sort of head on and slightly at an angle, slices through and gets her in the head. Little if any braking happened because he didn't anticipate it or probably see it.

Still boggles the mind. Is the gate rotating clockwise or counterclockwise? How fast are they driving? If the driver doesn't see it coming when it's already within 90 degrees of the correct angle, how is that still wrongful and not homicide?


Today, on "When Word Problems Take A Dark Turn"...
 
Mr_Vimes
2023-02-01 7:32:46 AM  

BiffSpiffy: [Fark user image 419x565]
No head tonite?


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qorkfiend
2023-02-01 7:58:38 AM  

Wine Sipping Elitist: As the couple was leaving the park, gusts of wind swung the gate around rapidly, enough to slice through the passenger side door of the couple's car, decapitating Nakajjigo as her husband sat feet away in the driver's seat.

Wow

[Fark user image image 425x283]

Yeah I can see how that big metal pole would knock someone's head off. Terrible way to go.

I would blame the driver but I lack context. You didn't see that gigantic metal gate coming right at you? Maybe step on the gas pedal and save your new wife? I'd hate to be him. He has to live with that memory.


There's literally an entire court case showing otherwise and your first reaction is "must be the driver's fault"?

What the fark is wrong with you?
 
Another Government Employee
2023-02-01 8:36:02 AM  
NPS sure settled that quick.
 
ArcadianRefugee
2023-02-01 9:06:11 AM  

kittyhas1000legs: ArcadianRefugee: ArcadianRefugee: Oysterman: khatores: Oysterman: As the couple was leaving the park, gusts of wind swung the gate around rapidly, enough to slice through the passenger side door of the couple's car, decapitating Nakajjigo as her husband sat feet away in the driver's seat.


...what the non-Newtonian fark?

Car moves forward, gate swings out like a lance, penetrates car door sort of head on and slightly at an angle, slices through and gets her in the head. Little if any braking happened because he didn't anticipate it or probably see it.

Still boggles the mind. Is the gate rotating clockwise or counterclockwise? How fast are they driving? If the driver doesn't see it coming when it's already within 90 degrees of the correct angle, how is that still wrongful and not homicide?

[Fark user image image 425x295]

What it would look like on the way out. Hinge on far side, so gate swings clockwise to close ("pointy" part pointing toward exiting vehicles before pointing across roadway).

Oh, and the speed limit at that point (at that gate) is 15mph.

If you're going downhill toward the visitor's center, it's easy to pick up speed and be going over 15. Still, you shouldn't have to worry about a gate coming out and spearing your car at any speed.


I agree.
 
rewind2846
2023-02-01 9:25:03 AM  
*Writers for the next "Final Destination" movie seen furiously scribbling notes*
 
khatores
2023-02-01 10:06:53 AM  

Wine Sipping Elitist: As the couple was leaving the park, gusts of wind swung the gate around rapidly, enough to slice through the passenger side door of the couple's car, decapitating Nakajjigo as her husband sat feet away in the driver's seat.

Wow

[Fark user image 425x283]

Yeah I can see how that big metal pole would knock someone's head off. Terrible way to go.

I would blame the driver but I lack context. You didn't see that gigantic metal gate coming right at you? Maybe step on the gas pedal and save your new wife? I'd hate to be him. He has to live with that memory.


It's the same color as the landscape behind it. Supposedly the wind was kicking so if it pushed it out at the last minute it may have been too late.
 
khatores
2023-02-01 10:14:41 AM  

Oysterman: khatores: Oysterman: As the couple was leaving the park, gusts of wind swung the gate around rapidly, enough to slice through the passenger side door of the couple's car, decapitating Nakajjigo as her husband sat feet away in the driver's seat.


...what the non-Newtonian fark?

Car moves forward, gate swings out like a lance, penetrates car door sort of head on and slightly at an angle, slices through and gets her in the head. Little if any braking happened because he didn't anticipate it or probably see it.

Still boggles the mind. Is the gate rotating clockwise or counterclockwise? How fast are they driving? If the driver doesn't see it coming when it's already within 90 degrees of the correct angle, how is that still wrongful and not homicide?


Ok so you're driving towards the exit. The gate is turned inwards, towards you. On the right side of your car is the gate. You're going 35 mph or so. The wind is blowing quite strongly. As you get to the gate, the car blocks the air on your side, causing lower pressure on that side, and the wind from the other side takes over and blows the gate slightly inwards towards the car.

You don't really notice it because it's similarly colored to the landscape but at the last second it comes at just enough of an angle so it spears in through the door.
 
khatores
2023-02-01 10:18:18 AM  

TheOtherGuy: khatores: little big man: I haven't read anywhere how fast they were driving but I've seen a picture of the damaged car and it's hard to reconcile.

You wouldn't have to be going that fast. A car door in many spots is just thin sheet metal, some insulation and plastic on the inside. It would be a very, very low chance of it actually being at exactly the right angle to penetrate but obviously it's possible.

https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/car-crash-force

Assuming the car is 3000 lbs and going 35 mph, the crash force is nearly 1 million ft lbs. Probably more with two people and luggage. It's easily enough to do some dramatic fatal damage.

You would calculate the victim as being part of the car here since a foreign body actually entered the vehicle. She would have had the full weight and velocity of the vehicle pushing her forward into the post. This is basically a jousting match with a steel gate. The human loses every time.

The remaining question, to me, being how the gate impacted so high on the vehicle as to miss the body, and all that reinforced steel frame & force-absorbing crumple zones.  I'm picturing a fence gate like you see on ranches, but obviously I have no idea.


Yes, in the photos it's a gate similar to what's used in ranches. There's one long pipe sticking out at the top. It would be extremely bad luck to miss everything and hit the thinnest spot on a perfect path. You could probably do it a thousand times and not have it go through. It was extraordinarily bad luck.
 
LadySusan [TotalFark]
2023-02-01 12:47:14 PM  

Oysterman: As the couple was leaving the park, gusts of wind swung the gate around rapidly, enough to slice through the passenger side door of the couple's car, decapitating Nakajjigo as her husband sat feet away in the driver's seat.


...what the non-Newtonian fark?


When it's your time, it's your time. And when it's not, it's not. See the other thread where the woman in Hawaii is almost but not quite smooshed by a giant boulder rolling through the house.
 
indy_kid
2023-02-01 1:13:11 PM  
ArcadianRefugee:

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What it would look like on the way out. Hinge on far side, so gate swings clockwise to close ("pointy" part pointing toward exiting vehicles before pointing across roadway).

That entire setup defies logic.  If the gate is closed, traffic in the lane closest to the sign sees only the BACK of the stop sign.

Having the pivot point at the far end was a recipe for disaster.  You put it at the end closest to oncoming traffic, and a car that hits it if it swings open will hit the center of the gate, pushing it back out of the way.

This was just FAIL all around.  Lowest-bidder failure.
 
Oysterman
2023-02-01 1:33:42 PM  

LadySusan: Oysterman: As the couple was leaving the park, gusts of wind swung the gate around rapidly, enough to slice through the passenger side door of the couple's car, decapitating Nakajjigo as her husband sat feet away in the driver's seat.


...what the non-Newtonian fark?

When it's your time, it's your time. And when it's not, it's not. See the other thread where the woman in Hawaii is almost but not quite smooshed by a giant boulder rolling through the house.


New Final Destination movie this fall I take it.
 
BrerRobot
2023-02-01 4:31:39 PM  
Every women he ever loved ends up dead.
 
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