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Daily Mail
13-07-2025
- Daily Mail
Shocking revelations from people who narrowly survived near-fatal encounters
From being swept away by powerful riptides to narrowly dodging falling trees, people are sharing the terrifying moments they nearly came face-to-face with death. It began after someone asked on Reddit, 'People who escaped death by complete luck. What happened?' The post received over 1,600 comments from users who were eager to tell their stories. One person recounted how they narrowly avoided being hit by a driver who had lost consciousness while they were out on their moped. They said: 'I was 16 in Bermuda, riding my moped into town when I came up to a bus stopped at a red light. 'I came to a stop, and then, as is tradition, I scooted around the bus to be at the front of the traffic. 'No more than 10 seconds later, a second bus plowed into the back of the first bus at 30-40 mph. 'I would have been pancaked, no question, had I not moved. Apparently, the second bus driver had a medical event and lost consciousness. 'I just sat on the side of the road for 30 minutes afterward and looked at the trees, contemplating my mortality.' Another person revealed a shooting took place at the mall they worked at but they had been running late that day so they weren't there. They detailed: 'Worked at my local mall while in college. I've always prided myself on never being late. 'I was going in early to go to my bank, which was at the main entrance. A series of ridiculous events began, and I found myself running late, which really frustrated me. 'Again, it rarely, if ever, happened. I drove quickly to find police cars flying past me. As I approached the mall, I saw the cops swarming the main entrance, where I was headed. 'Turns out, a woman had entered the main entrance with a rifle and began shooting as she entered, and continued as she walked through the mall. She killed three and wounded seven, some critically. 'No doubt I would have been in the line of fire had I not been late. She spent decades in jail and was recently released.' Someone else recalled a harrowing and life threatening incident that occurred when they were younger. 'A street light collapsed on me (my neck) and onto the face of the girl in front of me on a 5th-grade field trip,' they wrote. 'I was surprisingly fine, while the girl in front of me got helicoptered out. She made a full recovery, though!' One user shared the time they had a tree fall on them. 'I was two steps away from being crushed by the trunk. Paramedics made sure to tell me that while I was sitting there with a flap of skin hanging off my scalp,' they said. 'Like, thanks, dude, for pointing out I almost died while I was already in shock.' Another person recalled almost dying after they decided to play in a power station as a child. 'Back in the year 2000, seven-year-old me and my friends were outside exploring. That day's location happened to be a power station,' they shared. 'An older nine-year-old boy lost his life on top of a machine. The electricity burned a hole through him. 'I lost both my hands trying to climb up and help him. Amputated below my elbows. 'Electricity went through both my arms and exited in my armpit on one side and my neck on the other side. It never went through my chest, or I'd be dead, too.' Someone else shared a near-kidnapping story that occurred when they were 10 years old. 'When I was a naive 10-year-old, a guy in a s***ty car asked me to hop in and help him find his lost puppy,' they recalled. 'My dumb**s was about to get in when my little brother happened to ride by on a bike and started screaming. He probably saved my life that day.' Another warned about swimming at the beach, as they wrote: 'Was swimming at an Australian beach, stupidly not between the flags, got smacked by a rogue wave and was stuck in a riptide. I was knocked out cold and pretty much drowned. 'Still, to this day, I don't know how I got to shore, when I woke I was up on the wet sand of the beach and had 5 jellyfish around me.' A different user shared their near-death experience that happened at work: 'Sudden cardiac [arrest] at work. A co-worker gave me CPR and paramedics got my heart beating again. Five percent survival rate. I ate a lot more ice cream once I was healthy, again.' One commenter wrote: 'I was in the passenger seat of my dad's small sports car (low to the ground) when a crowbar came off a work truck in front of us and flew into the windshield of our car. 'Somehow it stopped a few inches away from my face, and I luckily happened to be looking down, which meant all the glass that would have ended up on my face was all in my hair instead. 'I always think about how lucky I was, I can't explain why that crowbar stopped half in and half out of the car. Crazy to think that if it didn't stop, it would have hit me square in the forehead.' Someone else revealed their close encounter with serial killer Ted Bundy. 'My frat bro's mom was in the Chi Omega house at FSU in 1979. Ted Bundy broke into the house while they were sleeping and killed the two girls in the room across the hall from hers and seriously beat up two other women,' they wrote.
Independent Singapore
29-06-2025
- Independent Singapore
Three youngsters arrested within 48 hours in Cyberjaya dorm murder case
Photos: Sin Chew Daily The police in Malaysia have arrested three suspects in connection with their investigation into the murder of a female college student found dead in her dormitory last week. The victim, 20-year-old Maniishapriet Kaur Akhara, was discovered deceased in her room at Mutiara Ville, Cyberjaya, at around 11am on Wednesday, (June 25). Maniishapriet, originally from Kuching, Sarawak, was a physiotherapy undergraduate at the University of Cyberjaya. According to Sepang district police chief Assistant Commissioner Noor Hisham, the three suspects — two women and one man aged between 19 and 20 — were all known to the victim. One male suspect, apprehended in Johor Bahru, is reportedly the boyfriend of one of Maniishapriet's roommates and is believed to be a key figure in the case. 'The suspects are currently in police custody, and we will be applying to the court to remand them for further investigation,' the Assistant Commissioner said in a statement. The arrests were carried out in a coordinated operation involving the Bukit Aman Police Headquarters, Selangor Police Headquarters, and the Sepang District Police Headquarters. The operation took place between 9am on June 26 and 2am on June 27, with arrests made in Johor Bahru, Limbang, and Negeri Sembilan. See also Woman bullying elderly in wheel chair video goes viral At the time of the incident, Maniishapriet was the only student left in the dormitory, as her five classmates had returned home for the school holidays. She was reportedly studying alone in preparation for upcoming exams. Local publication Sin Chew Daily reported that the victim was found naked, with a towel suspected to be stained with male semen at the scene. While initial suspicions pointed towards sexual assault, the forensic autopsy later confirmed that Maniishapriet had not been sexually assaulted prior to her death. Investigations are ongoing.
Washington Post
20-06-2025
- Washington Post
You asked: What's the best kitchen appliance for a first apartment?
If you're buying one countertop appliance for a college student moving into their first apartment, what would you choose? This is a question we received in our live weekly chat, where we help you level up your skills in the kitchen. Continues the reader: 'Thinking of things like a microwave, air fryer, toaster oven, etc. Multifunctional would be great, and we're willing to invest in quality, but not super high-end. The student in question loves food and has broad tastes, is inclined to cook, and has decent beginner skills, but is busy and will likely keep things pretty basic (think a piece of salmon [with] veggies vs. fries and frozen pizza, [though] I'm sure there will be plenty of that, too.'
Washington Post
19-06-2025
- Washington Post
Parsing ICE's mixed-up, hard-to-believe assault claims
Last month, I wrote a column questioning why Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers were increasingly disguising their identities as they conducted sweeps and arrests. One obvious answer was that they hoped to avoid accountability for their actions, making it harder to say precisely who had plucked up a college student or local mother and sent them to jail in another state pending deportation.
Daily Mail
12-06-2025
- Health
- Daily Mail
Man, 21, hospitalised due to risky 'sounding' sex act involving a USB cable
A 21-year-old man ended up needing emergency surgery after a sexual experiment with a USB cable went horribly wrong. The unnamed college student inserted the object into his urethra—the tube in the penis that carries urine out of the body—as part of a dangerous practice called 'sounding'. But the thick cable—which he had inserted in a U-shaped loop leaving both ends hanging outside of him—had gotten stuck, requiring an urgent trip to A&E. American medics, who reported the case, said their patient admitted to having inserted objects like 'cotton swabs and wire cables' in a similar manner before. But on this occasion he found himself unable to extract the USB cable. Scans show how the man had pushed the looped cable so deep inside his urethra that it had entered his bladder, where it then become lodged. Writing in the journal Cureus, the medics said that initial attempts by staff to pull the cable out by hand were unsuccessful. As a result, they decided to anaesthetise the man and attempted to extract the cable using special tools inserted into the urethra. This proved successful and the cable was 'gently' pulled out until it could be snipped with scissors and each section extracted more easily. After keeping him in hospital for a week for monitoring, the man was then discharged with painkillers and antibiotics. One month later he returned to hospital for a follow up which showed he had suffered no long term problems from his ordeal. Writing in the report the medics noted: 'Self-insertion of objects into the urethra for sexual or other reasons is rare but can cause serious harm.' Known risks include an infection, which can in turn lead to life-threatening sepsis as permanent damage to the reproductive organs. If inserted objects reach the bladder, it also carries the potential of rupturing the organ. Sounding is a sexual kink whereby people, mostly men, insert long thin objects into their urethra. Examples of objects previously used include forks, telephone cables metal piping, nail clippers, an allen key, needles, olive seeds, batteries, a skipping rope, a coyote rib, and even a decapitated snake. While most famously done for sexual pleasure the act is has carried out by people with serious mental health conditions as well as men undertaking an ill-advised attempt to maintain an erection. UK experts have previously reported a rise in the number of men having sounding issues over the past few years. They have blamed it the surge in men looking to 'expand their sexual activities and enhance their sexual experiences'. How many men perform sounding is unknown. However, the NHS in England reported treating 258 cases where patients had a 'foreign body' stuck in their urethra last financial year. The vast majority of these cases, 231, were in men with an average patient age of 47.
