Not thinking through actions & the Power of Gravity
In the News
I was just reading about how eight people, including five children, were injured after a Thai navy helicopter dropped flowers and sweets over a National Children’s Day event.
Footage shows the crowd scattering as the sweets fall on top of them, with many beginning to scream and cover their heads.
The stadium roof is also captured collapsing beneath the weight of the sweets and flowers as the crowd looked on.
Obviously someone wasn't thinking about the laws of physics and how gravity effects velocity
metro.co.uk/2023/01/16/thailand-helicopter-dropping-sweets-destroys-stadium-18108842/
It's yet more sad when good intentions turn bad.Humanitarian air drops are used quite a lot I thought!
MelissaLee1 I think that humanitarian air drops are properly managed and are dropped where there aren't many people below. Watching the footage, I couldn't believe the damage was caused by sweets, I initially thought there was a fault with the roof
I remember the old urban myth that if you dropped a penny from a height, say from the Empire State or the Eiffel tower that it would gain such velocity that it could kill a person. Apparently not but I wouldn't want it to land on my head! A bread board would be different of course. I bet there are some strange death certificates out there.One chap had a cheese fetish and died of hyperthermia cos he wrapped himself in cheese and couldn't get out in time!
MelissaLee1 Watching the film, it may not have been an urban myth. What a bizzarre way to die, my husband reads the Fortean Times Magazine and they have a section on strange deaths, I think they have been compiled into a number of books, some of them are equally as bizarre 
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