Number 8 Anna Mielewczyk On September the 10th of 2019, Anna Mielewczyk
was working a pillar drill at a facility operated by P&D Engineering Ltd in Coventry,
England. Mielewczyk, then in her mid-20s, was distracted by a loud crash produced by one of
the other machines and turned her head. As she did so, her ponytail got caught in the drill.
Mielewczyk was too far from the off handle and she tried yanking her head forward but was powerless
to oppose the rapidly rotating tool. He screams went unanswered in the commotion generated by
the machines at the industrial site. Before the young woman passed out she heard the harrowing
and haunting sound of her scalp being torn off, which she later likened that of tape being pulled
away from skin. She survived the accident but had to have nine operations in the aftermath and
lost her left ear. Health and Safety officials launched an investigation which swiftly determined
that her employer had been at fault. According to industry practices, the rotating parts of the
drill should’ve been fitted with a guard. While conducting its own risk assessment for the drill,
P&D Engineering Ltd had found that it required protective implements but, nevertheless, operated
it without them. The company admitted to breaching a safety act and was fined nearly $75,000.
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In October of 2021, Michelle Yi was teaching a Pilates class along Arizona Avenue,
in Santa Monica, California. As her students were beginning to arrive, the 37-year-old,
who in 2007 had appeared on the reality TV series Survivor, noticed a disheveled and agitated woman
approaching the open front door of her studio. The woman, who appeared to be homeless, reportedly
started screaming at Yi that she’d stolen her identity and accused her of being an escort. Yi
told the stranger that she needed to leave but was then attacked by her with a rusty saw blade
and a metal baton. The former reality contestant was slashed on the left bicep with the blade
and then struck in the head with the baton. The attacker, subsequently identified as 25-year-old
Alexandria Diaz, fled the scene. Yi’s students tried to call 911 but were reportedly told that
all the operators were busy before they ultimately managed to flag down a passing patrol car. Yi,
whose face had been left bloodied in the attack, drove to the hospital where her injuries weren’t
deemed life-threatening and she received several stitches for a gash above her left eyebrow. Diaz,
whom the authorities suspected suffered from mental illness and hadn’t taken her treatment,
was arrested later that same day and charged with three counts of assault
with a deadly weapon. She’d reportedly attacked two other people, inflicting cuts and bruises, but
both of the victims declined medical attention. Her mugshot was released in the aftermath and
attracted attention online, particularly due to the seemingly desperate expression on Diaz’s face.
Number 6 Matthew Peters In the fall of 2021,
Australian man Matthew Peters went viral on TikTok after sharing a remarkably close call involving
an angle grinder. The power tool, used for cutting and polishing as well as sharpening metal tools,
featured sharp-edged rotating discs. As Peters was working with the grinder,
half a disc broke off and flew directly towards his head. Fortunately, the man was wearing a face
shield at the time. The fragment cut through the plastic and stopped within less than an inch from
his eye. Peters didn’t elaborate on the exact circumstances of the incident during his video,
which was viewed over 55 million times. He did, however, record the angle grinder, which
still had half of the disc attached to it, before switching to himself as he had the face shield on,
with the other half embedded in the plastic. Some of the users commenting on the video remarked
how fortunate Peters had been while others quipped that it was time for him to find another job.
Number 5 Mary Leong A video of an incident in
the Chatsworth neighborhood of Los Angeles went viral in June of 2020 and it showed a woman,
subsequently branded a “racist, hammer-wielding Karen” attacking her neighbor’s parked car. Social
media identified the perpetrator as 72-year-old Chatsworth resident Mary Leong who, armed with two
hammers, began striking the vehicle for reportedly no other reason than her disdain for its owner,
Edy Perez. He was in Miami at the time and the video was reportedly captured by his sister. Once
she was done attacking the car, Leong walked up to the latter, with the hammers in hand, and told her
that they should “get out of the neighborhood”. Perez’s sister backed away and replied that she
was going to call the police. Leong stormed off and later struck a garbage container with the
hammers before kicking and dumping it on Perez’s lawn, exclaiming “go back to Mexico”. A second
video showed Leong in an altercation with a female neighbor who’d grabbed her by the hair and was
pressing her head down but their dispute remained unclear. Perez received the clip of Leong denting
his car and shared it online, reaffirming his hatred of racists. He detailed that,
since moving next door to the elderly woman, he and his roommate had been subjected to repeated
racially-charged verbal abuse. Leong was arrested on June the 10th but released the following day
amid concerns over the spread of COVID-19. Number 4 Terry Gregory
Colorado builder Terry Gregory started destroying a bathroom he’d finished remodeling,
in September of 2021, after a payment dispute with the homeowner who’d hired him.
Amber Trucke had contracted Dream Home Remodels to work on the project and
had already paid $3,330 of an owed $7,555. She reportedly wanted to inspect the bathroom and
make sure the water was running properly before handing over the rest of the money.
After announcing that he’d completed the job, Gregory told her that she had 24 hours to complete
the payment. Trucke was at work when Gergory, along with his wife and his business partner,
named as Jordan Cazares, returned to the address. Before entering the home, the builder flashed a
middle finger to Trucke’s doorbell camera. The lack of immediate payment had enraged Gregory
who then used a sledgehammer to strike the tiles he’d previously put up, leaving a mess of smashed
debris throughout the room. A neighbor filmed the destruction which Gregory punctuated by yelling
“Is somebody going to pay me”. The neighbor repeatedly asked the man to stop, and pointed
to the fact that it wasn’t his home to wreck. The trio then left the premises and, in early
November, warrants were put out for Gregory and Cazares’ arrest, on charges of class three felony
burglary and class six felony criminal mischief. A few days later, they were booked into custody
in Gunnison County and subsequently released on bond. The story made national news and Trucke’s
plight drew sympathy from other contractors who offered to remodel her bathroom for free.
Number 3 Hannah Walker
After a shopping trip, Chicago teenager Jasmine Ware and her friends decided to have dinner at
a McDonald’s near North State Street and West Chicago Avenue, in June of 2018. While there,
an argument about their place in line ensued between Ware’s group and 36-year-old Hannah
Walker. She reportedly started bumping into the teens while also yelling at them. As tensions
escalated, Walker brandished a tool, described by Ware as “a handy-man hammer”, from her purse.
In the commotion, Ware stumbled forward, at which point Walker struck her in the head,
just inches above her right eye, with the hammer. The teenager, who didn’t remember the moments that
followed the attack, spent the night at a local hospital where she was given stitches but wasn’t
reported to have suffered long-term damage. The authorities arrived at the scene, within minutes
of the attack, and found that Walker had made her way behind the counter while still wielding
the hammer. Officers recovered the weapon and the woman was taken into custody on charges of
misdemeanor battery causing bodily harm. Number 2 Portland Physics Teacher
Cell phone footage from a high school in Portland, Oregon, went viral in the spring of 2015, after
a physics experiment failed in a dramatic and cringing fashion. The unnamed physics teacher lay
on his back with a plank of nails pressed against his chest and a cinder block on top of it. The
teacher reportedly aimed to demonstrate the effect of inertia by having a co-worker hit the cinder
block with the blunt head of an axe. A popular experiment, albeit not in a school setting,
it was meant to demonstrate that the cinder block would absorb the energy of the strike by breaking
apart, and thus the person at the bottom would barely feel the impact. The second man raised
the axe above his head but, as he came down with it, only clipped the block and struck the physics
teacher directly in the groin. In spite of the latter visibly writhing in pain, the assistant
hit the block a second time, partially shattering it. The teacher, seemingly shaken up, rose to his
feet before the video cut out. Teenager Haneef Mubarak, a student in the class who’d captured
a second video of the incident, subsequently confirmed in a Reddit comment that the teacher
was all right but quipped that he “walked funny for like a couple of days”. Mubarak added that,
in spite of the original viral video being titled “How the physics teacher lost his job” the man
retained his position at the high school. Number 1 Ian Horsley
On February the 23rd of 2019, Welsh man Ian Horsley was helping clear out a neighbor’s wood
shed in his home village of Rosemarket, Milford Haven. Horsley was putting material into a power
chop saw when his hand got caught on the blade. Still in shock, the 61-year-old remembered seeing
something flying through the air in front of him. Within moments, he realized that it was his hand
and, as he later told a media outlet, his “world fell apart”. The saw had cut through his hand,
leaving only the thumb attached. He and a friend called an ambulance but, unsure of when it would
arrived, then decided to drive to Withybush Hospital in Haverfordwest, about 15 minutes
away. They arrived at the emergency room, with the severed hand in the backseat, and Horsley
was transferred to a hospital in Swansea. He was placed in surgery with doctors intending
to use veins and tendons from his leg to reattach the hand. They ended up not needing the graft and
were successful in sewing it back together, apart from Horsley’s little finger, which
the man would in hindsight describe as a small price to pay. Within six months of the surgery,
after many physiotherapy and occupational therapy sessions, the self-employed handyman had already
regained some considerable mobility in his hand. Thanks for watching! Would you rather dig a hole
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