{"id":6387,"date":"2016-07-08T21:04:37","date_gmt":"2016-07-09T02:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=6387"},"modified":"2023-12-16T16:57:02","modified_gmt":"2023-12-16T22:57:02","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-july-8-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=6387","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour for July 8, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s Homemade Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/h3>\n

Authorities say an eastern Iowa woman was killed when a\u00a0homemade cannon exploded at a backyard gathering.\u00a055-year-old Lori L. Heims\u00a0of Edgewood was flown to an Iowa City hospital, where she was pronounced\u00a0dead. Heims was injured at the\u00a0gathering with friends in Greeley around 11:40 p.m. Saturday, July 2, 2016.\u00a0Investigators say the cannon was loaded and fired, and when it went off, the\u00a0rear portion of the barrel blew out and sent fragments toward Heims. One of\u00a0the fragments struck Heims in the head.\u00a0Heims was taken to a hospital in Manchester before being flown to Iowa City,\u00a0but doctors were unable to save her.<\/p>\n

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\nWho has blue eyes, glasses, and dies from a cannon in 2016?
\nThis lady!<\/em><\/p>\n

Culled From: The Associated Press
\nSubmitted by: Aimee<\/a><\/p>\n

Always better to go out with a bang then a whimper, right? – Aimee<\/em><\/p>\n

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“Freak” Du Jour!<\/h3>\n

Charles Tripp<\/strong>
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Charles Tripp was a Canadian. He was born armless on July 7, 1855 in Woodstock, Ontario. As a boy he learned to write, shave and comb his hair – all with his feet. He mastered woodworking tools and became an accomplished cabinetmaker and carver. When he was seventeen he prevailed upon his parents to take him to New York to meet P. T. Barnum. When the showman saw what Tripp could do with his feet he hired him on the spot for his circus on Forty-Second Street. Tripp’s subsequent career remained closely tied to Barnum enterprises. He toured the world three times with Barnum & Bailey, Ringling Brothers and various other circuses. In late middle age Tripp married and thereafter restricted his touring to North American carnivals so that his wife could accompany him. She sold the tickets. When he was fifty-four Tripp caught pneumonia in Salisbury, North Carolina, and died on January 26, 1939.<\/p>\n

Culled from:\u00a0Monsters: Human Freaks in America\u2019s Gilded Age: The Photographs of Chas Eisenmann<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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