{"id":7851,"date":"2022-09-15T12:00:48","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T17:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=7851"},"modified":"2023-12-06T20:43:23","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T02:43:23","slug":"mfdj-9-15-2022-car-lovers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=7851","title":{"rendered":"MFDJ 9\/15\/2022: Car Lovers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Two cases of asphyxiation during unusual autoerotic activity with automobiles were reported by the\u00a0Associated Press<\/em>\u00a0on June 19, 1999. Significantly, both these cases involved hydroelectric shovels on tractors.<\/p>\n

In one case, a forty-two-year-old Asian man was found hanging by his neck, suspended by a rope attached to the raised shovel of his John Deere Model 410 diesel-powered backhoe tractor. The victim was last seen alive by his parents at 10:30 the previous night, when he left their shared rural home.\u00a0 Shortly thereafter, they heard the tractor engine start, as on prior occasions, but did not investigate further.\u00a0 The following morning the victim’s father noticed that his son’s bed had not been slept in and heard the tractor engine idling.\u00a0 Outside he found the body of his son, dead and cold.\u00a0 The victim was suspended in a semi-sitting position by a cloth safety-harness strap wrapped around his neck and clipped to a rope that was hooked on the raised shovel of the back hoe tractor.\u00a0 He had used a ligature to achieve partial autoerotic asphyxiation.\u00a0 Investigators hypothesized that he had lost consciousness and accidentally hanged himself.<\/p>\n

Two years before his death, the victim had purchased his tractor as a Christmas gift to himself and named it “Stone”.\u00a0 \u00a0He used the tractor in occasional ditch-digging jobs and wrote about it in a Christmas newsletter to his friends, in which he enclosed Stone’s picture.\u00a0 He also wrote about his tractor in a long poem alluding to “flying high in the sky” with his friend Stone.<\/p>\n

The second case involved a sixty-two-year-old white man who was found dead in a barn pinned under the hydraulic scoop of his John Deere 1520 Model 145 tractor.\u00a0 A neighbor found the victim lying on the ground with the scoop of the tractor on his back.\u00a0 The engine was no longer running, but the ignition was in the “on” position.\u00a0 The victim was nude except for a pair of red women’s shoes with 8-inch heels, ankles were taped to a 4-foot-long segment of pipe, and his legs were spread.\u00a0 A yoke was attached to the center of this pipe.\u00a0 This yoke was attached to the front loader bucket by a chain.\u00a0 Two ropes led from the victim to the tractor’s control lever for raising and tilting the bucket.\u00a0 Fully raising the bucket would have caused the complete suspension of the victim’s inverted body by the ankles.<\/p>\n

These unusual cases all emphasize how little we really know about people’s relationships with their vehicles.<\/p>\n

Culled from:\u00a0\u00a0Car Crash Culture<\/a><\/p>\n

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Corpses Du Jour!<\/h3>\n

One of my favorite books is\u00a0Death Scenes: A Homicide Detective\u2019s Scrapbook<\/a>. \u00a0It is exactly what it says it is: a bizarre and oft-disturbing scrapbook collected over the years by Los Angeles area police detective Jack Huddleston, whose career spanned from 1921 to the early 1950\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Here are a couple of men who died with their cars:
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Today’s Unusual Yet Truly Morbid Fact! Two cases of asphyxiation during unusual autoerotic activity with automobiles were reported by the\u00a0Associated Press\u00a0on June 19, 1999. Significantly, both these cases involved hydroelectric shovels on tractors. In one case, a forty-two-year-old Asian man was found hanging by his neck, suspended by a rope attached to the raised shovel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facts","category-ghastly"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7851"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9791,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7851\/revisions\/9791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}