Chumdinger » news http://chumdinger.com Thoughts on technology, design, & culture. Fri, 17 Feb 2012 05:24:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 Pilots Run Out of Fuel, Pray, Land Near Jesus Sign http://chumdinger.com/2008/05/pilots-run-out-of-fuel-pray-land-near-jesus-sign/ http://chumdinger.com/2008/05/pilots-run-out-of-fuel-pray-land-near-jesus-sign/#comments Thu, 22 May 2008 06:22:00 +0000 admin http://chumdinger.wordpress.com/2008/05/22/pilots-run-out-of-fuel-pray-land-near-jesus-sign/ This story from New Zealand is awesome in its simplicity.

It seemed like an almost literal answer to their prayers. When two New Zealand pilots ran out of fuel in a microlight airplane they offered prayers and were able to make an emergency landing in a field — coming to rest right next to a sign reading, “Jesus is Lord.” 

“My friend and I are both Christians so our immediate reaction in a life-threatening situation was to ask for God’s help,” Stubbs told The Associated Press on Wednesday.” 

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“Ditching your gas guzzler is a great way to reduce your carbon footprint, but if you really want to do something about global warming, get a used car. You’ll be putting less carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.”

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If you read the post below of a truck full of Oreos spilling it’s contents today, here’s the milk to go with it…. they missed each other by 3 weeks. 
Thousands of gallons of milk spilled in Port Sanilac

TIMES HERALD • APRIL 27, 2008

A Rasmussen milk truck went on its side and dumped 6,000 gallons of milk this morning after the driver took a turn too fast, said Port Sanilac Fire Department Chief Jack Willis. Craig Sheridan, the driver, survived but his condition is unknown. 

The accident, which occurred just after 5:30 a.m. today, happened north of Port Sanilac on M-25.

“He missed a curve,” said Willis. “When he hit the ditch, it went on its side… It did about total the truck and trailer.”

“There was a little oil and diesel mixed in with (the milk),” he said.

Clean-up crews are still on the scene.

 

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14 tons of spilled Oreo cookies snarls traffic on I-80

By Associated Press

MORRIS — Got milk? Police say a trailer loaded with 14 tons of double-stuffed Oreos overturned Monday morning, spilling plastic sleeves of cookies into the median and roadway.

Illinois State Police Sergeant Brian Mahoney says the truck’s driver was traveling from Chicago to Morris on I-80 around 4 a.m. Monday when he fell asleep at the wheel and slammed into the median.

Mahoney says the force of the crash ripped open boxes of the cookies, but their plastic wrappers kept them from covering the ground.

The crash about 50 miles southwest of Chicago remains under investigation.

Mahoney says no charges have been filed but both lanes of traffic remain closed while authorities remove the cookies.

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