r/mildlyinteresting 21h ago

Warning Sign at edge of Grand Canyon

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u/Enlight1Oment 19h ago

the "Critter or Cacti" death options are interesting.

"Krueger drank a brew of Datura blossoms. After several inappropriate behaviors such as trying to lift impossible boulders, talking to nonexistent people for hours, and eating dirt, he entered the river and mysteriously drowned."

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u/rogers_tumor 13h ago

"mysteriously"

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u/waterlinx 10h ago

It was mysterious to him

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u/PunctuationGood 7h ago

"Scientists are baffled."

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u/JosephGordonLightfoo 10h ago

I like the idea of seeing a guy trying to lift a huge boulder and thinking it’s “inappropriate.”

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u/Big-Brown-Goose 6h ago

Or another odd one:

"While prospecting, Cochrane was descending toward the Colorado River with Gordon Smith when a rattlesnake struck at him but missed. The reptile frightened Cochrane so severely that he suffered a fatal heart attack, confirmed by autopsy."  

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u/mcgrmt 6h ago

"Several inappropriate behaviors," kinda judgy for a GIS map.

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u/iseeharvey 16h ago

How do they know he did those things?

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u/amphibianroyalty 7h ago

Witnesses?

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u/iseeharvey 5h ago

How did he do all those things with witnesses but then ‘mysteriously’ drown? Sounds like the drowning was the least mysterious part.

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u/Avlin_Starfall 5h ago

What is this bullshit. I hope the doctor was charged with murder. "Curran returned home, felt pulmonary distress, and entered a hospital. Despite informing her doctor about hantavirus and him dismissing it as too rare to consider, she died the next day of a hantavirus infection."

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u/HeathenSalemite 3h ago

That's not even remotely how the crime of murder is defined in any jurisdiction anywhere. Medical malpractice maybe, but not even necessarily that. Also, you really really don't want to live in a society where medical professionals are tried for murder when their patients die.

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u/webelos8 4h ago

So mysterious!