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    bustedchain: Yeah this could have turned out truly horrific. It is horrible that this persons house is damaged horribly, but I think the crane company's insurance... more »
    UnderLoK: How could this get any worse you ask? They found out while dealing with a car accident that the wife just got into... more »
    Odin: I love picture 3. "Guys! The crane fell over!" "Damn, how are we gonna fix this?" "Another crane?" "Genius!" Although I feel bad for wishing sufferi... more »
    Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: And thankfully no one was injured or killed. Looks like someone needs to go back to Crane Operator School though... #crane more »
    tande04: Eh, could have been worse... #crane more »
    sprice82: xD this was by my house and work, its funny cause the neighbors are all like meh #crane more »
    zenpoet: Another important question to ask yourself is whether or not she would have been able to avoid the accident if she had been able to hear. There are p... more »
    DustyButt™: The tree is in custody, and may be charged pending an investigation. Witnesses say that he appeared to have been intoxicated at the time of the event. more »
    deanbmmv: So the tree falls and the ipod idly sits by and lets it kill its owner, wheras Blackberies will come to the rescue and stop their owners falling from ... more »
    GitEmSteveDave_HatesFriday: I've almost had a huge tree branch fall on me, and there was little, if any warning that someone running would have heard. One time a branch on a tre... more »
  • #imagecache

    100,000-Pound Crane Smashes House in Half

    This 100,000-pound crane was removing a tree when the tree broke loose, sending the crane's massive boom down onto the owner's house, smashing it like a Play-Doh sculpture. Check out the carnage in the gallery below. [SFGate] More »
  • #sad

    iPod Survives Falling Tree Accident, Is Not to Blame for Owner's Death

    A Philadelphia jogger was killed yesterday by a falling tree when she failed to hear the warning signs of the impending crash over the music from her iPod. But let's not be hasty and blame the iPod. More »
  • #imagecache

    Dutch Arcade Cabinet Carved From a Tree

    Looks like "boom" means "tree" in Dutch, rhyming with foam rather than broom, but this is still a pretty sweet art piece. Check out the "wiring" on the back after the jump. [Uitschot va BoingBoingGadgets] More »
  • #xmasnerdgasm

    Best Xmas Tree Ever Has All the Sci-Fi Decorations You Can Imagine

    Xmas nerdgasm! Earthlings, behold the best Xmas tree ever, decorated using every single sci-fi electronic figure in the Universe, as you'll see in the video. From Star Wars to Star Trek, the mind boggles.
  • #photoballs

    Digital Photo Bauble Lets You Spice-Up Christmas Trees With Inappropriate Pics

    This is a 21st Century Christmas tree bauble: There's a 1.4-inch screen in there, powered by AAA batteries and 8MB of USB-accessed storage, and it's capable of showing slideshows of your pictures. Out now for around $12 each. Which is cheap enough that you could have a bunch of them on the tree, among the innocent tinsel and candy canes, set to display the kind of photos that'd really freak out the mother-in-law when she visits. [Chinavision via 7Gadgets]
  • #notyouraveragebar

    This is Way Better than a Treehouse

    No matter where you are on this planet, you will find throngs of people longing to get loaded—and they will often go to great lengths to do it. Case in point is this bar built inside a 72ft Baobab tree in Limpopo, South Africa. When Baobab trees reach 1,000 years old they begin to hollow naturally. This particular tree is around 6,000 years old and the hollow is big enough to hold 15 people comfortably (or 54 people very uncomfortably as they discovered a few years ago). More »
  • #santasmagiccandle

    Ornament Lets You "Blow" on Santa's "Magic Candle" to Turn Out Your Tree Lights

    When you wire this perverted Santa to your Christmas tree, you can turn out the lights with a simple blow on his "magic candle." When you want to turn the lights back on again, a push of the button on the chimney will get the job done. Sure, a device like this could be practical if you don't normally have the tree wired to a light switch, but you have to wonder whether all of the innuendo was lost on the distributor. Kind of like when your mom uses words like "erect." Available for $24.99. [Product Page via OhGizmo]
  • #xmasripoff

    Recycled Xmas Decorations — May All Your Christmases Be Geek

    Are these the perfect tree decorations for green geeks? Possibly. Made from recycled CDs and circuit boards, they are heinously expensive (around $6 for a circuit-board dangler, $9 for the CD version. Or you can get a set of three for $16 or $21 respectively. Or you can not bother. More »
  • #holidays

    The Pros and Cons of LED Christmas Lights

    Consumer Reports writes about the pros and cons of LED Christmas tree lighting. In summary: More »
  • #gadgets

    An Electronics Junk Christmas Tree

    All of you could be considered geeks in one form or another, so must of us have small or large amounts of electronic junk laying around.
    "This tree was made (almost) completely from pre-existing stuff around my house. The foundation consists of modular wire shelf units connected with bailing wire. Plushies are stuffed into every conceivable space with a Hello Kitty angel at the top. The lights are LEDs and the icicles are black-light cold cathodes; the bottom ones being fluorescent. The top 5" tv plays snow and the bottom one plays the yule log.
    It isn't the prettiest tree in town, but at least it is unique and gets the job done. – Travis Hudson More »
  • #gadgets

    Real Christmas Tree...Poster

    Think that Charlie Brown Christmas Tree is pathetic? That tree is the goddamn Rockefeller evergreen next to the Christmas Tree Poster. No more needles in my socks. No more sap on the caret. And no more dragging the damn thing through the house to toss it out on the street Jan. 1st. I'll just get this wall hanging, a pine air freshener, and string some lights up on it. More »