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    iPod Survives Falling Tree Accident, Is Not to Blame for Owner's Death
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    08/07/09

    In reply to iPod Survives Falling Tree Accident, Is Not to Blame for Owner's Death
    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 plenty of people crushed by trees while they are cutting them down, and they KNOW its going to fall.
    Granted, its not smart to cut out the outside world completely while still interacting with it, but as far as I am concerned this is still a pretty big stretch to say that the mp3 player was a cause of the accident.
    I say, blame the jogger-hating angry beaver that caused the tree to fall!
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    08/06/09

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

    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.
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    08/06/09

    @DustyButt™: FTW!
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    08/06/09

    In reply to iPod Survives Falling Tree Accident, Is Not to Blame for Owner's Death
    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 mountains.
    Actually can any noiseblocking be blamed? I'm pretty sure theres very few things that make a noise when falling apart form people and planes. Most things only make the noise when they hit the ground.
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    08/06/09

    In reply to iPod Survives Falling Tree Accident, Is Not to Blame for Owner's Death
    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 tree in my yard cracked, I heard like 1 second "cracks" every 90 seconds for like 5 minutes, to the point I didn't know what was making the noise till the wump of the branch falling. The one that almost took me out made no noise I could hear(storm and blowing wind) until it thudded into the ground where I would have been standing had I not turned around to move my car.
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    08/06/09

    @GitEmSteveDave: ♥'sSummermodo: F*cking trees... So unpredictable...
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    08/06/09

    In reply to iPod Survives Falling Tree Accident, Is Not to Blame for Owner's Death
    Obviously, she wasn't listening to the Screaming Trees.
    I keeed. I keeed.
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    08/06/09

    In reply to iPod Survives Falling Tree Accident, Is Not to Blame for Owner's Death
    What did she look like? I wonder if pictures will show up on Bestgore.com (eeww) I hope she wasn't smooshed too badly...
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    08/06/09

    @Nintenboy01: Why and the fuck did I go to that website.
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    08/06/09

    @macpatrick: Lolz, I knew someone would take the bait!
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    08/06/09

    @Nintenboy01: I think we may have just found the new goatse...
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    Image of dimsum4u dimsum4u
    08/06/09

    In reply to iPod Survives Falling Tree Accident, Is Not to Blame for Owner's Death
    You know we should do the same thing that parents do when there kids go on shooting rampages. Lets blame the music! What was she listening to whatever it was it should be blammed was it Bjork?
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    08/06/09

    @dimsum4u: We are talking about the inability of someone hearing a tree fall. It's an entirely different matter.
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    08/06/09

    @dimsum4u: Hmmm, thanks for proving that being a starred commenter is nothing special.
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    08/07/09

    @Pouring a 40oz. bottle of KABOOM for my homey...: did you want a star? It's pretty special my picture has a shiny star next to it, its like grade school.
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    08/07/09

    @paperless: That is very true, but since the article doesn't state the type of headphones she used it's possible the music she was listening to was just to good. Can't we just think that she died doing something she enjoyed listening to the music she loved?
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