1000 Ways to Die (2008–2012): Season 1, Episode 3 - Death Over Easy - full transcript
1000 Ways to Die looks at the following cases: "#316 Butt F***ed" a hospital patient suffering from burns accidentally sets his bandages on fire when having a cigarette, "#818 Frightmare" a woman with recurring nightmares dies of sudden unexpected death syndrome, "#97 Oprah Winfried" a death row inmate accidentally electrocutes himself when sitting on a metal toilet, "#412 Em-Bear-Assed" a man tripping on mushrooms encounters a furry orgy and gets mauled a bear, "#625 Midnight Choker" a man who chokes when he accidentally swallows a billiard ball, and "#269 Window Pained" a pepping tom who accidentally breaks his neck after he sticks his head into a window. It also looks at the crash of helicopter pilot Benjamin H. Moore and interviews him on how he survived.
Death is flying in and it's
never been hotter, weirder, or
just wrong,
We've got a smoker who wound up
getting flamed,
a beautiful dreamer who
couldn't wake up,
A pool shark that's hard to
swallow,
Peeping perverts, the ultimate
late night snack,
And to top it off, freaks in
Animal suits doing the wild
thing,
If you're not breathing hard and
sweating after all of this,
check your pulse,
You might already be dead,
Death is everywhere,
Most of us try to avoid it,
Others can't get out of its way,
every day we fight a new war
against germs,
toxins,
injury,
illness,
and catastrophe,
There's a lot of ways to wind up
dead,
The fact that we survive at all
is a Miracle,
Because every day we live, we
face 1000 ways to die,
You wouldn't know it by looking
at him, but Myron burns is a
very lucky man,
A few weeks ago he was found
barely alive with third Degree
burns over 90% of his body,
He had fallen asleep while
smoking in bed,
I think we've all been around
people who... "I gotta have a
smoke, I gotta have a smoke,
I gotta have a smoke,"
They're not the most fun to be
around,
Are they gonna be making really
clear, focused decisions?
Probably not,
He bribed the night nurse 100
bucks to leave him out back, no
questions asked,
Okay, Mr, Burns, you have two
minutes,
Don't do anything stupid,
Once out of sight, Myron
produces a hidden cigarette,
His addiction to nicotine has
made him a desperate man,
Nicotine is a super toxin,
Three times deadlier than
arsenic and more lethal than
rattlesnake venom,
This cigarette is about to bite
Myron here right in the ash,
The cigarette ash carries just
enough of a spark to ignite his
bandages, which are soaked in
Highly flammable ointment,
Helpless, Myron bursts into
flame and starts rolling down
the handicap ramp,
at the bottom of the ramp,
his oxygen tank explodes,
Myron goes out in a blaze of
gory,
Fourth degree burn is a burn
that goes all the way through to
the bone,
That's really tragic,
I mean teeth are recognizable
maybe if you're lucky,
Dental records,
But the patient's complete
physiognomy is gone,
You can even have pulverizing of
the bone if it continues to
burn,
Hey, Buddy, got a light?
Alexi had the kind of looks Any
guy or Gal would kill for,
But she'd trade it all in for
something most take for granted:
A good night's sleep,
But every night she would have
the same nightmare,
A creature would appear and try
to suffocate her,
this type of recurring
nightmare is called SUNDS:
It involves a nocturnal visit of
an evil being that threatens to
press the very life out of the
dreamer,
Since 1977, more than 100 have
died from this mysterious sleep
disorder,
no,
If you were a fly on alexi's
wall, you would see the bizarre
sight of this beautiful woman,
alone in her bed, being
violently choked and thrashed
within an inch of her life,
But it was nothing but the
baddest of bad dreams,
No,
Unable to wake up, alexi was
being frightened to the point
where her heart was beating
erratically, a fatal condition
called cardiac arrhythmia,
the fiendish little person
sat on her chest, wrapped his
tiny little hands around her
throat, and squeezed with all
his might,
She died in her sleep,
Cause of death: Heart attack,
They say if you die in a dream,
you die for real,
If we could only ask alexi if
this were True,
But she never woke up from her
frightmare,
Maybe we should ask the dwarf,
next up, when nature calls,,,
get out of here, you freak!
No one gets out alive,
And Mr, Peepers goes for broke,
James "Little e" Johnson
was hardly what you would call a
model citizen,
Screw!
You about the ugliest damn guard
I ever seen in my life,
That's right, boy,
You gonna be hearing my voice
for the rest of your damn life,
Better pray they kill me,
on death row for seven counts
of murder,,,
you hear me?
It was days before His
scheduled execution in the
electric chair,
What's up with that daughter
of yours, man?
I'm feeling kind of lonely in
here,
Why don't you bring her on down?
Little e abused everyone in
his path, including his public
defender, Frank stone,
That's why when Frank dropped by
With some good news for his
client, he wasn't happy,
Look, I'm here to tell you
your sentence has been changed
to life without parole,
You got that, you scum?
Hey, Mr, Lawyer-Man, baby,
where you going?
That's good news,
Hey, bring your wife, man,
We could all celebrate,
Little e celebrated his luck by
indulging in his favorite cell
Watching oprahwhile
Sitting on his state-Issued
full-Metal crapper,
But he would soon learn that
Karma is less fickle than the
law,
son of a,,,
when little e grabbed the
frayed wire to fix the tv, he
accidentally turned his throne
into an electric chair,
I think this inmate that sat
on the metal seat has really set
him up to optimally conduct as
much Electricity through his
body as possible,
Something like 100 milliamps
that's put across the heart can
actually knock your heart out of
rhythm and cause you to have
sudden cardiac death,
Most certainly he died of a
cardiac arrhythmia,
The 110-Volt current Passing
through his skin and grounding
to the metal toilet seat was
more than enough to fry little
e,
The hot juice stopped his heart
cold,
The bottom LINE: Karma is a
bitch, and when she comes back
at you, there's no escape,
This is Randy,
He's out of his gourd,
He ate a handful of magic
mushrooms and now he's wandering
around the desert higher than a
Kite,
when this guy ate the
mushrooms, there was probably a
compound called psilocybin
present in them,
And your body converts that to
psilocin, which is actually
what's responsible for the
hallucinogenic effect,
He asked the bushes for an
answer, and got nothing,
I know,
He got in touch with his
inner dog and got dirty,
To anyone not tripping out on
mushrooms, Randy would appear to
be completely insane,
and then things got really
weird,
at the end of the day, Randy
came upon a group of fornicating
furries,
what's a furry?
People who like to put on animal
costumes and get together for
fun things like group sex,
A furry orgy is often known
as a fur pile,
We summon our spirit animals,
and whatever happens Next is
whatever, you know, naturally
will happen,
in Randy's state of mind, sex
seemed like a great idea,
The zebra looked kind of cute,
Hey, get your hands off of
me!
This Orgy was turning tricky,
Instead of a threesome with the
zebra and the cute Beaver, maybe
it was time to squeeze some
honey out of miss Bunny,
Yeah!
But the cock shooed Randy
away with his pecker,
He most likely wouldn't be
welcome if he was just any old
dude,
Especially if he was a dude,
It's just, like, who is this guy
who's coming into my kingdom?
Get outta here, you freak!
It looked like Randy would
get no love from the animal
kingdom, when all of a sudden,,,
there she was,
A sultry little furry in a
Teddy,
Randy knew he was about to get
smokey with mama bear,
It turns out Randy got freaky
with the wrong furry,
It was a real live bear, and it
wasn't into casual sex with a
human,
the bear looked at him as an
aggressor,
The bear took it as an attack,
not as a game,
Ah... Ah!
And once they're on top of
you with all four paws around
you, they'll just start biting
and start eating,
And the worst part about it is
normally they start eating
before you're dead,
Let's recap what we've
learned from Randy's gruesome
death,
This is your brain,
This is your brain on drugs,
and This is a bear ripping out
your throat after you try to
have sex with it while you were
high on drugs,
The lesson?
When nature calls, just say no,
coming up, choke turns to
croak when a barroom trick goes
bad,
Spit it out, man!
Spit it out!
And hot turns cold when a
perv gets too bold,
Aah!
Oh, my god!
Call 9-1-1!
9-1-1 won't be any help here,
a lot of guys have died on
barroom floors, But Sonny Hughes
checked out like no other,
Rack 'em up,
It was a typical night out for
this bunch of bikers and their
chicks,
Sonny had a reputation for being
the craziest dude on the street,
So when his homies started
calling out,,,
"Hey, Sonny!
Hey, Sonny!
Do the trick, brother!
Do the trick, man!"
even though it was dangerous,
Sonny couldn't say no,
Sonny! Sonny!
Certain people are more apt
to be risk takers, to be
aggressive, to be less hemmed in
by possible negative
consequences,
Sonny!
Yeah!
Sonny's trick was a real
crowd-Pleaser,
He'd take a pool ball, jam it in
his big mouth, and swallow it
halfway down his throat,
Using his throat muscles, he'd
roll the ball up and down his
gullet,
Oh!
Man!
Then he'd squeeze the pool
ball back up and out his mouth,
Yeah, Sonny!
you can swallow things
either all the way down in the
stomach or just hold them in the
back of your throat,
Oh!
It's a pretty cool thing but
it's really, really dangerous,
But he decided to go for
round two,
And this time he picked up the
cue ball,
Sonny!
Bad move, Sonny,
He got the ball down his throat,
why is it so low?
But when he tried to squeeze
it back up, that's when things
turned ugly,
Spit it out!
Somebody call 9-1-1!
Spit it out!
No matter how hard he tried,
Sonny was unable to force the
cue ball back up,
He's turning blue, man!
Sonny didn't realize on a
barroom pool table, the cue ball
is a little larger than the
others,
This allows it to be fed down a
return shoot after a scratch to
continue play,
When Sonny fed the larger cue
Ball down his shoot, it stayed
down,
He had performed This trick 100
times before,
Spit it out!
He died without ever finding
out why this time it didn't
work,
Sonny, get up!
Hey, norm, call 9-1-1!
there's nothing like a full
moon to bring out the freaks,
Say hello to Arnold Moss,
When Arnold freaks, he peeps
into windows,
Oh,
Something about looking in on
a girl while you're masturbating
that is better than a sexual
experience, I guess, for me,
I don't know why,
It seems like the climax will be
faster,
Arnold couldn't believe his
luck,
He had never seen anyone make
love to a refrigerator before,
Ohh!
Best way to enjoy that, you'd
have to be able to be
masturbating for me,
Oh, my God,
You'd want to be
masturbating, but you don't want
to be caught,
You don't want some neighbor
yelling "Hey, what are you
doing?"
so you gotta try to hide,
You gotta be in good view,
You know you want to get a good
shot of that and try not to make
any noise so she doesn't hear
you,
During the day, Arnold was an
introverted wimp,
He would never have the guts to
go up to a woman this hot,
Oh,
But tonight, he wasthe
popsicle,
Oh, yeah,
Arnold was so aroused, he
broke the number one rule for a
peeping PERV: Stay outside the
window,
Best day of my life,
But he had lost control,
He leaned in too far,
Susu went cuckoo,
Aah!
And it all came crashing
down,,,
right on Arnold's pencil-Thin
neck,
In the heat of the moment, his
elbow jerked back, knocking out
a stake holding up the window,
The window came down and severed
his spinal cord Between Discs
c2 and c3,
This is where nerves go out to
control basic body functions
such as breathing and blood
pressure,
When this connection was broken,
death was instantaneous,
Arnold finally learned his
lesson,
It's not cool to peep on people,
You're breaking the law,
And like Arnold here,,,
aah!
Your neck,
up next, a pilot's life comes
Crashing down when his chopper
goes from flying,,,
Oh, my god, my god!
To falling,
Oh, my god!
Oh, my god!
A helicopter is basically a
flying gearbox,
If any one of the components
fail, it plunges to the ground,
killing all on board,
That's what happened to
helicopter pilot Ben Moore while
lifting a 7,000-Pound air
conditioner,
Ben, in front of his friends and
coworkers, then plunged
head-first to a certain death,
Oh, my god!
Oh, my god!
Oh, my god!
Grandpa, you stay here,
I had a feeling...
A feeling...
I'm recording,
I'm recording,
But fate had a different plan
for Ben Moore,
Against all odds, he lived to
tell the tail of the crash that
should've killed him,
Well our mission that day was
that I was going to change out a
cooling tower,
And just as I began to get about
even with the building, uh,
is when I heard the loud bang,
um, and a thump,
The drive shaft to the tail
rotor snaps, and Ben's
helicopter begins to spin out of
control,
He immediately jettisons the
heavy load,
I tried to maneuver over to
our prearranged emergency
landing spot,
The only way to land a
helicopter with a broken tail
rotor is to shut down the engine
to stop it from spinning out of
control,
It's called a hovering
autorotation,
Basically, take the engines
out, and then use whatever
inertia is left in those blades
to act as a cushion,
The pilot only gets one
chance,
Just before impact, he must yank
his controls to produce maximum
Lift from his flailing rotors,
I probably started the
maneuver about 50 feet too high,
So at about 40 feet, I ran out
of rpm and all those options
that I wanted to do,
And at that point I said to
myself, "Well, this is death,"
Oh!
Oh, my god!
Oh, my god!
Oh, my god!
When I hit, the helmet I'm
wearing, goggles and everything,
take the impact,
Had a really nasty cut on my
nose,
I actually flayed it open,
Ben's helicopter plunged
face first,
Nobody who witnessed the
incident believed that anyone
would survive this kind of
impact,
For whatever reason, the lord
decided that that wasn't my day,
It certainly wasn't up to me at
that point,
Ben Moore is living proof
death doesn't want you,,,
Oh, my god!
Unless it's your time to die,
it's original,
never been hotter, weirder, or
just wrong,
We've got a smoker who wound up
getting flamed,
a beautiful dreamer who
couldn't wake up,
A pool shark that's hard to
swallow,
Peeping perverts, the ultimate
late night snack,
And to top it off, freaks in
Animal suits doing the wild
thing,
If you're not breathing hard and
sweating after all of this,
check your pulse,
You might already be dead,
Death is everywhere,
Most of us try to avoid it,
Others can't get out of its way,
every day we fight a new war
against germs,
toxins,
injury,
illness,
and catastrophe,
There's a lot of ways to wind up
dead,
The fact that we survive at all
is a Miracle,
Because every day we live, we
face 1000 ways to die,
You wouldn't know it by looking
at him, but Myron burns is a
very lucky man,
A few weeks ago he was found
barely alive with third Degree
burns over 90% of his body,
He had fallen asleep while
smoking in bed,
I think we've all been around
people who... "I gotta have a
smoke, I gotta have a smoke,
I gotta have a smoke,"
They're not the most fun to be
around,
Are they gonna be making really
clear, focused decisions?
Probably not,
He bribed the night nurse 100
bucks to leave him out back, no
questions asked,
Okay, Mr, Burns, you have two
minutes,
Don't do anything stupid,
Once out of sight, Myron
produces a hidden cigarette,
His addiction to nicotine has
made him a desperate man,
Nicotine is a super toxin,
Three times deadlier than
arsenic and more lethal than
rattlesnake venom,
This cigarette is about to bite
Myron here right in the ash,
The cigarette ash carries just
enough of a spark to ignite his
bandages, which are soaked in
Highly flammable ointment,
Helpless, Myron bursts into
flame and starts rolling down
the handicap ramp,
at the bottom of the ramp,
his oxygen tank explodes,
Myron goes out in a blaze of
gory,
Fourth degree burn is a burn
that goes all the way through to
the bone,
That's really tragic,
I mean teeth are recognizable
maybe if you're lucky,
Dental records,
But the patient's complete
physiognomy is gone,
You can even have pulverizing of
the bone if it continues to
burn,
Hey, Buddy, got a light?
Alexi had the kind of looks Any
guy or Gal would kill for,
But she'd trade it all in for
something most take for granted:
A good night's sleep,
But every night she would have
the same nightmare,
A creature would appear and try
to suffocate her,
this type of recurring
nightmare is called SUNDS:
It involves a nocturnal visit of
an evil being that threatens to
press the very life out of the
dreamer,
Since 1977, more than 100 have
died from this mysterious sleep
disorder,
no,
If you were a fly on alexi's
wall, you would see the bizarre
sight of this beautiful woman,
alone in her bed, being
violently choked and thrashed
within an inch of her life,
But it was nothing but the
baddest of bad dreams,
No,
Unable to wake up, alexi was
being frightened to the point
where her heart was beating
erratically, a fatal condition
called cardiac arrhythmia,
the fiendish little person
sat on her chest, wrapped his
tiny little hands around her
throat, and squeezed with all
his might,
She died in her sleep,
Cause of death: Heart attack,
They say if you die in a dream,
you die for real,
If we could only ask alexi if
this were True,
But she never woke up from her
frightmare,
Maybe we should ask the dwarf,
next up, when nature calls,,,
get out of here, you freak!
No one gets out alive,
And Mr, Peepers goes for broke,
James "Little e" Johnson
was hardly what you would call a
model citizen,
Screw!
You about the ugliest damn guard
I ever seen in my life,
That's right, boy,
You gonna be hearing my voice
for the rest of your damn life,
Better pray they kill me,
on death row for seven counts
of murder,,,
you hear me?
It was days before His
scheduled execution in the
electric chair,
What's up with that daughter
of yours, man?
I'm feeling kind of lonely in
here,
Why don't you bring her on down?
Little e abused everyone in
his path, including his public
defender, Frank stone,
That's why when Frank dropped by
With some good news for his
client, he wasn't happy,
Look, I'm here to tell you
your sentence has been changed
to life without parole,
You got that, you scum?
Hey, Mr, Lawyer-Man, baby,
where you going?
That's good news,
Hey, bring your wife, man,
We could all celebrate,
Little e celebrated his luck by
indulging in his favorite cell
Watching oprahwhile
Sitting on his state-Issued
full-Metal crapper,
But he would soon learn that
Karma is less fickle than the
law,
son of a,,,
when little e grabbed the
frayed wire to fix the tv, he
accidentally turned his throne
into an electric chair,
I think this inmate that sat
on the metal seat has really set
him up to optimally conduct as
much Electricity through his
body as possible,
Something like 100 milliamps
that's put across the heart can
actually knock your heart out of
rhythm and cause you to have
sudden cardiac death,
Most certainly he died of a
cardiac arrhythmia,
The 110-Volt current Passing
through his skin and grounding
to the metal toilet seat was
more than enough to fry little
e,
The hot juice stopped his heart
cold,
The bottom LINE: Karma is a
bitch, and when she comes back
at you, there's no escape,
This is Randy,
He's out of his gourd,
He ate a handful of magic
mushrooms and now he's wandering
around the desert higher than a
Kite,
when this guy ate the
mushrooms, there was probably a
compound called psilocybin
present in them,
And your body converts that to
psilocin, which is actually
what's responsible for the
hallucinogenic effect,
He asked the bushes for an
answer, and got nothing,
I know,
He got in touch with his
inner dog and got dirty,
To anyone not tripping out on
mushrooms, Randy would appear to
be completely insane,
and then things got really
weird,
at the end of the day, Randy
came upon a group of fornicating
furries,
what's a furry?
People who like to put on animal
costumes and get together for
fun things like group sex,
A furry orgy is often known
as a fur pile,
We summon our spirit animals,
and whatever happens Next is
whatever, you know, naturally
will happen,
in Randy's state of mind, sex
seemed like a great idea,
The zebra looked kind of cute,
Hey, get your hands off of
me!
This Orgy was turning tricky,
Instead of a threesome with the
zebra and the cute Beaver, maybe
it was time to squeeze some
honey out of miss Bunny,
Yeah!
But the cock shooed Randy
away with his pecker,
He most likely wouldn't be
welcome if he was just any old
dude,
Especially if he was a dude,
It's just, like, who is this guy
who's coming into my kingdom?
Get outta here, you freak!
It looked like Randy would
get no love from the animal
kingdom, when all of a sudden,,,
there she was,
A sultry little furry in a
Teddy,
Randy knew he was about to get
smokey with mama bear,
It turns out Randy got freaky
with the wrong furry,
It was a real live bear, and it
wasn't into casual sex with a
human,
the bear looked at him as an
aggressor,
The bear took it as an attack,
not as a game,
Ah... Ah!
And once they're on top of
you with all four paws around
you, they'll just start biting
and start eating,
And the worst part about it is
normally they start eating
before you're dead,
Let's recap what we've
learned from Randy's gruesome
death,
This is your brain,
This is your brain on drugs,
and This is a bear ripping out
your throat after you try to
have sex with it while you were
high on drugs,
The lesson?
When nature calls, just say no,
coming up, choke turns to
croak when a barroom trick goes
bad,
Spit it out, man!
Spit it out!
And hot turns cold when a
perv gets too bold,
Aah!
Oh, my god!
Call 9-1-1!
9-1-1 won't be any help here,
a lot of guys have died on
barroom floors, But Sonny Hughes
checked out like no other,
Rack 'em up,
It was a typical night out for
this bunch of bikers and their
chicks,
Sonny had a reputation for being
the craziest dude on the street,
So when his homies started
calling out,,,
"Hey, Sonny!
Hey, Sonny!
Do the trick, brother!
Do the trick, man!"
even though it was dangerous,
Sonny couldn't say no,
Sonny! Sonny!
Certain people are more apt
to be risk takers, to be
aggressive, to be less hemmed in
by possible negative
consequences,
Sonny!
Yeah!
Sonny's trick was a real
crowd-Pleaser,
He'd take a pool ball, jam it in
his big mouth, and swallow it
halfway down his throat,
Using his throat muscles, he'd
roll the ball up and down his
gullet,
Oh!
Man!
Then he'd squeeze the pool
ball back up and out his mouth,
Yeah, Sonny!
you can swallow things
either all the way down in the
stomach or just hold them in the
back of your throat,
Oh!
It's a pretty cool thing but
it's really, really dangerous,
But he decided to go for
round two,
And this time he picked up the
cue ball,
Sonny!
Bad move, Sonny,
He got the ball down his throat,
why is it so low?
But when he tried to squeeze
it back up, that's when things
turned ugly,
Spit it out!
Somebody call 9-1-1!
Spit it out!
No matter how hard he tried,
Sonny was unable to force the
cue ball back up,
He's turning blue, man!
Sonny didn't realize on a
barroom pool table, the cue ball
is a little larger than the
others,
This allows it to be fed down a
return shoot after a scratch to
continue play,
When Sonny fed the larger cue
Ball down his shoot, it stayed
down,
He had performed This trick 100
times before,
Spit it out!
He died without ever finding
out why this time it didn't
work,
Sonny, get up!
Hey, norm, call 9-1-1!
there's nothing like a full
moon to bring out the freaks,
Say hello to Arnold Moss,
When Arnold freaks, he peeps
into windows,
Oh,
Something about looking in on
a girl while you're masturbating
that is better than a sexual
experience, I guess, for me,
I don't know why,
It seems like the climax will be
faster,
Arnold couldn't believe his
luck,
He had never seen anyone make
love to a refrigerator before,
Ohh!
Best way to enjoy that, you'd
have to be able to be
masturbating for me,
Oh, my God,
You'd want to be
masturbating, but you don't want
to be caught,
You don't want some neighbor
yelling "Hey, what are you
doing?"
so you gotta try to hide,
You gotta be in good view,
You know you want to get a good
shot of that and try not to make
any noise so she doesn't hear
you,
During the day, Arnold was an
introverted wimp,
He would never have the guts to
go up to a woman this hot,
Oh,
But tonight, he wasthe
popsicle,
Oh, yeah,
Arnold was so aroused, he
broke the number one rule for a
peeping PERV: Stay outside the
window,
Best day of my life,
But he had lost control,
He leaned in too far,
Susu went cuckoo,
Aah!
And it all came crashing
down,,,
right on Arnold's pencil-Thin
neck,
In the heat of the moment, his
elbow jerked back, knocking out
a stake holding up the window,
The window came down and severed
his spinal cord Between Discs
c2 and c3,
This is where nerves go out to
control basic body functions
such as breathing and blood
pressure,
When this connection was broken,
death was instantaneous,
Arnold finally learned his
lesson,
It's not cool to peep on people,
You're breaking the law,
And like Arnold here,,,
aah!
Your neck,
up next, a pilot's life comes
Crashing down when his chopper
goes from flying,,,
Oh, my god, my god!
To falling,
Oh, my god!
Oh, my god!
A helicopter is basically a
flying gearbox,
If any one of the components
fail, it plunges to the ground,
killing all on board,
That's what happened to
helicopter pilot Ben Moore while
lifting a 7,000-Pound air
conditioner,
Ben, in front of his friends and
coworkers, then plunged
head-first to a certain death,
Oh, my god!
Oh, my god!
Oh, my god!
Grandpa, you stay here,
I had a feeling...
A feeling...
I'm recording,
I'm recording,
But fate had a different plan
for Ben Moore,
Against all odds, he lived to
tell the tail of the crash that
should've killed him,
Well our mission that day was
that I was going to change out a
cooling tower,
And just as I began to get about
even with the building, uh,
is when I heard the loud bang,
um, and a thump,
The drive shaft to the tail
rotor snaps, and Ben's
helicopter begins to spin out of
control,
He immediately jettisons the
heavy load,
I tried to maneuver over to
our prearranged emergency
landing spot,
The only way to land a
helicopter with a broken tail
rotor is to shut down the engine
to stop it from spinning out of
control,
It's called a hovering
autorotation,
Basically, take the engines
out, and then use whatever
inertia is left in those blades
to act as a cushion,
The pilot only gets one
chance,
Just before impact, he must yank
his controls to produce maximum
Lift from his flailing rotors,
I probably started the
maneuver about 50 feet too high,
So at about 40 feet, I ran out
of rpm and all those options
that I wanted to do,
And at that point I said to
myself, "Well, this is death,"
Oh!
Oh, my god!
Oh, my god!
Oh, my god!
When I hit, the helmet I'm
wearing, goggles and everything,
take the impact,
Had a really nasty cut on my
nose,
I actually flayed it open,
Ben's helicopter plunged
face first,
Nobody who witnessed the
incident believed that anyone
would survive this kind of
impact,
For whatever reason, the lord
decided that that wasn't my day,
It certainly wasn't up to me at
that point,
Ben Moore is living proof
death doesn't want you,,,
Oh, my god!
Unless it's your time to die,
it's original,