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Admin · Posted May 17th, 2009, 09:02 PM

What a horribly way to go!

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Man boiled alive in soup vat

A GERMAN worker was boiled alive in an empty industrial-sized soup vat while trying to clean it, tabloid newspaper Bild reported.

The 36-year-old, named only as Markus, was scrubbing the two-metre-high pot when the lid accidentally closed, automatically starting the jets of boiling water used to disinfect vegetables.

"For reasons we have still not cleared up, the disinfection process started too soon," a police spokesman told the paper.

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-Ra- · Posted May 17th, 2009, 09:17 PM

Wow, that sucks. What, uhhh, what did they do with the soup afterward though?

Ra,

Charleene · Posted May 17th, 2009, 10:30 PM

Originally Posted by -Ra-

Wow, that sucks. What, uhhh, what did they do with the soup afterward though?

Ra,

lol that reminds me of a book I read where the butler has to travel with his employer and he wont eat anything but jarred baby food in other countries cause he doesnt trust the food XDD

Naughty KP · Posted May 18th, 2009, 04:41 AM

Yum, man soup.

I wonder what flavour he was?

Man In a can soup. Now with half the calories!

NKP

Zoe · Posted May 18th, 2009, 11:45 AM

Are you people f*cking kidding me? There aren't any room for jokes about this. Haven't we all been boiling water before and got a teeny little splash of it on our hand or arm? It hurts like a bitch! This man was consumed alive, his entire body covered in that sensation, not just a spot on the hand, but his eyes, ears, the inside of his underarms and between the thighs..all those sensitive places, doused with streaming jets of boiling hot water. And not because he was doing anything stupid... he was doing his job.

As for whoever was unfortunate enough to discover the body...now the news never tells you exactly what is found, but what happens when you boil meat like that? It starts to come off the bone. He was probably entirely skinless when they found him, his eyes having burst... not a vision that you can exactly flush from your mind. The nightmares this must have induced...

Miss Matchmaker · Posted May 18th, 2009, 05:33 PM

I just love how these stories are so random. [:

but yeah, that's a prettty sad way to die.

-Ra- · Posted May 18th, 2009, 09:48 PM

Zoe, what I wonder more than if his flesh had come loose from his bones is, uhhhmm, this is going to sound so sick, but, uhh, how did it smell? O_O

Ra,

Naughty KP · Posted May 19th, 2009, 06:29 AM

Dying like that would be horrible. Sorry dude.

NKP

Mothra · Posted May 19th, 2009, 11:17 AM

I don't understand how this could happen in the first place. Where I work, I can lock anything out I want to at any time. Any of hundreds of processes. I can lock out the machine or go find the electrical room and lock out from the source.

For such a horrid process, one would think someone would be "hole watching" or turn the process off or stand by the switch or keep the thing from closing!
I guess Germany isn't as strict as the US.
Maybe I'm just overprotective of my people at work.

Charleene · Posted May 19th, 2009, 02:16 PM

Originally Posted by Mothra

I don't understand how this could happen in the first place. Where I work, I can lock anything out I want to at any time. Any of hundreds of processes. I can lock out the machine or go find the electrical room and lock out from the source.

For such a horrid process, one would think someone would be "hole watching" or turn the process off or stand by the switch or keep the thing from closing!
I guess Germany isn't as strict as the US.
Maybe I'm just overprotective of my people at work.

You have brains. Not all people have that luxury I guess. That does make me wonder though why no one cut the power to it before he went in to clean it or at least have someone watching over him....

TamaMum · Posted May 19th, 2009, 02:28 PM

Just a quick mention that the German newspaper "Bild" is not the most "authoritative" of news media in Germany

It is better known for it's "sensationalism".

Call me cynical, but it seems highly unlikely that in Germany (the European centre of efficiency and rules) a vat lid could "accidentally" be closed like that on a worker cleaning the machinery.

Mothra is right. In an industrial plant like that there are numerous health and safety protocols.

I think it's possible that the newspaper might have been exaggerating just a little in order to boost newstand sales.

Mothra · Posted May 19th, 2009, 07:43 PM

Ah, ok so this story may not be true. That sheds new light on this.
Well, I hope it's not true.

Charleene · Posted May 20th, 2009, 01:33 AM

Originally Posted by TamaMum

Just a quick mention that the German newspaper "Bild" is not the most "authoritative" of news media in Germany
It is better known for it's "sensationalism".......

I think it's possible that the newspaper might have been exaggerating just a little in order to boost newstand sales.

There are a few of them out there like that. The Sun is another big one. They do have their 100% truth stories, but they also have exaggerated and made up ones too, usually if it sounds like its a bit out there....google it to find out for sure. I havent googled this one, but that is sad if it actually happened and messed up if the news report lied about it.

Wonder what really happened if anything at all...

**Jappyx** · Posted May 20th, 2009, 07:11 AM

Originally Posted by TamaMum

Just a quick mention that the German newspaper "Bild" is not the most "authoritative" of news media in Germany
It is better known for it's "sensationalism".

Call me cynical, but it seems highly unlikely that in Germany (the European centre of efficiency and rules) a vat lid could "accidentally" be closed like that on a worker cleaning the machinery.

Mothra is right. In an industrial plant like that there are numerous health and safety protocols.

I think it's possible that the newspaper might have been exaggerating just a little in order to boost newstand sales.

Yeah I would much prefer it to be the newspaper exaggerating a little to boost news stand sales, because if it did happen, its awful!

Although, I usually hateeeee it when the media manipulates / exaggerates things which can often happen.

c_t_f · Posted May 20th, 2009, 08:59 AM

Imagine some poor, poor man eating that soup and then saying, "This soup tastes funny."

...Besides, I wonder if that would be considered cannibalism... 'Man-boiled soup', or something? If they DID make that, everyone who ate it would be asking what makes it taste so different.

@CTF@

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-Ra- Senior Member Posts: 2,058 Thanked 445 Times LOLed 713 Times	#7 Posted May 18th, 2009, 09:48 PM Zoe, what I wonder more than if his flesh had come loose from his bones is, uhhhmm, this is going to sound so sick, but, uhh, how did it smell? O_O Ra,

Naughty KP Senior Member Posts: 1,867 Blog Entries: 239 Thanked 111 Times LOLed 209 Times	#8 Posted May 19th, 2009, 06:29 AM Dying like that would be horrible. Sorry dude. NKP

Mothra Senior Member Posts: 519 Thanked 77 Times LOLed 74 Times	#12 Posted May 19th, 2009, 07:43 PM Ah, ok so this story may not be true. That sheds new light on this. Well, I hope it's not true.

c_t_f Member Posts: 187 Blog Entries: 7 Thanked 8 Times LOLed 41 Times	#15 Posted May 20th, 2009, 08:59 AM Imagine some poor, poor man eating that soup and then saying, "This soup tastes funny." ...Besides, I wonder if that would be considered cannibalism... 'Man-boiled soup', or something? If they DID make that, everyone who ate it would be asking what makes it taste so different. @CTF@