Lots of ways to live, lots of ways to die as well. This has stuck with me since I was a kid. I won't be graphic, but it's a disturbing story, so if you'd rather be spared, you should stop reading now.
We lived near a commercial area, and one business did welding and machine work, and kept equipment out back under a roof. Probably not enough room inside for all the machines.
A neighbor family nearby had some kids, and everyone in this family had problems. Substance abuse, scrapes with the law, probably other things I didn't know about. I was eleven at the time.
Their youngest boy wandered over to the machine shop and climbed onto a machine that I can best describe as a roller of some kind. Two massive steel rollers--maybe for shaping steel or some heavy-duty process. It's likely he climbed up there to get at a switch to see what it operated. It operated the rollers he was standing on.
His brother was the one who found him, and--afflicted with marginal intelligence and a frail grasp on reality, it sent him over the edge. Some years back I ran across him by accident--and, well into his thirties, he roams this world looking for his lost little brother.
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Today's Featured Article - An Old-Time Tractor Demonstration - by Kim Pratt. Sam was born in rural Kansas in 1926. His dad was a hard-working farmer and the children worked hard everyday to help ends meet. In the rural area he grew up in, the highlight of the week was Saturday when many people took a break from their work to go to town. It was on one such Saturday in the early 1940's when Sam was 16 years old that he ended up in Dennison, Kansas to watch a demonstration of a new tractor being put on by a local dealer. It was an Allis-Chalmers tractor dealership,
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