And now, the second entry in the Irrational Fears Proven Not So Irrational Thanks to a Story Linked on Fark<\/i>. <\/p>\n
This one comes to us via, yet again, the UK<\/a>, where freak accidents happen all the time, apparently. <\/p>\n A cyclist said he thought he was going to die after an auxiliary fuel tank from an RAF Harrier jet fell from the sky and missed him by inches.<\/p>\n …<\/p>\n The empty, 10ft-long metal tank landed on a grass verge near the A3124 road at Winkleigh, Devon, police said.<\/p>\n Les Sprason, who lives in the village, said the fuel tank had spiralled over his head while he cycled along the country road. <\/p>\n …<\/p>\n The tank fell from the jet and landed in a field with a dull thud. Mr Sprason added: “It came over the road, over my head, somersaulting, and impacted into a hedgerow. It ruptured itself, and the aviation fuel was pouring out.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n My apartment rests comfortably beneath an area of sky where planes begin their descent and prepare to land at the airport. At night, as I lie in bed waiting for sleep to come, I listen to the swelling drone of the planes as they approach the apartment, wondering each time if, a la Donnie Darko<\/a> or the 2005 War of the Worlds<\/a>, one of them (or some stray parts) will find its\/their way into my bedroom. <\/p>\n And now it feels great to know that that fear is no longer irrational.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" And now, the second entry in the Irrational Fears Proven Not So Irrational Thanks to a Story Linked on Fark. This one comes to us via, yet again, the UK, where freak accidents happen all the time, apparently. A cyclist said he thought he was going to die after an auxiliary fuel tank from an RAF Harrier jet fell from the sky and missed him by inches. … The empty, 10ft-long metal tank landed on… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-b5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}