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 - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Jerry D. Coleman. How many of you can sit there and say that you have plowed with a mule? Well I would say not many, but maybe a few. This story is about the day my Grandfather Brown (true name) decided along with my parents to purchase a new Ford tractor. It wasn't really new except to us. The year was about 1967 and my father found a good used Ford 601 tractor to use on the farm instead of "Bob", our old mule. Now my grandfather had had this mule since the mid 40's and he was getting some age on him. S
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