This bloke should have known when to stop moving

[hunnymonster]

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Tsutomu Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on a business trip on 6 August 1945 when a US plane dropped the first atomic bomb.

He suffered serious burns and spent a night there before returning to his home city of Nagasaki just before it was bombed on 9 August.

 

[PaulH]

Not at all PC, I know, but I now have this image in my head of him arriving home from his trip just as the bomb goes off and saying 'oh bugger' (a la Unlucky Alf)

 

[cheese_dave]

Haha... "Well, at least I'm never going to have to go through that again!"

-boom-

"Ah come on..."

 

[Rev-O]

I love the fact that he died at 90+ years old. Maybe a-bombs are like negatives and cancel themselves out in even numbers?

So: one = bad, two = good, three = bad and so on.

Who wants to test this theory? I need lots of volunteers for a double blind, placebo control, cross-over trial and peer-reviewed study. Sign up below.

 

[henkverhaar]

Hah, and where are you going to find one, let alone multiple, a-bombs to detonate -- in the open? Iran?
:lol:

 

[Flatfish]

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Check out this one. I think its even more dramatic.

 

[andyjreid]

That reminded me of this clip

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