盤點那些從死神手中逃出幸存的人

　　10月14日口譯文章：清點那些從死神手中逃出幸存的人(上)

　　有這麽一些場所，你一旦身處個中，下一步最公道的行為便是懷念曩昔的好日子並預備分開天下。咱們都愛好聽那些勝利逃離絕境的榮幸故事，不外，從統計上來看，這是不大大概產生的事，正由於如斯，那些場所能力被稱作"絕境"。而下面這些人決議讓統計數據都見鬼去，他們可不會成為數據中的一員。這些通俗的人們曾閱歷過一些只有從惡夢中驚醒能力逃走的、夢魘般的真實事宜，但是直到本日他們仍與咱們同在……並得以向咱們報告這些恐怖的故事。

　　10.麥卡蓮娜--幸存於：生坑

　　麥卡蓮娜是一位波蘭裔英國移民，2012年1月，她在英公法庭上上報告了她被困住雙手雙腳，躺在關閉紙箱受到生坑，差點梗塞而亡的閱歷。"被生坑在我的淺墳裏時，我畏懼本身的性命就如許走到止境，立時要死去…我向天主禱告本身能活下來照料我幼小的兒子。"她說起的3歲的兒子是她與未婚夫馬爾欽·卡斯普紮克所育，而這個漢子便是介入生坑她的罪人之一--在對麥卡蓮娜覺得"厭倦"以後，卡斯普紮克和他年青的同夥帕特裏克·博雷斯謀劃了一個解脫她的籌劃。馬爾欽用電擊棒進擊了她兩次，一次將她擊倒在地，另外一次則"連續了一段時光";他和他的同夥接著束緊她的手段和腳踝，綁住她，然後明顯花了幾個小時決議接下來該怎樣做--末了決議將麥卡蓮娜塞進紙箱裏，用車拉到田野，生坑進厚4英寸的土壤和重達90磅的樹枝之下。

　　使人難以置信的是，麥卡蓮娜在被埋住時用她的娶親戒指切斷了綁住她的繩索，接著刨出了宅兆。她遭到進擊的數周後走路、呼吸都存在艱苦，且毫無疑難的具有惡夢般的回想;但她的證詞使得進擊者們都被判處20年羈系。

　　9.荷莉·頓--幸存於："鐵路殺手"的進擊(獨一的幸存者)

　　1997年8月29日的深夜，當荷莉·頓和她的男朋友克裏斯·梅爾被一個奇異的生疏人靠近要錢時，他們有點嚇著了--這其實不奇異，誰人漢子名叫安傑爾·雷森迪斯，在其時已殺了6小我，並預備持續大開殺戒。

　　雷森迪斯發明了這對來自幾個街區以外一個派對的情侶在軌道旁談天。他用一把碎冰錐威逼著將荷莉和克裏斯兩小我綁起來，藏進一條溝裏;在重復確認過本身沒被他人瞥見後，他返回將克裏斯用50磅重的石頭砸死。荷莉接著被強橫，冰錐刺進了她的脖子，她還被打得險些沒法識別;萬幸的是在某個時刻她昏死曩昔了。醒來後，她發明進擊者已走了，就拖著身子去了比來的屋子乞助。病院檢討出她眼眶、下巴破裂，另有許多其他的傷勢。她末了得以病愈，在對雷森迪斯的審訊中做出證詞，審訊裏他被入罪並判正法刑--這項科罰於2006年履行。安傑爾·雷森迪斯，這位"鐵路殺手"在曩昔的13年中行刺了最少15人--而荷莉·頓是浩瀚受害者中獨一的幸存者。

　　8.阿爾西德斯·莫雷諾--幸存於：47層高樓上跌落

　　阿爾西德斯·莫雷諾和他的兄弟埃德加是窗戶洗濯員，他們在曼哈頓的高層修建物上事情了許多年了。這項事情明顯會包括一些危害，而在2007年12月，這些危害恐怖的成真了：他們工感化的裝備擺脫並向下直落了47層樓--快要英500尺高--落到了一條巷子裏。消防職員趕到時發明了已死去的埃德加和他還在世的兄弟：另有意識--而且坐著。

　　查詢拜訪者推論阿爾西德斯其時以某種方法"騎"著平台，經由過程平台幫助緩解本身的著落速率，而他的大夫發明他落地時頭部未受撞擊，股盆也未破裂--這兩個處所受創是這類墜落情形下最易致命的並發癥。阿爾西德斯當天立刻被送往搶救室，他脊柱和頭部皆受傷，四肢摔斷，肋骨骨折--一句話，全部剛從500英尺高空中跌落到人行道上的一小我該有的傷他都有，但他卻事業般的在世。大夫們估量他的傷勢須要一年或一年以上能力病愈，但他很快就規復了--而且於次年6月份在晨間脫口秀上做客。阿爾西德斯作為窗戶洗濯工的日子閉幕了，但他小我的正常生存並未閉幕，確切讓每小我都為之震動。莫雷諾的主治大夫說從3層及以上的樓層掉落的人都很難幸存，而阿爾西德斯的案例則把他的部隊帶向了新的醫學範疇："咱們平日很難瞥見從10層樓以上墜落的傷員，"他說，"由於他們平日會被直接送往停屍間。"

　　7.肯·亨德森--幸存於：船只停頓埋沒

　　2012年3月，肯·亨德森和好友埃德·科恩在墨西哥灣上睜開釣魚之旅時，他們30英尺的船開端進水。亨德森試圖用水泵抽水，但過了好一段時光他們才意想到鹹水噴得隨處都是，已腐化了水泵。他們的無線電收不到任何回應，亨德森的電話沒有旌旗燈號--他們剛來得及抓了幾件浮水衣和一些補給後，船就沉進了冰涼的海水裏。

　　他們在那邊待了30個小時以上。他們經由過程發言來疏散留意力,抱成一團來堅持體溫，只管即便與疲憊、幹渴和砭骨的嚴寒做奮斗。當更薄弱的科恩明顯快撐不下去時，亨德森決議做末了一搏--獨自遊向遠處的鉆井平台。肯差一點就失敗了。他迷失了方位，差點偏離目的偏向，並開端發生冰水下長著冰樹的幻覺。他終極在清晨兩點艱苦地遊到了鉆探裝備上，此地與船沉點相距50英裏，距船沉時光已有一天半;肯得以在機上廚房找到手機並打給老婆，老婆隨即向海岸保鑣隊報警。保鑣隊很快發明了科恩已了無活力的屍首，而要不是肯·亨德森大膽的求生試下，他們發明的屍首就會是兩具。

　　6.理查德·莫耶--幸存於：在家被黑熊進擊

　　2011年10月3日的淩晨對理查德·莫耶來講與平常沒有甚麽分歧。他起床放出狗兒Brindy，狗飛馳進四周的賓夕法尼亞叢林中，但當他返回屋內的時刻，Brindy返來了--出乎料想，並非常倉促：一只偉大的黑熊正追著它。

　　這頭黑熊真的異常異常憎惡Brindy和任何和它有關的人。它真的追著狗撞壞了門並沖進了屋裏，進擊理查德，弄醒了他的老婆安吉拉。她試圖幹涉進擊，但很快發明阻攔這頭熊的進擊就像一把雙刃劍，由於熊開端把目的轉向她。這使得狗兒躍向這頭進擊的野獸，理查德·莫耶也只能做任何丈夫能做的事："你還能做甚麽呢?我低著頭直接跳到了熊身上。"他說。而這就讓熊大發雷霆到了頂點。它狠狠地把他甩了下來，咬了一下子他的腦殼，然後--使人驚奇的--忽然停下了，走到前廊坐了下來。Richard身上多處被熊抓傷，爾後腦則縫了37針。那天快停止時兩伉儷才從病院回抵家中，大概會迫在眉睫地告知他們10歲的兒子產生了甚麽--他全部進程都在睡覺。

　　【參考譯文】

　　There are certain sets of circumstances, should you ever find yourself in them, where the most reasonable course of action is to reflect on what a good life it's been and prepare to check out. We all like to hear nail-biting stories of those who beat the odds and managed to overcome certain death, but these stories are of course highly statistically unlikely—that's why it's called "certain death".As for the following people, they decided that statistics be damned, they weren't going to be one. These average, everyday people found themselves in situations that are normally only survived by waking up from the nightmare, yet they're still with us today… and with some pretty harrowing tales to tell.

　　10.Michelina Lewandoska--Survived: Being buried alive

　　Michelina Lewandoska, a Polish emigrant to the U.K., described for a British court in January of 2012 the terror she felt as she lay buried in the ground, her hands and feet bound, in a taped-up cardboard box, slowly suffocating: "During my time inside my shallow grave where I was buried alive I feared that my life was at an end and I was going to die… I prayed to God to help me to survive so that I could look after my young son." The referred to her then 3 year-old son she shared with fiance Marcin Kasprzak—the man who had buried her.After having grown "bored" of Michelina, Kasprzak and his younger friend Patryk Borys hatched a plan to get rid of her. Marcin attacked her with a stun gun, once to get her to the ground and once "for a long period"; he and his friend then bound her wrists and ankles and tied her up, apparently trying to figure out what to do next for several hours—before finally stuffing Michelina into a cardboard box and driving off into the wilderness, to bury her alive under four inches of earth and a 90 pound tree branch.

　　Incredibly, Michelina used her engagement ring to cut loose of her bonds as she was buried in the shallow grave, then claw her way out. She had difficulty walking and breathing for weeks after the attack, and doubtless still has nightmares; but on her testimony, her attackers were both sentenced to 20 years in prison.

　　9.Holly Dunn--Survived: Attack by "Railway Killer" (sole survivor)

　　When Holly Dunn and her boyfriend Chris Maier were approached by a strange looking man asking for money late on the night of August 29, 1997, they were a little spooked—and they had every reason to be. The man's name was Angel Resendiz, and at the time he had already killed six people and would go on to kill many more.

　　Resendiz found the couple chatting by some train tracks a few blocks away from a party they had just come from. Producing an ice pick, he was able to get both Holly and Chris tied up and stashed in a ditch; after repeatedly checking to make sure he had not been seen, he returned to bludgeon Chris to death with a 50 pound rock. Holly was then raped, stabbed in the neck with the ice pick, and beaten so severely she was practically unrecognizable, at which point she mercifully passed out.After awaking to find her attacker gone, Holly dragged herself to the nearest house, and was taken to the hospital with a shattered eye socket and broken jaw among many other injuries. She was able to recover, and testified against Resendiz at the trial that saw him convicted and sentenced to death—a sentence that was carried out in 2006. Angel Resendiz, the "Railway Killer" murdered at least 15 people over 13 years—and Holly Dunn is the only one of his victims to survive.

　　8.Alcides Moreno--Survived: 47-story fall from apartment building

　　Alcides Moreno and his brother Edgar were window washers, and they worked together on Manhattan high rise buildings for years. The job obviously carries certain risks, and in December 2007 those risks became horrifying reality as the rig they were working on became disengaged and plummeted 47 stories—almost 500 feet—into an alleyway. Firefighters arrived to find Edgar deceased and his brother Alcides alive, CONSCIOUS—and sitting up.

　　Investigators theorize that Alcides was able to sort of "ride" the platform, using it to help slow his descent, and his doctors noted that he did not hit his head or break his pelvis upon landing—the two things most likely to cause fatal complications in such a fall. Alcides was rushed to the emergency room that day with injuries to his spine and brain, shattered limbs, fractured ribs—in short, everything you would expect to see in someone who just fell 500 feet onto the pavement, except the lack of a pulse.Doctors expected his recovery to take a year or more, but he was pretty much recovered—and making the rounds on morning talk shows—by June. Alcides' days as a window washer are over, but his days of life should be plentiful, to the astonishment of literally everyone. Moreno's lead doctor said that falls from three stories and above are very difficult to survive, and that Alcides' treatment had taken his team into new medical territory: "Above ten stories, most of the time we never see the patients," he said, "because they usually go to the morgue."

　　7.Ken Henderson--Survived: Being stranded at sea after boat sank

　　Longtime friends Ken Henderson and Ed Coen were on a fishing trip in the Gulf of Mexico in March 2012 when their 30-foot boat started to fill up with water. Henderson tried to pump some of the water out, but it had taken them too long to notice—salt water sprayed everywhere, killing the pumps. There was no response on their radio, no signal on Henderson's cell phone—and just after grabbing some life jackets and a few supplies, the boat vanished beneath them into the ice-cold water.

　　And there they remained, for over 30 hours. They talked to keep each other distracted, huddled together to conserve body heat, and fought fatigue, dehydration and the bitter cold for as long as they could. Henderson decided to make a last ditch effort—a solo swim toward a distant oil rig—when it became apparent that Coen, a slender man, was having serious trouble.Ken almost didn't make it. He became disoriented and almost got off course, and began hallucinating trees made of ice under the surface of the water. After finally stumbling aboard the rig at two in the morning, a day and a half after and 50 miles from where their boat sank, Ken was able to find a galley with a phone and call his wife, who alerted the Coast Guard. It was they who discovered Ed Coen's lifeless body a short time later, but there would have been two bodies to find if not not for Ken Henderson's valiant effort.

　　6.Richard Moyer--Survived: Black bear attack in his home

　　Richard Moyer began the morning of October 3, 2011, like any other. He got up to let out his dog Brindy, who dashed off into the Pennsylvania woods surrounding their home, but as he turned to go back into the house, Brindy returned—hurriedly and unexpectedly. With a gigantic black bear chasing her.

　　This bear really, really hated Brindy and anyone involved with her. It literally broke down the door and stormed into the house after the dog, attacking Richard and waking up his wife Angela. She tried to intervene, and quickly discovered that stopping a bear attack is a bit of a double edged sword, as the bear turned on HER. This prompted the dog to leap onto the attacking animal, and Richard Moyer to shrug his shoulders and do what any husband would: "What are you going to do? I kept my head down and just leapt into the bear," he said. And that's when the bear got REALLY mad.It mauled the hell out of him, chewed on his head for a little while, and then—amazingly—simply stopped, went out onto the front porch and sat down. While the damage from the bear's claws was extensive, the gnaw job on the back of Richard's head required 37 staples to close. Husband and wife were both home from the hospital by the end of the day, probably eager to tell the story to their 10 year-old son—who had slept through the whole thing.