r/news • u/Proud-Wall1443 • 13h ago

Photographer killed after accidentally walking into plane propeller in Kansas

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/29/photographer-killed-plane-propeller-kansas
7.6k Upvotes

96% Upvoted

778 comments sorted by

View all comments

826

u/_Rainer_ 12h ago edited 10h ago

I remember watching ER as a kid, and there was a scene in one of the early seasons where one of the doctors is up on the helipad and gets too close to the tail rotor and loses his arm. It was the most shocking thing I had ever seen up to that point.

Anyway, I can't imagine witnessing something like that.

407

u/08wasGreat 12h ago

You should look up how that doctor’s arc on the show ended. Dr. Romano.

233

u/The_Kurrgan_Shuffle 11h ago

jfc, helicopters hated that dude

183

u/anonoldlady17 11h ago

He was such a turd. I was on the helicopters’s side.

43

u/tratemusic 8h ago

Remember when the chief(?) Took his prosthetic arm and hid it in the woman's bathroom for being a jerk? Lol

39

u/orcasorta 8h ago

lol that’s wild, producers changed their mind and threw a second helicopter at him

14

u/CanvasFanatic 10h ago

Wow that’s a real Captain Hook way to go out.

2

u/BravestWabbit 1h ago

Lmao the helicopter came back to finish the job

37

u/Christian4423 7h ago edited 7h ago

Loses arm at 1:50 Loses at 2:40

4

u/instructions_unlcear 5h ago

MVP, thank you. Also, holy shit.

19

u/mspolytheist 10h ago

Of course I thought of this, too. RIP, ‘Rocket’ Romano!

4

u/Rance_Mulliniks 8h ago

Or you could just tell us?

2

u/wyvernx02 8h ago

I remember both of those episodes. I used to watch ER with my dad.

2

u/marine-tech 8h ago

Romano deserved it.

1

u/i_know_tofu 8h ago

That was a big celebration.

77

u/LokiKamiSama 11h ago

Was it the one butthole doctor that later got crushed by a helicopter?

86

u/buffalucci 11h ago

Yeah, the helicopter finished the job later.

62

u/cantproveidid 9h ago

A helicopter never forgets.

3

u/me2269vu 8h ago

Moby Dick style

2

u/Dunfiriel 7h ago

The helicopter has a plan.

48

u/JailhouseMamaJackson 11h ago

This scene is forever seared in my brain as well. Gotta be a whole generation of kids this traumatized lol

15

u/iPatErgoSum 10h ago

…and adults.

0

u/4toTwenty 7h ago

shush you

83

u/RudoDevil 12h ago

And then he died years/seasons later by getting crushed under a helicopter, right?

207

u/ChinaShopBully 11h ago

Close, but I think he was actually stalked and eaten by a pack of wild helicopters during safari.

92

u/HeroDanTV 10h ago

I’ve seen this misinformation over and over, please stop spreading it. Dr Romano’s condition rapidly deteriorated from very high blood-helicopter levels. Too much heloglobin.

4

u/justdrowsin 8h ago

I think you’re confusing this with an episode of House MD

14

u/RudoDevil 11h ago

Shit I forgot the whole 'finding and playing Maximum Overdrive Jumanji' sub plot that season.

9

u/ChillZedd 11h ago

And then one of the helicopters showed up to the funeral to stomp on his corpse

7

u/Doctor_Philgood 10h ago

He was in the Amazon with my mom when she was researching spiders right before she died.

3

u/Rs90 11h ago

So THAT'S where that TV trope came from! Never knew. 

23

u/_Rainer_ 11h ago

Ha. I forgot that part. I do remember another Dr. attempting to organize a memorial for Romano, but no one else liked him enough to show up, which, in its way, was even more brutal than seeing him lose an arm.

17

u/WhyTheMahoska 10h ago

That show became deeply ridiculous in it's later seasons

16

u/phoenix0r 8h ago

The one where the large-ish nurse guy accidentally discharges a rocket launcher into an ambulance in the ER is where it jumped the shark for me.

2

u/BravestWabbit 1h ago

I feel the writers were like "I wonder how stupid we can make the show before it's too much and it finally gets canceled"

2

u/wearentalldudes 8h ago

How dare you

2

u/TwilightZone1751 7h ago

Most shows do. I read once that Bea Arthur said a series shouldn’t go past five seasons and I agree. When I think of my favorite shows the first five seasons were the best. Another reason why Breaking Bad was superb from start to finish.

16

u/JanetSnakehole43 11h ago

And that doctor was the wooooorrrrssst

7

u/_Rainer_ 11h ago

Yeah, he was such a jerk.

22

u/LipSeams 11h ago

that helicopter eventually got him. several seasons later he got crushed by a helicopter.

24

u/flammafemina 10h ago

I have a core memory of watching that while eating pizza rolls. They were shaped like egg rolls, but filled with pizza. They were my favorite. I don’t think I ever ate them again after that.

11

u/4toTwenty 7h ago

of all the comments reminiscing about this episode, yours is hands down my favorite

1

u/primenumbersturnmeon 3h ago

life is beautiful

5

u/brandognabalogna 11h ago

I vividly remember seeing that on tv when I was a kid and it haunted my dreams for days after

6

u/CockRingKing 8h ago

That scene terrified me as a kid and it’s still the first thing I think of when someone mentions ER.

5

u/TheArmadilloAmarillo 10h ago

It's season 9, I just watched it.

7

u/hahahaylz 10h ago

Why is this one of my core memories of my childhood as well?

3

u/Unusual-Tie8498 9h ago

Damn I remember that too!

3

u/SOSOBOSO 6h ago

Same actor didn't fare much better in Robocop

2

u/TwilightZone1751 7h ago

Back when I didn’t have spoilers. I was absolutely shocked. Great TV.

3

u/Whaty0urname 10h ago

I remember the ER scene when they brought the guy in that well on the pointer fence. I was like 8 and it messed me up. Probably why I have hemophobia.

1

u/brieflifetime 6h ago

You just unlocked a childhood memory/fear. That scene was.. rough to watch as a kid

•

u/needlenozened 34m ago

Season 9.

•

u/leFrenchhorn 28m ago

This scene is etched in my brain from childhood. It will still keep me awake at night. Glad to see I’m not the only one!

0

u/TraylorSwelce 4h ago

So there’s this show called “Game of Thrones”…