REAL DANGER: Watch For Falling Icicles

I only have a moment, and so a quickie - I plan on adding more later but I know me well by now, n I may not get around to it.
Icicles have been falling steadily all day around my house, with a loud crash, and I began to wonder if anyone had been killed by this, thinking surely it must have happened somewhere at sometime. I googled, and the 1st thing I looked at was the following Reuters report. Being Reuters, a reputable news organization (as reputable as Big Media ever is, at least), I decided to go with this one story, for now. But keep in mind that this is just one, and there are many other returns for this search - many other instances of people seriously hurt or killed by falling icicles. After all, they can often be very large, very heavy, and are pointed. Dangerous.
The following article is copied/pasted from http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2632514820080226

Falling icicles kill six

MOSCOW

Tue Feb 26, 2008 10:00am EST

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Six people have been killed in three days by icicles falling from buildings in a central Russian region, ITAR-TASS news agency reported Tuesday.

Oddly Enough

Plummeting chunks of ice is an annual hazard for pedestrians in Russia during the spring when the sun finally melts thick layers of ice and snow which build up on roofs over months of freezing temperatures and darkness.

Medical authorities in the region of Samara told ITAR-TASS that five people died in the city of Samara and another person died in the nearby town of Otradny between February 23 and February 25.

(Writing by James Kilner; Editing by Matthew Jones)

forgiveness

just a quick blog: i just heard a very wise thing said, and clever. On Ghost Whisperer no less. I know that not being jealous, forgiving others, not being upset when someone cuts you off in traffic, etc - none of that is meant to benefit the other guy, its for US. Carrying around that negative crap eats us alive, and ruins our day as well as the people we are around in our foul moods, and the other guy goes merrily on, either unaware of you at all (as in traffic) or delighted that they bothered you so badly, that they have that power over you, etc. The ghost on the show put it this way: UNFORGIVENESS is like drinking poison and waiting for the OTHER person to die.