In the pitch blackness — the town's power supply had been knocked out — they heard taps and voices, possibly survivors under the mangled debris.
Vuohensilta boasts that "not only is the safe not able to protect your money" from his machine, but that the cash he'd placed inside the box, crushed as it is under several mangled plates of metal, can't even be used now.
Mr. Samson was not a close friend, but Mr. Pouillon's protests — with signs showing a baby on one side, under the label "life," and a mangled fetus on the other, under the word "abortion" — were a regular part of life in this town, like vinyl siding on homes and "Go Trojans" signs supporting the high school football team.
Video showed mangled bodies buried under rubble, and activists said many of the wounded were ferried to Turkey.
The United States military said the cause of the crash was still under investigation, but witnesses near the mangled wreckage said the helicopter had been downed by a missile.
He has a knack for the apt metaphor: on a good run, cabs and buses become for messengers "little flags on a slalom course"; after a bad one, his mangled arms lay coiled under his body "like thick rope .As he sped along, Mr Culley was possibly right to feel superior to deskbound types.
Hurricane Katrina had turned Mars into a pile of steel spaghetti, dumped its 100-ton derrick under 3,000 feet of water and mangled pipelines on the seafloor.
i. Have to question the legitimacy of your claim to be "a good bunch" when you blithely seem to be charging someone to live under your stairs like some twisted and mangled evil twin, feeding on crusts and rat bones, their eyes bulging and accustomed to the dark, their hair lank and thin.
Titled the "Jackson Midnight Fuck Remix," the mangled, hiccuping remix reached meme status three years later when someone working under the moniker Doppelbanger mashed it up with Aphex Twin's "Windowlicker" and Khia's "My Neck, My Back".
