Its weird but i also have this fan thing that it will get loose and fall on me.. My bed in home & also when i was in hostel was arranged such that the legs are towards the fan & not the head!!
If the fan gets detached from ceiling when it is moving, it won't have a free fall. Because of moving inertia, it would fall tangentially with its blades still moving. So the body parts which are not directly below the fan are in more danger.
This said, 'man hurt by falling fan while sleeping' is the least happening headline than, say, 'man run over by speeding car'. So sleep relaxed.
Ahh, picture of a begone lifestyle! Alongwith the pankha (and the dedicated puller at the end of the string), note the huge ceiling. The inside does not heat up, so the room is always cool, with elegance added. Old bungalows in the cantonment towns have it. Beats today's ACs hands down anyday.
Yes, they are redolent of a bygone lifestyle, but in colonial India, the punkah-puller was also at the receiving end of inhuman torture by the colonial master...Satyajit Ray had mentioned the tragic fate of one such punkah-puller who had been kicked to death by the English master, an indigo-plantation owner in pre-independence Bengal, because he had fallen asleep on his job in his famous Feluda story, 'Robertson's Ruby'..here is the the link to this story (and many other fascinating stories of arguably one of India's most famous fictional detectives) http://www.ebookshell.com/The Complete Adventures of Feluda (Part%202)%20-%20Satyajit%20Ray.pdf 'Robertson's Ruby' is the last story in this volume
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I am 25 and still a Bonvita boy
This said, 'man hurt by falling fan while sleeping' is the least happening headline than, say, 'man run over by speeding car'. So sleep relaxed.
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http://www.ebookshell.com/The Complete Adventures of Feluda (Part%202)%20-%20Satyajit%20Ray.pdf
'Robertson's Ruby' is the last story in this volume
This is the correct link