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Korean base loses it: Antarctic crew fabricates blade

Guy went full unhinged at a Korean station in Antarctica, walked into the machine shop, and built himself a 12-inch steel blade. Then started walking around threatening people mid-winter when you literally cannot evacuate anyone. The fact that he had access to a machine shop while unstable is its own problem. But the detail that they had to pull him out of there during actual winter darkness in Antarctica is the real catastrophe.
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Remote Antarctic stations are isolated enough that mental health crises can turn into genuine threats to life, and nobody's prepared for it.

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