An evacuation slide fell off a plane and landed in man's yard

Well, this is MA, Joel (and right down the road from me, pretty much), so these sorts of things need to be explained. :D

Hahaha
Thats hilarious
Good one

Out of the back of a truck, perhaps?

Hope T&T valves don't open in flight...

LOL.. That is a good one.

Do you want the irony measured in absolute numbers or a sliding scale?

You know the nearer your destination
The more you're slip slidin' away

I know that the 757 has a over the wing slide. It's in a compartment that not pressurized and its door opens outwards over the wing.

No..the slides are contained within a "structure" just under the door

The slide fell from a Delta 767-300. It was an overwing slide, stored in a compartment in the wing-body fairing, so outside the fuselage pressure vessel. When properly deployed it allows escaping passengers to slide down from the wing trailing edge. You can find video on YouTube of deployment tests of this type of slide.

That's what I was wondering too.

On many planes, you can see the compartment under the door at the bottom outside. It'll be interesting to find out which slide came out, and what plane. It looks like it might have partially deployed, or totally deployed. Still, odd...

True...but no one had to bump any handle..FAA "suggested" fixes back in late 2015
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/faa-seeks-safety-fixes-to-boeing-767-escape-slides-2015-12-31

How do you know?

An Atlas Air 767 lost one @ Phoenix Sky Harbor in March 2016 while landing.

https://mashable.com/2016/03/31/emergency-slide-falls-off-plane/

Would make a nice Raft as well... Look how many friends and family you could have on that thing...

There's probably a law against that in Massachusetts ... :D

There's the question of the day....

Why would the 767 have to fly with door open, for an evac slide to pop out of it's enclosure?? It's underneath the door/floor in a separate structure.

According to the video by CNN and a statement from Delta, this was Delta Flight 405, which is served with a 767-300.

Agreed.
This was totally preventable (the dog death, I mean).
Poor little fella.
One minute he’s got his face in a bowl of kibble and then his face is driven right through it.
Not cool.
Not cool.

Love it

I realize that Al Gore gets a lot of hate in these boards by some users. And I further realize that the truth doesn't count for much these days. But it's still worth trying.

You're clearly making a reference to the claims that Al Gore said he invented the internet. He never said that. If you're curious to what he did say and how it was distorted, the snopes.com article on the matter gives a good history (https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/internet-of-lies/).

Here's the actual quote from Al Gore: "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country’s economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system."

Quoting further from the snopes article: 'But a spirited defense of Gore’s statement penned by Internet pioneers Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf (the latter often referred to as the “father of the Internet”) in 2000 noted that “Al Gore was the first political leader to recognize the importance of the Internet and to promote and support its development” and that “No other elected official, to our knowledge, has made a greater contribution [to the Internet] over a longer period of time”.'

But if you want to connect all the pieces, the full snopes.com article is a good and instructive read.