Weirdest way to die!
Ok, I think this takes the cake for the weirdest way to die! The poor woman and her family!
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,449919,00.html
OK that is weird alright but I have to give honorable mention to the zookeeper treating the constipated elephant who gave the elephant a laxative and happened to be standing on the business end of the elephant when the dam broke and found himself in deep S#*t ....in fact ....deep enough to kill him.
Original Post by belladonna1026:
OK that is weird alright but I have to give honorable mention to the zookeeper treating the constipated elephant who gave the elephant a laxative and happened to be standing on the business end of the elephant when the dam broke and found himself in deep S#*t ....in fact ....deep enough to kill him.
That's an urban myth. False, according to Snopes.
Funny, though.
Sigh. Why do people think anything they read on Fox "news" has any iota of truth? It's the candy of news channels-- and not all flavors are tasty!
One of the latest from The Darwin Awards:
"In his attempt to light his shed for the dark winter months, the gentleman illegally opened a major junction box at the front of his house, intending to hard-wire a power cable to his garden shed. Unfortunately, the poor chap attempted to do this rewiring during a major downpour. "
Original Post by hkellick:
Original Post by belladonna1026:
OK that is weird alright but I have to give honorable mention to the zookeeper treating the constipated elephant who gave the elephant a laxative and happened to be standing on the business end of the elephant when the dam broke and found himself in deep S#*t ....in fact ....deep enough to kill him.
That's an urban myth. False, according to Snopes.
Funny, though.
My my such a party pooper...next you are gonna tell me Mikey from the life commercials didn't die from eating poprocks and drinking coke and that James Dean, Elvis, and Jim Morrison are in fact dead! No getting any fun tall tales by on this site. Tough Crowd!
Original Post by javagen3:
Sigh. Why do people think anything they read on Fox "news" has any iota of truth? It's the candy of news channels-- and not all flavors are tasty!
And why can't some people just take the post for what it was worth instead of going negative? I heard someone talking about it over lunch and looked it up. If it is true, it's very weird. Period.
Original Post by kallie67:
Original Post by javagen3:
Sigh. Why do people think anything they read on Fox "news" has any iota of truth? It's the candy of news channels-- and not all flavors are tasty!
And why can't some people just take the post for what it was worth instead of going negative? I heard someone talking about it over lunch and looked it up. If it is true, it's very weird. Period.
Because you were presenting it like it was true. What "worth" were you going for? I will always be the skeptic. If you post something that's not true with a shoddy reference on a public board, do you really expect everyone here to take it at face value?
Original Post by javagen3:
Original Post by kallie67:
Original Post by javagen3:
Sigh. Why do people think anything they read on Fox "news" has any iota of truth? It's the candy of news channels-- and not all flavors are tasty!
And why can't some people just take the post for what it was worth instead of going negative? I heard someone talking about it over lunch and looked it up. If it is true, it's very weird. Period.
Because you were presenting it like it was true. What "worth" were you going for? I will always be the skeptic. If you post something that's not true with a shoddy reference on a public board, do you really expect everyone here to take it at face value?
Well, considering I just found it on about 15 other news sites, including the BBC among others, I'm guessing it is.
And no, not at face value, per se, but I expect people to know enough to realize it was done for entertainment value.
People checking out bizarrely fact or fiction will forever be means of amusement to some people myself included. Maybe it makes me feel better to be able to laugh at death instead of fear it and I agree people are way to serious so for your entertainment here are a couple more tidbits of people who have exited memorably:
In 1911 Jack Daniel oh yes maker of Jack Daniels fame died of blood poisoning 6 years after hurting his toe by kicking his safe because he forgot the combo.
God now I want a drink!
In 458 BC Aeschylus who packed em in as a playwright in Greece was killed when an eagle dropped a tortoise on him thinking his bald head was a stone...miraculously, the tortoise lived Aeschylus however did not fare so well.
But alas, true or false you were amused to some degree eh? Even if it was my poor taste or odd fetish with bizzarre death that amused you.
You'd probably really enjoy the Darwin Awards then!
having your life force sucked out of you by your cat.
or...
earwigs nesting in your brain via your ear canal.
Original Post by javagen3:
Sigh. Why do people think anything they read on Fox "news" has any iota of truth? It's the candy of news channels-- and not all flavors are tasty!
Javagen, just because something is reported on Fox news, doesn't mean that it's automatically false. If you didn't like her source, you could have easily googled it to find other sources. Yeah, we sometimes make fun of Fox, but come on. Lighten up.
Below are just a few of the many other sites that reported the same story. I found them easily by googling.
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/world/w idow+killed+by+husbands+coffin/2819752
or
http://www.irishexaminer.com/breaking/world/m hidojqlmhgb/
or
http://news.aol.co.uk/world-news/widow-killed -by-husbands-coffin/article/20081111112532411 242796
I love the Darwin Awards. I ain't skeered to admit it.
A burglary suspect, running from police on San Francisco's Telegraph Hill in September, jumped over a 3-foot wall, apparently not realizing that on the other side was a 200-foot drop. He died at the scene. [San Francisco Chronicle, 9-11-08]
Me too, Sparky.
also...taking a job at a secluded mountain resort as the caretaker for the winter, and then freezing to death in a maze, because you were possessed by the evil of the hotel, to try and murder your family.
just sayin'.
Ok... this is one of those freaky things nobody thinks about but everyone has nightmares over after they watch Final Destination.
I believe it was yesterday... In Charlotte (where I live), a second incident occured in the last 2 weeks at the construction site of the new Wachovia Tower (set to be 2nd tallest building in Charlotte). An enormous steel beam was dropped by a crane at the top and plummeted down towards the main street in the center of downtown Charlotte. It landed on a school bus, smashing the rear end.
Thank goodness, no children were on the bus at the time and it missed the bus driver. No deaths/severe injuries.
The first incident occured 2 weeks ago when a wall of glass on the side of the building was shattered sending shards raining down into the street and sidewalk from 300 feet up.
A serial killer on death row who after years of appeals and a loophole in the system, is freed - only to discover, too late, that he has been stalked for years by a crazy acoloyte who's primary obsession is to kill him and take his place.
or being cryogenically frozen until a cure for aging can be found, only to be defrosted 500 years later for use in alien hamburger helper...
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