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BS.Dos.
Joined: 29 Mar 2007
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 Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 4:10 pm Post subject: List of Unusual Deaths |
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| 1912: Tailor Franz Reichelt fell to his death off the first deck of the Eiffel Tower while testing his invention, the coat parachute *shakes head in disbelief*. It was his first ever attempt with the parachute after he'd told the authorities in advance that he would test it with a dummy first. |
More casualties of barbarian brutality and brainless flapdoodlery can be found here |
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mnhnhyouh
Joined: 21 Nov 2006
Location: The Middle Kingdom
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| Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 4:22 pm Post subject: |
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How about these.....
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Autoerotic fatalities with power hydraulics.
J Forensic Sci. 1994 Sep;39(5):1143-4.
O'Halloran RL, Dietz PE.
Ventura County Medical Examiner Office, CA.
We report two cases in which men used the hydraulic shovels on tractors to suspend themselves for masochistic sexual stimulation. One man developed a romantic attachment to a tractor, even giving it a name and writing poetry in its honor. He died accidentally while intentionally asphyxiating himself through suspension by the neck, leaving clues that he enjoyed perceptual distortions during asphyxiation. The other man engaged in sexual bondage and transvestic fetishism, but did not purposely asphyxiate himself. He died when accidentally pinned to the ground under a shovel after intentionally suspending himself by the ankles. We compare these cases with other autoerotic fatalities involving perceptual distortion, cross-dressing, machinery, and postural asphyxiation by chest compression. |
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=8454997&dopt=Abstract
or suicide by chainsaw????
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Chainsaw deaths: accident, suicide or murder?
J Clin Forensic Med. 1994 Sep;1(2):109-12.
* Fernie CG,
* Gibson IH,
* Newton F.
The Surgery, Bowholm, Canonbie, Dumfriesshire DG14 OUX, UK.
This case review describes two deaths involving chainsaws. The first case describes a suicide by chainsaw and how it was differentiated from murder. The second case describes an accidental death associated with this tool which occurred within a week of the suicide in Dumfriesshire, Scotland.
PMID: 16371277 [PubMed - in process]
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BS.Dos.
Joined: 29 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 4:28 pm Post subject: |
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^Of all the ways you can kill yourself, using a chainsaw should be quite far down your list.
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| 458 BC: The Greek playwright Aeschylus was killed when an eagle dropped a live tortoise on him, mistaking his bald head for a stone |
That's just a bad luck really. |
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Rapacious Mr. Batstove
Joined: 26 Jan 2007
Location: Central Areola
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| Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2007 4:41 pm Post subject: |
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This one is a personal favorurite
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Man's suicide with butcher's band-saw
May 07, 2003 Edition -1
Chris Jenkins
As four horrified supermarket workers watched, a young man died a gruesome death when he put his neck to a butcher's band-saw in the store in a bizarre suicide incident.
The man, identified by police yesterday as 31-year-old Emmanuel Gumbi from the Bhejane township near Richards Bay, walked into the Shoprite/Checkers store late on Monday and proceeded to the back where the butchery was.
Witnesses told police Gumbi had entered the butchery alone.
Police said before staff could react the unemployed man switched on the butcher's band-saw and put his neck to it and seconds later fell to the floor with his neck bleeding profusely.
"It all happened in a few seconds," said Eshowe police spokesman Jay Naicker. |
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jajdude
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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Unusual Celebrity Deaths
from: http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/3-triv.html
Sherwood Anderson - writer
1941 --- after swallowing a toothpick at a cocktail party he died of peritonitis on an ocean liner bound for Brazil.
Attila the Hun
453 AD --- bled to death from a nosebleed on his wedding night.
Salvatore "Sonny" Bono
1998 --- crashed into a tree while skiing.
Raymond Johnson Chapman - Cleveland Indians baseball player
1920 --- died one day after being struck in head by baseball pitch, becoming the only player ever killed as result of major league baseball game.
Michael Findlay - horror film maker
1977 --- decapitated by helicopter blade
Brian Jones - musician, one-time Rolling Stone
1969 --- drowned in his swimming pool while drunk and on drugs.
Bill Masterton - hockey player for Minnesota North Stars
1968 --- head injury. He fell over backwards and hit his head on the ice after being checked during a game against the Oakland Seals. His is the only death in pro-hockey during the modern era.
Tennessee Williams - writer
1983 --- choked to death on a on a nose spray bottle cap that accidentally dropped into his mouth while he was using the spray. He was 71. |
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Roch
Joined: 24 Apr 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 7:36 am Post subject: |
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Unusual Celebrity Deaths
from: http://www.corsinet.com/trivia/3-triv.html
Sherwood Anderson - writer
1941 --- after swallowing a toothpick at a *beep* party he died of peritonitis on an ocean liner bound for Brazil.
Attila the Hun
453 AD --- bled to death from a nosebleed on his wedding night.
Salvatore "Sonny" Bono
1998 --- crashed into a tree while skiing.
Raymond Johnson Chapman - Cleveland Indians baseball player
1920 --- died one day after being struck in head by baseball pitch, becoming the only player ever killed as result of major league baseball game.
Michael Findlay - horror film maker
1977 --- decapitated by helicopter blade
Brian Jones - musician, one-time Rolling Stone
1969 --- drowned in his swimming pool while drunk and on drugs.
Bill Masterton - hockey player for Minnesota North Stars
1968 --- head injury. He fell over backwards and hit his head on the ice after being checked during a game against the Oakland Seals. His is the only death in pro-hockey during the modern era.
Tennessee Williams - writer
1983 --- choked to death on a on a nose spray bottle cap that accidentally dropped into his mouth while he was using the spray. He was 71. |
Isn't Cooper Anderson, the alum of Vanderbilt University and host of a talk show on C.N.N., from the same clan?
Anyway, never mind.
Fire in the whole! Duck!!
Scatta Gatta Gatta! |
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Woland
Joined: 10 May 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 8:27 am Post subject: |
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| The Russian poet Afanasy Afanasyevich Fet died of a heart attack just as he was about to plunge a knife into himself to commit suicide. |
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huffdaddy
Joined: 25 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 3:58 pm Post subject: |
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http://www.sny.tv/news/article.jsp?ymd=20061013&content_id=1411678&oid=36019&vkey=10
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About a year after retiring from his two-time All-Star catching career, mainly with the Philadelphia Phillies and Cincinnati Reds, Bo Diaz was killed on November 23, 1990 at age 37.
"He was putting up a satellite dish down in Venezuela and it fell on him, and crushed his head and crushed his skull," Russo said. This was pre-DirectTV, "And it was one of those massive, gigantic, solid steel satellite dishes." |
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cj1976
Joined: 26 Oct 2005
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| Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 10:20 pm Post subject: |
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| jajdude wrote: |
Brian Jones - musician, one-time Rolling Stone
1969 --- drowned in his swimming pool while drunk and on drugs.
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Nothing unusual there. Any true rock and roll legend would find this a fairly respectable way to check out |
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