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Strange Deaths

  • 17-11-2009 3:55pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 17,247 ✭✭✭✭


    Has to be one of my favourite parts of ForteanTimes Magazine. You get crazy and weird stuff posted everyday in AH but I think a thread on Strange Deaths here would be awesome. I'll get the ball rolling!

    Farmer Mark Evison, 47, accidentally disturbed a wasps' nest while cutting grass for a neighbour in East yorkshire, on 16th August and was repeatedly stung on the head, neck and chest. He staggered home and rang his brother Paul. "The wasps have got me" he said. Paramedics arived after 10 minutes and gave him a shot of adreneline but it was too late. He died at the scene less than an hour after being stung.

    On 20th August Joan Russell, 81, died after being stung on the hand while doing the washing up.

    On average 4 people a year die of wasp stings in Britain.


    I hate wasps.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 6,869 ✭✭✭Futurecrook


    "The wasps have got me" - epic last words.
    Two friends died of heart attacks at exactly the same time as they sat chatt*ing over cups of coffee. Doctors were said to be baffled. Stanimir Dmitrovic, 64, and Slavko Banzic, 66, both suddenly complained of chest pains before coll*apsing in Banzic’s house in Nevade, northern Serbia. Checks on the coffee established it wasn’t poisoned, and medical professionals said there were no suspicious circumstances.


    I love coffee. ^_^


  • Registered Users Posts: 44,080 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    In September 1927 dancer Isadora Duncan happened to express her admiration for a Bugatti sports car owned by Benoit Falchetto, a garage owner in Nice. Anticipating that Isadora’s interest might extend to purchasing it, Falchetto offered to take her for a test drive. Since Isadora was lightly dressed, with only a silk scarf around her shoulders, Falchetto offered her his leather driving coat. But she declined. “Good-bye, my friends, I am off to glory,” she called out, theatrically throwing her scarf behind her as the Bugatti pulled away. Seconds later the trailing scarf became entangled in one wheel of the car, and Isadora was strangled.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,831 ✭✭✭Slow Motion


    A personal favourite


    Polish farmer Krystof Azninski staked a strong claim to being Europe's most macho man by cutting off his own head in 1995. Azninski, 30, had been drinking with friends when it was suggested they strip naked and play some "men's games". Initially they hit each other over the head with frozen turnips, but then one man upped the ante by seizing a chainsaw and cutting off the end of his foot. Not to be outdone, Azninski grabbed the saw and, shouting "Watch this then," he swung at his own head and chopped it off.

    "It's funny," said one companion, "when he was young he put on his sister's underwear. But he died like a man."


    Note: No swans were injured in the making of this death!


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,374 ✭✭✭InReality


    A personal favourite


    Polish farmer Krystof Azninski staked a strong claim to being Europe's most macho man by cutting off his own head in 1995. Azninski, 30, had been drinking with friends when it was suggested they strip naked and play some "men's games". Initially they hit each other over the head with frozen turnips, but then one man upped the ante by seizing a chainsaw and cutting off the end of his foot. Not to be outdone, Azninski grabbed the saw and, shouting "Watch this then," he swung at his own head and chopped it off.

    "It's funny," said one companion, "when he was young he put on his sister's underwear. But he died like a man."


    Note: No swans were injured in the making of this death!

    Thats hard to beat in the macho stakes !


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,106 ✭✭✭MoominPapa


    Gluteoplasty Disaster
    Former Miss Argentina, Solange Magnano, has died from complications after undergoing cosmetic surgery on her buttocks.

    Ms Magnano, 38, was a mother of twins who won the crown in 1994. She died of a pulmonary embolism on Sunday after three days in critical condition following a gluteoplasty in Buenos Aires.

    Close friend Roberto Piazza said the procedure involved injections and the liquid "went to her lungs and brain.

    "A woman who had everything lost her life to have a slightly firmer behind," he said.

    Magnano's burial was shown yesterday on Argentinian television.

    Dr Gonzalo Cortes y Tristan said she arrived at his hospital with an acute respiratory deficiency. Her condition deteriorated until she suffered the embolism.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,450 ✭✭✭actuallylike


    Didn't think this could really happen, although can we trust wikipedia?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byford_Dolphin
    At 4:00 a.m. on 5 November 1983, four divers were in a decompression chamber system attached by a trunk (a short passage) to a diving bell on the rig, being assisted by two dive tenders.[1] One diver was about to close the door between the chamber system and the trunk when the chamber was explosively decompressed from a pressure of nine atmospheres to one in a fraction of a second. Five of the men were killed; the other was severely injured.

    Diver D4 was shot out through the small jammed hatch door opening, and was ripped apart. Subsequent investigation by forensic pathologists determined D4, being exposed to the highest pressure gradient, violently exploded due to the rapid and massive expansion of internal gases. All of his thoracic and abdominal organs, and even his thoracic spine were ejected, as were all of his limbs. Simultaneously, his remains were expelled through the narrow trunk opening left by the jammed chamber door, less than 60 centimeters (24 inches) in diameter. Fragments of his body were found scattered about the rig. One part was even found lying on the rig’s derrick, 10 meters (30 feet) directly above the chambers. His death was most likely instantaneous and painless.


  • Registered Users Posts: 30,123 ✭✭✭✭Star Lord


    I'd have thought that if the door was open, then the pressure between the trunk and the decompression chamber would be the same, preventing there from being such decompression... ?


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,749 ✭✭✭tony 2 tone


    Spent a while going through all the deaths on the wiki page a few months back. Some I had heard of, and lots I hadn't. Enjoy.
    http://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/12/30-strangest-deaths-in-history/
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths
    From wiki:
    1981: David Allen Kirwan a 24-year-old attempted to rescue a friend's dog after it fell into Celestine Pool, a hot spring at Yellowstone National Park on July 20, 1981. Despite numerous shouts from bystanders, Kirwan dove headfirst into the pool but was unable to save the dog. After managing to swim back to shore, he was helped out of pool, where his injuries became apparent - the exposure to the 200oF (93oC) water of the hot spring resulted in third-degree burns to 100% of his body and had also blinded him. After being led to the sidewalk, Kirwan reportedly stated: "That was stupid. How bad am I? That was a stupid thing I did." When one of Kirwan's shoes was removed, all of the skin came off with it. He died the next day at a Salt Lake City hospital. Although there have been at least 19 deaths due to scalding at the Yellowstone, this was the only known case where someone died after deliberately jumping into one of the park's hot springs.


  • Registered Users Posts: 17,371 ✭✭✭✭Zillah


    This has always been my favourite:

    207 BC: Chrysippus, a Greek stoic philosopher, is believed to have died of laughter after watching his drunk donkey attempt to eat figs.


    Honestly, imagining the scenario, I can believe it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,171 ✭✭✭triple-M


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ward_(scientist))
    not the strangest death ever its just the fact that she was the first person to die in this way,and to top it all off it happened in Ireland:o makes it a little more interesting


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    This book is the best work on the subject..it contains hundreds or bizaare,mysterious and downright grisly deaths.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,835 ✭✭✭unreggd


    Worst I've ever read!
    The victim posted an ad sayin he wanted to be killed and eaten
    linky


    More recent:
    Vladimir Likhonos, a Ukrainian student, died after accidentally dipping a homemade chewing gum into explosives he was using on another project. He mistook the jar of explosive for citric acid, which was also on his desk. The gum exploded, blowing off his jaw and most of the lower part of his face


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 751 ✭✭✭Daisy Steiner


    Fortean Times
    A 59-year-old chef died after a 50cm Asian swamp eel was put up his bottom. Doctors in Sichuan, China, found the marine creature in the man’s rectum after his death. It had allegedly been inserted after the man passed out drunk, by “pals” playing a prank. Doctors said the eel had devoured his bowels. Sun, 30 April 2010.

    Wah.


  • Registered Users Posts: 30,123 ✭✭✭✭Star Lord


    Wah.
    Oh my... I'm clenching desperately after reading that one, thanks Daisy!!! >.o


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,257 ✭✭✭hairyheretic


    A personal favorite of mine, from one or other of the Fortean Times books of Strange Deaths.

    A South African man, vegetarian his entire life, and had forced his entire family to become vegetarians, was killed when an 8 lb frozen leg of lamb dropped on his head from a 3rd story window.

    Death definitely has a sense of humour at times.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 751 ✭✭✭Daisy Steiner


    Have you ever read "Lamb to the slaughter" by Roald Dahl?
    A leg of lamb is the murder weapon and the murderer cooks it and serves it to the investigating officers
    :eek:

    I love the Fortean Times!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,335 ✭✭✭✭UrbanSea


    Jenny Mitchell, a 19-year-old hairdresser, was driving to her parents’ house in Shaftsbury, Dorset, on 9 March when her Mini Cooper was engulfed in flames and she was killed. A bottle of hydrogen peroxide, used to bleach hair, had leaked in her passenger footwell. It appeared that, near Sturminster Newton, she lit a cigarette and opened the window to ventilate the car, causing a huge explosion


    Smoking really does kill.


  • Registered Users Posts: 30,123 ✭✭✭✭Star Lord


    Than Singh, 70, a dairy farmer in northeast India, was left aghast after receiving a bogus receipt for his own cremation service a week earlier. He complained of chest pains and was rushed to hospital, but suffered a massive heart attack and died. His body was then delivered to the same crematorium in Ghaziabad that was mentioned in the mysterious letter. In a further macabre twist, the body was issued with the same serial number – 89. Suspicious relatives called in police, who believe the death was the result of a prank rather than an administrative mistake. “The element of mischief is apparent and obvious,” said Raghubir Lal, senior superintendent of police in Ghaziabad. “What remains to be deciphered is if the person behind it wanted to shock the old man to the extent that he might collapse and if so then why, or if it was merely a prank that took a serious turn.”

    Deja Dead?


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,307 ✭✭✭weiland79


    Apparently every year on average 4 Americans will kill themselves whilst watering their Christmas tree....... with the lights plugged in!

    (I have no evidence of this, is that a prerequisite to post here?):D


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    found this and for some eason suddenly felt a little bit ill::(

    A 59-year-old chef died after a 50cm Asian swamp eel was put up his bottom. Doctors in Sichuan, China, found the marine creature in the man’s rectum after his death. It had allegedly been inserted after the man passed out drunk, by “pals” playing a prank. Doctors said the eel had devoured his bowels. :eek:


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  • Registered Users Posts: 30,123 ✭✭✭✭Star Lord


    Oh gawd, now I'm clenching... >_<


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,455 ✭✭✭krd


    weiland79 wrote: »
    Apparently every year on average 4 Americans will kill themselves whilst watering their Christmas tree....... with the lights plugged in!

    (I have no evidence of this, is that a prerequisite to post here?):D

    And about 30 die from pulling vending machines down on themselves.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,455 ✭✭✭krd


    Now to Ireland

    Mishap in baked alaska flaming killed waitress


    WHEN the flaming of a baked alaska went tragically wrong a hotel waitress was set on fire and later died in hospital, the Circuit Civil Court was told.

    Judge Dominic Lynch heard that Pauline Henderson of Glenavon Park, Loughlinstown, Co Dublin suffered burns to 63pc of her body in the Killiney Court Hotel blaze on July 25 1996 and died five weeks later, on September 4.

    http://www.independent.ie/national-news/mishap-in-baked-alaska-flaming-killed-waitress-355623.html


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,343 ✭✭✭Dull and Boring


    2008: James Mason, of Chardon, Ohio, died of heart failure after his wife exercised him to death in a public swimming pool. Christine Newton-John was seen on video tape pulling Mason around the pool and preventing him from getting out of the water 43 times. Newton-John later pleaded guilty to reckless homicide.


  • Registered Users Posts: 441 ✭✭howyanow


    has anyone heard or read of the scuba diver that was found dead in the middle of a forest fire?apparently the scuba diver is diving away happy out when a helicopter is called in to dump water on a forest fire that is raging nearby,diver gets picked up when helicopter refills bucket from the sea and scoops up the diver,then drops him onto the forest fire with all the water!is this an urban myth or not,i cant remember where i read/heard it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 809 ✭✭✭Ditch


    howyanow wrote: »
    has anyone heard or read of the scuba diver that was found dead in the middle of a forest fire? ~ is this an urban myth or not?


    Pure Bull! :D

    http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/scuba.asp


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,025 ✭✭✭problemchimp


    howyanow wrote: »
    has anyone heard or read of the scuba diver that was found dead in the middle of a forest fire?apparently the scuba diver is diving away happy out when a helicopter is called in to dump water on a forest fire that is raging nearby,diver gets picked up when helicopter refills bucket from the sea and scoops up the diver,then drops him onto the forest fire with all the water!is this an urban myth or not,i cant remember where i read/heard it.
    I did hear that a long time ago, probably buull**** but who cares, great story. Great thread op!


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,025 ✭✭✭problemchimp


    A personal favourite


    Polish farmer Krystof Azninski staked a strong claim to being Europe's most macho man by cutting off his own head in 1995. Azninski, 30, had been drinking with friends when it was suggested they strip naked and play some "men's games". Initially they hit each other over the head with frozen turnips, but then one man upped the ante by seizing a chainsaw and cutting off the end of his foot. Not to be outdone, Azninski grabbed the saw and, shouting "Watch this then," he swung at his own head and chopped it off.

    "It's funny," said one companion, "when he was young he put on his sister's underwear. But he died like a man."


    Note: No swans were injured in the making of this death!
    probably the best post I have ever read on Boards.ie. People are fuucking mad!


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,095 ✭✭✭johndaman66


    weiland79 wrote: »
    Apparently every year on average 4 Americans will kill themselves whilst watering their Christmas tree....... with the lights plugged in!

    (I have no evidence of this, is that a prerequisite to post here?):D

    Oh, yeah I'd believe that one alright, Americans being.....well..... Americans:p
    krd wrote: »
    And about 30 die from pulling vending machines down on themselves.

    I wouldn't doubt you on that one either but having said that I'm sure a lot of us have being in situations where we'll try anything to get that snickers or pack of hunkey doreys out that seem to be just barely hanging on there!


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  • Registered Users Posts: 5,406 ✭✭✭Pompey Magnus


    Man, 28, Dies After 'Guzzling' Viagra During 12-Hour Romp

    A Russian man died after guzzling a bottle of Viagra to keep him going for a 12-hour orgy with two female pals.

    The women had bet mechanic Sergey Tuganov $4,300 that he wouldn’t be able to follow through with the half-day sex marathon.

    But minutes after winning the bet, the 28-year-old died of a heart attack, Moscow police said.

    “We called emergency services but it was too late, there was nothing they could do,” said one of the female participants who identified herself only as Alina.

    Link

    What a way to go. The only thing I wonder is if the women were as ugly as sin if he needed a $4,300 incentive to have a threesome with them?


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