Unusual deaths

PTH2009

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths

Some are really bad. One poor guy fell through a window trying to show a group of people it was impossible to fall

keith16

Didn't some sap in Limerick kill himself by pointing a gun at his head and pulling the trigger, thinking it was empty but forgetting the one in the barrel?

Talib Fiasco

The Dyatlov Pass thing is very weird.

Harry Palmr

Erotic asphyxiation is just fruity.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

That woman in Limerick that died after riding an Alsatian

Sheep Lover

LexieOnRale wrote: »

That woman in Limerick that died after riding an Alsatian

Was it not an Australian? Either way it's rough.

Filmer Paradise

I once read of a woman who died unloading her dishwasher.

Apparently she stacked the knives pointy-end up. As she was unloading, she slipped on the Kitchen floor & was stabbed in the chest with her own knives!:eek:

DEFTLEFTHAND

keith16 wrote: »

Didn't some sap in Limerick kill himself by pointing a gun at his head and pulling the trigger, thinking it was empty but forgetting the one in the barrel?

It was one of the Collopy's irrc, drunk at a house party.

efb

Sheep Lover wrote: »

Was it not an Australian? Either way it's rough.

She rode an Australian?

Sheep Lover

A woman who was having dinner one night started choking on a string of partially cooked spaghetti.

They called the emergency services but she pasta way before they could save her

xabi

Filmer Paradise wrote: »

I once read of a woman who died unloading her dishwasher.

Apparently she stacked the knives pointy-end up. As she was unloading, she slipped on the Kitchen floor & was stabbed in the chest with her own knives!:eek:

Read that years ago and since then I put the knives in pointy side first.

Nib

Hit by a blimp.

It kills over 1 Americans every year.

PowerToWait

The guy that owned Segway, Jim Heselden; fell off a cliff on the off-road version a few years back.

http://gizmodo.com/5648709/segway-company-owner-dies-after-driving-segway-off-cliff

Filmer Paradise

xabi wrote: »

Read that years ago and since then I put the knives in pointy side first.

Wise decision. It gives a new dimension to the 'Kitchen Devil' brand name though.:pac:

osarusan

A woman in Japan dug a deep hole at a beach as a surprise birthday/anniversary present for her husband (I forget which event it was).

She decided to surprise him with a night stroll to this most incredible of gifts, but instead they both fell in and suffocated under sand which collapsed on top of them.

Jim79

its all in here: http://www.darwinawards.com/

PirateShampoo

That time when Richard Gere died after he put a Gerbil up his arse and it went septic.

xabi

PirateShampoo wrote: »

That time when Richard Gere died after he put a Gerbil up his arse and it went sceptic.

I'm sceptical about that, just like the gerbil was.

gctest50

the gas ram in cheap office chairs seem to explode way too many times ( as in > never )


http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2009/02/22/office-chair-explode.html


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Public_Enema

Macabre thread is macabre.

NachoBusiness

There's been a lot of people killed taking selfies. Must have read about half a dozen or more just this year alone.

Not a selfie, but how the chap in the following clip didn't smack his head off the ledge below is anyone's guess. His g/f, who foolishly tried to stop him mid run up, must thank fcuk she is not living with his death (or his paralyzation at the very least) on her conscience for the rest of her life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tURfS-VHkRU

ChunkyLover54

Nib wrote: »

Hit by a blimp.

It kills over 1 Americans every year.

Getting punched by an average-sized American?

Rattled

I knew of a dude called Pete who choked to death on a Nacho. He was quite strange indeed.

Jb1989

Sheep Lover wrote: »

Was it not an Australian? Either way it's ruff

Fixed that for you

Standard Toaster

https://us.v-cdn.net/6034073/uploads/attachments/10848/358172.jpg

cloudatlas

This year I read about a British girl who died on a tour of Australia during a photo op. She was on a ledge below a cliff gripping the cliff top to make it look like she was hanging off it and then she slipped and was gone. The casual risks people take.

BrianD3

keith16 wrote: »

Didn't some sap in Limerick kill himself by pointing a gun at his head and pulling the trigger, thinking it was empty but forgetting the one in the barrel?

That reminds me of what happened to the actor Jon Erik Hexum in 1984. He was filming a TV series, there were real guns used as props on set but loaded with blanks obviously. During a break in filming Hexum is bored and fooling around puts a handgun to the side of his head and pulls the trigger - gun is loaded with blanks so it's okay right? WRONG. Even with no bullet, the wad and expanding gases from a blank at such close range can do a lot of damage. In Hexum's case he blows a hole in his skull and dies later.

InTheTrees

osarusan wrote: »

A woman in Japan dug a deep hole at a beach as a surprise birthday/anniversary present for her husband (I forget which event it was).
She decided to surprise him with a night stroll to this most incredible of gifts, but instead they both fell in and suffocated under sand which collapsed on top of them.

Because nothing says "I Love You" more than digging a deep hole.

wendell borton

Talib Fiasco wrote: »

The Dyatlov Pass thing is very weird.

Camping on dead mountain....

Specialun

Knew somebody that died in kerry before

taytobreath

Kurt Gödel, the Austrian/American logician and mathematician, died of starvation when his wife was hospitalized. Gödel suffered from extreme paranoia and refused to eat food prepared by anyone else

wow

Edward II of England, after being deposed and imprisoned by his wife Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer, was rumoured to have been murdered by having a horn pushed into his anus through which a red-hot iron was inserted, burning out his internal organs without marking his body

ouch

r93kaey5p2izun

Interesting link OP. Thanks. There's a bit of a freaky Final Destination feel to some of the stories there and in this thread. Must be so tough for the families to accept the loss of a loved one through some of the freak accidents described.

2011: Jose Luis Ochoa, 35, died after being stabbed in the leg at an illegal cockfight in Tulare County, California, U.S., by one of the birds that had a knife attached to its limb.

Ha! I liked this one though.

pablo128

What about yer wan in China sitting in her apartment when she hears the screech of tyres below. She looks out to see her husband lying on the road after getting a bang of a car. She runs down, and it turns out he's ok. But she gets killed by a bag of cement that workmen on the roof of the apartment building let drop.

foxy farmer

Edward II of England, after being deposed and imprisoned by his wife Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer, was rumoured to have been murdered by having a horn pushed into his anus through which a red-hot iron was inserted, burning out his internal organs without marking his body

ouch[/quote]

A line from Pulp Fiction would be apt.
"l'ma get medieval on your ass"

brandnewaward

went to school with one gang of geniuses that thought it would be fun to jump through a huge bonfire at halloween.....the afore mentioned brainiacs draped wet towels over themselves while they jumped through the fire but one stumbled, foot went through a pallet in the middle of the bonfire and couldnt get free.....by the time the bonfire could be quenched, they could barely separate ash from bone

the evasion_kid

I remember this being in the paper years ago....

"Polish farmer Krystof Azninski, who 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."

I'm doubting this but can't find much on snopes

Nesta99

Guy whose mates stuck an air compressor up his ass and turned it on and killed him. Or the rather large lady that was sitting on a toilet on a airplane, she flushed before standing up but due to her size a seal was created round the toilet bowl and the suction effect sucked some internal bits out and she died subsequently from infection.

Luck near misses like the chap that ran in front of a train on purpose only to trip and fall and the train passing over him and he was uninjured and lifted by police for his own safety. A chap who with a feed of drink set up a rope and noose and sat in a chair at the top of a stair ready to push himself off but with the drink fell asleep, noose 'round his neck and his head leaning against the wall. Woke up sober mighty relieved.

Which famous painter pondered over jumping off a bridge for a few hours but when he finally jumped the tide had gone out and he survived..

Darwin awards can be very funny but I do feel guilty by laughing at them!

the evasion_kid

This jinnit deserves a Darwin award....meth not even once kids.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWMH5lcq4Q4

foxy farmer

Nesta99 wrote: »

Guy whose mates stuck an air compressor up his ass and turned it on and killed him.

That incident happened in west cork dont think the lad died though.

Nesta99

foxy farmer wrote: »

That incident happened in west cork dont think the lad died though.

Ah! Glad to hear though perforated intestines he's lucky not to die from infection never mind the pain!

bodhrandude

The story last year where the guy in Florida died when he fell through a sinkhole that had developed in his house overnight. http://gawker.com/5987806/100-foot-sinkhole-opens-in-florida-bedroom-swallowing-and-killing-man

The_Valeyard

Just YouTube

Horrible histories - stupid deaths


Very entertaining.

Samaris

Filmer Paradise wrote: »

I once read of a woman who died unloading her dishwasher.

Apparently she stacked the knives pointy-end up. As she was unloading, she slipped on the Kitchen floor & was stabbed in the chest with her own knives!:eek:

That seems to happen surprisingly often. Most of the stories I've heard (although it mat be the same couple of stories a lot) seems to involve kids playing close by unfortunately. So..uh..always load the dishwasher with lives pointy side down, I guess!

Menas

There was a fella in our town who died after getting run over by his own car. No other person was involved.
I am still trying to work out how that could happen.

Anicka

Last year there was a polish family on a trip to Portugal I think and the parents wanted to take a selfie on a cliff, climbed over the fence and fell to their deaths in front of their children. I hope the selfie was worth it.

Anicka

Anicka wrote: »

Last year there was a polish family on a trip to Portugal I think and the parents wanted to take a selfie on a cliff, climbed over the fence and fell to their deaths in front of their children. I hope the selfie was worth it.

I guess we'll never know.

arayess

Anicka wrote: »

Last year there was a polish family on a trip to Portugal I think and the parents wanted to take a selfie on a cliff, climbed over the fence and fell to their deaths in front of their children. I hope the selfie was worth it.

Deleted User wrote: »

I guess we'll never know.

i think we can assume it was , given they're famous now.

Jon_459

Read about an Italian women who's husband was having an affair and announced he was leaving her.
She decided to end it all and threw herself out the window of their 6th floor apartment. He was just leaving the building and she landed on him. He died, she survived!

razorblunt

NachoBusiness wrote: »

There's been a lot of people killed taking selfies. Must have read about half a dozen or more just this year alone.

Not a selfie, but how the chap in the following clip didn't smack his head off the ledge below is anyone's guess. His g/f, who foolishly tried to stop him mid run up, must thank fcuk she is not living with his death (or his paralyzation at the very least) on her conscience for the rest of her life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tURfS-VHkRU

He fell awkwardly but in the girls defense, when stands up in the water it's not even up to his balls, it was a pretty idiotic thing to do in the first place.

tayto lover

Heard of a woman who killed her husband with a single chop.
Apparently she held a black belt in cookery.

jimgoose

Menas wrote: »

There was a fella in our town who died after getting run over by his own car. No other person was involved.
I am still trying to work out how that could happen.

It happens. Happened to a lady I know with an automatic Mercedes. She pulled into her drive and accidentally tipped the thing into "R" instead of "D". As she got out it caught her with the door, knocked her down and gave her a bit of a chamozzle along the ground. She survived, with only cuts and scrapes, but she was bloody lucky.

Articulated trucks are good for a laugh as well. The trailers have automatic spring-loaded brakes that activate when the pneumatic pressure from the tractor unit drops or is disconnected. Some drivers have a habit of backing under the trailer bright-and-early in the morning, connecting up the hoses and so forth, then hopping out without activating the tractor's parking-brake and chatting away while leaning up against the front of the cab. Meanwhile, the pneumatic pressure builds away nicely until the spring-brakes unwind, the whole rig trundles forward, and well, you can guess the rest.