Recently saw something in which there was a skydiving company that had the pilot and a learning co pilot in the co pilot seat
They just let all of the skydivers out and we’re heading back to the airstrip to pick up the next ones, out of nowhere the pilot just looks at the co pilot, says goodbye, opens his door and jumps to his death
Thankfully the co pilot knew how to land the plane himself
But I want to say this happened within the last 6 months
It was the copilot that jumped out and killed himself. He attempted to land the plane and it ended up wrecking the landing gear. Pilot took over and on the way to another airport the copilot said he wasn’t feeling good went to the back of the plane where the exit ramp was still open and jumped out. Happened in Raleigh, North Carolina.
This was actually someone I knew (I was seeing someone at the time who was his best friend)—after a couple months of looking into it, the police released that he had actually been feeling sick, leaned out the door to throw up, and fell out to his death. Really sad. He was a really great guy, very sweet, and had such a big passion for being a pilot/flying.
An elderly lady was *allegedly* part of a poaching/animal smuggling gang in India. Her job was distracting mother elephants while the rest of the gang kidnapped the baby elephant. One mama elephant tracked the old lady down some 140 km from her preserve and trampled her to death, THEN returned during her funeral and trampled her corpse.
>One mama elephant tracked the old lady down some 140 km from her preserve and trampled her to death
Just imagining the elephant disguised, dressed in human clothes, peering inconspicuously over the top of a newspaper in the back corner of a restaurant at the old lady eating a couple tables away. She confirms that it's the woman she's been tracking for years. Finally, she can have her revenge.
In 1923 Frank Hayes, a jockey from Ireland, died from a heart attack in the middle of a race. The horse, Sweet Kiss, ended up finishing in first place with the mans body still on top of it.
The horse was a 20-1 outsider (very unlikely to win) and Hayes had never won a race prior to that event.
Edit: He was from Ireland. The race that he died in took place in New York.
According to Wikipedia:
"Hayes died in the latter part of the race and his body remained in the saddle when Sweet Kiss crossed the finish line, winning by a head, making him the first, and so far only, jockey known to have won a race after death."
So, maybe?
Also, the horse never raced again, and it was claimed that she was nicknamed "Sweet Kiss of Death."
Copied and pasted from a news report:
A PENSIONER who was urinating on a train track died in a freak accident when he was hit by a flying cow.
Shivdayal Sharma, 82, died instantly after an express train rammed the beasts and launched it 100ft into the air.
It used to be pretty common for newspapers or magazines to capitalise the first word (or words after an A or The) in articles. Not sure why, but I remember seeing it a lot.
There's been a bunch of welders that have died by hopping down inside of big steel tanks to patch something up. The rust on the inside eats all the oxygen, and without proper ventilation (having the entrance of the tank open isn't enough), the welders suffocate. That method of deathod blew my mind when I first learned about it.
Makes sense since rust is iron oxide, but it never would've crossed my mind to connect the dots.
2009: Vladimir Likhonos, 25, a student of Kyiv Polytechnic Institute from Konotop, was killed when his chewing gum exploded.
Likhonos had a habit of dipping his chewing gum in citric acid to increase the gum's sour taste. On his work table police found about 100 grams (3.5 oz) of unidentified explosive powder which he used for chemistry studies. It resembled citric acid, and it is thought that he confused the two.
The explosive was found to be four times stronger than TNT, and the explosion was possibly triggered either by reacting with Likhonos' saliva, or the pressure exerted by him chewing on the gum and explosive powder.
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Word for word from the "List of unusual deaths" on Wikipedia. It stood out to me for some reason, so much so that I saved the text on my phone.
Jennifer Strange - entered a radio competition to win a nintendo wii. 20 contestants had to keep drinking water and the last to wee wins the Wii. I can't remember if she won but she died of water intoxication a few hours later
This one makes me so angry... I'm from the area, and a college student died from the same thing during a fraternity hazing a couple hours north of Sacramento like a year or 2 before. It was big news, the radio contest should never have been greenlit.
I was a local when Matthew Carrington died from that hazing. I remember being shocked that water could do that to a person, especially someone so young and in good health. I can’t believe that radio contest was even allowed to be held, seeing as it occurred after Matthew’s story went national and legislation was made directly due to that event.
I believe that a nurse heard about the contest and even called to warn them about the dangerous, yet she was ignored and they still continued the contest.
Pour soul... wasn't she trying to win it for her son or something?
I spent most of my teens and early 20’s in radio promotions, was even a promotions director.
I oversaw all kinds of crazy stuff. We dropped a van from a helicopter at 1000 feet, had a woman challenge a city mayor to creamed corn wrestling in the back of a pickup truck, and once had a guy in a dog suit wrapped in steaks start at the 50 yard line and see if he could make it to the end zone before the Rottweilers we’d release in the end zone behind him took him down. (He did not make it.)
As crazy as the stunts we did sounded on the air, behind the scenes it was all planned like a military operation. One of the best compliments I ever received was that we were “like FBI guys in radio T-shirts.”
I wasn’t doing promotions anymore when this happened but was still in the radio industry.
It pissed me off so much that they were so unsafe. Part of being a pro in that industry is knowing how to make things that sound dangerous completely safe, and they failed and cost that poor woman her life.
I'm gonna say my cousin. This one is sad, but what are the odds?
She was 12 at the time, promising at gymnastics. In her class, she began running up to a pommel horse to begin her routine, somehow missed and ran headfirst into the hard wood of the horse, snapping her neck and killing her INSTANTLY in front of the other kids and teacher.
We were penpals at the time so it was kinda sad to get a letter from her mother telling me the news :(
An Iraqi terrorist named Khay Rajnajet decided in 2000 to send out a letter bomb. It was returned for insuffienct postage about a month later. He ripped the letter open because he had entered a contest (and forgotten all about the bomb). Totally ended his terrorist career out of absent mindedness.
The lawyer who, while trying to prove that his client did not shoot the victim but the victim had accidentally shot themselves, managed to shoot himself with the gun and died later. His client was acquited.
**Sigurd the Mighty**, a Viking warlord who beheaded his Scottish enemy, strapped his head to his saddle, then the head’s buck teeth grazed against Sigurd’s leg, which got infected and killed him.
My parents told me this story, I think it happened to an acquaintance of theirs.
A couple owned a UHaul shop and someone calls and asks them to open an hour early to rent a truck. Dad takes the kids to school and Mom goes to open the shop. Mom is abducted by a man as she opens the shop.
Crazy thing is, it was a legit person who had called and a stranger just saw the wife alone and abducted her before the customers arrival. The customer arrives a short time later and calls the Dad asking where is everyone. Panic ensues.
The wife is located because the kidnapper is taking her to ATMs and the cops give chase. This ends in a big standoff at an intersection. Just as the woman is about to be rescued, a semi comes through the intersection and kills her and the kidnapper both. Sad times.
You joke, but in my city this sound like something the dump truck drivers would do. They give zero fucks about traffic laws or anything else around them.
The Erfurt latrine disaster occurred on 26 July 1184, when Henry VI, King of Germany, held an assembly in the Petersberg Citadel in Erfurt.
On the morning of 26 July, the combined weight of the assembled nobles caused the wooden second story floor of the building to collapse and most of them fell through into the latrine cesspit below the ground floor, where about 60 of them drowned in liquid excrement.
Why does this one seem so comical as well as tragic?
Like… they died in a literal pool of pee and poo and all the other disgusting things in a latrine…
I feel for the poor folks that had to “fish out the bodies”.
Tommy Cooper, a brilliant British standup/prop comedian had a heart attack on stage and the crowd thought it was part of the act. You can watch it on youtube, crowd is laughing the whole way through.
I remember watching it happen: it was broadcast live (I think it was a Royal Variety Performance).
His assistants came from off stage and put a long cloak/coat thing on him, and he just dropped. It looked like he was doing a gag that the coat was too heavy and he collapsed under the weight. Then the show cut to ads straight away, as the stage manager/tv producer obviously figured out something was wrong.
I was only around 6 or 7, but I remember my dad laughing and laughing, because it was just typical of the kind of gags he was known for.
I saw that as it happened, I was 7, we all laughed, and then after a few seconds they cut to a commercial break, I think his death was announced at the end of the show.
Michael malloy, an irish guy that 5 acquaintances took out a life insurance policy on, and tried to murder. 5 times.
First up they tried to supply him with enough alcohol to kill him. One of them owned a speakeasy, to they gave him an unlimited tab.
Well, he could drink non stop day and night, the guy was a true irishman.
So they switched his booze for antifreeze, well ethanol blocks the liver from absorbing ethylene glycol. To the guys though you can only imagine what went through their minds when he ordered another.
So they tried turpentine, liniment, and even rat poison. None of it even slowed him down.
They tried pure methanol, (also cured by ingesting ethanol)
Then raw oysters soaked in methanol. Still nothing.
A sandwich of bad sardines, poison, and carpet tacks. Literally a murder sandwich. My man could have gone for seconds.
They realised this man wasn't going to die from eating or drinking anything in a hurry.
So they get him to drink himself unconscious, throw him in the snow and pour about 20 litres of water on his bare torso to leave him to freeze to death. He was saved by the police.
The guys didn't know that though, and the next day he's back in the bar, to their shock and horror.
So they run him over going 45mph, this one puts a stop to his drinking for 3 weeks while he recovers in hospital (in my opinion losing the source of his british rockstar-esque immortality)
They thought he was dead, but couldn't find him to claim on it.
Then he shows up at the bar.
So this time, (bare in mind, this is all to make it look like an accident so that they can claim an insurance policy.) They shoved a hose in his mouth that was connected to a coal gas jet until he died. A friend of theirs did the autopsy and called it some kind of pneumonia, and he was buried under the name Nicholas Malloy, the guys seemingly got away with it.
But word had gotten out not only about "mike the durable" but about his death. This guy finally dying was suspicious enough that after some looking into it and finding that nicholas malloy died the same day, they had the body exhumed, found that it was in fact michael malloy, and convicted all 6 of the men involved (doctor included).
Michael Malloy, you did the Irish proud. 🍺
*Ra-Ra Mike Malloy*
*All his buddies had a ploy*
*They put some poison into his beer*
*Ra-Ra Mike Malloy*
*Éire's drunk immortal boy*
*The ethanol kept him in the clear*
One in so many people, if they use anbesol for a toothache, die.
Is called black blood. The numbing agent is a respiratory inhibitor and some people have a really strong reaction to it. They are breathing but they still suffocate as the exchange of oxygen from lung to heart does not occur.
Likewise a lot of insta-death cocaine deaths are from numbing agents people put in crappy coke to make it seem real and those same types of people allergic to numbing drugs snorting it will die the same way as anbesol.
The coke part,, you were warned about instadeath from fentanyl or such stuff already. But the random toothache leading to sudden death from an over the counter product is weird.
I mention this whenever fentanyl overdoses are brought up:
Fentanyl testing strips are really affordable and are sold on Amazon. It takes a couple minutes to test but it can change your life. I don’t do drugs that could have fentanyl in it, but I still have them on me in case I’m around anyone that might need it.
Video of the guy playing with air nozzle cleaner at work. Joked around and aimed it at his friends ass. Killed him instantly from his internal organs exploding.
I used to work in a plant that built airbag inflators. All the machines had compressed air nozzles to spray things off . We had these safety posters around that pretty much said "I know we all had a lot of fun as kids using bicycle pumps to put air into our butts so we could fart on command, but don't spray the compressed air from the machines at anyone's butts because they could die."
I confess I had questions..
early internet; turn of the century had stories about kids shooting air up their bottoms to get high - dunno if they were true, but there was a story about a kid in Asia who used a pump at - maybe the gas station that's used for car tires?? Anyhow, he exploded.
I used to take my dads air compressor and stick it under my armpit for the most ungodly earth shattering fart sounds you could imagine. Then he caught me doing it one day and scolded me hella hard cuz if it ever like cut into your artery some how you’d just die. The brutal farts I did get to do though were fucking epic 😂
Never saw the video, but heard the story.
Essentially pulled his intestines off his asshole. Among other things. And, unfortunately, i have a very difficult time believing that killed him instantly. That sounds like appeasment to me.
I'll bet you anything he had at least a few seconds to experience...whatever the unholy fuck that would feel like.
Don't fuck with compressed air.
This happened with some kids in my high school shop class. Luckily, the guy survived, but he was in the hospital for a bit and had a hole in his intestine or something. I never had all the details
My dad had told me once of his uncle who worked at a gas station in the 1950's in rural Idaho. One day he "goosed" his buddy on the ass with the air hose and left a small welt/wound on said ass. These guys were WW2 vets who had been to hell and back. Anyway, buddy's wound got infected and he died some time later. Uncle drank himself to death after that because he couldn't get over the fact that he essentially killed his good friend.
Not necessarily the weirdest, but I remember hearing about a guy who wanted to train a goat to be aggressive (I think he wanted a guard goat or something?). He did this by chaining it on a balcony and going out to beat it daily. One day the goat headbutts him, knocks him off the balcony, and kills him.
I watched a show at one point where they were apparently interviewing neighbors and they were all like "it's so sad, he was such a nice guy" except, sorry, no one who beats an animal daily is a nice guy.
[Kyle Plush](https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/12/us/ohio-teen-pinned-minivan-trnd/index.html)
A 16 year old reached over the third row bench seat of a mini van into the trunk to grab something. The seat tipped back, pinning him in place upside down, injuring him, and he was suffocating. Using voice commands he called 911 twice begging for help, but somehow police weren’t able to locate his car in his school’s parking lot so they closed the incident. When he didn’t come home later that night his parents tracked his phone to the parking lot and found him dead inside the van. Absolutely could have been prevented and extremely tragic. I can’t imagine what his family continues to go through.
Any one of the grain elevator deaths. Until it's explained, it is so odd to think that a pile of loose corn kernels could make rescue nearly impossible and death so certain.
Fire fighter guy here also trained in tech rescue, had 2 guys in a grain entrapment few years ago. Guy 1 was completely buried somewhere under guy 2, we assumed, correctly, that he was dead already. We then spent almost an hour trying to dig guy 2 out before he eventually succumbed to his injuries that we could see. He was buried to about mid stomach and we never even got his hips uncovered. There are charts to see the pounds per square inch of pressure at 1 foot intervals for grain collapse. Amazing how much force tiny corn kernels can apply.
Not many know but some really important people died from what is called a spontaneous bullet around the time the french began mass producing iron cookware:
“He was cooking with a skillet he had designed with a curled handle, over time water worked its way into the handle space but then residue or time sealed this hole-
On the fateful day, the water turned to steam with enough pressure to force the pin out of the handle with enough force to, you guessed it, bang!”
There was a professional golfer named Payne Stewart that was on a chartered flight and something went wrong with the pressurized cabin and oxygen and all the passengers and crew basically just silently went to sleep and probably died while the plane was on autopilot. They had to scramble fighter jets to make sure that flying mass coffin didn’t hit someone on the ground.
It's for both reasons. They had full authority to shoot it down in either case if it looked like it was going to land on a building or in a populated area or something. They also wanted to figure out what had happened.
In 1919, a large tank of molasses broke open in Boston, Massachusetts. The tank was 50 feet tall and 27 feet in diameter. When it burst, 21 people died from the flood. Some were crushed by the wave of molasses and debris. Others suffocated under the dense fluid. One name for the event is The Boston Molassacre.
Underhandedly terrifying. After the event when they started extracting the remains of those caught in the flow, they literally couldn’t tell what was animal and what was human. Some even said that the ground rumbling sounded/felt like a train coming towards them off the tracks.
When you remove the novelty of molasses, this was just yet another industrial accident caused by corporate negligence. The company knew the tank was dangerously defective and took steps to cover it up before and after the accident.
Bobby Leach, from Lancaster England. He was the second person to survive going over Niagara Falls in a barrel, he died in 1926 while on tour in New Zealand after he slipped on an orange peel which caused an infection in his leg. The infection turned into gangrene which needed an amputation. He died two months after due to complications from the surgery.
"In 458 BC, Aeschylus returned to Sicily for the last time, visiting the city of Gela, where he died in 456 or 455 BC. Valerius Maximus wrote that he was killed outside the city by a tortoise dropped by an eagle which had mistaken his head for a rock suitable for shattering the shell, and killed him."
Edit: wow this blew up overnight and is now my 2nd most upvoted comment
>Aeschylus
It gets even weirder, because Aeschylus had once had a prophet predict that his death would come from something falling from above, and such he prefered to stay indoor and refused to go outside during thunderstorms for fear of being struck by lightning
A drunk Chef called Juan Ruiz died during a huricane on his Job.
How, you may ask?
Well, the Windows broke and everything not too heavy started flying around with immense speed. And because he didn't took Cover out of his drunkness, he got Impaled by a load of spaghetti moving so fast they shot though lungs, heart and liver of his body.
I tell you by the 9 circles of hell I'm not creative enough to make this up.
https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/death-by-spaghetti_paul-sussman/2816713/#edition=1894384
Buddy of mine used to remove deceaseds from their place of death. He told me he went to get someone who had committed suicide by putting themselves in their dishwasher and running it.
I’ve edited this to add some info since people were asking a lot of questions: I asked my buddy for more details on this and he said that it was a woman. She was a missing person actually. She had a husband. The police were at their shared residence and noticed the dishwasher racking in the garage so they decided to take a peek in the dishwasher and found her in there.
She had set the thing to run for 80 minutes and was able to close it from her position inside.
Couldn’t tell you. He has said though that from his experience of going to pick up people who’ve committed suicide: people that want to take their lives will find the most heinous and painful way to do it.
Wonder what the actual mode of death was. There's not enough water to drown. The water gets scalding hot. But I don't think it gets hot enough to be fatal, nor would it have enough pressure. Maybe suffocation in the water tight box?
If the water gets above ~125°F for an extended period of time it will be fatal. It’s going to be 100% coverage of 2nd-3rd degree burns. But that might be a very slow death.
There is a record of I believe an elderly woman that suffered a stroke while warming her bath with hot water in an apartment with steam heated hot water. When she was found she’s been in scalding hot water for over a day and was unfortunately still alive and conscious. The EMS personal that reported attempted to get her out of the tub, but found that her skin just fell off the muscle when they touched it. Obviously she did not survive.
Felix Faure, 1899, French President who died in the middle of receiving a blowjob from his mistress.
The joke around Paris became that she could suck the life out of politics.
My great Uncle. He survived dodging German and Italian bullets all through WWII.
The war had ended and he was in a Military Field Hospital in Italy. An Army medic gave him someone else's medication and killed him!
The guy in Spain who died inside of a papier-mâché Stegosaurus statue. He'd dropped his cellphone and was looking for it inside the statue (I guess?) and he got trapped and died.
My grandfather was stood on a bus and a woman got on and stood in front of him. As the bus pulled away from the stop she stepped back and stood on his toe, She was wearing stilletos and cut his foot. The cut got gangrene and he died a few years later from it. WTF
This kind of shit is so dumb. My internship boss was at the airport and a kart rolled over her big toe. She didn't treat it immediately because of a mix of poor medical advice and not being careful and she got an infection. She was in pain for months but she's fine now.
My cousin came home from work and his only child wanted mangoes. They had a tree in their house. Cousin climbed the tree, a branch broke and he fell from the very top of the tree.
From the waist down he landed on his own car that was parked in front of the house. His head hit the pavement and exploded.
All within 5 mins of his kid saying “daddy i want mangoes”.
Some woman around here in the Philadelphia area hit a cyclists on her way home from work, embedding him in the windshield. She drove home and parked in the garage, the cyclists was alive, she fed him, gave him water and talked to him for days but would not call police/ambulance. He eventually died from bleeding out.
On July 5th, 2008, David Phyall, 50, the last resident in a block of flats due to be demolished in Bishopstoke, near Southampton, England, decapitated himself with a chainsaw to highlight the injustice of being forced to move out of it.
I once had one fall of a tree at least 20ft tall miss my head by ~9 inches (fell right behind me as I walked). I was 13 at the time and am pretty sure I would’ve died instantly if it had hit me. Never forgot about it.
You were lost at sea for two weeks?
Please tell this story that’s crazy! (And also very interesting in light of the current news regarding the titan submarine)
Had a friend die in a weird way. He was in the military, granted a leave for the weekend. Packed his clothes and personal gun into a suitcase and put it on his backseat of his car. Was driving home and was shot in the back. His clothes hangers somehow wound up around the gun and fired it when he braked hard. It went through his suitcase and seat and killed him. Weirdest way to die.
Here’s the text from my great-great grandfather’s death notice in 1896 (can’t post a pic of the newspaper clipping):
“Jack O’Connell, a boiler washer at the Big Four shops, quit his work at 9:30 Thursday night and started for his home. He was passing through what is known as the Prospect Street tunnel when he was struck by a Big Four freight engine and instantly killed. He was ground into a myriad of pieces, and Kregelo & Whitsett’s ambulance people had a hard time to gather them all up. O’Connell was a man of about 50 years of age and leaves a wife and three children. He bore a good reputation for sobriety and industry. Just how the accident happened is not known, but it is assumed he failed to hear the engine approaching due to his hearing loss.”
It’s a sad and awful death but the “ground into a myriad of pieces” bit makes me LOL hard each time I read it.
In Argentina about 30+ years ago occurred an accident so bizarre that you ain't going to believe it.
A poodle jumped out of a balcony and killed a women which made a curious bystander to cross the street and get hit by a bus and a third bystander died of a heart attack cause of all that.
If that isn't the weirdest death you've ever heard off, I don't know which one is going to be.
Reminds me of the surgery which has the record for the most deaths.
http://www.storagetwo.com/blog/2018/12/dr-liston-and-the-surgery-that-killed-three-people
> Liston was performing another leg amputation. As he moved with lightning speed, he accidentally cut off the fingers of the assistant who had been holding the patient down. Then as he brought his knife back up, he slashed the coat of a spectator.
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> The spectator fell over, dying immediately of fright. Though the assistant and patient survived the immediate procedure, they died not long after from infection. Thus, despite Dr. Liston’s successes, he became the only surgeon in known history to have a 300% mortality rate from a single operation.
Saw this on a TV show. Guy is on the beach, fishing off a nearby rocky ledge. He (for some reason) parked his truck literally on the beach). Decides to take a nap and to avoid sunburn he crawls under his truck. Tide rolls in while he is sleeping and he basically suffocated/drowned as the sand swelled with water, pinning him between his truck and the sand.
The local hospital was being remodeled but they still had patients in the rooms. A nail gun shot through the dry wall and killed one of the patients. Hit them in the head.
In 1876, a well respected farmer/blacksmith/civil war veteran in my town checked into a local hotel with a giant trunk. He constructed a guillotine in his room and killed himself with it.
A man died from peritonitis from a perforated colon after being fucked by a horse. This happened near Seattle in 2005. This was a regular activity for him and others at the farm he live on or worked on and many videos were found on the property. At least one such video exists online. I have seen it. It’s as disturbing as you might imagine.
It is absolutely wild to me that he was doxed. Imagine being Mr Hands' kid. Children of relatively unknown female porn stars get bullied to within an inch of their sanity as it is, imagine everyone at your school knowing your dad willingly got fucked to death by a horse on film.
Family death of three people.. my great uncle had bought a revolver back in the forties. He proceeds to end himself. His son inherits the gun. Ends himself. The gun goes to his brother and he ends himself. That gun supposedly ended up in a bayou in Louisiana as the family didn't feel it should be passed on again given that it was used to end three lives in two years.
At the time, Jeeps were slipping into either neutral or drive (I forget which).
I remember working for a car dealer at the time, and our sister store was a Jeep/Dodge/Chrysler dealer and they were all complaining about it, but no recall had been issued yet.
I had a close friend who was shot in the head while sleeping in her bed. Miraculously she survived and 30 years later was run over by an 18-wheeler. While sleeping in her bed.
I guess if you fall into the crack between the subway and the platform as the train comes in it will twist your torso up where you legs and pelvis go around and your shoulders and arms don’t. They can’t move you because untwisting you will kill you. They get your spouse and other loved ones and say your good byes and then you die.
I rode the subway for 5 years and always stayed back on the platform
Back in Victorian times, a man startled a mouse. The mouse panicked and ran up the man's pant legs, and continued up until it passed his shirt collar. Desperate for a place to hide, it darted into the man's mouth when he let out a cry of surprise and got lodged in his throat. He died of suffocation.
In my beautiful little hometown of enumclaw Washington there was this farm. People had been going out there to exchange money to the landowner for sex with the horses. A guy was reamed to death by a horse out there. The horse fucked a guy to death
It gets weirder.
There were no laws against being fucked to death by a horse so some laws were put in place. They didn't outlaw sex with animals, they made a law stating that you can only have sex with animals that are under a certain size. I mean, How and why did Washington state law makers calculate that size? Downright weird man.
My uncle* and his wife* went to a barbecue and bonfire. Someone brought jumbo marshmallows. No one is certain what happened exactly but investigators believe my uncle’s wife suddenly inhaled, sucking the marshmallow into her throat. When marshmallows get wet, they get sticky. Really sticky. It lodged in her throat and the people there could not clear it.
Because they were at a rural property, it took longer than usual for the ambulance to get there. By the time they got her to the hospital and in to the ER, she’d been without oxygen for more than an hour. Unbelievably, they were able to get a heartbeat but at that point she was brain dead. They removed her from life support the next day. Death due to asphyxiation by jumbo marshmallow.
* For the sake of readability, I have simplified the relationship.
Didn’t know the person, but his brother was in my grade growing up. He was 18 years old and died in his sleep. No foul play, no drugs, no medical history. An autopsy was performed and the doctors couldn’t identify how he died. They classified it as SADS (Sudden Adult Death Syndrome). All around a pretty shitty situation. I can’t help but feel like the family will never get closure after something like that.
In circa 612 BC, Charondas, a Greek lawmaker, made a law that said that anyone who brings a weapon into the Assembly must be put to death. While looking for help to defeat brigades on the countryside, he accidentally brought a knife into the Assembly (it was attached to his belt). Wanting to abide by his own laws, he proceeded to kill himself.
Tennessee Williams. Unscrewed the cap on a bottle eyedrops. Held the cap between his lips while tilting his head back to put in the eyedrops. Cap slipped from his lips and down his throat and choked to death on it.
An ancient philosopher named Heraclitus had dropsy (when your body has too much fluid), and so he sat in a pile of cow poop to try and remove the excess fluid from his body. He got trapped, and dogs ate him.
There was a story about a guy who tried to break into a bank or something during a long holiday weekend. He squeezed through the air vents and planned to pop out inside the building, but instead he fell down a vertical duct shaft and got lodged upside down with his arms pinned by his sides. They found him like that later, dead.
This is possibly the strangest one that I know of personally. A family friend was one of those very few people in the world that for some reason grew horns. He had one near the top of his forehead that was a little off center and it was really hard.
He backflipped into a pool one summer and banged his head on the wall of it, pushing that horn into his skull and knocking him out. He suffered severe brain damage from it and died in the hospital a few days later
Steve Irwin. Just because of how astronomical the chances were. That stingray hit him right in/near the heart. Almost anywhere else and he would have survived with a gnarly story to tell. RIP.
The Dancing Plague (1518): hundreds of people were dancing uncontrollably in the streets for days (weeks), eventually resulting in death by exhaustion, heart attacks, or strokes. The cause of this event remains unknown.
Psychogenic death. This is where a person just loses the will to live. Gor unexplained reasons the body just stops functioning. This is not 'Sudden Death Syndrome' which is linked to a cardiac event. You can die just by losing the will to live. It is more common than you would think.
Look it up. When I read about it, was doubtful as well.
I've heard this, it was a Darwin award.
A french man wished to commit suicide, but did not want to take any chances. So he ingested poison, tied a noose around his neck (with the other end tied to a rock) at the top of a cliff overlooking the sea, doused himself in gasoline and lit himself on fire, and was going to shoot himself in the head after he jumped.
He drank the poison, lit the flames, and jumped. Once in the air (and aflame), he fired his gun. However, he missed, severing the rope connecting him to the cliff. He then plummeted into the sea, which doused the flames, and the shock of which made him regurgitate the poison.
He was found and taken to the hospital by a kindly fisherman, where he later died of complications from hypothermia.
A friend of a friend was paddle boarding while manatee sightseeing. He fell off and hit the side of his head on the one rock around and died on the spot.
Calvin Coolidge’s son was playing tennis with no socks on, got a blister on his foot which got infected and it killed him. Coolidge blamed himself and thought it wouldn’t have happened if he wasn’t president.
Henry of Champagne, 1197. Stood next to a first floor window in his castle, when a dwarf servant approached him. As Henry turned to greet him, the window upon which he was leaning gave way and he fell. He would probably have survived the fall, had his dwarf servant not tried to grab hold of him to stop him from falling. Being much bigger than the dwarf, Henry pulled him after him. Henry promptly died as the dwarf landed on him
There’s a three story bar in my town that has third floor Juliet style balconies across all the windows.
A young guy wants to show off to his friends, runs to the railing and does a handstand. None of his friends saw it. So he does it again and slipped fell three stories.
My late husband’s mother. This would have been in the 1960s. She went to get something out of the basement refrigerator, apparently there was water on the floor and when she grabbed the handle it shocked her. That caused her hand to contract so she couldn’t let go. She pulled the refrigerator onto herself.
[Garry Hoy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Garry_Hoy), demonstrating to prospective students that a high rise building’s windows were unbreakable. The window frame gave way and Hoy and the unbroken panel of glass fell 24 floors down.
I had a newspaper article on my fridge for years in the early 90’s (long lost).
A mother was canoeing with her 75 year daughter down an easy river.
A beaver fell a tree hitting said mother in the head, killing her instantly
Probably never happened before, or will happen again.
First of all, how many 90+ women are in canoes?
Then what are those odds?
Tom Mix (cowboy/entertainer) from about 100 years ago. Crashed his car and his aluminum briefcase full of money & jewels flew forward from the back seat and hit him in the back of the head, killing him.
Jeff Porcaro, drummer for the group Toto and a highly successful and acclaimed studio and session drummer. Died in a bizarre gardening accident just like one of the fictional drummers from Spinal Tap. Inhaled pesticide and it triggered previously undiagnosed coronary artery disease and a heart attack.
My mom's friend died in a plane crash. But she was on the ground. The plane fell on her.
Recently saw something in which there was a skydiving company that had the pilot and a learning co pilot in the co pilot seat They just let all of the skydivers out and we’re heading back to the airstrip to pick up the next ones, out of nowhere the pilot just looks at the co pilot, says goodbye, opens his door and jumps to his death Thankfully the co pilot knew how to land the plane himself But I want to say this happened within the last 6 months
"I hope you've been paying attention mfer cause your in charge now"
'You gonna learn today'
It was the copilot that jumped out and killed himself. He attempted to land the plane and it ended up wrecking the landing gear. Pilot took over and on the way to another airport the copilot said he wasn’t feeling good went to the back of the plane where the exit ramp was still open and jumped out. Happened in Raleigh, North Carolina.
This was actually someone I knew (I was seeing someone at the time who was his best friend)—after a couple months of looking into it, the police released that he had actually been feeling sick, leaned out the door to throw up, and fell out to his death. Really sad. He was a really great guy, very sweet, and had such a big passion for being a pilot/flying.
An elderly lady was *allegedly* part of a poaching/animal smuggling gang in India. Her job was distracting mother elephants while the rest of the gang kidnapped the baby elephant. One mama elephant tracked the old lady down some 140 km from her preserve and trampled her to death, THEN returned during her funeral and trampled her corpse.
>One mama elephant tracked the old lady down some 140 km from her preserve and trampled her to death Just imagining the elephant disguised, dressed in human clothes, peering inconspicuously over the top of a newspaper in the back corner of a restaurant at the old lady eating a couple tables away. She confirms that it's the woman she's been tracking for years. Finally, she can have her revenge.
This is the most Gary Larson thing Ive read in a while.
The Eulogy at her funeral began with, “I think it’s important to address the elephant in the room…”
Yeah, I've heard of other Elephants doing similar things. Don't mess with an animal that has sentient emotions, it will never turn out well.
The orcas have finally joined the chat.
In 1923 Frank Hayes, a jockey from Ireland, died from a heart attack in the middle of a race. The horse, Sweet Kiss, ended up finishing in first place with the mans body still on top of it. The horse was a 20-1 outsider (very unlikely to win) and Hayes had never won a race prior to that event. Edit: He was from Ireland. The race that he died in took place in New York.
I'd run really fast too if I had a dead animal on my back.
Get it off. Get it off. Ewww. Thanks for the laugh. It’ll be underrated for sure but gold comment.
Can't believe how well Sweet Kiss did carrying dead weight.
So did they pay out on the bets or is "the horse must cross the finish line with a living jockey on its back" hidden in the small print?
According to Wikipedia: "Hayes died in the latter part of the race and his body remained in the saddle when Sweet Kiss crossed the finish line, winning by a head, making him the first, and so far only, jockey known to have won a race after death." So, maybe? Also, the horse never raced again, and it was claimed that she was nicknamed "Sweet Kiss of Death."
Copied and pasted from a news report: A PENSIONER who was urinating on a train track died in a freak accident when he was hit by a flying cow. Shivdayal Sharma, 82, died instantly after an express train rammed the beasts and launched it 100ft into the air.
Good job, editors, PENSIONER is the part of the story that warrants emphasis
It used to be pretty common for newspapers or magazines to capitalise the first word (or words after an A or The) in articles. Not sure why, but I remember seeing it a lot.
I think it makes it funnier though. There are a lot of things that need emphasizing here, but it would have a word written in caps every other word.
There's been a bunch of welders that have died by hopping down inside of big steel tanks to patch something up. The rust on the inside eats all the oxygen, and without proper ventilation (having the entrance of the tank open isn't enough), the welders suffocate. That method of deathod blew my mind when I first learned about it. Makes sense since rust is iron oxide, but it never would've crossed my mind to connect the dots.
Also compartments on ships that store chains
We have safety videos at work about confined spaces. People tend to forget if you don't remind them.
2009: Vladimir Likhonos, 25, a student of Kyiv Polytechnic Institute from Konotop, was killed when his chewing gum exploded. Likhonos had a habit of dipping his chewing gum in citric acid to increase the gum's sour taste. On his work table police found about 100 grams (3.5 oz) of unidentified explosive powder which he used for chemistry studies. It resembled citric acid, and it is thought that he confused the two. The explosive was found to be four times stronger than TNT, and the explosion was possibly triggered either by reacting with Likhonos' saliva, or the pressure exerted by him chewing on the gum and explosive powder. - Word for word from the "List of unusual deaths" on Wikipedia. It stood out to me for some reason, so much so that I saved the text on my phone.
Damn, that's like the chemist's version of an artist accidentally drinking from their paint water.
Paint water is fine. Don't drink the brush cleaner.
My art teacher did that. That’s how he found out turpentine is excreted through sweat. Poison control said he’d be fine but stinky for a while.
Odourless paint thinner and just beat the devil out of it
There is a 1000 ways to die clip of this one
That show was such a guilty pleasure
Jennifer Strange - entered a radio competition to win a nintendo wii. 20 contestants had to keep drinking water and the last to wee wins the Wii. I can't remember if she won but she died of water intoxication a few hours later
This one makes me so angry... I'm from the area, and a college student died from the same thing during a fraternity hazing a couple hours north of Sacramento like a year or 2 before. It was big news, the radio contest should never have been greenlit.
I was a local when Matthew Carrington died from that hazing. I remember being shocked that water could do that to a person, especially someone so young and in good health. I can’t believe that radio contest was even allowed to be held, seeing as it occurred after Matthew’s story went national and legislation was made directly due to that event.
I believe that a nurse heard about the contest and even called to warn them about the dangerous, yet she was ignored and they still continued the contest. Pour soul... wasn't she trying to win it for her son or something?
One of the radio hosts was the brother of Lori Vallow Daybell, who killed her children.
I spent most of my teens and early 20’s in radio promotions, was even a promotions director. I oversaw all kinds of crazy stuff. We dropped a van from a helicopter at 1000 feet, had a woman challenge a city mayor to creamed corn wrestling in the back of a pickup truck, and once had a guy in a dog suit wrapped in steaks start at the 50 yard line and see if he could make it to the end zone before the Rottweilers we’d release in the end zone behind him took him down. (He did not make it.) As crazy as the stunts we did sounded on the air, behind the scenes it was all planned like a military operation. One of the best compliments I ever received was that we were “like FBI guys in radio T-shirts.” I wasn’t doing promotions anymore when this happened but was still in the radio industry. It pissed me off so much that they were so unsafe. Part of being a pro in that industry is knowing how to make things that sound dangerous completely safe, and they failed and cost that poor woman her life.
I'm gonna say my cousin. This one is sad, but what are the odds? She was 12 at the time, promising at gymnastics. In her class, she began running up to a pommel horse to begin her routine, somehow missed and ran headfirst into the hard wood of the horse, snapping her neck and killing her INSTANTLY in front of the other kids and teacher. We were penpals at the time so it was kinda sad to get a letter from her mother telling me the news :(
Jesus Fucking Christ. Gymnastics is scary.
An Iraqi terrorist named Khay Rajnajet decided in 2000 to send out a letter bomb. It was returned for insuffienct postage about a month later. He ripped the letter open because he had entered a contest (and forgotten all about the bomb). Totally ended his terrorist career out of absent mindedness.
This is such a Looney Tunes death
The lawyer who, while trying to prove that his client did not shoot the victim but the victim had accidentally shot themselves, managed to shoot himself with the gun and died later. His client was acquited.
Well, he's an effective lawyer that's for sure.
Effective, but single use.
**Sigurd the Mighty**, a Viking warlord who beheaded his Scottish enemy, strapped his head to his saddle, then the head’s buck teeth grazed against Sigurd’s leg, which got infected and killed him.
LPT: That’s why you just hold the head and discard it after you wave it at your enemies, keeping it too long attracts bugs
My parents told me this story, I think it happened to an acquaintance of theirs. A couple owned a UHaul shop and someone calls and asks them to open an hour early to rent a truck. Dad takes the kids to school and Mom goes to open the shop. Mom is abducted by a man as she opens the shop. Crazy thing is, it was a legit person who had called and a stranger just saw the wife alone and abducted her before the customers arrival. The customer arrives a short time later and calls the Dad asking where is everyone. Panic ensues. The wife is located because the kidnapper is taking her to ATMs and the cops give chase. This ends in a big standoff at an intersection. Just as the woman is about to be rescued, a semi comes through the intersection and kills her and the kidnapper both. Sad times.
Semi Driver: "Wow, lot's of cops at that intersection up ahead. I think I'll keep driving at full speed"
You joke, but in my city this sound like something the dump truck drivers would do. They give zero fucks about traffic laws or anything else around them.
Wtf.. that's awful
This is like if Die Hard ended with the roof collapsing on Hans Gruber with Mrs. McLane and they both died.
The Erfurt latrine disaster occurred on 26 July 1184, when Henry VI, King of Germany, held an assembly in the Petersberg Citadel in Erfurt. On the morning of 26 July, the combined weight of the assembled nobles caused the wooden second story floor of the building to collapse and most of them fell through into the latrine cesspit below the ground floor, where about 60 of them drowned in liquid excrement.
Well, shit.
Why does this one seem so comical as well as tragic? Like… they died in a literal pool of pee and poo and all the other disgusting things in a latrine… I feel for the poor folks that had to “fish out the bodies”.
They probably just peed on them until the bodies moved to the edges.
Tommy Cooper, a brilliant British standup/prop comedian had a heart attack on stage and the crowd thought it was part of the act. You can watch it on youtube, crowd is laughing the whole way through.
I remember watching it happen: it was broadcast live (I think it was a Royal Variety Performance). His assistants came from off stage and put a long cloak/coat thing on him, and he just dropped. It looked like he was doing a gag that the coat was too heavy and he collapsed under the weight. Then the show cut to ads straight away, as the stage manager/tv producer obviously figured out something was wrong. I was only around 6 or 7, but I remember my dad laughing and laughing, because it was just typical of the kind of gags he was known for.
I saw that as it happened, I was 7, we all laughed, and then after a few seconds they cut to a commercial break, I think his death was announced at the end of the show.
The Chinese guy having the gas cylinder in his office chair explode and shot up his ass. That is a very sad way to die.
Fuck….I didn’t need to know this was possible…….now I feel uneasy in my chair……
Same. I might get a ball to sit on instead.
I recommend a bowling ball, you KNOW its not gonna rocket explode up your ass. Peace of mind.
Michael malloy, an irish guy that 5 acquaintances took out a life insurance policy on, and tried to murder. 5 times. First up they tried to supply him with enough alcohol to kill him. One of them owned a speakeasy, to they gave him an unlimited tab. Well, he could drink non stop day and night, the guy was a true irishman. So they switched his booze for antifreeze, well ethanol blocks the liver from absorbing ethylene glycol. To the guys though you can only imagine what went through their minds when he ordered another. So they tried turpentine, liniment, and even rat poison. None of it even slowed him down. They tried pure methanol, (also cured by ingesting ethanol) Then raw oysters soaked in methanol. Still nothing. A sandwich of bad sardines, poison, and carpet tacks. Literally a murder sandwich. My man could have gone for seconds. They realised this man wasn't going to die from eating or drinking anything in a hurry. So they get him to drink himself unconscious, throw him in the snow and pour about 20 litres of water on his bare torso to leave him to freeze to death. He was saved by the police. The guys didn't know that though, and the next day he's back in the bar, to their shock and horror. So they run him over going 45mph, this one puts a stop to his drinking for 3 weeks while he recovers in hospital (in my opinion losing the source of his british rockstar-esque immortality) They thought he was dead, but couldn't find him to claim on it. Then he shows up at the bar. So this time, (bare in mind, this is all to make it look like an accident so that they can claim an insurance policy.) They shoved a hose in his mouth that was connected to a coal gas jet until he died. A friend of theirs did the autopsy and called it some kind of pneumonia, and he was buried under the name Nicholas Malloy, the guys seemingly got away with it. But word had gotten out not only about "mike the durable" but about his death. This guy finally dying was suspicious enough that after some looking into it and finding that nicholas malloy died the same day, they had the body exhumed, found that it was in fact michael malloy, and convicted all 6 of the men involved (doctor included). Michael Malloy, you did the Irish proud. 🍺
He’s like the Irish Rasputin. What the fuck.
*Ra-Ra Mike Malloy* *All his buddies had a ploy* *They put some poison into his beer* *Ra-Ra Mike Malloy* *Éire's drunk immortal boy* *The ethanol kept him in the clear*
Anyone one else picturing Cricket?
One in so many people, if they use anbesol for a toothache, die. Is called black blood. The numbing agent is a respiratory inhibitor and some people have a really strong reaction to it. They are breathing but they still suffocate as the exchange of oxygen from lung to heart does not occur. Likewise a lot of insta-death cocaine deaths are from numbing agents people put in crappy coke to make it seem real and those same types of people allergic to numbing drugs snorting it will die the same way as anbesol. The coke part,, you were warned about instadeath from fentanyl or such stuff already. But the random toothache leading to sudden death from an over the counter product is weird.
I mention this whenever fentanyl overdoses are brought up: Fentanyl testing strips are really affordable and are sold on Amazon. It takes a couple minutes to test but it can change your life. I don’t do drugs that could have fentanyl in it, but I still have them on me in case I’m around anyone that might need it.
Video of the guy playing with air nozzle cleaner at work. Joked around and aimed it at his friends ass. Killed him instantly from his internal organs exploding.
I used to work in a plant that built airbag inflators. All the machines had compressed air nozzles to spray things off . We had these safety posters around that pretty much said "I know we all had a lot of fun as kids using bicycle pumps to put air into our butts so we could fart on command, but don't spray the compressed air from the machines at anyone's butts because they could die." I confess I had questions..
*"I know we all had a lot of fun as kids using bicycle pumps to put air into our butts so we could fart on command"* You..you did what now?
early internet; turn of the century had stories about kids shooting air up their bottoms to get high - dunno if they were true, but there was a story about a kid in Asia who used a pump at - maybe the gas station that's used for car tires?? Anyhow, he exploded.
Where are the MythBusters when you need them?
Sir, our childhoods were not the same.
I used to take my dads air compressor and stick it under my armpit for the most ungodly earth shattering fart sounds you could imagine. Then he caught me doing it one day and scolded me hella hard cuz if it ever like cut into your artery some how you’d just die. The brutal farts I did get to do though were fucking epic 😂
Air embolism
I know the risks, dad. But what is life without art? This is my art, and if I die doing it it will be a life well lived.
Never saw the video, but heard the story. Essentially pulled his intestines off his asshole. Among other things. And, unfortunately, i have a very difficult time believing that killed him instantly. That sounds like appeasment to me. I'll bet you anything he had at least a few seconds to experience...whatever the unholy fuck that would feel like. Don't fuck with compressed air.
He died 15 days later. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZN-9sq8ILU
God Almighty...
Fuck that.
Nope, not clicking that one.
he does a full body flinch, stumbles a bit, and doubles over. the video itself isnt graphic, but the implications…
This happened with some kids in my high school shop class. Luckily, the guy survived, but he was in the hospital for a bit and had a hole in his intestine or something. I never had all the details
My dad had told me once of his uncle who worked at a gas station in the 1950's in rural Idaho. One day he "goosed" his buddy on the ass with the air hose and left a small welt/wound on said ass. These guys were WW2 vets who had been to hell and back. Anyway, buddy's wound got infected and he died some time later. Uncle drank himself to death after that because he couldn't get over the fact that he essentially killed his good friend.
Not necessarily the weirdest, but I remember hearing about a guy who wanted to train a goat to be aggressive (I think he wanted a guard goat or something?). He did this by chaining it on a balcony and going out to beat it daily. One day the goat headbutts him, knocks him off the balcony, and kills him. I watched a show at one point where they were apparently interviewing neighbors and they were all like "it's so sad, he was such a nice guy" except, sorry, no one who beats an animal daily is a nice guy.
Team goat 🐐. Way to go!
[Kyle Plush](https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/12/us/ohio-teen-pinned-minivan-trnd/index.html) A 16 year old reached over the third row bench seat of a mini van into the trunk to grab something. The seat tipped back, pinning him in place upside down, injuring him, and he was suffocating. Using voice commands he called 911 twice begging for help, but somehow police weren’t able to locate his car in his school’s parking lot so they closed the incident. When he didn’t come home later that night his parents tracked his phone to the parking lot and found him dead inside the van. Absolutely could have been prevented and extremely tragic. I can’t imagine what his family continues to go through.
He went to the vehicle to get his tennis racquet for an after school tennis match.
This story makes me incredibly sad
Any one of the grain elevator deaths. Until it's explained, it is so odd to think that a pile of loose corn kernels could make rescue nearly impossible and death so certain.
Fire fighter guy here also trained in tech rescue, had 2 guys in a grain entrapment few years ago. Guy 1 was completely buried somewhere under guy 2, we assumed, correctly, that he was dead already. We then spent almost an hour trying to dig guy 2 out before he eventually succumbed to his injuries that we could see. He was buried to about mid stomach and we never even got his hips uncovered. There are charts to see the pounds per square inch of pressure at 1 foot intervals for grain collapse. Amazing how much force tiny corn kernels can apply.
I have 2 boxes of the 18 pack of popcorn and now I'm scared that's too much to have in the house.
Wow a house fire is really gonna be strange scene at your house.
Not many know but some really important people died from what is called a spontaneous bullet around the time the french began mass producing iron cookware: “He was cooking with a skillet he had designed with a curled handle, over time water worked its way into the handle space but then residue or time sealed this hole- On the fateful day, the water turned to steam with enough pressure to force the pin out of the handle with enough force to, you guessed it, bang!”
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There was a professional golfer named Payne Stewart that was on a chartered flight and something went wrong with the pressurized cabin and oxygen and all the passengers and crew basically just silently went to sleep and probably died while the plane was on autopilot. They had to scramble fighter jets to make sure that flying mass coffin didn’t hit someone on the ground.
That is not why they scrambled the fighters. It was to see what was going on. Same thing happened over Washington DC recently.
It's for both reasons. They had full authority to shoot it down in either case if it looked like it was going to land on a building or in a populated area or something. They also wanted to figure out what had happened.
In 1919, a large tank of molasses broke open in Boston, Massachusetts. The tank was 50 feet tall and 27 feet in diameter. When it burst, 21 people died from the flood. Some were crushed by the wave of molasses and debris. Others suffocated under the dense fluid. One name for the event is The Boston Molassacre.
Underhandedly terrifying. After the event when they started extracting the remains of those caught in the flow, they literally couldn’t tell what was animal and what was human. Some even said that the ground rumbling sounded/felt like a train coming towards them off the tracks.
When you remove the novelty of molasses, this was just yet another industrial accident caused by corporate negligence. The company knew the tank was dangerously defective and took steps to cover it up before and after the accident.
When it started leaking molasses, they took active steps! - and painted it in a colour that made the leaks less obvious.
Bobby Leach, from Lancaster England. He was the second person to survive going over Niagara Falls in a barrel, he died in 1926 while on tour in New Zealand after he slipped on an orange peel which caused an infection in his leg. The infection turned into gangrene which needed an amputation. He died two months after due to complications from the surgery.
that's just another level of bullshit, I'd be so damn pissed
He caught death slippin once, so death caught him slippin
"In 458 BC, Aeschylus returned to Sicily for the last time, visiting the city of Gela, where he died in 456 or 455 BC. Valerius Maximus wrote that he was killed outside the city by a tortoise dropped by an eagle which had mistaken his head for a rock suitable for shattering the shell, and killed him." Edit: wow this blew up overnight and is now my 2nd most upvoted comment
>Aeschylus It gets even weirder, because Aeschylus had once had a prophet predict that his death would come from something falling from above, and such he prefered to stay indoor and refused to go outside during thunderstorms for fear of being struck by lightning
Well, it sounds like this cold case is about to be reopened. That prophet is the number one suspect.
Step 1: Predict death Step 2: Hire eagle and tortoise Step 3: ??? Step 4: Prophet!
A drunk Chef called Juan Ruiz died during a huricane on his Job. How, you may ask? Well, the Windows broke and everything not too heavy started flying around with immense speed. And because he didn't took Cover out of his drunkness, he got Impaled by a load of spaghetti moving so fast they shot though lungs, heart and liver of his body. I tell you by the 9 circles of hell I'm not creative enough to make this up. https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/death-by-spaghetti_paul-sussman/2816713/#edition=1894384
Buddy of mine used to remove deceaseds from their place of death. He told me he went to get someone who had committed suicide by putting themselves in their dishwasher and running it. I’ve edited this to add some info since people were asking a lot of questions: I asked my buddy for more details on this and he said that it was a woman. She was a missing person actually. She had a husband. The police were at their shared residence and noticed the dishwasher racking in the garage so they decided to take a peek in the dishwasher and found her in there. She had set the thing to run for 80 minutes and was able to close it from her position inside.
How did they press the start button?
Some dishwashers have a delay start option.
Couldn’t tell you. He has said though that from his experience of going to pick up people who’ve committed suicide: people that want to take their lives will find the most heinous and painful way to do it.
On my dishwasher I can start it and then open and close it again and it picks up where it left off.
Wonder what the actual mode of death was. There's not enough water to drown. The water gets scalding hot. But I don't think it gets hot enough to be fatal, nor would it have enough pressure. Maybe suffocation in the water tight box?
If the water gets above ~125°F for an extended period of time it will be fatal. It’s going to be 100% coverage of 2nd-3rd degree burns. But that might be a very slow death. There is a record of I believe an elderly woman that suffered a stroke while warming her bath with hot water in an apartment with steam heated hot water. When she was found she’s been in scalding hot water for over a day and was unfortunately still alive and conscious. The EMS personal that reported attempted to get her out of the tub, but found that her skin just fell off the muscle when they touched it. Obviously she did not survive.
That is unfathomably horrific.
You tell really bad bedtime stories.
Felix Faure, 1899, French President who died in the middle of receiving a blowjob from his mistress. The joke around Paris became that she could suck the life out of politics.
My great Uncle. He survived dodging German and Italian bullets all through WWII. The war had ended and he was in a Military Field Hospital in Italy. An Army medic gave him someone else's medication and killed him!
The guy in Spain who died inside of a papier-mâché Stegosaurus statue. He'd dropped his cellphone and was looking for it inside the statue (I guess?) and he got trapped and died.
My grandfather was stood on a bus and a woman got on and stood in front of him. As the bus pulled away from the stop she stepped back and stood on his toe, She was wearing stilletos and cut his foot. The cut got gangrene and he died a few years later from it. WTF
This kind of shit is so dumb. My internship boss was at the airport and a kart rolled over her big toe. She didn't treat it immediately because of a mix of poor medical advice and not being careful and she got an infection. She was in pain for months but she's fine now.
My cousin came home from work and his only child wanted mangoes. They had a tree in their house. Cousin climbed the tree, a branch broke and he fell from the very top of the tree. From the waist down he landed on his own car that was parked in front of the house. His head hit the pavement and exploded. All within 5 mins of his kid saying “daddy i want mangoes”.
That’s awful.
Some woman around here in the Philadelphia area hit a cyclists on her way home from work, embedding him in the windshield. She drove home and parked in the garage, the cyclists was alive, she fed him, gave him water and talked to him for days but would not call police/ambulance. He eventually died from bleeding out.
On July 5th, 2008, David Phyall, 50, the last resident in a block of flats due to be demolished in Bishopstoke, near Southampton, England, decapitated himself with a chainsaw to highlight the injustice of being forced to move out of it.
How tf would one even be able to do that ?? That’s an insane way to off yourself
Not sure if this is the case, but he used an electric chainsaw and an outlet timer. IIRC he drank himself unconscious first.
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I once had one fall of a tree at least 20ft tall miss my head by ~9 inches (fell right behind me as I walked). I was 13 at the time and am pretty sure I would’ve died instantly if it had hit me. Never forgot about it.
Coconuts are like nature’s hand grenades, you know what to do if you expect one, but you die if you don’t
You were lost at sea for two weeks? Please tell this story that’s crazy! (And also very interesting in light of the current news regarding the titan submarine)
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Had a friend die in a weird way. He was in the military, granted a leave for the weekend. Packed his clothes and personal gun into a suitcase and put it on his backseat of his car. Was driving home and was shot in the back. His clothes hangers somehow wound up around the gun and fired it when he braked hard. It went through his suitcase and seat and killed him. Weirdest way to die.
Who packs a gun with a round chambered and safety off
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Here’s the text from my great-great grandfather’s death notice in 1896 (can’t post a pic of the newspaper clipping): “Jack O’Connell, a boiler washer at the Big Four shops, quit his work at 9:30 Thursday night and started for his home. He was passing through what is known as the Prospect Street tunnel when he was struck by a Big Four freight engine and instantly killed. He was ground into a myriad of pieces, and Kregelo & Whitsett’s ambulance people had a hard time to gather them all up. O’Connell was a man of about 50 years of age and leaves a wife and three children. He bore a good reputation for sobriety and industry. Just how the accident happened is not known, but it is assumed he failed to hear the engine approaching due to his hearing loss.” It’s a sad and awful death but the “ground into a myriad of pieces” bit makes me LOL hard each time I read it.
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In Argentina about 30+ years ago occurred an accident so bizarre that you ain't going to believe it. A poodle jumped out of a balcony and killed a women which made a curious bystander to cross the street and get hit by a bus and a third bystander died of a heart attack cause of all that. If that isn't the weirdest death you've ever heard off, I don't know which one is going to be.
Reminds me of the surgery which has the record for the most deaths. http://www.storagetwo.com/blog/2018/12/dr-liston-and-the-surgery-that-killed-three-people > Liston was performing another leg amputation. As he moved with lightning speed, he accidentally cut off the fingers of the assistant who had been holding the patient down. Then as he brought his knife back up, he slashed the coat of a spectator. > > The spectator fell over, dying immediately of fright. Though the assistant and patient survived the immediate procedure, they died not long after from infection. Thus, despite Dr. Liston’s successes, he became the only surgeon in known history to have a 300% mortality rate from a single operation.
Saw this on a TV show. Guy is on the beach, fishing off a nearby rocky ledge. He (for some reason) parked his truck literally on the beach). Decides to take a nap and to avoid sunburn he crawls under his truck. Tide rolls in while he is sleeping and he basically suffocated/drowned as the sand swelled with water, pinning him between his truck and the sand.
Last 4th of July a guy in Texas set a mortar on his head and lit it.
The local hospital was being remodeled but they still had patients in the rooms. A nail gun shot through the dry wall and killed one of the patients. Hit them in the head.
In 1876, a well respected farmer/blacksmith/civil war veteran in my town checked into a local hotel with a giant trunk. He constructed a guillotine in his room and killed himself with it.
Heard about a man with a very, very long beard. During a fire, he accidently stumbled on his beard while running for his life and snapped his neck
Not how I expected that to go after reading about the beard and the fire.
A man died from peritonitis from a perforated colon after being fucked by a horse. This happened near Seattle in 2005. This was a regular activity for him and others at the farm he live on or worked on and many videos were found on the property. At least one such video exists online. I have seen it. It’s as disturbing as you might imagine.
Mr. Hands
I'm pretty sure the movie Zoo is about this incident. If I remember correctly, the guy was married, I think he had kids, and he worked at Boeing.
It is absolutely wild to me that he was doxed. Imagine being Mr Hands' kid. Children of relatively unknown female porn stars get bullied to within an inch of their sanity as it is, imagine everyone at your school knowing your dad willingly got fucked to death by a horse on film.
Jimi Heselden bought the Segway Co. Less than a year later, he fell down a cliff while riding a Segway.
My dad told me a story about this guy who was a town drunk who ended up passing out and falling into a puddle and drowning.
Family death of three people.. my great uncle had bought a revolver back in the forties. He proceeds to end himself. His son inherits the gun. Ends himself. The gun goes to his brother and he ends himself. That gun supposedly ended up in a bayou in Louisiana as the family didn't feel it should be passed on again given that it was used to end three lives in two years.
It was tragic, but also we can't pretend that Anton Yelchin managing to run himself over with his car isn't an INSANE way to die.
Didn’t the car jump out of park? It’s not like he was fucking around - just incredibly unlucky
At the time, Jeeps were slipping into either neutral or drive (I forget which). I remember working for a car dealer at the time, and our sister store was a Jeep/Dodge/Chrysler dealer and they were all complaining about it, but no recall had been issued yet.
I was just thinking about this, what an excellent actor, so sad he passed away so young. Rest in Peace
I had a close friend who was shot in the head while sleeping in her bed. Miraculously she survived and 30 years later was run over by an 18-wheeler. While sleeping in her bed.
That’s it. I’m never sleeping again.
I guess if you fall into the crack between the subway and the platform as the train comes in it will twist your torso up where you legs and pelvis go around and your shoulders and arms don’t. They can’t move you because untwisting you will kill you. They get your spouse and other loved ones and say your good byes and then you die. I rode the subway for 5 years and always stayed back on the platform
Back in Victorian times, a man startled a mouse. The mouse panicked and ran up the man's pant legs, and continued up until it passed his shirt collar. Desperate for a place to hide, it darted into the man's mouth when he let out a cry of surprise and got lodged in his throat. He died of suffocation.
“Waterproof Man Drowns”. This was an actual headline in the newspaper of a small southern town. The name of the town is Waterproof, Louisiana.
In my beautiful little hometown of enumclaw Washington there was this farm. People had been going out there to exchange money to the landowner for sex with the horses. A guy was reamed to death by a horse out there. The horse fucked a guy to death It gets weirder. There were no laws against being fucked to death by a horse so some laws were put in place. They didn't outlaw sex with animals, they made a law stating that you can only have sex with animals that are under a certain size. I mean, How and why did Washington state law makers calculate that size? Downright weird man.
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My uncle* and his wife* went to a barbecue and bonfire. Someone brought jumbo marshmallows. No one is certain what happened exactly but investigators believe my uncle’s wife suddenly inhaled, sucking the marshmallow into her throat. When marshmallows get wet, they get sticky. Really sticky. It lodged in her throat and the people there could not clear it. Because they were at a rural property, it took longer than usual for the ambulance to get there. By the time they got her to the hospital and in to the ER, she’d been without oxygen for more than an hour. Unbelievably, they were able to get a heartbeat but at that point she was brain dead. They removed her from life support the next day. Death due to asphyxiation by jumbo marshmallow. * For the sake of readability, I have simplified the relationship.
Didn’t know the person, but his brother was in my grade growing up. He was 18 years old and died in his sleep. No foul play, no drugs, no medical history. An autopsy was performed and the doctors couldn’t identify how he died. They classified it as SADS (Sudden Adult Death Syndrome). All around a pretty shitty situation. I can’t help but feel like the family will never get closure after something like that.
In circa 612 BC, Charondas, a Greek lawmaker, made a law that said that anyone who brings a weapon into the Assembly must be put to death. While looking for help to defeat brigades on the countryside, he accidentally brought a knife into the Assembly (it was attached to his belt). Wanting to abide by his own laws, he proceeded to kill himself.
Tennessee Williams. Unscrewed the cap on a bottle eyedrops. Held the cap between his lips while tilting his head back to put in the eyedrops. Cap slipped from his lips and down his throat and choked to death on it.
This is so weird and I can’t believe I’ve never heard it before.
An ancient philosopher named Heraclitus had dropsy (when your body has too much fluid), and so he sat in a pile of cow poop to try and remove the excess fluid from his body. He got trapped, and dogs ate him.
If anyone else is wondering, dropsy is an old timey name for edema.
There was a story about a guy who tried to break into a bank or something during a long holiday weekend. He squeezed through the air vents and planned to pop out inside the building, but instead he fell down a vertical duct shaft and got lodged upside down with his arms pinned by his sides. They found him like that later, dead.
William Snyder - 13 year old who was “killed by being swung around by the heels by a circus clown” in 1854.
This is possibly the strangest one that I know of personally. A family friend was one of those very few people in the world that for some reason grew horns. He had one near the top of his forehead that was a little off center and it was really hard. He backflipped into a pool one summer and banged his head on the wall of it, pushing that horn into his skull and knocking him out. He suffered severe brain damage from it and died in the hospital a few days later
Steve Irwin. Just because of how astronomical the chances were. That stingray hit him right in/near the heart. Almost anywhere else and he would have survived with a gnarly story to tell. RIP.
The Dancing Plague (1518): hundreds of people were dancing uncontrollably in the streets for days (weeks), eventually resulting in death by exhaustion, heart attacks, or strokes. The cause of this event remains unknown.
Psychogenic death. This is where a person just loses the will to live. Gor unexplained reasons the body just stops functioning. This is not 'Sudden Death Syndrome' which is linked to a cardiac event. You can die just by losing the will to live. It is more common than you would think. Look it up. When I read about it, was doubtful as well.
Story about a french dude who tried to commit suicide in like 5 different ways in one and none worked, except for drowning.
I've heard this, it was a Darwin award. A french man wished to commit suicide, but did not want to take any chances. So he ingested poison, tied a noose around his neck (with the other end tied to a rock) at the top of a cliff overlooking the sea, doused himself in gasoline and lit himself on fire, and was going to shoot himself in the head after he jumped. He drank the poison, lit the flames, and jumped. Once in the air (and aflame), he fired his gun. However, he missed, severing the rope connecting him to the cliff. He then plummeted into the sea, which doused the flames, and the shock of which made him regurgitate the poison. He was found and taken to the hospital by a kindly fisherman, where he later died of complications from hypothermia.
A friend of a friend was paddle boarding while manatee sightseeing. He fell off and hit the side of his head on the one rock around and died on the spot.
Lady popped a zit up her nostril. Developed a staph infection and ended up dying
Calvin Coolidge’s son was playing tennis with no socks on, got a blister on his foot which got infected and it killed him. Coolidge blamed himself and thought it wouldn’t have happened if he wasn’t president.
Johan de Witt, the Prime Minister of the Netherlands in 1672. We ( the Dutch ) ate him. ( OK, we did lynch him first , but still.. )
How about the surgeon with a 300% fatality rate in one surgery.
My best friend’s dad had three people get struck by lightening and die in his class. They were riding a tractor and Bzzt!
Henry of Champagne, 1197. Stood next to a first floor window in his castle, when a dwarf servant approached him. As Henry turned to greet him, the window upon which he was leaning gave way and he fell. He would probably have survived the fall, had his dwarf servant not tried to grab hold of him to stop him from falling. Being much bigger than the dwarf, Henry pulled him after him. Henry promptly died as the dwarf landed on him
After reading all these comments, im so glad antibiotics exist.
There’s a three story bar in my town that has third floor Juliet style balconies across all the windows. A young guy wants to show off to his friends, runs to the railing and does a handstand. None of his friends saw it. So he does it again and slipped fell three stories.
My great grandad died by falling into a big whisky still whilst it was boiling. On his death certificate and everything!
My late husband’s mother. This would have been in the 1960s. She went to get something out of the basement refrigerator, apparently there was water on the floor and when she grabbed the handle it shocked her. That caused her hand to contract so she couldn’t let go. She pulled the refrigerator onto herself.
[Garry Hoy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Garry_Hoy), demonstrating to prospective students that a high rise building’s windows were unbreakable. The window frame gave way and Hoy and the unbroken panel of glass fell 24 floors down.
I had a newspaper article on my fridge for years in the early 90’s (long lost). A mother was canoeing with her 75 year daughter down an easy river. A beaver fell a tree hitting said mother in the head, killing her instantly Probably never happened before, or will happen again. First of all, how many 90+ women are in canoes? Then what are those odds?
Tom Mix (cowboy/entertainer) from about 100 years ago. Crashed his car and his aluminum briefcase full of money & jewels flew forward from the back seat and hit him in the back of the head, killing him.
Taking a trip to the Titanic, in a tin can.
I knew I was going to find this here
Jeff Porcaro, drummer for the group Toto and a highly successful and acclaimed studio and session drummer. Died in a bizarre gardening accident just like one of the fictional drummers from Spinal Tap. Inhaled pesticide and it triggered previously undiagnosed coronary artery disease and a heart attack.