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I do not enjoy death, but I somehow ended up on the Wikipedia page for a list of unusual deaths throughout known mankind history.
Some of these are tragic,
some of these are disgusting,
and some are downwhat crazy and unbelievable,
but some of these are just too ironically funny and unbelievable to be taken serious.
You in? Then open the spoiler, read up and hopefully enjoy/get eyes:
Some of these are tragic,
some of these are disgusting,
and some are downwhat crazy and unbelievable,
but some of these are just too ironically funny and unbelievable to be taken serious.
You in? Then open the spoiler, read up and hopefully enjoy/get eyes:
- 892: Sigurd the Mighty of Orkney strapped the head of his defeated foe, Máel Brigte, to his horse's saddle. The teeth of the head grazed against his leg as he rode, causing a fatal infection.
- 1567: Hans Steininger, the burgomaster of Braunau (then Bavaria, now Austria), died when he broke his neck by tripping over his own beard. The beard, which was 4.5 feet (1.4 m) long at the time, was usually kept rolled up in a leather pouch.
- 1854: William Snyder, a 13 year old, died when a circus clown swung him around by his heels.
- 1871: Clement Vallandigham, a lawyer and Ohio, U.S., politician defending a man on a charge of murder, accidentally shot himself demonstrating how the victim might have shot himself while in the process of drawing a weapon when standing from a kneeling position. Though the defendant, Thomas McGehan, was ultimately cleared, Vallandigham died from his wound.
- 1974: Basil Brown, a 48-year-old health food advocate from Croydon, England, drank himself to death by consuming 10 gallons (38 litres) of carrot juice in ten days, causing him to overdose on vitamin A and suffer severe liver damage.
- 1983: Dick Wertheim was an American tennis linesman who suffered a fatal injury on September 10, 1983, during a match at the 1983 US Open. Wertheim's fatal injury occurred after Stefan Edberg sent an errant serve directly into his groin. Wertheim had been sitting in a chair and officiating at the center line when the blow knocked him backward. He fell out of the chair and onto the hardcourt surface, striking his head.
- 1993: Garry Hoy, a 38-year-old lawyer in Toronto, Canada, fell to his death on 9 July 1993 after he threw himself against a window on the 24th floor of the Toronto-Dominion Centre in an attempt to prove to a group of visitors that the glass was "unbreakable", a demonstration he had done many times before. The glass did not break, but popped out of the window frame, and Hoy fell to his death.
- 2001: Peter Robinson, a New Zealander, 28, from Reefton, Buller District, West Coast, South Island, died after he fell on ice and drowned in his cat's water bowl. This death was depicted in an episode of the series 1000 Ways to Die.
- 2006: Steve Irwin, the international celebrity known as the "Crocodile Hunter," died from being pierced hundreds of times in a few seconds by the barb of an 8-foot (2.4 m) stingray in chest-deep water, just as he and his cameraman were filming the final shot of the stingray swimming away from them.
- 2012: Geoffrey Haywood, 65, pretended to be blind for pity. One day, he fell into a ditch and died. He apparently did not see it.
- 2013: Takuya Nagaya, 23, from Japan, started to slither on the floor and claim he had become a snake. His mother took this to mean that he had been possessed by a snake, and called for her husband, 53-year-old Katsumi Nagaya. Katsumi spent the next two days head-butting and biting his son "to drive [out] the snake that had possessed him" but instead causing his death.
- 2013: 45-year-old João Maria de Souza was crushed by a cow falling through the roof of his home in Caratinga, Brazil (the cow having climbed onto the roof from an adjacent hillside). His wife (who was lying in bed next to him) and the cow were both unharmed.
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