Story Stories of Weird Deaths

[maniac116]

This thread is meant for sharing stories about those who have met death in strange, funny or intriguing ways.
If you have a story please share.

 

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Uhh.....shouldn't the OP (host) start?

 

[maniac116]

Uhh.....shouldn't the OP (host) start?

Yup! I had to recopy & paste a story lol.
Sorry about that.
"In 1988, a dog fell from a building in Buenos Aires, Argentina, landed in a woman's head, killing her and the dog instantaneously. Then, another lady, completely confused, watching the event unfolding from the middle of a road, was run over by a bus; then shortly after that, an older man died from a heart attack out of the commotion of seeing both deaths. This happened in under a couple of minutes."

Arturbo / Getty Images

 

[Placo]

According to Diodorus Siculus, the Greek lawgiver Charondas from Sicily issued a law that anyone who brought weapons into the Assembly must be put to death. One day, he arrived at the Assembly seeking help to defeat some brigands in the countryside, but with a knife still attached to his belt. In order to uphold his own law, he committed suicide.[11][12][13]

 

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We're all familiar with the fact that chickens can live after their heads have been cut off (sometimes for 18 months at a time) — but did you know that cobras can survive decapitation, too? It's true. In 2014, chef Peng Fan of China's Guandong Province died after being bitten by the severed head of a cobra. Peng had cut the head off the snake 20 minutes earlier in order to dice its body for soup; however, when he went to dispose of the head, it bit him. Unfortunately anti-venom was not able to be provided in time, and Peng died from the bite.

Source: https://www.bustle.com/articles/117...-10-years-show-that-anything-could-kill-us-at

 

[maniac116]

The owner of the Segway company died by riding one off of a cliff.

Segway / Via instagram.com, Wikipedia Commons / CC BY 2.0 / Via en.wikipedia.org

In 2010, less than a year after purchasing the company, Jim Heselden was riding a Segway near his home in Yorkshire, England, and fell more than 30 feet into a river.

 

[TheHolySword]

Deaths like these make me sad. Imagine being one of their loved ones and having to relive their death over and over again every time they see an article that talks about it or someone reference it online.

 

[maniac116]

Marcus Garvey was a civil rights campaigner long before Rosa Parks ever rode a bus. He founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association in 1914, which urged African Americans to be proud of their heritage and to return to Africa, if they wanted. To this end, he founded the Black Star Line, a foundation which raised money to pay the passage home for any black person who needed it, and he also tried, unsuccessfully, to persuade the Liberian government to set aside land on which they could settle.

Though it is fair to say that his efforts weren't particularly successful, Garvey nevertheless worked tirelessly for the betterment of black Americans. So, he could be forgiven for being upset when he read a number of unkind obituaries after he was mistakenly reported to have died. The next day, letters and telegrams came pouring in, and Garvey collapsed in his chair. The shock of his reading about his own death caused Garvey to have a stroke, which killed him] (He'd already had one stroke, from which he was recovering when the false news of his death broke.)

 

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Death by Armed Chicken

Cockfighting? No good. Seriously — pitting anyone or anything against one another and forcing them to fight to the death is inhumane, whether we're talking about people or animals. As such, we shouldn't really need another reason to, y'know, not ever participate in cockfighting ever — but just in case we do, here's another one: In 2011, Jose Luis Ochoa died after being stabbed in the leg at a cockfight in California. The wound came from one of the birds, who had had a knife attached to one of its limbs for the fight.

Source: https://www.bustle.com/articles/117...-10-years-show-that-anything-could-kill-us-at

 

[SomewhatLoved]

I work on an ambulance. The first time I ever saw a dead body was in a playground.

We were called out for "suspected death" - essentially meaning someone found a body that has probably been dead for a while. It was a weekday morning, probably 5 AM. No kids out yet (thank god), but the city cleaners were starting to come through and one of them spotted it and then called us.

I walk up, feel he's stone cold. His joints were stiff (rigor mortis), and he had blood pooling due to the effects of gravity (dependent lividity). Essentially, he had been dead for a few hours at least and there was no point in trying. Me and my partner estimated he probably died between midnight and 2 AM. It honestly felt sort of peaceful to me as messed up as that is. It was still definitely eerie due to it being in a playground and that whole aspect just feeling wrong. But looking at him you could tell he was exhausted and tired of life. He escaped.

 

[divinemistress36]

I work on an ambulance. The first time I ever saw a dead body was in a playground.

We were called out for "suspected death" - essentially meaning someone found a body that has probably been dead for a while. It was a weekday morning, probably 5 AM. No kids out yet (thank god), but the city cleaners were starting to come through and one of them spotted it and then called us.

I walk up, feel he's stone cold. His joints were stiff (rigor mortis), and he had blood pooling due to the effects of gravity (dependent lividity). Essentially, he had been dead for a few hours at least and there was no point in trying. Me and my partner estimated he probably died between midnight and 2 AM. It honestly felt sort of peaceful to me as messed up as that is. It was still definitely eerie due to it being in a playground and that whole aspect just feeling wrong. But looking at him you could tell he was exhausted and tired of life. He escaped.

I admire first responders they see so much trauma dont know how you all deal with it

 

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In 2004, Philip Quinn of Kent, Wash. died after placing a lava lamp on a hot stove top. The heating of the lamp caused it to explode; the explosion also sent a shard of glass into Quinn's heart, killing him. Why Quinn may have been heating the lamp in the first place has never been fully explained, but his is believed to be the only death in history to have been caused by a lava lamp.

Source: https://www.bustle.com/articles/117...-10-years-show-that-anything-could-kill-us-at

 

[Halfhourdays]

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Death by Armed Chicken

Cockfighting? No good. Seriously — pitting anyone or anything against one another and forcing them to fight to the death is inhumane, whether we're talking about people or animals. As such, we shouldn't really need another reason to, y'know, not ever participate in cockfighting ever — but just in case we do, here's another one: In 2011, Jose Luis Ochoa died after being stabbed in the leg at a cockfight in California. The wound came from one of the birds, who had had a knife attached to one of its limbs for the fight.

Source: https://www.bustle.com/articles/117...-10-years-show-that-anything-could-kill-us-at

Lol.

Ever see the Seinfeld with Little Jerry?

 

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Lol.

Ever see the Seinfeld with Little Jerry?

Absolutely.

Jerry: Is that your "chicken" making all that noise?
Kramer: Oh, Jerry loves the morning.
Jerry: Who?
Kramer: Little Jerry Seinfeld. I named my chicken after you.
Jerry: Thanks. That's very sweet. But that is not a chicken.
Kramer: Of course it is. I picked it out myself.
Jerry: Well, you picked out a rooster.
Kramer: Well, that would explain Little Jerry's poor egg production.

 

[maniac116]

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Death by Armed Chicken

Cockfighting? No good. Seriously — pitting anyone or anything against one another and forcing them to fight to the death is inhumane, whether we're talking about people or animals. As such, we shouldn't really need another reason to, y'know, not ever participate in cockfighting ever — but just in case we do, here's another one: In 2011, Jose Luis Ochoa died after being stabbed in the leg at a cockfight in California. The wound came from one of the birds, who had had a knife attached to one of its limbs for the fight.

Source: https://www.bustle.com/articles/117...-10-years-show-that-anything-could-kill-us-at

Poetic Justice! lol

 

[oneeyed]

Yup! I had to recopy & paste a story lol.
Sorry about that.
"In 1988, a dog fell from a building in Buenos Aires, Argentina, landed in a woman's head, killing her and the dog instantaneously. Then, another lady, completely confused, watching the event unfolding from the middle of a road, was run over by a bus; then shortly after that, an older man died from a heart attack out of the commotion of seeing both deaths. This happened in under a couple of minutes."

And 12 years later we get the start of the final destination movie series *Twilight zone music*

 

[maniac116]

A vengeance from beyond the grave
892 AD
Sigurd the Mighty was a Norse nobleman and the second Earl of Orkney who by the end of the 9th century had defeated and beheaded his foe, Máel Brigte. Sigurd then tied his dead enemy's severed head to his horse's saddle, and rode off in victory. While riding, one of Brigte's protruding teeth scraped Sigurd's leg, which caused a severe infection that killed the Earl shortly after.
It seems Brigte had the last laugh in the end.

 

[maniac116]

"Years ago, I asked a neighbor who was a tree inspector about his job, and he told me about a woman who was killed by a falling tree branch in the park. The weird part was that the woman's mother had died the same way 30 years earlier. She had a surviving sibling who I can only imagine never walks under trees if they can help it."

Akaradech Pramoonsin / Getty Images

 

[maniac116]

Charles Haefner: Walked Into A Boiling Vat Of Beer

Charles Haefner couldn't get away from it. During the day, he toiled in a Manhattan white-beer brewery. He went home and drank beer all night, pissed it away, and returned in the morning to make more beer. By the time he reached thirty, his body was probably ninety-five percent beer.

But all the beer in the world couldn't fix what ailed (or, pardon the pun, "aled") him. He was far away from his native Deutschland, with only a cup of grog to warm his soul. He sat brooding every night, sipping at the Nectar of the Lumpen.

One frosty day in January, 1866, he paid off all his debts to his landlord, walked across the street to the brewery, and headed for a vat in which beer was brewing. He stepped into the gleaming copper kettle, lowering himself into the stewing mash, which scalded his skin on contact. The troubled Teuton stood implacably within the gurgling brew, displaying the imperturbability peculiar to his lineage. In the face of blistering pain, he neither flapped about nor tried to exit the boiling kettle. Having heard a lung-popping scream, workers ran in Haefner's direction. They pulled him from the vat, but by that time his lower body was pretty much stewed chicken. He died of burns received while being boiled in brewski.

Similar:
The owner of a brewery near the famous Czechoslovakian beer-making village of Pilsen, dejected because of lagging sales, leapt into his own Pilsner on June 21, 1932. In a suicide note, he pledged to haunt customers who had abandoned him.

Similar:
Also despondent because of a dip in revenues, St. Louis brewery owner William J. Lemp shot himself in his office on December 29, 1922.

Similar:
In 1932, Benjamin Natkins, a founder of Nedick's, Inc., drowned after diving into fifty gallons of vinegar in Morristown, New Jersey.

 

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Florida Man Chokes to Death After Winning Bug-Eating Contest

Edward Archbold, 32, of West Palm Beach, Florida, lost his life after winning an insect-eating contest in October 2012. The cause of death according to the Broward County medical examiner's office, the Associated Press reported at the time, was "asphyxia due to choking and aspiration of gastric contents."

In short, bug body parts from the dozens of roaches he consumed obstructed Archbold's airway and he couldn't breathe. The death was ruled an accident.

 

[maniac116]

Thomas Midgley Jr.

Photo credit: library of congress.

Thomas Midgley Jr. was a chemical engineer who made a number of valuable scientific discoveries. He received four medals from the American Chemical Society during his career and was admitted to the American Academy of Sciences. He sounds like a sensible sort of man.

Midgley was also an amateur inventor. He registered 117 patents, including one for a mechanical hoist to help him out of bed, which he invented after he contracted polio. However, the device malfunctioned, and Midgley became entangled in the ropes and was strangled.

Perhaps that one needed a second draft.

 

[baberty]

A vengeance from beyond the grave
892 AD
Sigurd the Mighty was a Norse nobleman and the second Earl of Orkney who by the end of the 9th century had defeated and beheaded his foe, Máel Brigte. Sigurd then tied his dead enemy's severed head to his horse's saddle, and rode off in victory. While riding, one of Brigte's protruding teeth scraped Sigurd's leg, which caused a severe infection that killed the Earl shortly after.
It seems Brigte had the last laugh in the end.

I've always loved that story!

 

[maniac116]

"Laughing to death.

Fifty-year-old Alex Mitchell could not stop laughing for a continuous 25-minute period—almost the entire length of a TV show called Kung Fu Kapers and suffered a fatal heart attack as a result of the strain placed on his heart. Alex's widow later sent The Goodies, who were staring in that show, a letter thanking them for making his final moments so pleasant."

Evening Standard / Getty Images

—Ochib
Doctors initially believed Mitchell suffered a heart attack from the laughter, but in 2012, his granddaughter suffered a near-fatal cardiac arrest, too. Doctors diagnosed her with Long QT Syndrome, a heart rhythm disorder, which doctors think could have also caused Mitchell's death.

 

[maniac116]

Roasted alive

If you don't like the heat stay out of the fire? During the persecution of Valerian in 258 AD, the deacon Saint Lawrence was roasted alive on a giant grill. While many people throughout history have been doomed to a similar fate, Lawrence is an exception for well, exceptional reasons. While becoming a human BBQ, Saint Lawrence remarked to his tormentors, "Turn me over, I'm done on this side". Saint Lawrence is now the patron saint of cooks and firefighters.
Go figure.

 

[maniac116]

The Detective's Fatal Slip: Allan Pinkerton

Allan Pinkerton, the founder of the Pinkerton Detective Agency, died in a tragic and ironic accident in 1884. While walking on a sidewalk, Pinkerton slipped and bit his tongue so severely that it led to a gangrene infection, which ultimately caused his death. Known for his work in crime detection and prevention, Pinkerton's demise due to such a mundane accident is both ironic and tragic, emphasizing the unpredictable nature of life and death.

Pinkerton's death serves as a stark reminder that even those who dedicate their lives to protecting others are not immune to the caprices of fate. His unfortunate accident underscores the fragility of human life and the potential for seemingly minor incidents to have fatal consequences. This incident highlights the inherent unpredictability of life and the fact that death can come in the most unexpected and mundane ways, regardless of one's status or profession.

 

[maniac116]

"I Had a sad one where a guy tried to hang himself from the third-floor balcony.
The rope broke and he fell and impaled himself on fence spikes. A lady walking her dog hours later thought he was a gruesome Halloween decoration until she noticed leakage from the poor guy. Security camera footage from across the street showed he was alive for a while before he bled out."

 

[maniac116]

Thomas Barker: Shoved A Red-Hot Poker Down His Throat...

No one knew who the haggard-looking man was. As a small group sat before a fireplace in a Leeds, England, hotel lobby two days before Christmas, 1856, it didn't seem to matter—he was welcome to share in the season's joy. Appearing troubled, he had wandered in from the cold night, requested a pipe, and sat peevishly before the fire.

It didn't have to happen. He could have thrown another log on the fire, sipped some tea, and quietly passed wind. He could have warmed his toes, cracked his knuckles, and inquired about rugby scores. He could have read A Christmas Carol while chewing on a buttered scone. If he had felt the yuletide spirit, he could have roasted marshmallows and handed them out to indigent children. But the dancing flames seemed only to remind him of some personal hell. He just sat there, looking pissed.

Ten minutes passed. He approached the fire and placed a poker into the embers. He waited until it glowed red-hot. He then removed it and tapped it on the floor, knocking off all the surplus dirt and ash. Then, in the manner of a sword-swallower, he shoved the simmering ingot down his throat. Within an instant, the pink mucoid tissues inside his mouth had sizzled into a blood-spurting charcoal burger. Hotel patrons wrested the poker away from Barker (who probably was unable to bark at this point) and spirited him away to a doctor's care. Over the course of the next five days, someone asked him why he had attempted to become a human shish kebab. Shortly before dying, Barker said he had no idea.

 

[maniac116]

Dr. Hitoshi Christopher Nikaidoh

Dr. Hitoshi Nikaidoh was decapitated as he stepped onto an elevator at Christus St. Joseph Hospital in Houston, Texas. According to a witness inside the elevator, the elevator doors closed as Nikaidoh entered, trapping his head inside the elevator with the remainder of his body still outside. His body was later found at the bottom of the elevator shaft while the upper portion of his head, severed just above the lower jaw, was found in the elevator.
A subsequent investigation revealed that improper electrical wiring installed by a maintenance company several days earlier had effectively bypassed all the elevator's safeguards, thus enabling it to move under any circumstances.