Top 10 Strangest Deaths

[PeaceNikki]

http://newsvoid.com/top10deaths

Some highlights I found interesting:

#10 Felix Faure (1890):o
This former French president died of a stroke while
receiving oral sex in his office. (from his mistress).

#5 Adolf Frederick (1771):puke:
King of Sweden who died of digestion problems after having consumed a meal consisting of lobster, caviar, sauerkraut,smoked herring and champagne, which was topped off with 14 servings of his favourite dessert: semla served in a bowl of hot milk. He is thus remembered by Swedish schoolchildren as "the king who ate himself to death."

#1 Frank Hayes (1923)
A jockey who suffered a heart attack during a horse race.
The horse, Sweet Kiss, went on to finish first, making
Hayes the only deceased jockey to ever win a race.

[ghostsofgiants]

1. I like #2 the best I think.

[PeaceNikki]

2. Mythbusters attempted to recreate that.

Poor Buster...

[ghostsofgiants]

4. Oh man, I have to find a clip of that.

[Bzzzz]

3. Bob Crane...

of Hogan's Heros...

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

40. Not a strange death...

That was a strange life...

[terrya]

5. I would have added Isadora Duncan's death to that list.

Her death was rather strange.

[PeaceNikki]

7. Wow, I had not heard that!!! Totally whack!

[Left Is Write]

14. I agree. It seems strange to leave her off the top ten list.

[jobycom]

20. She's the one I thought of when I saw the thread title. nt

[FloridaJudy]

6. Wasn't there an English king who died of a "surfeit of eels"?

Not the only monarch who ate himself to death, I see.

Check out weird deaths on Snopes:

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

(edited to add link)

[PeaceNikki]

8. Some really odd ones there, too!

Lawyer demonstrating the safety of windows in a skyscraper plunges to his death.

Nine people died in a beer flood in 1814.

[cemaphonic]

37. I immediately thought of this one too.

Does anyone still eat eels?

[leftofthedial]

9. my favorite is the wonderbra ad

[TroubleMan]

10. Also, for weird deaths check out The Darwin Awards

http://www.darwinawards.com/


There was one English soccer fan (or football) who promised to cut off his own balls if his team lost. They lost, he did it, and brought them to the pub to show his friends.....Well that's not a death, but he took himself out of the gene pool.

[AllegroRondo]

26. I liked the one about the Metallica concert

2 guys didnt have tickets, so they tried to get in by jumping over a fence. There was a 20 foot drop on the other side, but there were trees also, and they figured they could climb down them to get in. the first guy over got his pants stuck on the tree and couldnt get loose. the second guy tried to save him by throwing him a rope, tied to the back bumper of his truck, and using the truck to pull him back up. guy mistakenly leaves truck in reverse, crashes through fence, and falls through tree on top of freind he is trying to save.

[BreweryYardRat]

35. I'm rather fond of the one "winner" who played Russian Roulette...

...WITH A LAND MINE.

[krispos42]

38. Or the one that played Russian Roulette with an automatic pistol

Ooch.

[Oeditpus Rex]

11. Legend holds...

there was a minor-league ballplayer many years ago who had a heart attack and collapsed while turning third base. The runner behind him picked him up and carried him home, making sure the dying (or perhaps dead) runner touched the plate first.

:shrug:

[Poiuyt]

12. Don't forget Albert Dekker (Dr. Cyclops)

http://findadeath.com/

[mitchum]

24. That's the first one I thought of when I saw the thread title

"Strangest case of suicide I've ever seen..."

[otherlander]

13. The man who hung himself on a piece of soap

while falling from the fifteenth story window.

[Generic Brad]

18. Was it soap on a noose?

Soap on a rope sounds so passe.

[otherlander]

19. No.

Go to sleep.
It was a simple act of hanging ones self a bar of soap and being suspended in place while plunging down through the air.
It happens every Wednsday. 0_o

[Redstone]

15. What the hell is "semla?" Granted, I'd find ANYTHING 'served in a bowl of hot milk' to be utterly

revolting, but I'm curious.

Redstone

[PeaceNikki]

16. Looks creampuff-like in nature...now

A semla is a traditional pastry in Sweden, Finland and Estonia, associated with Lent and especially Shrove Tuesday. Today, the semla consists of a cardamom-spiced wheat bun which has its top cut off and insides scooped out and is then filled with a mix of the scooped-out bread crumbs, milk and almond paste, topped with whipped cream. The cut-off top is then put back as a lid and dusted with icing sugar. It is nowadays often eaten on its own, with coffee or similar, but there are still those who eat it in a bowl of hot milk. In Finland, the bun is sometimes filled with jam instead of almond paste.




HOWEVER... The oldest version of the semla was a plain bread bun, eaten in a bowl of warm milk.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semla

ewww

[Redstone]

17. Thanks for the info. Both old and new versions sound horrible, yes? Or is it just me?

But then, those Scandahoovians are the ones who eat those herrings in the cream sauce that you see in bottles at the grocery store, so they WOULD like that sort of thing, wouldn't they...

Redstone

[Left Is Write]

23. The cardamom-spiced bun sounds good to me, maybe even spread with a little almond paste.

The rest of it? No thanks.

[jobycom]

21. #3 Dick Shawn. People thought it was part of the act.

From Wikipedia:

During his final act, Shawn had been portraying a politician, reciting various campaign cliches, including, "if elected, I will not lay down on the job." He then lay face-down on the stage - and just kept lying there. At one point, he snorted. The audience, unaware, thought this was part of his act. After some time had gone by, there were catcalls. Finally, someone appeared on stage, kneeled down to look at Shawn, stood up, and called out, "is there a doctor in the house?" Another person came up on stage, turned Shawn over, and began administering CPR. At this point, someone (the first person to come on stage?) told the audience to go home. Nobody (or almost nobody) moved – since no one knew if this was part of Shawn's act. Finally, paramedics arrived, and the bewildered audience began leaving, still not sure of what they had seen. A notice in the following day's San Diego Union newspaper (not on page 1) clarified that Shawn had indeed experienced a heart attack on stage and died.<1>


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Shawn#Death_on_stage

[Coventina]

25. I witnessed something similar, though not quite so tragic

At church camp years ago on the final night we had a "talent show" of which my dad was the MC.

At one point he announced that there would be a 5 minute break for a scene change.

Immediately, a woman ran on to the stage, fell down, and started screaming that her leg was broken.

We (the audience) all laughed, thinking it was the "5 minute break". Well, it wasn't an act. Then, we all felt terrible.

[MilesColtrane]

27. I've got to think that most performers wouldn't mind going out this way.

Several years ago there was a semi-famous Dallas area drummer who died on the bandstand right after playing a kick ass drum solo.
He had built the solo over several minutes, whipping the crowd into a frenzy, then right when finished with a big crash, he just slumped over and checked out.

The tune they were playing? "When the Saints go Marching In"

[AllegroRondo]

29. Was the band named Spinal Tap?

[Rhythm]

22. Criss Angel talked about #6 on "Mindfreak"

When he was doing the set-up monologue for his recretion of the "buried alive" stunt.

That's sad, but in a "Darwin Award" kind of way.

[Arugula Latte]

28. How about the guy who died after intimate relations with a horse?

:eyes:

[martymar64]

31. I remember that . . . it was in the Seattle PI

It happened up in Enumclaw, not exactly top of the gene pool there. :dunce:

[swag]

30. From Dietz and O'Halloran,"Autoerotic Fatalities with Power Hydraulics",Journal of Forensic Sciences

"A 42 year-old Asian man was found hanging by the neck, suspended by a rope attached to the raised shovel of a John Deere Model JD410, diesel powered, backhoe tractor...The decedent was suspended in a semi-sitting position by a cloth safety harness strap wrapped around his neck and clipped to a rope that was hooked to the raised shovel of the backhoe tractor. A towel was between the loose fitting strap and the victim's neck. A long piece of plastic pipe was connected on one end by conduit tape to the hydraulic control lever of the shovel in the operator's compartment of the tractor. A broom stick was taped to the other end of the pipe and was partially under the decedent's buttocks. The hydraulic shovel could be easily raised or lowered by slight pressure applied to the broomstick. The decedent was fully clothed, and his genitals were not exposed. No pornographic materials, women's clothing items, or mirrors were at the scene...He had no known psychiatric illness."

[swag]

32. I ehm zee winner.

I ehm lucky at carts.

[Algorem]

33. didn't Custer die from a arrow to the schwanger?

[NNadir]

34. Well you know what they say about Czarina Catherine.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

36. #3 played Hitler in the original version The Producers

#3 Dick Shawn (1987)
A comedian, died on stage of a heart attack. While portraying a politician, he announced, "if elected, I will not lay down on the job," then layed down on stage and never stood back up.

[Danger Mouse]

39. What about William the Conquerer?

Didn't he get impaled on his own saddle, then at the funeral, his corpse burst like a rotten festering balloon?