Archive for the 'Odd Death' Category

News: Corpse Falls off Hearse and Gets Run Over on Highway

June 2nd, 2006

From The Gulf News:
Corpse falls off hearse and run over
By Gilbert Felongco,
Manila: A taxi rammed into a hearse in Quezon City, sending a corpse flying out of the vehicle on to a pavement before being run over by another vehicle.
The driver of the hearse was fixing a tyre puncture in the middle of a highway […]

News: Gators Eating at the Human Buffet Smorgasborg in Florida

May 14th, 2006

Two More people eaten by Alligators this weekend?
Must be some yummy people down there in Florida.  If this keeps up, I’m going to have to create a new “Eaten By Gators” Category.
From MSNBC.COM: 
Alligators suspected in two more Fla. deaths
Grisly discoveries raise to 3 the number of people believed killed in a week
SALT SPRINGS, Fla. - […]

News: Rejected Suiter Blows Himself Up at Brides Wedding

May 14th, 2006

From IOL: 
Man blows himself up at Indian wedding
Lucknow, India - A spurned Indian suitor blew himself up at the wedding of the woman who rejected him, killing himself and injuring the groom and four other people, police said on Saturday.
Police said the electrician blew himself up by pressing a switch in his shoe when the […]

News: Woman on Tour Bus in Sweden Dies, Due to Tight Schedule Tour Continues with Her Body on Board

May 14th, 2006

From The Local in Sweden: 
Coach trip continues with dead pensioner on board
When 40 pensioners from southern Skåne were on their return coach journey from an art tour in Vienna, one of the participants, an 82 year old woman, died. But the tour leader and coach driver, mindful of their tight schedule, refused to stop.
The woman […]

News: Alligator Eats Jogger

May 11th, 2006

 
From CNN.COM: 
Alligator kills Florida jogger near canal
MIAMI, Florida (Reuters) — An alligator grabbed and killed a Florida woman who disappeared while jogging near a canal, a medical examiner determined Thursday.
Construction workers found the woman’s dismembered body floating Wednesday in a canal in Sunrise, a northwest suburb of Fort Lauderdale.
An autopsy showed she died of bleeding […]

News: Lost Hikers live off of Dead Guys Backpack Rations

May 10th, 2006

From CNN.COM: 
Lost hikers find backpack, survive 3 nights in mountains
IDYLLWILD, California (AP) — Two lost hikers who survived three nights in the frigid San Jacinto Mountains said they stumbled upon the campsite of a man who vanished a year ago and were able to scavenge food, clothes and matches from his backpack.
Brandon Day and Gina […]

News: Workers Drink Rum from an Old Barrel, Find Corpse Inside

May 4th, 2006

From YahooNews: 
Hungary workers get shock at bottom of rum barrel
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungarian builders who drank their way to the bottom of a huge barrel of rum while renovating a house got a nasty surprise when a pickled corpse tumbled out of the empty barrel, a police magazine website reported.
According to online magazine www.zsaru.hu, workers […]

News: 16 Year Old Executes Father’s Killer in Somalia

May 3rd, 2006

Wow.  State Sanctioned Executions By Knife Wielding 16-year olds.  I sure am glad I live in The United States of America where we don’t have such an odd culture of State Sponsored death, and are protected by the 8th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.  Whewwww.
From The BBC: 
Boy, 16, executes father’s killer
A teenage Somali boy has […]

News: Lethal Injection Fails on First Try, Condemned Man Sits up And Says “It’s Not Working”

May 3rd, 2006

 
Amendment VIII, United States Constitution:
“Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.”
Yet another example of the United States Constitution being ignored, pretty much from its inception.  Unless that is, someone can explain to me how hanging someone from a rope, shooting them at a firing line,  pumping their […]

News: Skeleton Found in Tree House

April 27th, 2006

From SFGATE.COM:
Dead man found in tree house, Officials say body was there a year before discovery.
Jaxon Van Derbeken, Chronicle Staff Writer
Some 150 feet down a steep hillside overlooking the Pacific Ocean, on a makeshift home woven into the lower branches of a cypress tree, a man somehow met his end.
His skeletal remains were found April […]

News: Gang of Terrorist “Dead Ender” Chimps Escape from Preserve to Attack and Kill Americans

April 24th, 2006

                       
Todays Terrorist Chimp      Tomorrow’s Ape Overlords
 
From NEWSDAY.COM:
Police Hunt for Chimps After Fatal Attack
By CLARENCE ROY-MACAULAY
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — Police hunted Monday for chimpanzees that escaped from a Sierra Leone preserve and mauled a group of American and local sightseers, killing one man and injuring four people.
The U.S. Embassy warned Americans against traveling to the […]

News: Giant Sinkhole Swallows Man in his Kitchen

April 24th, 2006

 
From CNN.COM:
Man dies when large hole opens in home
ALTA, California (AP — It was like a scene from a horror film: A 27-year-old man plummeted into a gaping hole that suddenly opened beneath a house, trapping him beneath foundation rubble and killing him.
Authorities say the home, built in the 1980s, may have been sitting atop […]

News: 3 Ski Patrol Members Fall Into Volcano

April 6th, 2006

 
From CNN.COM:
Fall into volcanic vent kills ski patrollers
Three die at California resort after heavy snowstorm
MAMMOTH LAKES, California (AP) — Three members of a ski patrol team died Thursday when they fell into a volcanic fissure at the Mammoth Mountain resort, officials said.
Whether they were killed by the 21-foot fall or were also affected by gases […]