What a way to go !
 

List of 'unusual deaths'...

I think the first is my favorite 'the turtle survived' :p

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

1794: John Kendrick, an American sea captain and explorer, was killed in the Hawaiian Islands when a British ship mistakenly used a loaded cannon to fire a salute to Kendrick's vessel

''Whoopsie''

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Garry Hoy, a Toronto lawyer, fell to his death after he threw himself through the glass wall on the 24th floor of the Toronto-Dominion Centre in order to prove the glass was unbreakable. The pane didn't break, but instead popped out of its frame

Well he proved his point :hmm:

Not exactly, he may have just proved shoddy workmanship in installing the window pane:rotfl:If the pane had been installed properly, then perhaps it would have broken.

Some of them are more....absolutely disgusting than unusual. Like that little girl who had her intestines sucked out of her rectum:o

OMG! I remember that. The poor girl was in swimming pool as i recall. Yikes...

And what lesson do we learn from this... Never get to close to the sucky things in pools.

Yea, some of them are kind of weird.

Another quick "stranger than fiction tale" fromthe book "Death Traps" (can't remember author's name, but he worked as a tank recovery specialist in the European campaign in ww2)

Evidently, a Sherman tank with a 76mm gun was hit and utterly destroyed by a Panzerkampfwagen V Panther. The complete lack of a frontal impact point, substantiated by witness accounts that the tank was not hit from behind, as well as the apparent impact point of the shell (rear turret, interior) suggested that the Panther's 75mm shell had more or less gone straight up the barrel of the Sherman's 76mm gun as the breech was opened to reload.

If that really happened, it would be the most GLORIOUS thing ever to occur.

But it probably didn't

I find it very doubtful that a AP shell could go up the very long 76mm Firefly gun with only 1mm of breathing space and then not break through the turret wall. If it was HE, the slightest bump would have caused it to explode inside the gun. Lies LIES!!!

If that really happened, it would be the most GLORIOUS thing ever to occur.

But it probably didn't

I find it very doubtful that a AP shell could go up the very long 76mm Firefly gun with only 1mm of breathing space and then not break through the turret wall. If it was HE, the slightest bump would have caused it to explode inside the gun. Lies LIES!!!

A sobering read... :)

It actually reminded me of two odd volumes of books I have, About Death. Written in early twentieth century by a danish surgeon Oscar Bloch , the first volume examines all kinds of death from a physiological point of view. Death by thirst, explosion, suffocation etc. The second volume is a 300 pages list of how famous persons throughout history died. And it goes into some detail as well... I might be able to expand the Wiki page! :know:

An infamous way to go from the world of mountaineering is the story of Tony Kurz (1913-1936) link


cheers porphy

Why didn't they include Marcus Crassus, who, after being defeated by the Persians, had molten gold poured down his throat, mocking the fact that he was the wealthiest man of his time (indeed one of the wealthiest in history)?

Dont know, but someone seems to have shared his fate:

1219: According to legend, Inalchuk, the Muslim governor of the Central Asian town of Otrar, was captured and killed by the invading Mongols, who poured molten silver in his eyes, ears, and throat.

There was some mention about someone having molten silver poured into his eyes, ears, and throat.