What a way to go !

SteamWake · 12-29-08, 11:45 AM

List of 'unusual deaths'...

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

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

HunterICX · 12-29-08, 03:22 PM

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''

HunterICX

SteamWake · 12-29-08, 03:51 PM

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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:

Digital_Trucker · 12-29-08, 04:31 PM

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Originally Posted by SteamWake

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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.

12-29-08, 05:21 PM

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1410: Martin I of Aragon died from a lethal combination of indigestion and uncontrollable laughing.

After christmas I can sort of relate to that.

A Very Super Market · 12-29-08, 06:27 PM

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

Frame57 · 12-29-08, 07:54 PM

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Originally Posted by A Very Super Market

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

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

Task Force · 12-29-08, 09:47 PM

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Originally Posted by A Very Super Market

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

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.

UnderseaLcpl · 12-30-08, 02:04 AM

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.

A Very Super Market · 12-30-08, 02:23 AM

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 Very Super Market · 12-30-08, 02:24 AM

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!!!

porphy · 12-30-08, 04:00 AM

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!

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

cheers porphy

Stealth Hunter · 12-30-08, 06:32 AM

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)?

Dowly · 12-30-08, 09:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Stealth Hunter

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.

SteamWake · 12-30-08, 11:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Stealth Hunter

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)?

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

12-29-08, 11:45 AM	#1
SteamWake Rear Admiral Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 13,224 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	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

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HunterICX Rear Admiral Join Date: May 2006 Location: Malaga, España Posts: 10,750 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 0	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'' HunterICX __________________

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A Very Super Market The Old Man Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Deep in the Wild Canadian suburbs. Posts: 1,468 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Some of them are more....absolutely disgusting than unusual. Like that little girl who had her intestines sucked out of her rectum __________________ The entire German garrison of Vanviken, right here in your thread!

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UnderseaLcpl Silent Hunter Join Date: May 2008 Location: Storming the beaches! Posts: 4,254 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	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. __________________ I stole this sig from Task Force

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A Very Super Market The Old Man Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Deep in the Wild Canadian suburbs. Posts: 1,468 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	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!!! __________________ The entire German garrison of Vanviken, right here in your thread!

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A Very Super Market The Old Man Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Deep in the Wild Canadian suburbs. Posts: 1,468 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	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!!! __________________ The entire German garrison of Vanviken, right here in your thread!

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porphy Commodore Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Sweden Posts: 603 Downloads: 4 Uploads: 0	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! An infamous way to go from the world of mountaineering is the story of Tony Kurz (1913-1936) link cheers porphy __________________ "The only remedy for madness is the innocence of facts." O. Mirbeu "A paranoid is simply someone in possession of all the facts." W. B. Last edited by porphy; 12-30-08 at 04:01 AM.

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Stealth Hunter Silent Hunter Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Y'ha-Nthlei Posts: 4,262 Downloads: 19 Uploads: 0	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)?