(February 18, 2014 at 6:10 pm)Bad Wolf Wrote:(February 18, 2014 at 4:48 pm)Godschild Wrote: Only the sick of mind and heart would find a death hilarious, yes I mean you Ryan.
I don't know about that. Some of these are pretty gosh darn funny!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths
Here are a couple highlights I found:
Quote:455 BC: Aeschylus, the great Athenian author of tragedies. Valerius Maximus wrote that he was killed by a tortoise dropped by an eagle that had mistaken his head for a rock suitable for shattering the shell of the reptile. Pliny, in his Naturalis Historiæ, adds that Aeschylus had been staying outdoors to avert a prophecy that he would be killed by a falling object
Quote:1871, Clement Vallandigham, a lawyer and Ohio politician defending a man on a charge of murder, accidentally shot himself demonstrating how the victim might have shot himself while in the process of drawing a weapon when standing from a kneeling position. Though the defendant, Thomas McGehan, was ultimately cleared, Vallandigham died from his wound
Quote:1958: Gareth Jones, actor, collapsed and died between scenes of a live television play, Underground, at the studios of Associated British Corporation in Manchester. Director Ted Kotcheff continued the play to its conclusion, improvising around Jones' absence. Coincidentally, Jones' character was to have a heart-attack, which is what Jones suffered and died of
Quote:1993: Garry Hoy, a 38-year-old lawyer in Toronto, fell to his death on 9 July 1993, after he threw himself against a window on the 24th floor of the Toronto-Dominion Centre in an attempt to prove to a group of visitors that the glass was "unbreakable," a demonstration he had done many times before. The glass did not break, but popped out of the window frame.
How can anyone say these deaths aren't hilarious?
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
