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- orchardo, on 01/16/2008, -4/+94Great list. But Dick Shawn isn't the only comedian to die on stage while telling a joke -- Dane Cook does it with every single performance.
- Paktu, on 01/16/2008, -0/+29It's really impressive that Li Po managed to become a great Chinese poet despite only living to the age of 5.
- AndrewDB, on 01/16/2008, -0/+28Don't forget Carlos Mencia..
He can't even steal jokes right. - JLecker, on 01/16/2008, -0/+27RIP, Robert Williams and Kenji Urada--the first martyrs in the war against the machines.
- ordig, on 01/16/2008, -4/+26"In keeping with Channel 40’s policy of bringing you the latest in blood and guts, and in living color, you are going to see another first: an attempted suicide." With that, Chubbuck drew up a revolver and shot herself in the head.
best suicide ever - JLecker, on 01/16/2008, -1/+16Another suicide on live TV:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budd_Dwyer
This one is probably more famous than Christine Chubbuck's. - jmpeagle, on 01/16/2008, -0/+13I don't believe in Karma but that lifeguard party was just asking for something to go wrong
- pogle, on 01/16/2008, -0/+12Always impressive what people get themselves into.
- Grommy, on 01/16/2008, -1/+10I have yet to see a "Strangest Deaths Ever!!" article without Li Po in it.
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————-———-- - jmpeagle, on 01/16/2008, -0/+8"A number of television stations throughout Pennsylvania aired taped footage of Dwyer's suicide before a mid-day audience. Due to a major snowstorm throughout Pennsylvania that day, many schools were closed and many school-aged children were witness to the suicide."
-wow, that must have been a fun family moment as the parents watched in horror and their children cried.... - chingy1788, on 01/16/2008, -0/+8Wonder why that woman who died from holding here pee wasn't at least mentioned
- inactive, on 01/16/2008, -1/+8I agree, I do not think I have ever heard Dane Cook tell a single funny joke
- CazMo, on 01/16/2008, -0/+7haha, if anyone ever tells you of a website regarding 2 girls and a cup, IGNORE THEM AT ALL COSTS.
- zappa717, on 01/16/2008, -0/+7How funny. You are very observant!
- QuorumCall, on 01/16/2008, -0/+7Apparently, you can get an infection and die by doing just about anything.
- edwartica, on 01/16/2008, -0/+6Most of the people on the list were buried. Ok, that was grave humor.
- jacko7, on 01/16/2008, -0/+6"Death by Robot
Robert Williams [wiki] was the first man ever killed by a robot. On January 25, 1979, Williams climbed into a storage rack at the Ford Motor’s Flat Rock casting plant to retrieve a part because the parts-retrieval robot malfunctioned. Suddenly, the robot reactivated and slammed its arm into Williams’ head, killing him instantly.
The second death by robot happened just a couple of years afterwards in 1981. Kenji Urada [wiki], a 37-year-old Japanese maintenance engineer was working on a broken robot at a Kawasaki plant when he failed to turn it off. The robot’s mechanical arm accidentally pushed him into a grinding machine."
*****, they've already begun. - BigBallistix, on 01/16/2008, -0/+6Dugg for mentioning Rasputin. When his body was found, it had water in the lungs meaning that the clubbing wasn't what killed him.
- christophelyon, on 01/16/2008, -1/+7Death by snoo-snoo !
- cerealjynx, on 01/16/2008, -0/+5LOL at Tycho Brahe...
- inactive, on 01/16/2008, -3/+7Death by stingray - the crocodile hunter will always be missed in this world.
- yomamaisfat, on 01/16/2008, -1/+5"Mama Cass- deceased: ham sandwich." courtesy of Austin Powers.
- tketch, on 01/16/2008, -0/+4wtf. thats all I have to say....
- buckrogers1965, on 01/16/2008, -0/+4My thought too. Those weren't accidents, those were the first two humans killed in the robot revolution.
- Tarale, on 01/16/2008, -0/+4I thought she was going to be from the description too. Do you mean the "Hold your wee for a Wii" one?
- thesauce, on 01/16/2008, -0/+4I'm a dumbass and I looked up the video. It gave me a VERY uneasy feeling to watch it.
- capiCrimm, on 01/16/2008, -0/+4http://digg.com/odd_stuff/Women_dies_holding_her_W ...
shameless plug - the6thReplicant, on 01/16/2008, -0/+3The list doesn't have my favourite strange death: Death by Laughter
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/laughing.as ...
My fav also for the fact that he did it while watching The Goodies. - edwartica, on 01/16/2008, -0/+3From wikipedia:
An urban legend arose that Elliot died choking on a ham sandwich. Speaking to the press shortly after her body was discovered, the police noted that a partly eaten sandwich had been found in her room and speculated that she may have choked while eating it. When the coroner's autopsy was performed, no food was found in her trachea and the cause of death was determined to have been heart failure and that she had died in her sleep. - HollowMarkeD, on 01/16/2008, -0/+3Funny list :) My fave has to be Jack Daniels, as I'm in early to work today and it feels so wrong; he is proof enough I'll never do it again.
- MadMalc, on 01/16/2008, -0/+3And we thing animals do strange things...
- yacks, on 01/16/2008, -1/+4I wish I would have met you, but now it's a little late. what you could have taught me, i could've saved some face....
- ZisforZebras, on 01/16/2008, -2/+5I wish I could blow everyone's minds and say that Li Po is my great great great grandfather..... But no, he's just my newest hero
- inactive, on 01/16/2008, -0/+2that is quite a photo
- Murdats, on 01/16/2008, -0/+2well its more that the stingray is relatively harmless, and when you work with deadly creatures the last thing one would expect is a passive, (usually) non lethal animal to kill you.
- theholyraptor, on 04/07/2008, -0/+2Today's Hit Music: 107.9 The End
- schweeet, on 01/16/2008, -0/+2Dugg for death by Semla, the Swedish dessert. mmmmmm...
- andnever, on 01/16/2008, -1/+3this title should say, bunch of people die from infections living in a time when antibiotics had not yet been discovered...but i guess that was too wordy
- wedgemartin, on 01/16/2008, -0/+2I second that case.
- Whalen25, on 01/16/2008, -0/+2Filter made a song about Budd Dwyer's suicide, "Hey man, Nice Shot"
- Halsfield, on 01/16/2008, -2/+4i think one of the strangest/saddest deaths ive heard of in a while was a lady who got into a radio contest to win a wii for her son, the contest was to see who could drink the most water in a period of time. Obviously this could kill you, people called into the radio station telling them this but they were ignored. The lady drank a bunch of gallons of water in a very short time, died from it , and now her son doesnt have a mother because of a stupid radio station staff.
- buzmcg, on 01/16/2008, -0/+2Is there a lawyer alive today who would take a bullet for his client? I don't think so.
- Aines, on 01/16/2008, -0/+2So, that's where the guy at penny-arcade.com picked up the nickname Tycho Brahe
- Niubai, on 01/16/2008, -0/+2Death by swing a chair (true story):
More or less 25 years ago I remember a kid in my school that died by swing a chair: you know when you're a kid and you swing a chair with the two chair's back foot on the ground and the two front foot on the air ? So, the kid was doing that, but with the back of the chair close to a wall. The chair slipped backwards and his neck got broken, pressed between the wall and the chair. - DivineComedy, on 01/16/2008, -0/+2He also apparently had ice underneath his fingernails, meaning he'd tried to scratch at the surface.
- wedgemartin, on 01/16/2008, -0/+2Death from holding a pee in? I mean come on... I think all of us have held a pee to what felt like lethal pressure buildup before stopping by McDonalds for a McPee Meal with extra lies...
- theholyraptor, on 04/07/2008, -0/+2Tycho Brahe was the main financial contributor to Kepler, there is a lot more history between those to (and the possibility that the poison in his drink which killed him was from Kepler.)
- yacks, on 01/16/2008, -0/+2Death by Jury Demonstration.. man that lawyer was really dedicated to his case.. wish more lawyers were so dedicated...
- graemee, on 01/16/2008, -0/+2"attracted by her cries in the street. Medical aid was summoned, but it was stated that she had been strangled and killed instantly."
So she died AND cried instantly. The chauffeur did it. -
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