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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/18/2012 10:32:41 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/18/2012 10:33:10 PM   
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1939: Finnish actress Sirkka Sari died when she fell down a chimney into a heating boiler. She had mistaken the chimney for a balcony.


How can you mistake a chimey for a balcony???



Well, she was Finnish.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/18/2012 10:33:48 PM   
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One of the most famous pictures/videos in history, I guess...

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/18/2012 10:34:04 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/18/2012 10:34:08 PM   
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1940: Marcus Garvey died as a result of two strokes after reading a negative premature obituary of himself.




That was the "back to Africa" guy, right?

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/18/2012 10:34:47 PM   
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1939: Finnish actress Sirkka Sari died when she fell down a chimney into a heating boiler. She had mistaken the chimney for a balcony.


How can you mistake a chimey for a balcony???



Well, she was Finnish.


We should ask Puhis whether both look alike in Finland

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/18/2012 10:35:20 PM   
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Status: offline 		1966: Skydiver Nick Piantanida died from the effects of uncontrolled decompression four months after an attempt to break the world record for the highest parachute jump. During his third attempt, his face mask came loose (or he possibly opened it by mistake), causing loss of air pressure and irreversible brain damage.


Men's hunt for records...

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/18/2012 10:36:00 PM   
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1942: 32 men died when the British cruiser HMS Trinidad accidentally torpedoed itself.

Oops!


But the Americans can do that as well:

1944: 74 men died when the US Submarine Tang (SS-306) accidentally torpedoed itself during a combat patrol off the coast of Taiwan.


Dont know about the Trinidad but the Tang sinking was linked to faulty gyros, iirc.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/18/2012 10:36:25 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/18/2012 10:36:54 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/18/2012 10:37:10 PM   
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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.


Damn powerfull salute!


"Mistakenly". Uh huh...

[shakes fist] lousy redcoats!


IIRC thts exactly what the rest of the US said. Wasnt that the incident that cause the US to take Hawaii from Britain?

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/18/2012 10:37:10 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/18/2012 10:37:56 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/18/2012 10:38:15 PM   
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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/18/2012 10:38:17 PM   
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Two at once:

1945: Scientist Harry K. Daghlian, Jr. accidentally dropped a brick of tungsten carbide onto a sphere of plutonium (known as the Demon core) while working on the Manhattan Project. This caused the plutonium to come to criticality; Daghlian died of radiation poisoning, becoming the first person to die in a criticality accident.

1946: Louis Slotin, chemist and physicist, died of radiation poisoning after being exposed to lethal amounts of ionizing radiation from the same core that killed Harry K. Daghlian, Jr. The core went critical after a screwdriver he was using to separate the halves of the spherical beryllium reflector slipped.





No one said it was safe.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/18/2012 10:39:07 PM   
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Unfortunately already with children, so no candidate for the Darwin Awards.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/18/2012 10:39:40 PM   
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I guess there can be worse ways to go!

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/18/2012 10:39:53 PM   
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Poor women. Dying by suffered burns eem to be one of the worst ways possible to me.


Dunno. Dying from infected monkey bites isn't high on my list either, Torsten.


So stay away from monkeys.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/18/2012 10:40:25 PM   
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1771: Adolf Frederick, King of Sweden, died of digestion problems on 12 February 1771 after having consumed a meal of lobster, caviar, sauerkraut, smoked herring and champagne, topped off with 14 servings of his favourite dessert: hetvägg served in a bowl of hot milk. He is thus remembered by Swedish schoolchildren as "the king who ate himself to death."

Sauerkraut!





Nothing wrong with that meal...except the herring. Whats hetvagg?

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


That looks delicious.

yeah!

I can perfectly well understand 14 servings of this!


And gluttony is only a minor sin, after all.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/18/2012 10:40:43 PM   
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Status: offline 		1975: Pit Dernitz, a tourist in Namibia, was killed by lions in front of his wife and children during a filming excursion. On an impulse, Dernitz had left his vehicle to film a feeding lion and within seconds he was tackled by a large lioness. Footage of his death has been featured in many films, including Savage Man Savage Beast and Traces of Death.


The video can be found on the internet by googleing the name. I deliberately didn't link it here and I wouldn't recommend anyone to watch it if he can't stand REAL graphic violence!


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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/18/2012 10:41:22 PM   
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1955: Margo Jones, theater director, was killed by exposure to carbon tetrachloride fumes from her newly cleaned carpet.

Good excuse for letting a WU clean the house!


Any science type out there that can explain what that stuff is?

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/18/2012 10:41:56 PM   
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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.

You gotta love working with professionals!


The show must go on.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/18/2012 10:42:04 PM   
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1771: Adolf Frederick, King of Sweden, died of digestion problems on 12 February 1771 after having consumed a meal of lobster, caviar, sauerkraut, smoked herring and champagne, topped off with 14 servings of his favourite dessert: hetvägg served in a bowl of hot milk. He is thus remembered by Swedish schoolchildren as "the king who ate himself to death."

Sauerkraut!





Nothing wrong with that meal...except the herring. Whats hetvagg?

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


That looks delicious.

yeah!

I can perfectly well understand 14 servings of this!


And gluttony is only a minor sin, after all.






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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/18/2012 10:42:44 PM   
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1959: In the Dyatlov Pass incident, nine ski hikers in the Ural Mountains abandoned their camp in the middle of the night, some clad only in their underwear despite sub-zero weather. Six died of hypothermia and three by unexplained injuries. The corpses showed no signs of struggle, but one had a fatal skull fracture, two had major chest fractures, and one was missing her tongue. Soviet investigators determined only that "a compelling unknown force" had caused the deaths.


Russians...



Yetti. Slightly more dangerous than monkeys.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/18/2012 10:43:38 PM   
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1960: Inejiro Asanuma, 61, the head of the Japanese Socialist Party, was stabbed to death with a wakizashi sword by extreme rightist Otoya Yamaguchi during a televised political rally.





Couldnt have done it properly and used a katana, eh?

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/18/2012 10:43:43 PM   
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1955: Margo Jones, theater director, was killed by exposure to carbon tetrachloride fumes from her newly cleaned carpet.

Good excuse for letting a WU clean the house!


Any science type out there that can explain what that stuff is?

A molecule with 4 Cl atoms

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/18/2012 10:44:33 PM   
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Status: offline 		1976: Keith Relf, former singer for British rhythm and blues band The Yardbirds, died while practicing his electric guitar. He was electrocuted by an improperly grounded amplifier.


Using electric enhancement to music seems dangerous...

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/18/2012 10:44:37 PM   
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1963: Thích Quảng Đức, a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, sat down in the middle of a busy intersection in Saigon, covered himself in gasoline, and lit himself on fire, burning himself to death.


One of the most famous pictures/videos in history, I guess...


Yep. Although it does seem to be quite the rage these days in Tibet.

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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/18/2012 10:45:00 PM   
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Status: offline 		1977: Tom Pryce, a Formula One driver at the 1977 South African Grand Prix, was killed when he was struck in the face by a track marshal's fire extinguisher. The marshal, Frederik Jansen van Vuuren, was running across the track to attend to Pryce's team-mate's burning car when he was struck and killed by Pryce's car. Van Vuuren himself was literally torn in half as the car ploughed into him at speeds exceeding 270 km/h (170 mph).



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RE: THE THREAD!!! - 8/18/2012 10:45:10 PM   
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1966: Worth Bingham, son of Barry Bingham, Sr., died when a surfboard, lying atop the back of his convertible, hit a parked car, swung around, and broke his neck.





Dumbass.

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