Wiki\'s List of Unusual Deaths
 

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

The great thing about the list is, it's clickable! Want more details on the wacky story? Just click!

My fav:

2003: Brian Wells, a pizza delivery man in Erie, PA, was killed by a time bomb which was fastened around his neck. He was apprehended by the police after robbing a bank, and claimed he had been forced to do it by three people who had put the bomb around his neck and would kill him if he refused. The bomb later exploded, killing him. In 2007, police alleged Wells was involved in the robbery plot along with two other conspirators.

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(Edit to add: Boy, Mel Gibson got off easy at the end of "Braveheart", compared to what Willy Wallace really had to go through. Yes, I know that they originally filmed it for authenticity, and had to edit it dramatically because film-goers in the test screenings couldn't handle it.)

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1899: French president Félix Faure died of a stroke while receiving oral sex in his office.

The French always seem to get this stuff right.

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"The Greek playwright Aeschylus was killed when an eagle dropped a live tortoise on him, mistaking his bald head for a stone."

Wow!

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not a good way to go...

1327: Edward II of England, after being deposed and imprisoned by his Queen consort Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer, was rumored to have been murdered by having a red-hot iron inserted into his anus.[8]

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4 BC: Herod the Great suffered from fever, intense rashes, colon pains, foot drop, inflammation of the abdomen, a putrefaction of his genitals that produced worms, convulsions, and difficulty breathing before he finally gave up. [3] Similar symptoms-- abdominal pains and worms-- accompanied the death of his grandson Herod Agrippa in 44 AD, after he had imprisoned St Peter. At various times each of these deaths has been considered divine retribution.

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Yikes!

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1671: François Vatel, chef to Louis XIV, committed suicide because his seafood order was late and he couldn't stand the shame of a postponed meal. His body was discovered by an aide, sent to tell him of the arrival of the fish.

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the brazen bull:

"..a brazen bull, made totally of brass, hollow, with a door in the side. The condemned was shut up in the bull and a fire was set under it, heating the metal until it became "yellow hot" and causing the person inside to quickly roast to death."

Yikes

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This wasn't that long ago. It makes me laugh every time.

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2006: Ohtaj Humbat ohli Makhmudov, a 45 year old Azerbaijani man, lowered himself by a rope into a lion enclosure at the Kyiv zoo, and shouted to horrified zoo visitors, "God will save me, if he exists!" Moments later a lioness pounced on him, severing his carotid artery and killing him instantly.[41]

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Uh, winner?

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2001: Bernd-Jürgen Brandes was stabbed repeatedly in the neck and then eaten by Armin Meiwes. Before the killing, both men dined on Brandes' severed penis. Brandes had answered an internet advertisement by Meiwes looking for someone for this purpose. Brandes explicitly stated in his will that he wished to be killed and eaten.

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the brazen bull:

"..a brazen bull, made totally of brass, hollow, with a door in the side. The condemned was shut up in the bull and a fire was set under it, heating the metal until it became "yellow hot" and causing the person inside to quickly roast to death."

Yikes

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wow... i doubt he roasted quickly enough!