dead unlucky
ok,i know this thread is to cheer people up.
i found this in the paper today
i thought you may want to read about these poor misfortunate souls and there sudden bizzare way of leaving this world.
link was too long,you can go to
www.dailymail.co.uk and type in dead unlucky in search.
these are extracts from a new book 101 ways to die.
here are a few of the weirdest.
A 58-year-old man from Albany, Australia, was blowing a chewing gum bubble while driving when it burst and stuck to his glasses. Blinded, he drove off the road and plunged down a hill to his death.
A 40-year-old golfer was killed by a rat which ran up his trouser leg while he hunted for a lost ball at Caddockstown golf course in County Kildare, Ireland. Doctors believe that the deadly Weil's disease carried by the rat was passed from the victim's fingers to his mouth, when he touched his leg and then smoked a cigar.
A man from Cambridgeshire was killed in February 2004 when his wardrobe fell to the floor and pinned the door shut while he was cleaning inside. He was found dead inside after trying to gouge his way out for a week.
In the United States, an average of ten people a year meet their end after breathing in gas from manure pits. In 1989, five dairy farm workers from Michigan died after becoming overcome by methane fumes when one of them slipped into a manure pit, and the others went to try to rescue him.
In March 1989, in South Carolina, prisoner Michael Anderson Godwin, who had recently had his sentence of execution by electric chair reduced to life imprisonment, died while he was sitting on the metal toilet in his cell. He was trying to fix his TV set, bit into the wire and electrocuted himself.
In March 1992, Russian chess grand master Gudkov outwitted and checkmated a computer three times in a row at a public tournament in Moscow. The next time he touched the machine, however, it electrocuted him and, despite being rushed to hospital, he died.
In 1996, a peasant woman who was boiling plums to make brandy in the Romanian village of Ruginoasa died when the flames under her stove set off a buried World War II shell.
In November 2005, Li Xiao Meng, 16, a budding guitarist from China, got so carried away while bouncing on his bed mimicking a rock star that he flew out of his window and fell three floors to his death.
Shy Japanese couple Sachi and Tomio Hidaka waited 14 years before making love for the first time in 1992. The excitement proved too much and both died of heart attacks, although neither had a history of heart trouble.
A Brazilian pilot was showing off to his girlfriend by performing loop-the-loops over her house in his Cessna aircraft. At the bottom of one loop, he flew low over the house and shouted 'I love you' - just before the wing of his plane clipped the chimney and sent the plane crashing to the ground, killing him instantly.
take good care,you never know .
caroline