Strange accidents & deaths

[Delta40]

I have been smiling at some of the odd ways people cease to exist. for example:

Fire authorities in California found a corpse in a burned-out section of forest while assessing the damage done by a forest fire. The deceased male was dressed in a full wet suit, complete with scuba tanks on his back, flippers, and face mask.

A postmortem test revealed that the man died not from burns, but from massive internal injuries. Dental records provided a positive identification. Investigators then set about to determine how a fully clothed diver ended up in the middle of a forest fire.

It was revealed that on the day of the fire, the man went diving off the coast, some 20 miles from the forest. The fire fighters, seeking to control the fire as quickly as possible, had called in a fleet of helicopters with very large dip buckets. Water was dipped from the ocean and emptied at the site of the forest fire.

You guessed it. One minute our diver was making like Flipper in the Pacific, the next, he was doing the breast stroke in a fire dip bucket 300 feet in the air.


I feel for the family but calculating the odds of this happening is - well how many to one???

[Delta40]

and the price for hurting nature is two seals of approval!

The average cost of rehabilitating a seal after the Exxon Valdes oil spill in Alaska was $80,000. At a special ceremony, two of the most expensively saved animals were being released back into the wild amid cheers and applause from onlookers. A minute later, in full view, a killer whale ate them both.

[ClaesGefvenberg]

Fire authorities in California found a corpse in a burned-out section of forest while assessing the damage done by a forest fire. The deceased male was dressed in a full wet suit, complete with scuba tanks on his back, flippers, and face mask.You may want to have a look at snopes.com (http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/scuba.asp) (Urban Legends Reference Pages), where this tale is listed as false. According to them it could not happen, which makes the odds astronomical.

/Claes

[Delta40]

you might be right, but it was a mouth opener all the same!

[ClaesGefvenberg]

you might be right, but it was a mouth opener all the same!Indeed, but then again, most urban legends are. Come to think of it: How about a peek at http://www.darwinawards.com/? Those tales are supposed to be true.

/Claes

[Delta40]

heh, heh. I like this one

Another account from the archives of a 30-year ER MD.
In the late fall and early winter months, snow-covered mountains become infested with hunters. One ambitious pair climbed high up a mountain in search of their quarry. The trail crossed a small glacier that had crusted over. The lead hunter had to stomp a foot-hold in the snow, one step at a time, in order to cross the glacier.

Somewhere near the middle of the glacier, his next stomp hit not snow but a rock. The lead hunter lost his footing and fell. Down the crusty glacier he zipped, off the edge and out of sight.

Unable to help, his companion watched him slide away. After a while, he shouted out, "Are you OK?"

"Yes!" came the answer.

Reasoning that it was a quick way off the glacier, the second hunter plopped down and accelerated down the ice, following his friend. There, just over the edge of the glacier, was his friend...holding onto the top of a tree that barely protruded from the snow.

There were no other treetops nearby, nothing to grab, nothing but a hundred-foot drop onto the rocks below. As the second hunter shot past the first, he uttered his final epitaph: a single word, which we may not utter lest our mothers soap our mouths.

[Delta40]

these are confirmed stories!

http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2004-27.html

[OrphanPip]

Ya, I have the Darwin Awards book, they're funny in a sort of morbid way.

[Emil Miller]

Quite recently, police discovered a large padlocked hold-all resting in a bath at the flat of a missing British Intelligence officer. When it was opened, they discovered his body. The BBC reported that the police "are treating the death as suspicious. "