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Bizarre Deaths by Nobody: 12:12pm On Sep 23, 2014
Ya,so i'm back again with my horrific postings,i came across this post,i actually felt some of these things were funny,had a good laugh and wanted to share it here;

Austrian Hans Steininger was famed for having the world’s longest beard: 4.5ft (nearly 1.4m) long.
But one day in 1567 there was a fire in his home town of Braunau.
In his haste to escape the he forgot to roll up his beard (which he used to stuff into a leather pouch).
He tripped over it, broke his neck, and died.

Moon liver
In the year 763, starry-eyed poet Li Bai, 63, tried to kiss the reflection of the moon in the water next to his boat, fell overboard and drowned.
His liking for liquor may have proved a factor.
One of his poems was Alone and Drinking Under the Moon.

Serves him bite
Sigurd the Mighty, second Viking Earl of Orkney, decapitated his enemy Mael Brigte and put the head on his horse’s saddle as a trophy.
But the teeth grazed his leg as??he rode, causing a fatal infection in 92 BC.

Bitter sweet: The Boston Molasses Disaster
Sticky end
The Boston Molasses Disaster of 1919 killed 21 people and hurt 150 when a tank holding more than a million gallons of the stuff exploded.
The blast sent a sticky wave through the city at a speed of 35mph.

Fatal flambé
Charles II of Navarre was wrapped in brandy-soaked linen when he fell ill in 1387.
But the servant sewing him in forgot her scissors and used a candle to cut the thread.
When it all went up in flames she scarpered, leaving him to burn alive.

Timber: A coffin
Casket case
French undertaker Marc Bourjade died when a pile of coffins in his workshop fell on him in 1982.
He was buried in one of the same caskets.

Dying for a wee
Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe died at 54 in Prague in 1601.
His bladder burst and he developed an infection because leaving the table at a banquet to relieve himself would have breached etiquette.

Dying for a Wii
Jennifer Strange, 28, of California died of water intoxication trying to win a Nintendo Wii console in a radio contest in 2007.
Called “Hold Your Wee for a Wii” contestants had to drink as much water as possible without going to the loo.

Killer heels: Clowns
Clowning around
William Snyder of Cincinnati died at 13 in 1854.
His death certificate said he was “killed by being swung around by the heels by a circus clown.”

Sparked out
Murderer Michael Anderson Godwin escaped the electric chair but was electrocuted anyway.
Serving life in 1983, he tried to fix his TV headphones while sitting on a steel-rimmed loo in his South Carolina cell.
He bit into a wire and and was killed at once.

Ass the way to go
In 207 BC the Greek philosopher Chrysippus died laughing – after getting his donkey drunk on wine and watching it try to eat figs.

Unlucky strike
In 1981 Paul Gauchi, 41, from Malta, made himself a mallet by welding an old tin can on to a metal pipe.
The can turned out to be a wartime butterfly bomb, which exploded and killed him.

Adolf Frederick, King of Sweden, ate himself to death in 1771, gorging on lobster, caviar, sauerkraut, smoked herring and champagne, plus 14 servings of pudding in hot milk.

Barking sad
A dog fell out of a 13th floor window in Buenos Aires and killed a woman of 75.
Several onlookers were hit by a bus and another woman died.
A male witness then died at the scene after a heart attack.

Ecky-Slump
In 1975, Alex Mitchell from King’s Lynn, Norfolk, laughed so hard at the Ecky-Thump episode of hit BBC comedy The Goodies that he died of a heart failure.
His widow later wrote to the stars of the show to thank them for making her husband’s last minutes of life so happy.

Dead winger
In 2001 Roger Wallace was killed by by his own radio-controlled plane.
He lost sight of it in the Arizona sun and it smashed into his head at 40mph.

Pigged out
In 2012 Oregon farmer Terry Vance Garner, 69, went out to feed his pigs – but they ate him instead.
Nothing but his dentures and a few pieces of his body were found.
Investigators believe he fell over and passed out first, possibly after a heart attack.

Fatal four-play
Five of Nigerian polygamist Uroko Onoja’s six wives brandished knives and sticks and forced him to have sex with them one after the other.
He managed four of them, but then collapsed dead.

Jaws of disaster
In 2010, 20 crew and passengers died in a plane crash in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
One traveller was smuggling a crocodile in a sports bag but it freed itself in mid-air and everyone ran towards the flight deck in a panic.
The tiny Filair plane was left hopelessly unbalanced and went into a terminal dive, despite the lack of any technical failure.
Only one passenger survived. And the crocodile.
Downfall: Chelsea Tumbleston and Brent Tyler

Eave of destruction
Lovebirds Brent Tyler and Chelsea Tumbleston, both 21, fell 50ft from a rooftop in South Carolina while in the throes on passionate sex in 2007.
Their naked bodies were found in the road by a taxi driver.lol

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