There are times when I have a few moments to spare. It doesn't happen often, but when it does I like to take advantage of it. My first preference is a nap. A close 2nd is sharing a lunch or dinner break with friends. #3? Finding craziness on the web.
For instance, today I found a page on Wiki (that's slang for Wikipedia) that lists all kids of unusual deaths. I have often been overheard saying, "I'd rather die from eating too much cheesecake, than by getting hit by a bus." However true that may be, there are many people who's deaths have taken the cake. For example:
456 BC: Aeschylus, a Greek playwright, was killed when an eagle dropped a live tortoise on him, mistaking his bald head for a stone. The tortoise survived. (Of course it did!)
162 BC: Eleazar Maccabeus was crushed to death by a war elephant that he believed to be carrying a King; charging into battle, Eleazar rushed underneath the elephant and thrust a spear into its belly, whereupon it fell dead on top of him. (Now that was just poor planning!)
892: Sigurd the Mighty of Orkney strapped the head of a defeated foe to his leg, the tooth of which grazed against him as he rode his horse, causing the infection which killed him. (Serves him right!)
1322: Humphrey de Bohun, was fatally speared through the anus by a pikeman hiding under a bridge during a battle. (Would that be considered good aim? Have Mercy!)
1514: György Dózsa was condemned to sit on a red-hot iron throne with a red-hot iron crown on his head and a red-hot scepter in his hand, mocking at his ambition to be king. (If you ask me, that's just overkill.)
1981: Carl McCunn paid a bush pilot to drop him at a remote lake in Alaska to photograph wildlife, but failed to confirm arrangements for the pilot to pick him up again in August. Rather than starve, McCunn shot himself in the head. ("Let's see... I feel like I am forgetting something..."
And here's the worst one:
2005: Kenneth Pinyan of Gig Harbor, Washington died of acute peritonitis after submitting to anal intercourse with a stallion. Pinyan delayed his visit to the hospital for several hours out of reluctance to admit what happened. (Really? I mean, REALLY?)
Looking for more? Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths
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