Story Stories of Weird Deaths

[maniac116]

FALLING...

Bobby Leach was famous as the second person to go over the Niagara Falls in a barrel, surviving the falls with very serious injuries that took him 6 months to recover from. 15 years after the feat, he fell again, in a much less dramatic fashion this time. Leach slipped on an orange peel on the street. What, were there no banana peels around? As minor as it may have seemed, his fall caused an infection in his leg that was so serious that he eventually passed away from the medical complications it had caused.

 

[OnMyLast Legs]

Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin, 1915

Alexander Scriabin was a pianist and composer with a rather eccentric streak.
The composer wrote "I am God" in a journal, experimented with tone and harmony in his compositions, and designed a special organ that created projections of colored light instead of music when played. His final work was to be the Mysterium, a grandiose piece which would last seven days and be played at the foothills of the Himalayas in India. Scriabin believed that bells hung from clouds would gather people to this location and that the Mysterium would usher in an armageddon, transforming the earth into a world of total bliss. Alas, the earth kept spinning as usual because of an ordinary razor blade. Scriabin died at age 43 after nicking himself while shaving and becoming infected with sepsis or blood poisoning.

And if I went at my carotid with a razor I'd fail

 

[maniac116]

MEL IGNATOW...

Was tried and convicted for the murder of Brenda Sue Schafer in 1988 based on evidential photos that showed the woman being brutalized by an unidentified male. The moles on Ignatow's body provided a match to the man in the picture and became concrete evidence that he killed this woman.

He brutally beat her to death while he bound her to a GLASS coffee table, bludgeoning her body until it was lifeless on that glass coffee table. However, Ignatow got away with only ten years because of perjury and double jeopardy, whereas he would have served a life sentence otherwise.

Several years later, in a freak accident, he tripped and fell in his apartment... onto a glass coffee table. The coffee table's glass cut and maimed him so bad, that he lost too much blood for authorities to do anything about his situation. As he succumbed to the fatal cuts on his head and arms, his final thoughts must have been dominated by the fact that what killed him also killed his victim. The irony is, most likely, what killed him.

 

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This thread has really gotten a lot larger than I ever thought it might.

 

[maniac116]

This thread has really gotten a lot larger than I ever thought it might.

No kidding! I never expected the thread to last even a month.

 

[KlMeNw]

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We're all familiar with the fact that chickens can live after their heads have been cut off (sometimes for 18 months at a time) — but did you know that cobras can survive decapitation, too? It's true. In 2014, chef Peng Fan of China's Guandong Province died after being bitten by the severed head of a cobra. Peng had cut the head off the snake 20 minutes earlier in order to dice its body for soup; however, when he went to dispose of the head, it bit him. Unfortunately anti-venom was not able to be provided in time, and Peng died from the bite.

Source: https://www.bustle.com/articles/117...-10-years-show-that-anything-could-kill-us-at

Chickens cannot survive decapitation. That is a myth.

 

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Chickens cannot survive decapitation. That is a myth.

It's best if you check facts before speaking.

And just so we're clear......I did NOT say that a chicken will survive in PERPETUITY after having its head cut off. They survive for A WHILE, as do snakes.

 

[KlMeNw]

It's best if you check facts before speaking.

And just so we're clear......I did NOT say that a chicken will survive in PERPETUITY after having its head cut off. They survive for A WHILE, as do snakes.

Jesus, first, you said that the chicken survived for 18 minutes, to tal BS. Second, there is a difference between surviving, and neurons firing off randomly and creating movements. Even if the chicken is running around thats just because those were the last instructions the brain sent the legs before decapitation. Either way thats not surviving.

 

[maniac116]

"STONE THE CROWS GUITARIST DIES ONSTAGE"
Leslie Harvey died while on stage with Stone the Crows at the Suite in Swansea on 3 May 1972.
He was electrocuted in front of a live audience when he touched a microphone that was not grounded while the fingers of his other hand were holding the strings of his guitar. A roadie attempted to unplug the guitar, but was unsuccessful. An ambulance was called but Harvey was pronounced dead on arrival from his injuries, aged 27. ( That's an odd way to join the "27 club lol)

It has been incorrectly stated that the incident happened "on a rainy day with puddles on the stage"; however, Swansea Top Rank was an indoor venue and therefore this was not possible.