safer to be a couch potato...

456 BC: Aeschylus, Greek dramatist, according to legend, died when a vulture, mistaking his bald head for a stone, dropped a tortoise on it.

1601: Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer, died of a bladder infection after refusing to leave for the bathroom during a banquet for the sake of good manners.

1671: François Vatel, chef to Louis XIV committed suicide because his seafood order was late and he couldn't stand the shame of a postponed meal. His body was discovered by an aide, sent to tell him of the arrival of the fish.

1834: David Douglas, Scottish Botanist, who fell in a pit trap, and was crushed by a bull that fell in the same pit.

1841: William Henry Harrison, ninth President of the United States, gave the longest inaugural address in the history of the United States in heavy snow and caught a cold. It developed into pneumonia and killed him in a month.

1915: François Faber, Luxembourgean Tour de France winner, died in a trench on the western front of World War I. He received a telegram saying his wife had given birth to a daughter. He cheered, giving away his position, and was shot by a German sniper.

1916: Grigori Rasputin, Russian mystic, died of hypothermia while swimming to shore after having been poisoned, shot multiple times in the head and torso, bludgeoned, mutilated (severed penis), wrapped in a sheet and dropped into the river Neva through a hole in the winter ice.

1923: Frank Hayes, jockey, suffered a heart attack during a horse race. The horse, Sweet Kiss, went on to finish first, making Hayes the only deceased jockey to win a race.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths

Originally posted by dfm65
456 BC: Aeschylus, Greek dramatist, according to legend, died when a vulture, mistaking his bald head for a stone, dropped a tortoise on it.

1601: Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer, died of a bladder infection after refusing to leave for the bathroom during a banquet for the sake of good manners.

1671: François Vatel, chef to Louis XIV committed suicide b ...[text shortened]... he only deceased jockey to win a race.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths

So Rasputin could be frozenready for cloning... or he may already have been a few times.. mmm

I've always loved Rasputin's story.

In honor of him, I think there should be a Rasputin award handed out every year(Much like the Darwin Awards). The award would go to someone who just wouldn't die. Prime examples would go to include the man who had an iron bar impale his head, or a woman I heard about recently who was shot in the head at point blank range, and walked to the hospital to have it treated.

According to RoSPA, the Royal Society for Prevention of Accidents, over 80% of fatal accidents in the UK occur in the home.
My advice: get out and stay out!

Originally posted by Tirau Dan
So Rasputin could be frozenready for cloning... or he may already have been a few times.. mmm

Originally posted by martin williams
According to RoSPA, the Royal Society for Prevention of Accidents, over 80% of fatal accidents in the UK occur in the home.
My advice: get out and stay out!

Let's not forget the poor unfortunate residents of Pompeii and Herculaneum.
They returned to their homes when they thought Vesuvius had finished erupting.
There they remained, buried in ash, for the next 2000 years.
Still want to stay indoors?

Originally posted by martin williams
Let's not forget the poor unfortunate residents of Pompeii and Herculaneum.
They returned to their homes when they thought Vesuvius had finished erupting.
There they remained, buried in ash, for the next 2000 years.
Still want to stay indoors?