Do you know someone who died an unusual death?

[cocktales]

My brother-in-law was killed by a tractor accident.

He was alone in a very large field where he was cutting grass to be baled as hay for cattle.

He some how fell off the tractor and was dragged underneath it and suffocated to death because he was underneath all the hay that he was cutting and his body kept piling more hay and more hay around him ....The tractor continued going and going until it got to a tree where it stalled out...

He was NOT found for almost 6 hours later when he did NOT return home from work.

At first his death was considered very suspicious, because where his ranch is located in S. Central Florida, there's several places where airplanes are suspected of landing and off-loading drugs and it was thought that one was located next door to his property and perhaps he saw something and someone killed him and made it appear to be an awful accident.

He was a very, very seasoned tractor driver and the idea of him falling off a running tractor and getting "crammed" under-neath with ALL that hay and suffocating him was considered far-fetched for a long, long time; but a year later his death was finally considered "accidental" when NO other suspects could be located.

A very, very tough situation for my sister and her children!

Sad!

 

[star-warrior]

My granddad died during a fishing accident. He was using some sort of grenade to stun the fish and it kinda blew him up. My dad was just a month old when that happened, that occured almost 79 years ago.

 

[Yuki Sohma]

While walking, my uncle died after being struck by a dump truck...........

 

[DaddyBadger]

A couple of years after I graduated from high school, one of my algebra teachers/soccer coach was struck by lightning and killed. Apparently he and his wife had been golfing, and when caught in a sudden thunderstorm, sought shelter in a metal utility shed of some description...

It kind of brings new meaning to Mark Twain's words that "the game of golf is nothing more than a good walk... spoiled."





Jerr

 

[Spellbound]

When I was a senior in HS a kid I used to be friends with when I was younger was found hanging in his closet by his mom. He had been experimenting with auto-erotic asphyxiation while high on oxycontin.

And when I was a Freshmen, a senior died while hiking. He fell off a cliff. But I didn't know him.

All the other deaths were car accidents (one friend was decapitated)

 

[Pushyourluck]

A friend of mine was killed in a car accident four years ago in Turkey. She was driving around some mountains and missed a bend and went straight over the cliff. When they found her body, all of the gold she was wearing just melted into her. I'll never get that image out of my head.

 

[PreTTy PeTe]

the wife of a close friend of mine was murdered- strangled in montreal and tossed in the Rivière des Prairies
it was a sad death for someone who had been fighting immigration canada for over a decade to get her landed immigrant status and she finally got it when certain influential people like June Callwood went to bat for her. and immigration minister renewed her permit to stay in canada.

She died a lousy death, an end that the beareaucrats might have expeted for her, but she was buried with love and dignity, which is exactly how those who knew her felt about her, she was 27
- Christie Blatchford- The Toronto Sun

 

[Yuki Sohma]

Like this you mean?



No, can't say I do...

Oh yes indeedieo, you are so right Harke the Heretic , folks die like that where I'm from all of the time.......... ..........why just yesterday some friends and I were discussing how to avoid a similar fate..........

 

[spearsfan20]

I had a friend who I used to go to middle school with 10 years ago. He committed suicide two days after one of his friends asked about me. I told him I wanted to see him sometime. I never had that opportunity to see him. He was a hottie though with a wife and child.

 

[dynk]

I watched my mother get killed by a neighbor backing out of her driveway in a SUV. She dragged her out into the street, then ran over her again to leave. I had to run out into the street to stop her. She claimed she did not notice her, nor notice running over her. It was very traumatic and took 6 months of counseling to get over it.

 

[chatolandia]

My neighbor, who recently passed away, witness that happen to her grand daughter


Her other daughter's husband backed off his SUV and hit the girl

He did not see the girl


The grandmother saw the whole thing and could not stop them


She died a few months later...

 

[gsdx]

All jokes aside, a helicopter fell on a pedestrian in Cranbrook, British Columbia today:

Four killed in Cranbrook, B.C., helicopter crash

Four people have died in a helicopter crash in Cranbrook, B.C., a small community about 840 kilometres east of Vancouver.

CTV.ca News Staff

So far, there are few details about the crash, but it's believed the chopper had two passengers, in addition to the pilot. All three died. A pedestrian on the ground was also killed, confirmed an official with the Transportation Safety Board.

The helicopter went down in a residential neighborhood and burst into flames.

Richard Fairchild saw the crash, which happened right in front of his residence. He told CTV Newsnet that the chopper had barely cleared a large pine tree and "within a second-and-a-half it crashed right in front of us -- literally in front of our window."

"Unfortunately, (the helicopter hit) a pedestrian on the sidewalk," Fairchild said.

He said helicopter's fuel then burst into flames.

"It didn't crash at a high speed. The pilot had been trying to control it, but the motor was out at that point and he fell the last 15 feet."

Fairchild said the pedestrian was just walking on the sidewalk when he was hit. Fairchild recorded the fire in the moments after the accident and submitted the video to MyNews at CTV.ca.

Bill Yearwood of the TSB says the craft that went down is a Bell helicopter Model 206. The chopper was reportedly hired by B.C. Hydro and was owned by Big Horn Helicopters, a Cranbrook company.

Source: http://news.sympatico.msn.ctv.ca/ab...emid=CTVNews/20080513/helicopter_crash_080513