15 Weirdest Ways People Have Died

 • From drowning at a pool party full of lifeguards to fatally tripping on your ownbeard, we count fifteen strange ways people have died!15 – The London Beer Flood, • Beer lovers might look at this and go‘Hell yeah! That’s how I want to go!’ On paper, it’s a bit like Futurama’s ‘Deathby Snu Snu’, but the reality was actually pretty horrifying. • The London Beer Flood occurred in 1814 when a giant vat at a brewery burst.  It hada domino effect, rupturing all the surrounding vats and causing over 323,000 imperial gallonsof beer to gush into the streets.  • The beer tsunami filled basements, destroyedhomes and crumbled a local pub, trapping an employee inside. • Eight people died in the disaster, which, incredibly, was ruled an act of God. 14 – Death by Bookcase, • When Mariesa Weber was reported missingby her family no one thought she’d turn up eleven days later behind a bookcase. • Fearing she’d been kidnapped, Weber’s sister went to investigate a strange smellcoming from Mariesa’s bedroom.  She checked behind the bookcase and discovered a woman’sfoot.  Her flashlight revealed Weber was wedged upside-down behind the unit. • This wasn’t some marathon game of hide and seek that went wrong; family members suspectshe slipped and fell trying to adjust a television plug behind the bookshelf.  She would’vebeen unable to breathe in the position she was in. 13 – Drowning at a Life Guard’s Pool Party, • In 1985, New Orleans lifeguards threwa rockin’ pool party to celebrate their first drowning-free season. • The party was a resounding success – until a thirty-one-year-old non-lifeguard guestwas found dead at the bottom of the recreation department’s pool. • There were four lifeguards on duty at the party, and more than half of the two hundredattendees were lifeguards themselves, but – somehow – no one was able to save JeromeMoody.  12 – Death by Sheep,• In 1999, a sixty-seven-year-old woman in Durham, England, carried a bale of hayto the back of her motorcycle to feed her flock of sheep. • Unfortunately, the hungry sheep flunked bovine university, so never learned patience. They charged the bike and Betty Stobbs was knocked into a deep ravine. • Incredibly, Stobbs survived the fall, but quickly died a Final Destination-styledeath when her bike landed on top of her.  11 – Death by Garbage,• Two compulsive hoarders, Homer and Langley Collyer, were found dead in their New YorkCity home when the mountain of possessions they’d accumulated collapsed, trapping them. • The brothers had spent decades obsessively collecting newspapers and other junk items,and even set up elaborate booby-traps.  I guess they feared intruders might break in and stealtheir world-renowned bottle cap collection.  • The cave-in trapped Homer, leaving Langleyto crawl through tunnels of newspapers to bring his paralysed brother food.  During oneof these runs, Langley set off one of his own traps, and Homer was left to die of starvation. • When police entered, they found Homer’s deceased body.  It took another two weeks toremove nearly a hundred tonnes of garbage from the house.  Only then did workers findLangley’s decomposed, rat-chewed body just ten feet from where they’d found his brother. 10 – Death by Ridiculous Infections, • If someone asked you to guess how you’llone day die, chances are you wouldn’t say ‘infection caused by some really trivialminor fuck-up’.  • But that’s exactly what happened toninth-century Norse warrior, Sigurd the Mighty, who, after emerging victorious in combat,strapped his enemy’s severed head to his saddle and rode home.  He ended up grazinghis leg on the exposed teeth and died from the ensuing infection. • Allan Pinkerton, father of the Pinkerton detective agency, faced a similarly ridiculousfate.  He slipped on the sidewalk, bit his own tongue and died from the infection. • Finally, famous whiskey distiller Jack Daniel came into work one morning to openhis safe.  He couldn't remember the damn combination, so kicked the safe in anger.  His toe sustainedinjury, which later developed into an infection and killed him. 9 – Death by Dancing, • In 1518, a woman stepped into the streetsof Strasbourg City and started to dance.  Several days later, she was still at it, and hundredsjoined in.  This was the first of what became Europe’s compulsive dancing outbreaks. • Authorities believed the affliction would pass if the affected danced it out, NapoleonDynamite-style, so halls were made available and musicians were hired.  Days passed, butnone quit.  Eventually, people dropped dead of sheer exhaustion. • It took months for the epidemic to recede, and the afflicted had to be loaded onto wagonsand taken to a healing shrine.  It’s believed this mass hysteria was caused by extreme famine,disease and spiritual despair.  8 – Death by Misunderstanding,• Rumour has it that, while suffering from a bad cough, Napoleon accidentally orderedthe execution of over a thousand prisoners.  • To his officers, he said ‘Ma sacre toux’,which meant ‘My damn cough’; however, his officers thought he said ‘Massacre-tous’,which means ‘Massacre all’.  • Accounts of the incident vary, but it’spretty horrifying if true.  7 – Death by Re-Enactment,• In 1991, a fifty-seven-year-old Thai woman named Yooket Paen was taking a stroll on herBangkok farm when she slipped on some mud and grabbed a naked live wire.  She died byelectrocution.  • But wait, in case you think this is likesome morbid version of Funniest Home Videos, there’s more to the story. • Later that same day, Paen’s sister was showing neighbours how the tragedy occurredwhen she also slipped, grabbed the very same wire and, tragically, died. 6 – Death by Carrot Juice, • Basil Brown was a UK health fanatic whomanaged to drink himself to death with carrot juice.  He reportedly drank more than a gallonof the sweet stuff a day, believing it would give him x-ray vision – or just generallymake him healthier.  • He ended up guzzling over ten gallonsin ten days, which gave him ten thousand times more than the recommended amount of vitaminA and, ultimately, led to fatal liver damage.  5 – Death by Beard,• In 1567, an Austrian man named Hans Steininger broke his neck after tripping over his ownbeard while trying to escape a fire.  • Steininger was famous for having the world’slongest beard.  He’d grown it an impressive 4. 5 feet, but, that day, had forgotten toroll it up.  • One would imagine a monstrous beard likethat would make getting around tricky.  It’s probably why famous beardies like Gandalf,Merlin and Dumbledore used magic.  4 – Death by Showing Off,• Thirty-eight-year-old Canadian lawyer Garry Hoy died while trying to prove thatthe glass in the windows of a 24th-floor office was unbreakable. • The lawyer, who was one of his firm’s best and brightest, had apparently developedthe strange habit of hurling himself against the window to demonstrate its strength. • Ordinarily, he would bounce right off the window pane, leaving a roomful of onlookersclapping.  But on a fateful day in 1993, his little trick failed and the window poppedright out of its frame, sending him plummeting to his death. • Amusingly, the technical term for this kind of death is ‘accidental auto-defenestration’. 3 – Death by Sauna, • Russian Vladimir Ladyzhensky died duringthe 2010 World Sauna Championships in Finland, after having spent six minutes in a sauna. • He’d endured temperatures of 110°C and was trying to outlast the Finnish reigningchamp.  When the doors opened, both men collapsed and were bleeding from severe burns.  Firstaid was administered, but the Russian competitor later died. • Apparently, all the ordinary competition rules were followed, so the death was consideredquite a shock.  2 – Death by Method Acting,• British actor Gareth Jones met an unfortunate end when he suffered a heart attack whileperforming in a live televised play in 1958.  The weird thing is that his character wasactually scripted to have a heart attack.  • The other cast members improvised aroundhis death and redistributed his lines on the fly.  Miraculously, they finished the playwith the audience none the wiser, but Jones could not be revived. • Another death was narrowly avoided during a live play when an actor accidentally activateda working defibrillator that was being used as a prop.  The receiving actor received severeburns to the chest, but pulled through.  • Suddenly all those plays that don’thave near-death experiences seem kinda boring.  1 – Death by Miraculous Lightning Strike,• An entire soccer team died mid-game in the Democratic Republic of the Congo whenlightning struck the wet field.  What’s freaky is that the entire home team survived. • The lightning killed eleven young players aged between twenty and thirty-five.  Thirtyothers received burns, but the athletes from the other team came out curiously unscathed. • Accusations of witchcraft arose.  Apparently, it’s a common practice for teams and fansto call upon the services of witchdoctors to curse their opponents.  Guess they reallytake their sport seriously.

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