# coconut death **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 3, 2002, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coconut-death/122164 "2002-08-03T12:27:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sagitta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/76d3ee/32.png) [@sagitta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sagitta)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2002, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coconut-death/122164/1 "2002-08-03T12:27:56Z")
Cecil recently pronounced the risk of death by coconut :smack: to be low, with only [one confirmed instance](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/020719.html) . Almost immediately, [disaster strikes](http://uk.news.yahoo.com/020803/80/d6mj5.html)! > [@](#): > > KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - A six-month-old Malaysian baby girl has died after a coconut fell out of a tree into her cradle outside her parents’ house, according to a newspaper report. By implication, she was also in the cradle at the time. This sets an interesting precedent for other unlikely forms of demise. Can we expect to spontaneously combust, vanish in the Bermuda Triangle, etc., just because Cecil has pooh-poohed the idea? ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2002, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/coconut-death/122164/2 "2002-08-03T14:01:15Z")
Did you mean to post this in **Comments on Cecil’s Columns** by any chance?