That’s horrible. Where was the father?
I recall reading a story about two scuba divers that drowned while ice diving. Can you imagine looking at your air gauge and seeing that it’s time to head to the surface, only to realize you can’t find the hole you cut to get in?
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Our town had an adult son shoot his two parents to death. Not too unusual, but the corker is that both his parents were psychiatrists.
And jumping out of the burning World Trade Towers to your death is very very sucky.
I always think of the story of the man who died because he lost his balance when his pants were around his ankles and he toppled out of an open window.
I always take my horse breeches off by pushing them down around my knees and then standing on one leg and trying to yank the other leg out, one at a time. I have toppled over onto my bed many times doing this and so I have a lot of sympathy for someone who died this way!
I remember hearing about someone who went scuba diving and discovered an underwater cave. They went in and swam around, not realizing that their fins were kicking up silt from the cave floor behin them, causing the visibility to be zero. They became disoriented and couldn’t find their way out of the cave…
Also, I was in Las Vegas a few years ago when I heard on the local news about a tourist who was walking down the street barefoot. She stepped on some sort of grate on the sidewalk and was electrocuted due to some freak wiring issue or something like that. I can’t remember the logistics, but she died.
Just before Christmas a cement truck driver ran a red light and struck a minivan with mom, dad and three kids in it. The driver of the cement truck refused to take a breathalyzer, so the investigation is ongoing (he was not granted bail, thank goodness). The cement truck driver didn’t even hit the brakes, dragging the minivan about 400 meters down the road.
My husband’s fire hall responded to it. They didn’t realize their were kids inside until they took off the roof and saw what Derek wouldn’t even describe to me. The worst part is that mom survived and was conscious, knew what happened, saw her mangled husband and kids, and later died in the hospital. I think maybe it’s a good thing she ended up dying.
Just remembered another one, from last July, happened just a few miles outside of town. A semi collided with another semi that was pulling out of a gravel pit driveway. One of the semis rolled over into the ditch. The driver was still alive but unable to get himself out of the cab. Sparks from something started a grass fire, which ignited some spilled gasoline, and the driver died in the fire.
I recall one. A horse had escaped from a local livery stable and a young man who felt the need for speed, struck the horse, killing both. The only reason the fire engine went (as opposed to just an ambulance) is because when the horse landed in the passenger compartment, the car was mangled enough that the first cop on the scene thought the driver was still alive and would need to be extricated. He obivously wasn’t alive, but in a final act of defiance, the horse loosed his bowels onto the drivers chest and face. Being winter, the cop thought the driver was still breathing, not realizing that the horse poop was still warm and giving off steam.
Hitting a horse with your car and having that horse suffocate you to death with pounds and pounds o’poop is a truly sucky way to die
On Koh Phi Phi in Thailand, an Italian tourist was caught by the tsunami, but managed to get to safety without much injury. He, and all the other survivors spent the following night in the jungle on a hilltop, and during the night he sat on a snake, which bit him and killed him.
(Not verified.)
Wow! I remember that crash very well. I had no idea you expierenced it first hand.
I remember this one from the past year:
A 41-year-old Sheboygan man drowned in a storm sewer June 6 while attempting to retrieve a dropped cell phone in the 3200 block of North 12th Street, police said.
Brett R. Gunn was kneeling over the sewer in front of his home when he apparently lost his balance and became wedged in the opening upside down, his head and shoulders submerged in 12 inches of water. He was unconscious by the time firefighters were able to pull him out and was pronounced dead an hour later at an area hospital.
Not a really peculiar way to die, but…
On Good Friday some years ago, a man killed himself by jumping off the top of the Omni Hotel in downtown Austin. Anyone who knows downtown well knows the building right next door: St. David’s Episcopal Church.
The man chose to leap during the service itself. I arrived on the scene after the cleanup, but apparently someone informed the rector – he’d been performing the service – who immediately dashed out in the rather dramatic red and black Good Friday vestments to give the poor fellow his last rites. It blocked downtown traffic, naturally, and must have been an astonishing scene.
Years ago, the Washington Post report a driver was killed after striking a sofa that fell off a truck onto the beltway. They mentioned it was third death that year caused by furniture on the road.
My husband’s mother died in a car accident. It was late winter, his dad was driving, mother in the passenger seat, and my husband was in the back (he wasn’t yet 4 years old). Another car skidded on some black ice while coming down the hill, and slammed into the passenger side of the car. Hubby’s mother died in the hospital some time later. She bled internally, from injuries due to her seatbelt restraining her. She was about 6 months pregnant at the time (the baby died too). My FIL suffered a broken leg and nose. My husband suffered a broken wrist.
Another story, similar cause. A family; mom, dad, two boys and a girl, were driving somewhere around Christmas time a few years back. A driver coming the other way lost control of his vehicle coming around a curve (just going a little too fast for the conditions). The driver of that car broke a leg. The family? The mom died and all three children were paralyzed from the waist down. The father had minor injuries. But how the hell do you cope with losing your wife and suddenly having three children with severe disabilities?!?!
The horrible death of Russell Phillips
From Wikipedia:
At least it was quick, unlike in the case of Roger Williamson.
And the most horrible thing I have ever seen is the accident that killed Tom Pryce and course marshal Jansen Van Vuuren.
Auto racing is positively ghoulish when it all goes wrong.
You’ve probably all heard the tall tale about a lawyer who, demostrating the strength of the floor-to-ceiling window in his high rise office, runs into it, pops it out, and plunges screaming to his death.
Well, it actually happened in Toronto:
first rule of diving (or oughta be): if you aren’t a seriously-experienced diver, you don’t dive with something over your head. if anything goes south you have at least a straight shot to the surface and a chance of surviving even if you get bent.
ever read about the guy in national geographic that does all that cave diving? alone? in hundreds of feet of water? did i mention he does this all by his lonesome? the very thought makes my palms sweat. i’m SO a wuss. i want nice, blue, warm, OPEN water all around me when i strap on that tank for a stroll. 
From the Wiki link
I don’t think that word means what you think it means.
This is the tragedy my community is dealing with right now. I really don’t have any words, it’s too raw.
I was in Las Vegas that day. There was a torrential rainstorm and it flooded the strip. A woman stepped on a traffic light junction box that was full of water (and poorly insulated), and was killed. I remembered reading about it the next morning.