# Strange and exotic deaths **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 8, 2003, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-and-exotic-deaths/173885 "2003-05-08T12:56:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![grimpixie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecb155/32.png) [@grimpixie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grimpixie)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-and-exotic-deaths/173885/1 "2003-05-08T12:56:53Z")
Everyone else gets them - crushed by falling duck; drowning while bobbing for apples - but not me!!! No, I am destined to die being struck down by a meteor\*, probably along with millions of others… Typical, even in death I follow the crowd… [Here’s the offending site…](http://www.zenhex.com/tests/edeath/index.html) How are you destined to die??? ☹ Grim \*or possibly a meteorite, the site can’t make up its mind ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-and-exotic-deaths/173885/2 "2003-05-08T13:02:01Z")
I’m doomed t’ be stung to death by a swarm of killer bees, then. > [@](#): > > Safety tip: call a beekeeper when you have such problems. > Your corpse will be unidentifiable. If I’m being stung to death, how th’ heck do I call a beekeeper? “Hello? Beekeepers-R-Us? I’m being killed right now, can you do something about that?” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_Wright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Steve\_Wright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_Wright)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-and-exotic-deaths/173885/3 "2003-05-08T13:08:31Z")
I will be drowned while bobbing for apples … and the question in my mind is: by whom? ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-and-exotic-deaths/173885/4 "2003-05-08T13:20:59Z")
I’ll be impaled from a rod of frozen urine expelled from a jet. And I didn’t even know those things had urinary tracts. ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-and-exotic-deaths/173885/5 "2003-05-08T13:40:20Z")
Crushed by a duck, yippie! ---
**Author:** ![Gravity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gravity/32/14322_2.png) [@Gravity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gravity)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-and-exotic-deaths/173885/6 "2003-05-08T14:08:22Z")
Slaughtered attempting beastiality with a Kodiac! …what, again? ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-and-exotic-deaths/173885/7 "2003-05-08T14:41:44Z")
Not sure how I’ll die, however I do know what I’d like my gravestone to say: “Death by Misadventure” Oh, yeah, that’s for me. ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-and-exotic-deaths/173885/8 "2003-05-08T18:45:32Z")
I’m going to be squashed by a giant duck, while Joel will be barbecued by an angry dragon. ---
**Author:** ![bayonet1976](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/77aa72/32.png) [@bayonet1976](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bayonet1976)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-and-exotic-deaths/173885/9 "2003-05-08T19:00:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lsura \* > \*\*I’ll be impaled from a rod of frozen urine expelled from a jet. And I didn’t even know those things had urinary tracts. \*\* Me too! Note to self: never travel with Lsura. ---
**Author:** ![Lucretia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@Lucretia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucretia)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-and-exotic-deaths/173885/10 "2003-05-08T19:15:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Gravity \* > \*\*Slaughtered attempting beastiality with a Kodiac! > …what, again? \*\* Hey, so am I! You better stay away from my bear, beeyatch! ---
**Author:** ![lightingtool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/57b2e6/32.png) [@lightingtool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lightingtool)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-and-exotic-deaths/173885/11 "2003-05-08T20:20:01Z")
Decapitated by cannibalistic head-hunters! wow. I need to stay home tonight. Now, if they’re cannibalistic, will they eat my head, or save it as a trophy? I do have an incredibly large noggin… ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-and-exotic-deaths/173885/12 "2003-05-08T20:28:03Z")
Looks like the Giant Duck will get me, too. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-and-exotic-deaths/173885/13 "2003-05-08T20:41:08Z")
Mauled by a Mob of Midgets! At least my death is alliterative. ---
**Author:** ![roadrunner70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@roadrunner70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roadrunner70)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-and-exotic-deaths/173885/14 "2003-05-08T20:49:48Z")
I’m getting the meteor… I never knew ACME[sup]TM[/sup] _made_ meteors… Oh well…MEEP…_SPLAT_… ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-and-exotic-deaths/173885/15 "2003-05-08T20:54:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by roadrunner70 \* > \*\*I’m getting the meteor… > > \*\* Me too! ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-and-exotic-deaths/173885/16 "2003-05-08T20:54:42Z")
Head hunters :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-and-exotic-deaths/173885/17 "2003-05-08T23:07:50Z")
_When your death comes, you will be leap from a tall building in a superman constume!_ And apparently lose all my grammar skills in the process. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![raz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@raz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raz)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-and-exotic-deaths/173885/18 "2003-05-08T23:13:23Z")
Struck by a train at a railroad crossing! Dear God no! That is truly one of my biggest fears! It’s not helped by the fact that my friend told me that one time she was driving across the railroad tracks and the drop-down barrier things CAME DOWN OVER HER CAR! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2003, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-and-exotic-deaths/173885/19 "2003-05-08T23:15:54Z")
Struck by a Meteor! ---
**Author:** ![ManDuh003](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8491ac/32.png) [@ManDuh003](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ManDuh003)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2003, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-and-exotic-deaths/173885/20 "2003-05-09T01:29:28Z")
Slaughtered attempting beastiality with a Kodiac! What a grizzly end. Imagine the how the coroner will explain these findings. I’m sure your family will keep this hush hush! Wow! That is deffinatly an interesting ending! **Gravity** and **Lucretia** you want to go out to the woods sometime? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-and-exotic-deaths/173885.md?page=2)