# 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:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2003, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-and-exotic-deaths/173885/41 "2003-05-09T14:40:24Z")
Crushed by a giant duck. ---
**Author:** ![Blackeyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f6c823/32.png) [@Blackeyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackeyes)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2003, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-and-exotic-deaths/173885/42 "2003-05-09T21:00:34Z")
Headhunters. Damn. ---
**Author:** ![Second\_Guest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/87869e/32.png) [@Second\_Guest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Second_Guest)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2003, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-and-exotic-deaths/173885/43 "2003-05-09T21:14:57Z")
I, too, shall meet my end with the Kodiak. (I’m sure there’s a “Polaroid Moment” joke in there somewhere.) And yet, the only thing about this bit of information that I found troubling was that the correct term is _bestiality_, isn’t it? If it’s going to kill me, I’d at least prefer not to appear ignorant at the moment of my demise. ---
**Author:** ![beckwall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b487fb/32.png) [@beckwall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beckwall)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2003, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-and-exotic-deaths/173885/44 "2003-05-09T21:40:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ice Wolf \* > \*\*I’m doomed t’ be stung to death by a swarm of killer bees, then. > 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?” 😃 \*\* Me too. Maybe we can split off in separate directions, diverting half the swarm each way, then meet up again in the middle. We be smarter than them average bees, right? Well, at least we can share the cost of the call to the bee keeper. ---
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2003, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-and-exotic-deaths/173885/45 "2003-05-09T23:07:12Z")
I’m going to be decapitated by cannibalistic head-hunters. According to the website, I should quit traipsing around in out of the way places and stay closer to home. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2003, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-and-exotic-deaths/173885/46 "2003-05-09T23:44:37Z")
I’m a meteoric kind of guy. If I were a girl, would I be a meteor maid? ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2003, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-and-exotic-deaths/173885/47 "2003-05-10T01:03:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Steve Wright \* > So … since, technically, you’re not a part of the Earth, the thing is, in fact, still a meteor during the brief fraction of a second while it’s crushing you to a paste? > > (Incidentally, is “brief fraction of a second” a tautology?) A meteorite is, by definition, at rest on the surface of the Earth. Even if you count as part of the surface, it’s impacting you and has not yet come to rest. “Brief fraction of a second” is indeed solecistic, if not truly a tautology. It resembles “for long aeons the \_\_\_ waited” in Lovecraftian works – ever seen a short aeon? Me, I’m getting struck by a train at a railway crossing – which, considering what they misnomer as _grade_ crossings around here (I’ve seen lower hills with their own names!), seems quite probable. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-and-exotic-deaths/173885.md?page=2)