What am I missing?
What are the odds that two celebrities would die from skiing into a tree in the same week?
The odds of random weird coincidences happening occasionally are more or less 1.
Was Michael Kennedy really a celebrity anyway? Other than dying by skiing into a tree (while playing football) and boinking his babysitter, what did Michael Kennedy ever really do? I don’t think I had ever heard of him before his death. He was a Kennedy, but there are lots of Kennedys.
Nelson Rockefeller died of a heart attack while he was alone in an apartment with his twenty-something female aide. The speculation, never proved, is that they were having sex at the time.
Eighteen years earlier his son Michael had disappeared while on an anthropological expedition to New Guinea. The speculation, again never proved, is that he was killed and eaten by cannibals.
Carter Albrecht, keyboard player/guitarist for the group Edie Brickell & New Bohemians was shot and killed by his girlfriend’s next-door neighbor. Albrecht and his girlfriend returned to her house after he’d been drinking. They both took the anti-smoking medication Chantix, and he became violent and hit her a few times, which he’d never done before. She went outside, and he followed. She went back inside and locked the door. After he tried to get in, he went to her neighbor’s back yard, where Albrecht was yelling and trying to get in the house. The neighbor tried to fire a warning shot over Albrecht’s head. Albrecht, however, stood 6’5", and the bullet hit him in the head. He died at the scene, with no charges filed,
I remember both events. At first, when reports of Bono dying in the exact same manner as Kennedy came out, people assumed it was a joke.
Hard to forget when it was mentioned in post #4.
…post #21
Yep. Covered with the blood and guts and all, the bear was a grisly grizzly.
It’s a cone-spiracy!
I posted this in the “Mental Disorders” thread, but it’s too weird to not put here. too.
Chantix is some nasty stuff. I have no idea how or why it was approved for sale. :mad:
The band House of Freaks is better known for the way Bryan Harvey died than they are for any of their music. 
About 10 years ago, he, his wife, and their two young children were murdered in a random home invasion.
Same here.
I also remember that at his memorial service, Cher gave a beautiful eulogy, and his then-daughter Chastity was described on CNN not as his daughter, but as “Lesbian Activist”. :smack: 
As everyone knows, blood is a polar liquid.
Isadora Duncan, the famous dancer, died while riding in an automobile. Her long, flowing scarf became entangled in the car’s open-spoked wheels and nearly decapitated her.
While filming the 1931 film The Viking, the movie’s director, Varick Frissell, its cinematographer and 25 other members of the film crew were killed when an attempt to blow up an iceberg off the coast of Newfoundland went awry.
King Charles II of Navarre burned to death when his brandy-soaked bandages caught fire.
Surinder Singh Bajwa, deputy mayor of Delhi, Inida, died when he fell from a roof while fighting off a band of monkeys.
British film maker Lee Halpin froze to death filming a documentary about living homeless.
Jimi Heselden, the owner of the Segway company, died when the Segway he was riding ran off a cliff.
Post #9
Further ironicizing the death of Keith Moon is that the pills on which he OD’d were intended to combat alcoholism.
Randy Rhoads, Ozzy Osbourne’s guitarist, had a death worthy of the Darwin awards.
Ozzy was sleeping off a bender in the tour bus, and Rhoads hired a plane to “buzz” the bus and give Ozzy a huge scare. The pilot crashed the plane, killing himself and Rhoads.
And two other members of Osbourne’s entourage. Speaking of buzzes, the pilot was high on cocaine.
Eugene Aserinsky, a scientist who did some of the first research on REM sleep, died when he fell asleep at the wheel of his car and crashed.
Porn star Echo Valley died in a car crash because her breasts were too large for her to wear a seat belt.
King Adolf Frederick of Sweden died after having eaten a dinner of lobster, caviar, sauerkraut, kippers and champagne, which was topped off with 14 servings of his favorite dessert.
Sigurd, Earl of Orkney, decapitated an enemy he had killed in battle and attached the enemy’s head to his belt. As he rode in triumph away from the battle, the head’s teeth scraped against his bare leg and he later died of a fatal infection.
Race car driver Renzo Zorzi experienced a car malfunction at the South African Grand Prix in 1977. With his engine burning, he tried to get out of his car, but his oxygen hose would not disconnect from his helmet. So two race marshals ran across the track to try to help him out and put out the fire. Zorzi’s racing team partner, Tom Pryce, didn’t see the marshals, and hit and killed one of them. The marshal he hit was carrying a fire extinguisher, which flew through the air, hit Pryce in the head, and killed him.
If only it had been the same tree.
There’s actually a wiki page for this topic.