I was there that day.
Oh, you’re the guy who was seen scurrying away from the tree with a can of white spray paint?
Tree Trivia: The tree has been removed. I “kinda” know where it was, and know someone who “exactly” knows the stump. He’d probably tell me if I asked.
Geez, talk about closing the barn door after the horses have escaped.
Former Major League Baseball player Bo Diaz…I believe he was killed when the satellite dish he was trying to install fell on him.
New York Yankees catcher Thurman Munson died when he clipped a tree while practicing takeoffs and landings in his Cessna private jet. The plane hit the ground and caught fire and Munson died of asphyxiation. His friend and his flying instructor, who were in the plane with him, both survived. Munson suffered a broken neck and likely would have been a quadriplegic if he had survived.
Tycho Brahe, supposedly of holding a piss in:
Poor tree! Like it had any choice in the matter… 
In 1853, Benjamin Pierce, the 11-year-old son of President Franklin Pierce, riding in a train with his parents, died when the car derailed. The unfortunate child may have been decapitated. Accounts differ, with some sources stating that the head was crushed but remained on the neck, and others that the head was completely detached. One lurid story even has it that the head rolled down the aisle of the train car and came to rest at his mother’s feet. :eek: (As with the death of Jayne Mansfield, nobody really knows.)
What* is* known is that Mrs. Franklin Pierce, having witnessed the death of her only surviving child (her two other children had already died), sank into despair and became a recluse. She lived in seclusion in the upper floors of the White House and left the First Lady’s social duties to other ladies. President Pierce, who covered his son’s body with his frock coat, became an alcoholic.
Andre the Giant died while in Paris to attend his father’s funeral.
Oh, fir goodness’ sake…
Gouverneur Morris, a Founding Father of the US. A signatory to , and author of large sections of the US Constitution, he died after using a piece of whalebone to clear a urinary blockage. Apparently he caused himself internal injuries and infection
And 27 years later, New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle died while trying to execute a U-turn in his Cirrus private jet and accidentally crashing into the side of an apartment building on the Upper East Side.
Also, former Chicago Cub (and other teams) pitcher Geremi Gonzalez (he switched to that spelling from Jeremi in 2006. The “J” version was spelled incorrectly, but it wasn’t changed in the MLB records until 2006, when he was traded to Milwaukee), died after being struck by lightning.
He’s not dead … he’s pining for the fjords!
Back in the 60’s there was a high profile professional golfer “Champagne” Tony Lema. He died when his plane crash landed, on a golf course.
The 2 members of the R&B duo Damian Dame both met with tragic ends after flirting briefly with fame in the early 90s.
She died in a car accident on June 27, 1994…
He died of colon cancer EXACTLY 2 years later on June 27, 1996!
Damian Dame on Wikipedia:
A decrepit gasman named Peter
While searching around for the meter
Touched a leak with his light
He rose out of sight
And, as anyone who knows anything about poetry can tell you, he also ruined the meter.