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Henroid

Keith wrote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_tapping

... Wow, meanwhile these fuckers don't have articles for Idle Thumbs or various other things because they're not "noteworthy."

Beasteh

Grey Ghost wrote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths

2011: Acton Beale, 20, died after falling from a balcony in Brisbane, Australia, the only person known to have died while participating in a fad known as 'planking'

really i shouldnt laugh but

Brolo

JustinSane07 wrote:

You guys should watch the YouTube videos. There's videos of the hornets grabbing the bees with their front limbs then biting their heads off like it nothing.

I believe there's also videos of the bee ball that cooks the hornet.

Edit: Also, here's the thing. Japanese Honey Bees know how to protect themselves from the Hornet. European Honey Bees, who were introduced to Japan to help boost bee populations, have no fucking clue to do what about them. So now Japanese beekeepers are crossbreeding the two honey bee species in hopes that they will retain the Bee Oven knowledge.

how could this possibly backfire

Mr Fuzzbutt

Beasteh wrote:

Grey Ghost wrote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths

2011: Acton Beale, 20, died after falling from a balcony in Brisbane, Australia, the only person known to have died while participating in a fad known as 'planking'

really i shouldnt laugh but

No I'm pretty sure laughing is an appropriate response.

Edcrab

Killer Bee Ovens

Advancing across the planet and cooking people alive

The Geek

Mr Fuzzbutt wrote:

Beasteh wrote:

Grey Ghost wrote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths

2011: Acton Beale, 20, died after falling from a balcony in Brisbane, Australia, the only person known to have died while participating in a fad known as 'planking'

really i shouldnt laugh but

No I'm pretty sure laughing is an appropriate response.

Some deaths are funny, you just gotta accept it. Like if you drowned in a pool on a cruise ship.

ultimakay

Edcrab wrote:

Killer Bee Ovens

Advancing across the planet and cooking people alive

Coming to a syfy channel near you.

Beasteh

Edcrab wrote:

Killer Bee Ovens

Advancing across the planet and cooking people alive

Beasteh

2009: Sergey Tuganov, a 28-year-old Russian, bet two women that he could continuously have sex with them both for twelve hours. Several minutes after winning the $4,300 bet, he suffered a heart attack and died, apparently due to having ingested an entire bottle of Viagra just after accepting the bet.

talk about owned

The Geek

Beasteh wrote:

2009: Sergey Tuganov, a 28-year-old Russian, bet two women that he could continuously have sex with them both for twelve hours. Several minutes after winning the $4,300 bet, he suffered a heart attack and died, apparently due to having ingested an entire bottle of Viagra just after accepting the bet.

talk about owned

"I never thought I would die this way, but I always kinda hoped."

Beasteh

priapism; not always a good thing

Abracadaniel

impossible!!!!!!!!!

redfenix

2003: Brian Douglas Wells, an American pizza delivery man in Erie, Pennsylvania, was killed when a time bomb fastened around his neck exploded. At the time of his death he had been apprehended by the police for robbing a bank. Wells told police that three people had locked the bomb around his neck and would not release it had he refused to commit the robbery.[165]

what

redfenix

o my god this is terrifying to me

1998: Tom and Eileen Lonergan were presumed dead after being stranded after scuba diving with a group of divers off Australia's Great Barrier Reef. The group's boat accidentally abandoned them after an incorrect head count taken by the dive boat crew. Their bodies were never recovered.[152]

Noisymunk

redfenix wrote:

2003: Brian Douglas Wells, an American pizza delivery man in Erie, Pennsylvania, was killed when a time bomb fastened around his neck exploded. At the time of his death he had been apprehended by the police for robbing a bank. Wells told police that three people had locked the bomb around his neck and would not release it had he refused to commit the robbery.[165]

what

There's a Wired article detailing that entire event. It's 100% madness.

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/12/ff_collarbomb/all/1

Fandyien

this is probably my favorite entry on that list


1940: Marcus Garvey died as a result of two strokes after reading a negative premature obituary of himself.[74]

Peccavi

The Geek wrote:

Beasteh wrote:

2009: Sergey Tuganov, a 28-year-old Russian, bet two women that he could continuously have sex with them both for twelve hours. Several minutes after winning the $4,300 bet, he suffered a heart attack and died, apparently due to having ingested an entire bottle of Viagra just after accepting the bet.

talk about owned

"I never thought I would die this way, but I always kinda hoped."

Fandyien

or this

1951: Prof. Malcolm H. Soule, scientist, killed himself with an injection of snake venom and morphine after being fired from heading the department of bacteriology at the University of Michigan.[83]

like, why pick one when you can have both, there

JustinSane07

redfenix wrote:

2003: Brian Douglas Wells, an American pizza delivery man in Erie, Pennsylvania, was killed when a time bomb fastened around his neck exploded. At the time of his death he had been apprehended by the police for robbing a bank. Wells told police that three people had locked the bomb around his neck and would not release it had he refused to commit the robbery.[165]

what

It turned out Wells was in the on the plot. They were going to fasten a fake bomb on his neck. Then, one of the people involved decided they didn't really like Wells sooooo they put a real bomb on him.

And oh, the video of the bomb going off is on the internet. It's not really something I would advise seeking out.

He's sitting on the ground with uniformed officers keeping a safe distance. They're waiting for the bomb squad to show up. He's calling out for help, just sitting there with his hands cuffed. Stuff like "Is anybody going to help me?! I'm going to die!" then a boom, some smoke and a slumped over body.

Also, this is my favorite on the list.

1993: Garry Hoy, a 38-year-old lawyer in Toronto, Canada, fell to his death on July 9, 1993, after he threw himself against a window on the 24th floor of the Toronto-Dominion Centre in an attempt to prove to a group of visitors that the glass was "unbreakable." The glass did not break, but popped out of the window frame.

The guy Titanic-ed himself.

peterdevore

Wow, you guys probably know about that huge north korean hotel that never got finished and sat in Pyongyang as a huge grey eyesore for years.

Guess what:

redfenix

is that an artist's rendering or a photograph though

Fandyien

it's real and from wikipedia

daaaayum, i genuinely wasn't expecting that to happen

redfenix

Fandyien wrote:

it's real and from wikipedia

daaaayum, i genuinely wasn't expecting that to happen

cite pls

Druhim

I just want to say that those Japanese hornets are awesome. Fuck the haters.

JustinSane07

I don't know a god damn thing about no hotel in North Korea because I'm not a fucking communist, Peter.

BugBoy

no no no no

not the unusual death article

I can never sleep well after reading that

BugBoy

I do like the hornets, though

maybe I will just think of them as I drift off to slumberland

Bedlam

Bugboy mauled to death by spider council.

He would have wanted it that way

redfenix

BugBoy wrote:

no no no no

not the unusual death article

I can never sleep well after reading that

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miraculous_births

Fandyien

1979: Robert Williams, a worker at a Ford Motor Co. plant, was the first known human to be killed by a robot,[112] after the arm of a one-ton factory robot hit him in the head.[113]

dun dun dum

Tam

Druhim wrote:

I just want to say that those Japanese hornets are awesome. Fuck the haters.

no fuck you old man
and the bug you rode in on

Fandyien

redfenix wrote:

Fandyien wrote:

it's real and from wikipedia

daaaayum, i genuinely wasn't expecting that to happen

cite pls

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryugyeong_Hotel

BugBoy

redfenix wrote:

BugBoy wrote:

no no no no

not the unusual death article

I can never sleep well after reading that

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miraculous_births

yaaaaay

The Geek

redfenix wrote:

BugBoy wrote:

no no no no

not the unusual death article

I can never sleep well after reading that

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miraculous_births

Man, I thought this was gonna be about something real.

RoyceSraphim

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Mountbatten,_1st_Earl_Mountbatten_of_Burma

This man organized a failed invasion of France that massacred 2000 Canadian soldiers, created India and Pakistan, mentored Prince Charles, and was assassinated in a fishing boat.

Fandyien wrote:

jesus

imagine working on this movie

1982: Vic Morrow, actor, was decapitated by a helicopter blade during filming of Twilight Zone: The Movie. Two child actors were also killed; Myca Dinh Le, who was decapitated, and Renee Shin-Yi Chen, who was crushed.[122]

Funny story, when the director was working on The Three Amigos Chevy Chase leaned over the edge of a cliff they were filming at and made a crack about the director and film safety while the director was listening in at the other end of a radio.

Galy

Jesus christ

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaphism

17 days of shitting yourself and being eaten alive by bugs.

Fandyien

jesus

imagine working on this movie

1982: Vic Morrow, actor, was decapitated by a helicopter blade during filming of Twilight Zone: The Movie. Two child actors were also killed; Myca Dinh Le, who was decapitated, and Renee Shin-Yi Chen, who was crushed.[122]

redfenix

The Geek wrote:

redfenix wrote:

BugBoy wrote:

no no no no

not the unusual death article

I can never sleep well after reading that

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miraculous_births

Man, I thought this was gonna be about something real.

there wasn't an article for 'unusual births'
i looked

redfenix

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Norton

Beasteh

Noisymunk wrote:

redfenix wrote:

2003: Brian Douglas Wells, an American pizza delivery man in Erie, Pennsylvania, was killed when a time bomb fastened around his neck exploded. At the time of his death he had been apprehended by the police for robbing a bank. Wells told police that three people had locked the bomb around his neck and would not release it had he refused to commit the robbery.[165]

what

There's a Wired article detailing that entire event. It's 100% madness.

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/12/ff_collarbomb/all/1

holy shit this story