Misc Jokes

Strange But True Deaths

Here supposedly are true accounts of crazy deaths. We are
not vouching for their authenticity - only their humor.

JUST PLAIN BAD LUCK -------------------- A fierce gust of
wind blew 45-year-old Vittorio Luise's car into a river near
Naples, Italy, in 1983. He managed to break a window, climb
out and swim to shore -- where a tree blew over and killed
him.

ALWAYS LOOK BOTH WAYS --------------------- Mike Stewart,
31, of Dallas was filming a movie in 1983 on the dangers of
low-level bridges when the truck he was standing on passed
under a low-level bridge -- killing him.

TAKE NOVOCAINE --------------- Walter Hallas, a 26-year-old
store clerk in Leeds, England, was so afraid of dentists that
in 1979 he asked a fellow worker to try to cure his toothache
by punching him in the jaw. The punch caused Hallas to fall
down, hitting his head, and he died of a fractured skull.

NEVER RETURN TO THE SCENE -------------------------- George
Schwartz, owner of a factory in Providence, R.I., narrowly
escaped death when a 1983 blast flattened his factory except
for one wall. After treatment for minor injuries, he
returned to the scene to search for files. The remaining
wall then collapsed on him, killing him.

POOR SUCKER -------------- Depressed since he could not find
a job, 42-year-old Romolo Ribolla sat in his kitchen near
Pisa, Italy, with a gun in his hand threatening to kill
himself in 1981. His wife pleaded for him not to do it, and
after about an hour he burst into tears and threw the gun to
the floor. It went off and killed his wife.

CHECK THE PULSE FIRST ----------------------- In 1983, Mrs.
Carson of Lake Kushaqua, N.Y., was laid out in her coffin,
presumed dead of heart disease. As mourners watched, she
suddenly sat up. Her daughter dropped dead of fright.

FRAUD DOESN'T PAY ------------------- A man hit by a car in
New York in 1977 got up uninjured, but lay back down in front
of the car when a bystander told him to pretend he was hurt
so he could collect insurance money. The car rolled forward
and crushed him to death.