Lel
Distinguished Member
- Joined
- May 19, 2007
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Wow
A few highlights (starting from most recent going back).
2008: Abigail Taylor, 6, died nine months after her organs were partially sucked out while sitting on a swimming pool drain. She had several organs replaced in surgery but died later due to the incident.
-I read a short by Chuck Palanhuick A while back that was eerily similar to this except it involved masturbation. I'm pretty sure it came out before the incident.
2007: Kevin Whitrick, a 42-year-old man, committed suicide by hanging himself live on a webcam during an internet chat session.
-I had already heard about this but still, sad, just sad.
2002: Brittanie Cecil, an American 13-year-old hockey fan, died two days after being struck in the head by a hockey puck at a game between the Columbus Blue Jackets and the Calgary Flames at Nationwide Arena.
-How terrible must you feel if something like that happened?
1998: Every player on the visiting soccer team at a game in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was struck by a fork bolt of lightning, killing them all instantly.
-WTF!? Seriously? I suppose that could happen but what a freak 1 in a 6,000,000,000 chance.
1996: Sharon Lopatka, an Internet entrepreneur from Maryland, allegedly solicited a man via the Internet to torture and kill her for the purpose of sexual gratification. Her killer, Robert Fredrick Glass, was convicted of voluntary manslaughter for the homicide.
-Absolutely disgusting. I have read several "internet shorts" that are similar to this and in great, disturbing detail.
1979: Robert Williams, a worker at a Ford Motor Co. plant, was the first known man to be killed by a robot.
-First signs of Judgment Day...
1973: Bruce Lee, a martial arts actor, is thought to have died by a severe allergic reaction to Equagesic. His brain had swollen about 13%. His autopsy was written as "death by misadventure."
-I never understood this one. I'm not one for a conspiracy theory but it always rubbed me as odd to have a man, in prime physical shape, to die by some freak medical reaction. But I'm not a doctor.
1963: ThÃch Quảng Đức, a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, sat down in the middle of a busy intersection in Saigon, covered himself in gasoline, and lit himself on fire, burning himself to death. Đức was protesting President Ngô Đình Diệm's administration for oppressing the Buddhist religion.
-Also well known but what amazes me is that he never cried out or even moved. Amazing will power.
1959: In the Dyatlov Pass incident, Nine ski hikers in the Ural Mountains abandoned their camp in the middle of the night in apparent terror, some clad only in their underwear despite sub-zero weather. Six of the hikers died of hypothermia and three by unexplained fatal injuries. Though the corpses showed no signs of struggle, one victim had a fatal skull fracture, two had major chest fractures (comparable in force to a car accident), and one was missing her tongue. The victims' clothing also contained high levels of radiation. Soviet investigators determined only that "a compelling unknown force" had caused the deaths, barring entry to the area for years thereafter.
-What the **** happened!? I'm creeped out.
A few highlights (starting from most recent going back).
2008: Abigail Taylor, 6, died nine months after her organs were partially sucked out while sitting on a swimming pool drain. She had several organs replaced in surgery but died later due to the incident.
-I read a short by Chuck Palanhuick A while back that was eerily similar to this except it involved masturbation. I'm pretty sure it came out before the incident.
2007: Kevin Whitrick, a 42-year-old man, committed suicide by hanging himself live on a webcam during an internet chat session.
-I had already heard about this but still, sad, just sad.
2002: Brittanie Cecil, an American 13-year-old hockey fan, died two days after being struck in the head by a hockey puck at a game between the Columbus Blue Jackets and the Calgary Flames at Nationwide Arena.
-How terrible must you feel if something like that happened?
1998: Every player on the visiting soccer team at a game in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was struck by a fork bolt of lightning, killing them all instantly.
-WTF!? Seriously? I suppose that could happen but what a freak 1 in a 6,000,000,000 chance.
1996: Sharon Lopatka, an Internet entrepreneur from Maryland, allegedly solicited a man via the Internet to torture and kill her for the purpose of sexual gratification. Her killer, Robert Fredrick Glass, was convicted of voluntary manslaughter for the homicide.
-Absolutely disgusting. I have read several "internet shorts" that are similar to this and in great, disturbing detail.
1979: Robert Williams, a worker at a Ford Motor Co. plant, was the first known man to be killed by a robot.
-First signs of Judgment Day...
1973: Bruce Lee, a martial arts actor, is thought to have died by a severe allergic reaction to Equagesic. His brain had swollen about 13%. His autopsy was written as "death by misadventure."
-I never understood this one. I'm not one for a conspiracy theory but it always rubbed me as odd to have a man, in prime physical shape, to die by some freak medical reaction. But I'm not a doctor.
1963: ThÃch Quảng Đức, a Vietnamese Buddhist monk, sat down in the middle of a busy intersection in Saigon, covered himself in gasoline, and lit himself on fire, burning himself to death. Đức was protesting President Ngô Đình Diệm's administration for oppressing the Buddhist religion.
-Also well known but what amazes me is that he never cried out or even moved. Amazing will power.
1959: In the Dyatlov Pass incident, Nine ski hikers in the Ural Mountains abandoned their camp in the middle of the night in apparent terror, some clad only in their underwear despite sub-zero weather. Six of the hikers died of hypothermia and three by unexplained fatal injuries. Though the corpses showed no signs of struggle, one victim had a fatal skull fracture, two had major chest fractures (comparable in force to a car accident), and one was missing her tongue. The victims' clothing also contained high levels of radiation. Soviet investigators determined only that "a compelling unknown force" had caused the deaths, barring entry to the area for years thereafter.
-What the **** happened!? I'm creeped out.
