Book Four : Chapter One
Fatal
Oddities
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James Simenson of New Jersey tried frantically to rescue his pet dog
from a frozen creek. Rescue workers eventually recovered Simenson's
dead body ... and his dog, which was alive and well.
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| A Brazillian fisherman died when a six-inch fish jumped out of the water and into his mouth when he was yawning...and choked him. |
Altair Soares of Brazil was 33 years old when he died.
Nothing highly unusual in that. What is unusual is that
he weighed 348 kilograms (770 pounds) at the time.
Ten men were needed to carry his custom-made coffin to the two gravesites that were needed to accommodate him. Soares died of breathing difficulties three days after becoming stuck in his bathroom. |
| When Jimmy Hogg died of a heart attack during a golf game in Fife, Scotland, his four friends chose to continue and finished the game without him. |
Justice is an unusual thing ...
Laurence Baker, 47, was serving a life sentence for murder, having escaped the death penalty. Wearing homemade earphones plugged into his cell television set, he sat in his stainless steel toilet ... and was electrocuted. Authorities listed 'bad wiring' as the cause of the incident. |
The winter of 1997 was a particularly bad one in
Europe. The extreme cold was blamed for the death of more
than 200 people, but there were other effects as well:
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