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Kathleen Staples, mother of Devon Staples, wants stricter laws regarding who can buy and use fireworks following her son's death.

http://news.yahoo.com/mom-man-died-fireworks-accident-says-rules-too-205543867.html

 

 

 

you cant regulate this kind of stupidity

 

 

Let us be thankful. He could have bought a gun

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Kathleen Staples, mother of Devon Staples, wants stricter laws regarding who can buy and use fireworks following her son's death.

http://news.yahoo.com/mom-man-died-fireworks-accident-says-rules-too-205543867.html

 

FFS, he was TWENTY TWO!!!!!!!

As terrible as it is her son was a cockwand.

 

 

I like the quote at the bottom of the article from Democratic rep, Michel Lajoie

 

"They're going to say, 'Well, you can't regulate stupidity' ... and it's true, you can't. But the fact of the matter is you have to try something,"

 

 

Darwin Award material, surely. By the way, isn't there a Darwin thread somewhere?

 

I thought this was it. That's how I made that double post. I didn't look at the "interesting ways to die" thread.because I previously searched for a Darwin award thread and I only got this.

 

 

There was a Darwin Award thread somewhere, not sure if it was merged with another. I always thought the subtitle for this one should be "hold my beer and watch this!"

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The fireworks guy found a copycat, unsuprisingly at the July 4th celebrations:

 

http://www.newser.com/story/209502/another-man-dies-after-shooting-firework-off-body.html

 

It makes you wonder what goes through peoples' minds. The public safety videos were enough to scare me to not mess around with fireworks.

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The fireworks guy found a copycat, unsuprisingly at the July 4th celebrations:

 

http://www.newser.com/story/209502/another-man-dies-after-shooting-firework-off-body.html

 

It makes you wonder what goes through peoples' minds. The public safety videos were enough to scare me to not mess around with fireworks.

 

Well in the first story, a big fuck off firework!!

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Martha Mansfield, Hollywood actress of the 1920s, died when someone flicked a match into the car in which she was resting between takes, setting her dress alight:

 

http://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/10-actors-who-died-during-production.html/?a=viewall

 

 

 

"Mansfield's mother, Harriett Ehrlich... said smoking made her daughter "uncomfortable"":

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Mansfield

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Hundreds dead at the Hajj.

 

Always be mindful in crowds...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-34346449

Is 717 dead a Hajj record?

 

1990 seemed to be the record holder with 1426 people being killed in the stampede

 

ISTM there's a solution there for our current dispute with Halibuts. Do jihadist go on hadj?

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ISTM there's a solution there for our current dispute with Halibuts. Do jihadist go on hadj?

 

I wondered if those dead people, since they didn't complete their hadj, will now go to Halibut hell. I also wondered if suicide bombers who haven't yet completed a hadj, still get into paradise? Is there maybe a shortcut?

Finally, I wonder if those disasters are going to become more frequent, since there are more and more Halibuts, and they all have to fit into that, how to call it, stadium (?) and make their seven rounds around the Qaaba. Is there still room or time left? Maybe they soon have to build a sphere around it to make space for more people.

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Lot of the reports on the ground suggesting that the cause of the crush was a large number of roads being closed off so King Salman could travel in peace. Nice guy.

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lets face it with a billion Halibuts they won't miss a thousand or so here and there

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"Take a photo of me pretending to be falling down a cliff" said the woman who then fell down a cliff:

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3260620/British-tourist-Zoe-Woolmer-encouraged-risky-photo-falling-death.html

 

Well, to be more precise, the tour guide encouraged her. Exemplary photos in the link if you care.

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Woman dies by making a wreath with aerosols at her daughter's grave while smoking a cigarette, causing an explosion:

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-34910036

 

Ironic? Tragic? Stupid? Funny? I don't know....

A wreath made out of aerosol cans? I can't even picture that concept. I'll throw 'bizarre' into the descriptive pile.

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Woman dies by making a wreath with aerosols at her daughter's grave while smoking a cigarette, causing an explosion:

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-34910036

 

Ironic? Tragic? Stupid? Funny? I don't know....

 

She should have left it to professional wreath makers, who coincidentally will now have some work coming their way.

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This happened on Christmas Day

 

 

 

Distracted walking can be as hazardous as distracted driving, the public was reminded after the deeply unfortunate Christmas Day death of a man in San Diego. Lifeguards say the man was walking and looking at a device in the Sunset Cliffs area at sunset around 4:50 p.m. Friday when he dropped 60 feet to his death, the New York Daily News reports. "Witnesses stated seeing someone distracted by an electronic device and he just fell over the edge," lifeguard Bill Bender tells NBC San Diego. He "wasn't watching where he was walking, he was looking down at the device in his hands."

 

The man apparently drove to the area with a passenger to watch the sunset. KABC reports he struggled to find parking and exited the vehicle in search of a spot; that's when witnesses say he was looking at a device and plummeted. Bender says that after the man fell, three witnesses "put themselves at jeopardy" by making their way down the rocks to administer CPR to the man, who was in his 30s, but he was pronounced dead at the scene. NBC San Diego cites lifeguard speculation that the device was a phone or camera, but says no such device has been recovered yet.

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An actor appearing in an experitmental theatre production that involved his character being lynched on-stage is in a coma, after the scene went wrong and he was strangled. Raphael Schumacher, 27, was taken to hospital after a member of the audience realised that he was actually being hanged when a rope tightened around his neck.

 

Director: "When I said cut I meant CUT!"

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/actor-in-coma-after-lynching-scene-goes-wrong-a6848131.html

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An actor appearing in an experitmental theatre production that involved his character being lynched on-stage is in a coma, after the scene went wrong and he was strangled. Raphael Schumacher, 27, was taken to hospital after a member of the audience realised that he was actually being hanged when a rope tightened around his neck.

 

Director: "When I said cut I meant CUT!"

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/actor-in-coma-after-lynching-scene-goes-wrong-a6848131.html

 

 

According to one report, a box on which Mr Schumacher was supposed to stand while wearing the noose had been moved. He was also meant to be wearing a body harness.

 

Possibly attempted homicide?

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An actor appearing in an experitmental theatre production that involved his character being lynched on-stage is in a coma, after the scene went wrong and he was strangled. Raphael Schumacher, 27, was taken to hospital after a member of the audience realised that he was actually being hanged when a rope tightened around his neck.

Director: "When I said cut I meant CUT!"

SChttp://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/actor-in-coma-after-lynching-scene-goes-wrong-a6848131.html

Condition worsening

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-35481616?ocid=socialflow_facebook&ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbcnews&ns_source=facebook

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An actor appearing in an experitmental theatre production that involved his character being lynched on-stage is in a coma, after the scene went wrong and he was strangled. Raphael Schumacher, 27, was taken to hospital after a member of the audience realised that he was actually being hanged when a rope tightened around his neck.

Director: "When I said cut I meant CUT!"

SChttp://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/actor-in-coma-after-lynching-scene-goes-wrong-a6848131.html

Condition worsening

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-35481616?ocid=socialflow_facebook&ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbcnews&ns_source=facebook

 

 

Now declared clinically dead

 

This is an awful story.

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