Posts Tagged ‘death’

Jackass star Ryan Dunn was killed in a car accident, NBC’s Philadelphia affiliate reports. Dunn, 34, and an unidentified person both died early Monday when their Porsche crashed in West Goshen Township — which happens to be the home of QVC — outside Philadelphia, according to local police. The car flew over the guardrail, slammed into [...]

The Starbucks coffee shop here should have known it was inviting trouble by placing a tip jar on an open counter, according to a wrongful-death lawsuit filed by the estate of a customer who died defending it. The suit, filed Monday in St. Louis County Circuit Court, seeks unspecified damages from the Starbucks Corp. on [...]

As members of Congress descend on Capitol Hill to begin the seven-week “Lame Duck” session, one of the most contentious issues being debated involves extending the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, which set to expire on Dec. 31. The Heritage Foundation Center for Data Analysis sent out a warning today to all Americans: Those who [...]

Asia Bibi, a 45-year-old mother-of-five, denies blasphemy and told investigators that she was being persecuted for her faith in a country where Christians face routine harassment and discrimination. Christian groups and human rights campaigners condemned the verdict and called for the blasphemy laws to be repealed. Her supporters say she will now appeal against the [...]

The British businessman who owns the Segway company was killed when he drove one of his famous two-wheeled scooters right off a cliff.

A COMPUTER engineer died after tying himself naked to a tree with a cord wrapped around his penis, an inquest heard. Kevin Kirkland, 44, used a pair of makeshift rope handcuffs to attach himself to the trunk, but got trapped when a knot jammed around his wrists, The Sun said today. Walkers discovered his body [...]

A Croatian waiter has been arrested after stabbing a customer to death. The 39-year-old waiter got into a quarrel with the 38-year-old customer at a coffee shop in the eastern town of Nova Gradiska. The waiter disappeared behind the bar and then reappeared brandishing a knife – which he then plunged into the customer’s chest, [...]

An inquest into the death of a 30-year-old woman from Cirencester has ruled that death was caused by heightened sexual arousal as she masturbated watching pornography. Nicola Paginton was found dead by her employer and a friend after they broke into her home. Miss Paginton’s boss Sarah Griffiths had gone to her home after she [...]

A Sad Day at the Olympics

Posted: 12th February 2010 by Sus Scrofa in Sad News, Sports
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The death of a men’s luge athlete from the country of Georgia just hours before the opening ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympics has cast a major shadow over what was supposed to a great moment of pride for the city of Vancouver and the nation of Canada. Nodar Kumaritashvili, 21, was killed during a [...]

The Bizarre Cat That Can Predict Death

Posted: 8th February 2010 by Sus Scrofa in Oddly Enough
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When doctors and staff realized that a cat living in a U.S. nursing home could sense when someone was going to die, the feline, Oscar, was portrayed as a furry grim reaper or four-legged angel of death. But Dr. David Dosa, who broke the news of Oscar’s abilities in a paper in the New England [...]

At 8:00 a.m. (16:00 UTC) on December 20, 2009, the Los Angeles Fire Department responded to “a medical request”[20] at the Los Angeles home Murphy and Monjack shared. She had apparently collapsed in a bathroom.[2] Firefighters attempted to resuscitate Murphy on the scene, and she was subsequently transported to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where she was [...]