A short life and a wonderful death: some more bizarre human deaths from different eras (12 photos)

“Man is mortal, but that’s not so bad. The trouble is that sometimes he is suddenly mortal.” And sometimes - not only suddenly, but also completely ridiculous. In this selection we have included such cases of the passing of their lives that no one would wish on their enemy.





There is either a real story or a legend about a guy named Ronald Opus who jumped from the 10th floor, but that wasn’t what killed him. Three floors below there is a safety net that could have saved the guy’s life, but shot from a gun flew at the guy from a window on the 8th floor. It was the guy's father who wanted to kill his wife and Ronald's mother, but missed. And then it turned out that this gun was never loaded at all, and the cartridge was inserted by Opus, just so that the father would kill the mother and go to prison. Yes, not the happiest family. By the way, the case was closed as a suicide.



Fate is ironic. So, in New Orleans, coastal rescuers decided to throw a party. And it was a worthy reason - for the first time, the swimming season passed without drowning. Needless to say, by the end of the holiday the drowned man decided to honor the bottom of the pool with his presence.





Sometimes enemies can reach you from the grave. Thus, the Viking Sigurd the Mighty attached the head of his sworn enemy, whom he had beheaded the day before, to the saddle of his horse. While galloping, the enemy's teeth bit into Sigurd's leg, causing a fatal infection to enter the latter's blood.



Strange old men, brothers Homer and Langley Collier, suffered from Plyushkin syndrome and accumulated tons of garbage in the last years of their lives. Langley was almost completely blind and paralyzed, and Homer looked after his brother as best he could, trying to find food somewhere. So, he began to drag a variety of things into the house, of which he collected 120 tons. They even set special traps for those who wanted to steal their “valuables.” Langley fell into such a trap when he was bringing food to his brother. He died immediately, and his brother died a couple of days later from hunger. The police cleared tons of debris for 2 weeks and only then were they able to “dig up” Langley.



Quite eccentrically, a janitor at the Singapore Zoo decided to commit suicide. He climbed into the white tiger's cage and began to provoke it in various ways. It didn't take long to persuade the tiger.



Bobby Leach had good luck all his life, and he used it successfully. This is the second person who managed to swim across Niagara Falls in just a barrel, and he was also able to get economic benefits from this. However, his luck ran out at age 68 when he injured his leg by slipping on an orange peel, resulting in his leg being amputated and then his death.



Records are good, of course, the main thing is not to slip on them. So, Hans Steininger grew a one and a half meter beard and became famous throughout the world. But he completely forgot about her when he was running away from the fire, which is why he stepped on her, fell and broke his neck. To death.



Another twist of fate. The owner of the Segway company was unable to control his creation and fell straight into the river from a cliff.



But a 28-year-old guy lived half of his last 24 hours in uninterrupted pleasure. He bet two women that he could make love for 12 hours continuously. During this time, the guy drank a bottle of Viagra and was able to. But $4,300 was hardly worth his life, because a couple of minutes after the last fiction the boy had a heart attack.



St. Petersburg is an interesting city. Let's imagine a situation - a husband and wife are arguing at home, the wife, in her anger, kicks the leg of the sofa on which the husband is resting and leaves the house. The leg falls off, the sofa slams shut, the man is pinned to the wall. And three hours later, the calm lady comes and finds her, maybe not the best, but beloved, husband, not in the most alive state.



Can you not notice a log in your eye or a person in your windshield? Here, the drunk driver Chante Javan Mallard did not notice Gregory Glenn Biggs in the windshield, who was hit on the road and fell right into the glass. Biggs could have been saved if the driver had called an ambulance in time, but Chante simply drove home, left the car in the garage and left the man to slowly die.