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Doomed People........ Read on
and you'll see what we mean.
Some people just ask for it!
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Doomed People.....
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- Hitting on the novel idea that he could end his wife's incessant
nagging by giving her a good scare, Hungarian Jake Fen built an
elaborate harness to make it look as if he had hanged himself.
When his wife came home and saw him she fainted. Hearing a disturbance
a neighbor came over and, finding what she thought were two corpses,
seized the opportunity to loot the place. As she was leaving the
room, her arms laden, the outraged and suspended Mr. Fen kicked
her stoutly in the backside. This so surprised the lady that she
dropped dead of a heart attack. Happily, Mr. Fen was acquitted
of manslaughter and he and his wife were reconciled.
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- Mike Stewart, 31, of Dallas was filming a movie in 1983 on the
dangers of low-level bridges when the truck he was standing on
passed under a low-level bridge - killing him.
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- A fierce gust of wind blew 45-year-old Vittorio Luise's car
into a river near Naples, Italy, in 1983. He managed to break
a window, climb out and swim to shore - where a tree blew over
and killed him.
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- Depressed since he could not find a job, 42-year-old Romolo
Ribolla sat in his kitchen near Pisa, Italy, with a gun in his
hand threatening to kill himself in 1981. His wife pleaded for
him not to do it, and after about an hour he burst into tears
and threw the gun to the floor. It went off and killed his wife.
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- Walter Hallas, a 26-year-old store clerk in Leeds, England,
was so afraid of dentists that in 1979 he asked a fellow worker
to try to cure his toothache by punching him in the jaw. The punch
caused Hallas to fall down, hitting his head, and he died of a
fractured skull.
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- George Schwartz, owner of a factory in Providence, R.I., narrowly
escaped death when a 1983 blast flattened his factory except for
one wall. After treatment for minor injuries, he returned to the
scene to search for files. The remaining wall then collapsed on
him, killing him.
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- While motorcycling through the Hungarian countryside, Cristo
Falatti came up to a railway line just as the crossing gates were
coming down. While he sat idling, he was joined by a farmer with
a goat, which the farmer tethered to the crossing gate. A few
moments later a horse and cart drew up behind Falatti, followed
in short order by a man in a sports car.
When the train roared through the crossing, the horse startled
and bit Falatti on the arm. Not a man to be trifled with, Falatti
responded by punching the horse in the head. In consequence the
horse's owner jumped down from his cart and began scuffling with
the motorcyclist. The horse, which was not up to this sort of
excitement, backed away briskly, smashing the cart into the sports-
car. At this, the sports-car driver leaped out of his car and
joined the fray. The farmer came forward to try to pacify the
three flailing men. As he did so, the crossing gates rose and
his goat was strangled. At last report, the insurance companies
were still trying to sort out the claims.
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- Surprised while burgling a house in Antwerp, Belgium, a thief
fled out the back door, clambered over a nine-foot wall, dropped
down and found himself in the city prison.
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- In 1983, a Mrs. Carson of Lake Kushaqua, N.Y., was laid out
in her coffin, presumed dead of heart disease. As mourners watched,
she suddenly sat up. Her daughter dropped dead of fright.
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- A man hit by a car in New York in 1977 got up uninjured, but
lay back down in front of the car when a bystander told him to
pretend he was hurt so he could collect insurance money. The car
rolled forward and crushed him to death.
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