Whether it was drinking too much carrot juice or having a cow fall on you while you are sleeping, these are 20 ridiculous, strange, and crazy deaths that will boggle your mind.
[20] In 2007 Surinder Singh Bajwa, the mayor of Delhi in India, fell to his death from a balcony after trying to fight off a bunch of attacking monkeys
[19] In the year 1567 Austrian Hans Steininger tripped on his beard and died
[18] In 1958 the British TV actor Gareth Jones was playing a character who was supposed to have a heart attack. At that moment, however, he actually had a heart attack and everyone thought he was just acting.
[17] James Henselden, the owner of the Segway production company, died when he drove a Segway off of a cliff in England
[16]Chrysippus of Soli, the Greek philosopher, supposedly died of laughter after watching a donkey eat figs
[15] Robert Williams became the first human to ever be killed by a robot in 1979 when he was hit by a robotic arm at a Ford factory
[14] In 1923 Frank Hayes became the first dead person to win a horse race when he suffered a heart attack before crossing the finish line
[13] Franz Reichelt, an Austrian tailor, was so convinced that he had found a way for humans to fly that he jumped off of the Eiffel Tower to prove it in 1912. He fell straight down and died.
[12] Franz Reichelt, an Austrian tailor, was so convinced that he had found a way for humans to fly that he jumped off of the Eiffel Tower to prove it in 1912. He fell straight down and died.
[11] A Brazilian man, Joao Maria de Souza, was killed in 2013 when a cow came crashing through his roof
[10] Basil Brown, a self proclaimed health fanatic, killed himself by drinking a gallon of carrot juice every day
[9] In 1992 Greg Austin Gingrich was pretending to fall over the side of the Grand Canyon when he actually did fall over the side, and died.
[8] In 1814 eight people died in London when a giant vat of beer exploded and drowned them all
[7] Michael F. Farley, an American congressman, died while shaving because his razor was infected with anthrax
[6] During the dance fever of 1518 in Strasbourg, nearly 100 people danced for about 1 month straight. Several of them ended up dying.
[5] John Sedgwick, a general during the Civil War was killed by a sniper shortly after mentioning that "they [the enemy] couldn't hit an elephant at this distance"
[4] Garry Hoy, a Canadian lawyer, wanted to show that his office window was unbreakable so he threw himself against. Unfortunately he was wrong, and even more unfortunately his office was on the 24th floor.
[3] In the Boston Molasses Disaster of 1919, twenty one people died when a huge tank of molasses exploded sending a large wave of sweetener through the city
[2] Sigurd the Mighty, a Viking conqueror, was killed by a man he had just recently beheaded. How? Because he had tied the man's head to his horse saddle, his teeth cut Sigurd's leg after which Sigurd contracted a lethal infection
[1] Horace Lawson Hunley was a Civil War submarine engineer who designed a number of submarines, all of which eventually sank. He eventually met the same fate while he was captaining his latest model, named after himself.
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