David Southwell and Matt Adams
Harper Collins 2008
1001
Ridiculous Ways to Die offers the largest ever collection of hilarious true
stories chronicling the most ridiculous, bizarre and astonishingly stupid
deaths. It offer items from ancient Greece to the Outback, from the 6th century
BCE to 2008, all the most preposterous deaths from across time and around the
globe are recorded.
Hundreds
of entertaining, factual accounts of bizarre, amazing and absurd ways to kick
the bucket are compiled in this book. A huge collection of incredible
cautionary tales about the most undignified and embarrassing ways you can end
up six foot under.
The
book is divided into categories such as Ridiculous Deaths, Top 10 Work related death
and alcohol related deaths, historical deaths covering various time frames,
crime deaths, political deaths, DIY deaths, celebrity deaths and a lot more.
There
are some incredible true tales of stupidity, irony and just plain bad luck in
this darkly humorous book –
The
mechanic who blew himself up while trying to open a rocket-propelled grenade
with a sledgehammer
A
woman felled by a fatal flying lettuce
The
octogenarian who caught a shopping trolley to a permanent vacation
A
criminal who was pursuing his cousin to cut open his leg with a chainsaw to
claim an insurance job instead injured himself and bled to death.
The
convicted murderer who electrocuted himself on the toilet as he repaired a TV
A
celebrity who survived riding over Niagara falls in a barrel only to die when
he slipped on an orange peel at a press event !
Death
may seem like a serious business, but this is a seriously funny book !