accidents

  • Crocodile on plane leaves 19 dead

    Nineteen people are dead following a bizarre incident aboard a domestic flight in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The only survivor of the crash explained that a large number of passengers had panicked when a crocodile broke out of a passenger’s sports bag. In their rush to get away...
  • Italian mushroom pickers drop like flies

    At least 18 people have died while mushroom picking in Italy this year – not one of them from accidental poisoning. In their quest for delicious fungi, the hapless ‘shroomers all fell victim to dangerous terrain. They fell down crevasses, gorges and rocky slopes. The Lombardy region claimed 7,...
  • Clumsy German “cheaters” fall from window

    A pair of German lovers found themselves with broken bones and head wounds after an afternoon rendezvous went terribly, terribly wrong. People from neighboring apartments said that they witnessed the pair having sex in the window before they fell 5 meters to the ground below. It is a claim...
  • Rat extermination attempt claims three humans

    An elderly Ukrainian man, his wife and their grand daughter died of carbon monoxide poisoning when an ill-conceived rat extermination plan went wrong. The 71-year-old had planned to gas the vermin in the basement of his home using exhaust fumes from his car. So he attached a hose to...
  • Man’s scrotum waxed down to the testicles

    A British man was lucky not to lose a testicle when a genital waxing stunt at a local pub went badly wrong. Twenty-four-year-old Joe Cooper is currently recuperating in hospital after letting his friends give him a “male Brazilian” in a charity fundraiser at the The Trees pub. While...
  • Man Killed By Out of Control Manure Hose

    Innerzehent, Austria: A 50-year-old Austrian farmer was killed when he was struck on the head by an out of control manure hose. According to The Austrian Times, the man’s 79-year-old father was unaware of his son’s location began to pump manure onto a steep field by way of the...
  • Oops: School Staff Given Insulin Instead Of Swine Flu Vaccination

    A number of school officials and staff members at a Wellesley, Massachusetts elementary school have been hospitalized after they were injected with insulin. They were supposed to be getting a swine flu vaccination. Superintendent Bella Wong stressed that no students were endangered in Schofield Elementary’s Friday medical mix-up and...
  • Industrial Grinder Frees Man’s Penis From Metal Pipe

    An unnamed man presented to Southampton General Hospital with an embarrassing predicament, his penis was stuck in a metal pipe. The pipe was restricting blood flow, resulting in a vigorous erection that would not subside; but his ordeal paled in comparison to what was to come. Doctors in the...
  • Teen Collapses After Chewing 45 Pieces Of Nicotine Gum

    A 14-year-old boy collapsed at school after chewing 45 pieces of nicotine gum, containing a staggering 90mg of nicotine, over the space of just 25 minutes....