death

  • Baboon Pushed Homeless Guy to Death

    A 69-year-old man is said to have died after a baboon pushed him off a ramp at a South African homeless shelter. The Independent Online reports that Michael Bates, a resident of the Happy Valley Home in Simon’s Town, died on Sunday from injuries he sustained from a 2-meter...
  • Woman Walks Free After Squashing Death of Smaller Boyfriend

    A 136kg woman was given a non-custodial sentence after the squashing death of her much smaller boyfriend. News.com reports that Mia Landingham of Cleveland sat on the 54.4kg Mikal Middleston-Bey, the father of her three children, after an argument in the August of 2009. He died of asphyxiation. In...
  • Avatar “Likely” Triggered Fatal Stroke In Hypertensive Man

    A 42-year-old Taiwanese man died after suffering a severe stroke that he suffered during a screening of Avatar and a doctor thinks that it is not mere coincidence. A doctor believes that “over-excitement” that he experienced while viewing Avatar was the trigger of the stroke that ultimately killed the...
  • Dead Grandma’s Brain Sent to Family

    A New Mexico family is suing the funeral home that sent their grandmother’s brain home with a bag of her belongings. According to the Albuquerque Journal, the family opened the bag to investigate a “foul odor” that had been emanating from within and discovered the brain. Albuquerque lawyer Richard...
  • Brazilian Man Crashes Own Funeral

    Apparently he was hoping it was a catered affair.  Or he just wanted to set the record straight that he was not dead, but very much alive. Ademir Jorge Goncalves, 59, a Brazilian bricklayer, was reportedly killed in a car crash, even though the body found at the scene...