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Old 10-01-2008   #4
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Felix Faure (1890) This former French president died of a stroke while receiving oral sex in his office. (from his mistress)

Lee Seung Seop (2005)
28-year-old Korean video game addict collapsed in an Internet cafe after playing Starcraft & World of Warcraft for almost 50 consecutive hours. About six weeks before his death, he had been fired from his job for missing work to play computer games.

Joseph W. Burrus (1990)
An aspiring magician, died while attempting a "buried alive" stunt. He was contained inside an acrylic glass clear box,or coffin, of his own construction. Lowered into a hole, his crew began filling the hole with dirt around the sidesof the coffin. Then, they began filling the hole with wet concrete. At some point, the crew realized the concrete had crushed the box, and when they pulled him out, he was dead.

Alex Mitchell (1975)
A 50-year-old bricklayer from King's Lynn literally died laughing whilst watching an episode of The Goodies. According to his wife, who was a witness, Mitchell was unable to stop laughing whilst watching a sketch in the episode "Kung Fu Kapers" in which Tim Brooke-Taylor, dressed as a kilted Scotsman, used a set of bagpipes to defend himself from a psychopathic black pudding in a demonstration of the Scottish martial art of "Hoots-Toot-ochaye." After twenty-five minutes of continuous laughter Mitchell finally slumped on the sofa and expired from heart failure.

Wan Hu (early 1500s)
According to legend, early in the 16th century, Wan decided to take advantage of China's advanced rocket and fireworks technology to launch himself into outer space. He supposedly had a chair built with forty-seven rockets attached. On the day of lift-off, Wan, splendidly attired, climbed into his rocket chair and forty seven servants lit the fuses and then hastily ran for cover. There was a huge explosion. When the smoke cleared, Wan and the chair were gone, never to be seen again.

Frank Hayes (1923)
A jockey who suffered a heart attack during a horse race. The horse, Sweet Kiss, went on to finish first, making Hayes the only deceased jockey to ever win a race.

Chrysippus (207 BC),
a Greek stoic philosopher, is believed to have died of laughter after watching his drunk donkey attempt to eat figs.


source: newsvoid.com


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