10 historical deaths that are kind of ridiculous
Nathan Johnson
Published
03/24/2015
these people are so unlucky
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During Clement Vallandigham's last case as a lawyer, he demonstrated how the victim wasn't murdered, but accidentally shot himself while drawing his weapon. Vallandigham then accidentally shot himself during the reenactment. -
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In 1988, a man named Mel Ignatow killed a woman on a glass coffee table, but he only had to serve 10 years in prison. The universe didn't let him off the hook, however One day, he tripped and eventually died of the wounds he sustained from falling onto his glass coffee table. -
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Union general John Sedgwick chided his men as cowards for running away from Confederate bullets fired at them from 1,000 yards away. "They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance," he said...before a Rebel sharpshooter caught him in the eye. -
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Jasper Newman "Jack" Daniel is most known for his popular Tennessee whiskey. He died from an infected toe, after kicking a safe presumably filled with all the whiskey dough. -
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Jimi Heselden, owner of the Segway company, accidentally drove his Segway off an 80 foot cliff to his death. -
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In 1985, the lifeguards at a pool in New Orleans threw a party to celebrate the fact that nobody had died in the water that summer. Even with 200 lifeguards in attendance at the party, a man still managed to drown in the deep end that night. -
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A Washington man named Kenneth Pinyan died while trying to have sex with a horse. -
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Allan Pinkerton, the man who thwarted an assassination attempt on Abraham Lincoln and hunted Jesse James, was actually killed biting his own tongue and succumbing to infections. -
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Michael Anderson was a convicted murderer, but before he met the electric chair, he convinced jurors to reduce his sentence. One day, as he sat on his metal toilet in his cell and fixed his television, the reaper gave him his original sentence and he died of electrocution. -
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Bobby Leach, the daredevil who successfully survived the 180 foot drop of Niagara Falls, was done in by a 4 foot drop to the ground after he slipped on an orange peel. The fall broke his leg, which had to be amputated. He died from the complications.
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