Some very unusual ways to meet your maker. Some just seem like very poor judgment calls though. In no particular order.
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1979: Robert Williams, a worker at a Ford Motor Co. plant, was the first known human to be killed by a robot, after the arm of a one-ton factory robot hit him in the head.
2005: Lee Seung Seop, a 28-year-old South Korean, collapsed of fatigue and died after playing the videogame StarCraft online for almost 50 consecutive hours in an Internet cafe.
2007: Kevin Whitrick, a 42-year-old man, committed suicide by hanging himself live on a webcam during an Internet chat session.
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1998: Tom and Eileen Lonergan were stranded while scuba diving with a group of divers off Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. The group’s boat accidentally abandoned them owing to an incorrect head count taken by the dive boat crew. Their bodies were never recovered. The incident inspired the film Open Water and an episode of 20/20.
1996: Sharon Lopatka, an Internet entrepreneur from Maryland, allegedly solicited a man via the Internet to torture and kill her for the purpose of sexual gratification. Her killer, Robert Fredrick Glass, was convicted of voluntary manslaughter for the homicide.
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2009: Taylor Mitchell, a Canadian folk singer, was attacked and killed by two coyotes[159], only the second recorded human fatality from a coyote attack.
1986: Over 1,700 people were killed almost instantly near Lake Nyos in Cameroon when a mass of approximately 100 million cubic metres of carbon dioxide that had collected at the bottom of the lake due to seepage from geothermal sources was suddenly released on August 21, 1986. The gas cloud immediately settled (carbon dioxide is heavier than air) and covered an area of up to 12 miles (20 km) from the lake, killing all oxygen-breathing life almost instantly – although the nearby vegetation, which consumes carbon dioxide and releases oxygen, flourished afterwards.
1993: Actor Brandon Lee, son of Bruce Lee, was shot and killed by Michael Massee using a prop gun while filming the movie The Crow. A cartridge with only a primer and a bullet was fired in the pistol before the fatal scene; this caused a squib load, in which the primer provided enough force to push the bullet out of the cartridge and into the barrel of the revolver, where it became stuck. The malfunction went unnoticed by the crew, and the same gun was used again later to shoot the death scene. His death was not instantly recognized by the crew or other actors; they believed he was still acting
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1999: Owen Hart, a Canadian-born professional wrestler for WWF, died during a pay-per-view event when performing a stunt. It was planned to have Owen come down from the rafters of the Kemper Arena on a safety harness tied to a rope to make his ring entrance. The safety latch was released and Owen dropped 78 feet (24 m), bouncing chest-first off the top rope resulting in a severed aorta, which caused his lungs to fill with blood.
2007: Jennifer Strange, a 28-year-old woman from Sacramento, died of water intoxication while trying to win a Nintendo Wii console in a KDND 107.9 “The End” radio station’s “Hold Your Wee for a Wii” contest, which involved drinking large quantities of water without urinating
2009: Vladimir Likhonos, a Ukrainian student, died after accidentally dipping a piece of homemade chewing gum into explosives he was using on another project. He mistook the jar of explosive for citric acid, which was also on his desk. The gum exploded, blowing off his jaw and most of the lower part of his face
2008: Isaiah Otieno, 20, a Kenyan student living in Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada, was crushed when a single-engine Bell 206 helicopter crashed on top of him and burst into flames when he was walking to mail home a letter. Otieno did not hear the helicopter because he was wearing headphones at the time.
2004: Phillip Quinn, a 24-year-old from Kent, Washington was killed during an attempt to heat up a lava lamp bulb on his kitchen stove while observing it from a few feet away. The heat built up pressure in the bulb until it exploded, spraying shards of glass. One pierced his heart, killing him. The circumstances of his death were later repeated and confirmed in a 2006 episode of the popular science television series
2001: Bernd-Jürgen Brandes from Germany was voluntarily stabbed repeatedly and then partly eaten by Armin Meiwes (who was later called the Cannibal of Rothenburg). Brandes had answered an internet advertisement by Meiwes looking for someone for this purpose. Brandes explicitly stated in his will that he wished to be killed and eaten
1998: Every player on the Basanga soccer team at a game in the Democratic Republic of the Congo between Bena Tshadi and visitors Basanga was struck by a fork bolt of lightning, killing them all instantly
1993: Michael A. Shingledecker Jr. was killed almost instantly when he and a friend were struck by a pickup truck while lying flat on the yellow dividing line of a two-lane highway in Polk, Pennsylvania. They were copying a daredevil stunt from the movie The Program. Marco Birkhimer died of a similar accident while performing the same stunt in Route 206 of Bordentown, New Jersey
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2006: Steve Irwin, an Australian television personality and naturalist known as the Crocodile Hunter, died when his heart was impaled by a short-tail stingray barb while filming a documentary entitled “Ocean’s Deadliest” in Queensland‘s Great Barrier Ree
1993: Garry Hoy, a 38-year old lawyer and a senior partner at the Holden Day Wilson Law firm in Toronto, Canada, fell to his death on July 9, 1993, after he threw himself against a window on the 24th floor of theToronto-Dominion Centre in an attempt to prove to a group of visiting Law Students that the glass was “unbreakable.” His first attempt failed to damage the glass at all. On his second attempt the glass still didn’t break but instead actually popped out of the window frame, and he fell over 300 feet to his death
2003: Timothy Treadwell, an American environmentalist who had lived in the wilderness among bears for thirteen summers in a remote region in Alaska, and his girlfriend Amie Huguenard were killed and partially consumed by a bear. An audio recording of their deaths was captured on a video camera which had been turned on at the beginning of the incident. Werner Herzog‘s documentary film, Grizzly Man, discusses Treadwell and his death.
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2008: Gerald Mellin, a U.K. businessman, committed suicide by tying one end of a rope around his neck and the other to a tree. He then hopped into his Aston Martin DB7 and drove down a main road in Swansea until the rope decapitated him. He supposedly did this as an act of revenge against his ex-wife for leaving him
01. Because we have the most diners in the world, you can always get something to soak up the booze at 3:00 AM.
02. The Jersey accent makes you sound tough, even if you aren’t.
03. You’re usually only three persons removed from knowing a Mafia guy. More after the break...
04. We have the beautiful Jersey Shore. (And the bad tipping Québécois that go with it.)
05. We have Princeton. Not too shabby. Einstein didn’t seem to mind living in Jersey either.
06. The light bulb, the phonograph and motion pictures were invented here. I’m pretty sure the first porn flick was made here too.
07. Jersey Babes. If you need to ask why, you’ll never understand.
08. Our governor doesn’t give a shit what you think of him. He doesn’t even give a shit what we think of him!
09. We’ve take wearing leather to an art form. Black leather blazer with green leather pants? Rock on.
10. I enjoy feeling like a shark when I see Zip cars with New York tags on the Turnpike. Blood in the water!
11. Cheese fries. Cheese fries with gravy.
12. I love always being ten minutes from a mall – until it’s Christmas.
13. Gasoline pumped by friendly attendants. How civilized. Only Oregon has a similar sense of class.
14. I can give snobby New Yorkers faulty directions and send them into Newark.
15. Jersey’s a movable olfactory feast.
16. We have the highest property taxes and auto insurance rates. We’re number one! We’re number one!
17. The Statue of Liberty is ours; we just don’t want to make the support payments.
18. We have two New York pro football teams.
19. It’s easy to get Newark Airport. JFK? Fuggedaboutit.
20. Our State Troopers wear scary uniforms modeled after the German Army! Not that Smokey the Bear shit.
21. We all know where Jimmy Hoffa’s buried. We just ain’t telling.
22. We have the second largest waterfall on the East Coast – in Paterson of all places.
23. One of the first commercial television networks (DuMont) began broadcasting out of Passaic. So, in a weird way, Snooki and the Situation is our fault.
24. We have to love Bruce Springsteen under penalty of death.
25. We have the most guys named Tony. We have the most girls named Tina.
26. We were invaded by Mars.
27. We took down a Nazi dirigible. Yes, that was us.
28. We have the biggest state Napoleon complex in America. Probably because his brother lived here.
29. We had the Lindbergh baby thing long before OJ Simpson was born.
30. George Washington slept just about everywhere here. Guy got around.
31. Samuel Colt made the first revolver here. You feeling lucky, punk?
32. The modern submarine was developed here. And I don’t mean that sandwich deluded out-of-staters insist on calling a hoagie, grinder or a hero.
33. New Jersey was corrupt before Chicago was a name on a map.
34. The Army tests secret weapons here. Probably because of that Martian thing.
35. A shitload of Nobel Prizes were earned in Jersey. (Princeton has 35 alone) See! We’re smart.
36. We have more municipalities than California and are way cooler.
37. If Manhattanites are suddenly faced with a zombie outbreak, we have plans to blow up those bridges and tunnels they love to make fun of.
38. Batman lives in New Jersey.
39. We are the country’s third largest cranberry producer. Dead mafia guys make great fertilizer.
40. We used to have the Miss America pageant until some jerk took it from us. When we find that guy Tony Soprano will fuck him up real good.
41. We have more vintage IROC-Z cars than any state in America. (You have to be from Bloomfield to get that reference)
42. Frank Sinatra was from Hoboken. He hated the place, sure, but he’s still ours.
43. Watching tourists trying to drive though one of our traffic circles. We should sell tickets.
44. Our sweet corn is the shit.
45. A significant percentage of our male population gets their eyebrows threaded.
46. Sacred Heart Cathedral in Newark is bigger than St. Patrick’s. So there!
47. The first dinosaur bones were found here – next to the bodies of Tony “Cannoli” Zamboni and Frank “The Fink” Careltti.
48. If you want to get rid of your car, leave it in Newark for five minutes.
49. Jersey is musically stuck in the Eighties. Bon Jovi! Bon Jovi!
50. Valium was invented in NJ. You’ll need it on the Turnpike.
Aubrey O'Day
Her take on Hitler: "I don't condone Hitler one ounce, but yes, he was a brilliant man. Can you guys say that he wasn't? He ran a country."
Britney Spears On whether shed like to visit Japan: "I've never really wanted to go to Japan. Simply because I don't like eating fish. And I know that's very popular out there in Africa."
Tara Reid The actress on her reputation of being a dumb blonde: "I make Jessica Simpson look like a rock scientist."
Christina Aguilera Inquiring about the annual Cannes Film Festival: "So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?"
Alicia Silverstone On her movie Clueless: "I think it was very deep in the way that it was very light. I think lightness has to come from a very deep place if its true lightness."
Jessica Simpson On the pronunciation of the word Platypus: "Platypus? I thought it was pronounced platymapus. Has it always been pronounced platypus?" Umm, yes, Jess. It's always been pronounced that way. She also gets bonus points for her famous "Tuna Is chicken" Fiasco
Brooke Shields The former models comments regarding an anti-smoking campaign she was endorsing: "Smoking Kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life."
Paula Dean On her recent controversy: "If there's anyone out there that has never said something that they wish they could take back if you're out there, please pick up that stone and throw it so hard at my head that it kills me. Please. I want to meet you. I is what I is, and I'm not changing."
Kellie Pickler Kellie Pickler is one of the sweetest American Idol contestants in the history of the show but her adorkably cute comments weren't appreciated during her appearance on Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader when she insulted all of her overseas fans when she quipped, "I thought Europe was a Country" during one of her answers.
Snooki The pint-sized, self-proclaimed meatball on her frustration with people giving her the time: "I'm not good with time. Like, if I ask you the time and you say A quarter to 2, I wouldn't know. Why can't you just say 2:30?"
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Large corporations only one type of professionals - professionals working in large corporations.
The text below is made on the basis of the views of several people who worked for a long time in the office, and exchanged the comfort of open-space and free coffee in the business and a balanced life.
You never get a satisfying career you
It is worth considering how many layers of bosses is over you to understand that you take too much effort to overcome the internal resistance of the company. Playing - get out, work - hardly.
The initiative is punishable
To push the simplest change, which seems nonsense - for example, changing the letters in the layout or correction of the creative process - you have to spend enormous power. Most of all, when you win in your business, you will not get any satisfaction.
You will not be able to express their views publicly
If you are an expert in online advertising, or just know who is who in the market, and you have a big corporation, you are there at the time of shut up. You can not say that your product is bad - unethical in relation to his colleagues that the product is a poor competitor - is unethical in relation to competitors, generally can not comment on anything - it is better to keep silent, and then just offend someone. All colleagues are very valuable.
Team! Team! Team!
Team spirit and synergy, in unison, one and all, but together we can ... This you have heard plenty of very many. In the command responsibility you learn to hide their incompetence or inexperience. The most miserable project will grow into a working group with the group the same liability for which the offender could not be found, and rewards those who get anyhow.
You lose your emotions
The offices are not made to envy and enjoy. That is, all that is within you will gradually died down, but you will no longer show it all on his face. Boredom - this is your new mask.
You will learn to truly rejoice in the victories, which do not have any relation
You'll say "Well done guys designers! To give, "" Cool WE project. " You know that you are not in the business, but you're welcome. Your projects will run less and less, and enjoy something you need. Let the stone face of an office worker.
You have forgotten how to talk back and get used to the pace of working, which is adopted in the company
A month ago, you were annoyed that the treaty agree on a month, and offer some trains per week. You'll be in the same stop and sincerely understand the real course of things.
You will learn not to listen to people who say to you
Most experienced office staff as soon as they begin to talk, bristling with a smartphone or laptop. You will learn how to constantly check the mail and believe that you are very busy and you are VERY much depends.
You will learn to spend most of their time in useless talks
"- Let's go to peregovorku! - Who to take? - Yes, take it all! "Yes, you will collect a mini-audience extras, which will check your mail while you're talking about anything as long as the next portion of the skilled office workers do not throw you to do the same.
You will have no problems with delays
You'll be late everywhere - on internal meetings at the checkpoint where the waiting partners or contractors, on-site meeting. And you will have no problem with it - forgot met a colleague in the corridor, traffic jams - you believe that all this is the normal reason for delay.
You will become a caffeine-addicted and love the toilets
Coffee morning coffee before poludnikom coffee before lunch, afternoon coffee, coffee and 5 o'clock tea, coffee before going home. If you smoke, then add as many times as coffee, how many times you smoke. Toilets save when drinking coffee just did not want to. If there is a smoking room, it means there will be a headquarters, peregovorka, meeting room.
You will spend 12-14 hours on the job
But you are working or not going at all, or squeeze out a 2-3 hours of power. You will learn how to convince yourself that you are doing the right job that you are overwhelmed by all this notice. While secretly know everything that surrounded idlers and therefore behave the same way. The main thing is not to cause suspicion that you have something else in his life and work - just a means to achieve.
Increase in wages
Work you less productive. You, as the moss will acquire unnecessary tasks and meetings, but you will always feel that you deserve better and improve patches - for you it is taken for granted the event.
Do you diagnose symptoms of office workers
You will begin to increasingly ill colds. You quickly explain what it's all air conditioned and do not need to worry - do not disappear as insurance. You'll get sick a lot and enjoy it.
You will be overweight and ugly body
Again, there will be ready to explain - stress, a sedentary lifestyle. But that's because your body and brain will not do the work requires a lot of calories, you'll be a coffee-points haul napakovannye pechenyushkoy sugar, which will be 10 times a day, drink coffee with sugar. At lunch you will eat tasteless lunches that are prepared from the balance at the kitchen yesterday. This food is cooked without love, but because it is not useful.
You'll adore Friday
For the private entrepreneur Friday - it's terrible, the business ceases to operate for 2 days. For the office of a professional - this is the best day of the week - beer, singing and dancing are only possible on this day.
Yet you'll love corporate parties
Subject is not important. You absorb alcohol and food for a pittance, but it will be able to believe what you've done something special. You get used to the shame, and over the years, the Corporation and will know more about fellow filth than their spouses. And you will like it. About the same can be gossip.
You will lose the spirit of startapersky
All these weird people that make the products are not as important as you will cause contempt. And you'll always know that in a startup you will succeed the first time, just you do not need. You are different, different, successful ... already.
You gain credits
At the beginning of the work you want auto, like his colleagues. You buy it on credit, being piously convinced that "Well, an apartment for 30 years, I do not take it." A few years later the system the appearance of money on a plastic card your sense of self-blunted, and you will fit into such debts, which seemed impossible to you yesterday.
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The first appointment should take place in a comfortable atmosphere, as in the initial stage of a relationship is very important to get to know each other better. In order not to spoil the meeting, you must assign it to a good place. Where to arrange a first date?
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1. Park — A wonderful place where you can leisurely stroll along shady paths, ride a bike or walking commercials. Cotton candy, ice cream, rides and cozy cafes will make a date easily.
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2. Movies — Bring together the various joint experiences, and in a dark room you can take the girl by the hand or by accident allegedly put his arm on a nearby. You should not try to persuade people to go to the movies, if you do not want that. Date should bring joy to both and to be interesting.
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3. Quay — The breeze blowing from the water and flowing hair, funny duck, which you can feed bread and sunflower seeds, couples walking around the handle - what could be more romantic? You will be understood as a whole.
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4. Concert — Summer - time for fun street, so you can combine a first date with a live performance of what - something good group. You only have to take into account the musical preferences of the person that was a pleasant surprise, and not vice versa.
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05. Cafe — This option is great for rainy days. You can talk quietly in a cozy atmosphere with a cup of coffee and get to know each other better. Better to choose neshaminy institution with a small amount of visitors. Live music is welcome.
Dear Friends,
Take care of your "delicate" eyes. This info' is sure to help PC users very much. During a recent visit to an optician, one of my mailing group friends was told of anexercise for the eyes by a specialist doctor in the United States that he termed as 20-20-20." It is apt for all of us, who spend long hours at our desks,looking at the computer screen.
I Thought I'd share it with you. 20-20-20
Step I :-After every 20 minutes of looking into the computer screen, turn yourhead and try to look at any object placed at least 20 feet away. This changes the focal length of your eyes, a must-do for the tired eyes.
Step II :-Try and blink your eyes for 20 times in succession, to moisten them.
Step III :-Time permitting of course, one should walk 20 paces after every 20 minutesof sitting in one particular posture. Helps blood circulation for the entire body.
Circulate among your friends if you care for them and their eyes. They say that your eyes r mirror of your soul, so do take care of them, they are priceless...
Otherwise our eye would be like this.....
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