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Title: Think you're having a bad day?
Post by: unique on May 27, 2008, 10:50:12 AM: 458 BC: Aeschylus, Greek playwright, was killed when an eagle dropped a live tortoise on him, mistaking his bald head for a stone.
That's exactly why I always wear a hat.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths
Title: Re: Think you're having a bad day?
Post by: pioneer on May 27, 2008, 04:10:24 PM: Yup. Some days we just should not get out of bed.
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Post by: Hazcat on May 27, 2008, 06:24:50 PM: I do believe that ranks right up there with the sword of Damocles.
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Post by: DDMac on May 27, 2008, 06:59:33 PM: So THATS why turtles keep falling on me! WOW! Thanks, Mac.
Title: Re: Think you're having a bad day?
Post by: Jim Urban on May 27, 2008, 07:06:19 PM: So THAT'S why you got yourself that fancy shmancy High Tech Turtle Fallout Shelter to sit in. ;D
Title: Re: Think you're having a bad day?
Post by: unique on May 27, 2008, 07:07:50 PM: Quote from: DDMack on May 27, 2008, 06:59:33 PM
So THATS why turtles keep falling on me! WOW! Thanks, Mac.
Ya read this forum, ya learn something new every day!
Title: Re: Think you're having a bad day?
Post by: twyacht on May 27, 2008, 08:16:17 PM: Great now I need hard hat over my aluminum foil , (to block the alien transmissions). ::)

Damnit man, where's the humanity?

Oh, and I hate when that happens. :P
Quote from: unique on May 27, 2008, 07:07:50 PM
Ya read this forum, ya learn something new every day!
Title: Re: Think you're having a bad day?
Post by: Hazcat on May 27, 2008, 08:21:56 PM: Quote from: unique on May 27, 2008, 07:07:50 PM
Ya read this forum, ya learn something new every day!

Hey, sometimes it's even useful info! ;D
Title: Re: Think you're having a bad day?
Post by: tombogan03884 on May 28, 2008, 12:15:17 AM: Quote from: Jim Urban on May 27, 2008, 07:06:19 PM
So THAT'S why you got yourself that fancy shmancy High Tech Turtle Fallout Shelter to sit in. ;D

Jim, I like your new avatar ;D
Title: Re: Think you're having a bad day?
Post by: DDMac on May 28, 2008, 06:04:29 AM: Yep, that's a good one Jim. As my dog, Scar, taught me, "Why bite, when a good growl will do?"

Love my squirrel blind. AND, it's lightning proof. So far. ;D
Mac.
Title: Re: Think you're having a bad day?
Post by: Big Frank on May 29, 2008, 11:48:12 AM: I read that page before. Some of the other deaths are quite bizarre and/or stupid.

2008: Isaiah Otieno, a Kenyan foreign exchange student in Canada was crushed by a crashing helicopter while walking down a sidewalk in Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada.

If it's not a tortise, it's a chopper, a meterorite, or a ball falling out of the sky.
Title: Re: Think you're having a bad day?
Post by: tombogan03884 on May 30, 2008, 02:43:28 AM: At least no one was killed when SkyLab fell on Alice Springs Australia. Ironic that there is a Sat. tracking station there.
Title: Re: Think you're having a bad day?
Post by: gunman1911 on May 30, 2008, 03:01:56 PM: Quote from: twyacht on May 27, 2008, 08:16:17 PM
Great now I need hard hat over my aluminum foil , (to block the alien transmissions). ::)

Damnit man, where's the humanity?

Oh, and I hate when that happens. :P
Thats why I have an a aluminum hard hat!