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Date:    Mar  1 11:07
From:    firebird
Subject: Some People are Born Doomed...
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Sometimes, it seems like some people are just plain *doomed*. If you   
don't believe it, consider these weird deaths:

A fierce gust of wind blew 45-year-old Vittorio Luise's car into a   
river near Naples, Italy, in 1983. He managed to break a window, climb out
and  swim to shore -- where a tree blew over and killed him.

Mike Stewart, 31, of Dallas was filming a movie in 1983 on the
dangers of low-level bridges when the truck he was standing on passed under
a low-level bridge -- killing him.

Walter Hallas, a 26-year-old store clerk in Leeds, England, was so   
afraid of dentists that in 1979 he asked a fellow worker to try to cure his   
toothache by punching him in the jaw. The punch caused Hallas to fall down,
hitting his head, and he died of a fractured skull.

George Schwartz, owner of a factory in Providence, R.I., narrowly   
escaped death when a 1983 blast flattened his factory except for one wall.
After treatment for minor injuries, he returned to the scene to search for   
files. The remaining wall then collapsed on him, killing him.

Depressed since he could not find a job, 42-year-old Romolo Ribolla  
sat in his kitchen near Pisa, Italy, with a gun in his hand threatening to
kill himself in 1981. His wife pleaded for him not to do it, and after about
an hour he burst into tears and threw the gun to the floor. It went off
and killed his wife.

In 1983, a Mrs. Carson of Lake Kushaqua, N.Y., was laid out in her   
coffin, presumed dead of heart disease. As mourners watched, she suddenly
sat up. Her daughter dropped dead of fright.

A man hit by a car in New York in 1977 got up uninjured, but lay back
down in front of the car when a bystander told him to pretend he was hurt so
he could collect insurance money. The car rolled forward and crushed him
to death.

In 1976 a twenty-two-year-old Irishman, Bob Finnegan, was crossing
the busy Falls Road in Belfast, when he was struck by a taxi and flung over
its roof. The taxi drove away and, as Finnegan lay stunned in the road, another 

car ran into him, rolling him into the gutter. It too drove on. As a knot
of gawkers gathered to examine the magnetic Irishman, a delivery van plowed
through the crowd, leaving in its wake three injured bystanders and an even
more battered Bob Finnegan. When a fourth vehicle came along, the crowd wisely  

scattered and only one person was hit--Bob Finnegan. In the space of two
minutes Finnegan suffered a fractured skull, broken pelvis, broken leg, and other
assorted injuries. Hospital officials said he would recover.

Hitting on the novel idea that he could end his wife's incessant nagging by
giving her a good scare, Hungarian Jake Fen built an elaborate harness to
make it look as if he had hanged himself. When his wife came home and saw
him she fainted. Hearing a disturbance a neighbor came over and, finding
what she thought were two corpses, seized the opportunity to loot the place. As she
was leaving the room, her arms laden, the outraged and suspended Mr. Fen   
kicked her stoutly in the backside. This so surprised the lady that she
dropped dead of a heart attack. Happily, Mr. Fen was acquitted of manslaughter and
he and his wife were reconciled.


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