8 ironic deaths

Sometimes it is simply impossible not to be surprised and do not laugh at the irony of life and death, but only until it happens to someone else. Here are the stories that speak for themselves.

1. Not enough optimizmaV 1915 Felix Powell, the British Staff Sergeant and composer, wrote the music for the march, "Put all your problems in an old bag and smile, smile, smile." This song has participated in the contest of the best songs to lift the morale of the troops during the First World War. She won first place and was called "perhaps the most upbeat song that has ever been written».

Irony: Powell committed suicide in 1941.

2. Do not dig yourself mogiluChuvstvuya approach of his own death, Nick Marcourt, Yugoslavian farmer decided to dig his own grave. According to reports in the news: "When did the sudden downpour, and water began to fill the hole, trying to scoop water Marcourt bucket I slipped and drowned».

3. He said that as the water glyadel30 April 1956 Albany Barkley, Vice President, delivered a speech at a political meeting at the University of Washington and Lee.

After he told the audience: "I would rather be a servant in the house of the Lord than to sit in the ranks of the all-powerful," Barkley fell down and died.

4. Death from navozaFridrih Rizfeld, zoo keeper in Germany, trying to cure the elephant Stephen constipation, feeding him 22 doses of laxative for animals. When that did not work, he gave the elephant a good portion of berries, figs and prunes, and the results did not come.

Then, frustrated caretaker decided to make the elephant an enema with olive oil. And then suddenly it came out of the elephant 90 kg of excrement that killed Rizfilda.

The strength of the sudden an elephant caretaker defecation dumped on the ground. "He hit a rock and lost consciousness at the time, as the elephant went on to release the bowels" - he told the police.

5. Life from start to finish in zhurnaleDzhordzh Story appeared in the first issue of Life. The room under the heading "Life Begins" was a photograph of a newborn George.

Over the years, the journal appeared periodically information on the progress of the life of George, including two of his marriage, having children and retirement. A week after Life magazine has announced its closure, George died of cardiac arrest. In this last issue there was an article about George Story titled "Life ends».

6. Death in the film world Davies was understudy actress Janet Leigh, who played the main character in the famous Hitchcock movie "Psycho". She said the voice of the mother of the protagonist Norman Bates and that her hand appeared in the famous scene in the bathroom when the heroine killed. Ironically, July 3, 1988 Davis was found strangled in her home. She was killed by 31-year-old manager, that is the hero, who is depicted in the movie "Psycho».

7. slipped, fell ... In 1911, Bobby Leach, a professional stunt man, who made a living, risking their lives, fell to Niagara Falls in a barrel while. He survived. But 15 years later, in 1926, he slipped on an orange peel and died of injuries in the fall.
8. Something here does not add up

Johann Andervald, Swiss mathematician, was one of the outstanding personalities in the field and it was called "the next Einstein." He died in 1999 from a mathematical error. Andervald made a 76-meter jump from the 90-meter rope, and died immediately on impact.

via factroom.ru