Death
Death by Snails
November 1979: World-champion snail eater Marc Quinquandon died soon after eating 72 snails in three minutes and four seconds.More info: Death of a snails man (Washington Post - Nov 29, 1979)
San Bernardino County Sun - Nov 27, 1979
Posted By: Alex - Tue Jul 10, 2018 -
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Category: Death, Food, World Records, 1970s
Dung Lung
Death by breathing in dung fumes. It doesn't sound like a pleasant way to go, though perhaps not the worst since apparently before it kills you it paralyzes your sense of smell. But it's definitely a weird way to die.
“Agricultural Disorders of the Lung,” RadioGraphics (1991); 11:625-634.
Mansfield News-Journal - Sep 24, 1982
Posted By: Alex - Mon Jul 09, 2018 -
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Category: Death, Health, Excrement
Cremation by solar power
Patent #US4781174A:Seems like something a James Bond villain would create, if he were in the funeral business.
Posted By: Alex - Mon Jul 02, 2018 -
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Category: Death, Inventions, Patents, 1980s
Returned for insufficient payment
October 1992: Evans Mortuary played hardball. When a customer didn't make full payment, they simply returned the body, right to the customer's doorstep. More details here, including these lines:And from the mortician:
The mortician was charged with abuse of a corpse, but eventually acquitted.
Salem Statesman Journal - Oct 14, 1992
Posted By: Alex - Sun Jul 01, 2018 -
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Category: Death, 1990s
Truck Turner
The Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jun 28, 2018 -
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Category: Crime, Death, Destruction, Detectives, Private Eyes and Other Investigators, Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Movies, Exploitation and Grindhouse, 1970s
S’mores Story
S'mores Story from Monster Truck Ninja on Vimeo.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jun 21, 2018 -
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Category: Anthropomorphism, Babies, Cannibalism, Death, Food
Resurrecting Peter Lorre
In 1964, police managed to thwart the dastardly scheme of the "Covenant of the 73rd Demon" (a group of teenage boys) to resurrect Peter Lorre. The actor had died on March 23, 1964, and the boys' plan was found out three months later.Wilson said an "order" signed by one of the boys and passed on to other cult members indicated the cult planned to exhume Lorre's body and restore life to it. Lorre was one of the cult's idols, the officer said.
The "order" did not explain how the boys planned to restore life, and the youths would not tell officers about it.
The Lawton Constitution - June 25, 1964
Posted By: Alex - Wed Jun 20, 2018 -
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Category: Celebrities, Death, 1960s
Inflatable Coffin
Patented by Clifford Malbon of Daytona Beach, Florida in 1977. Patent # US4050125A. From the patent abstract:
Naples Daily News - Dec 11, 1977
Posted By: Alex - Fri Jun 01, 2018 -
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Category: Death, Inventions, Patents, 1970s
Unauthorized Dwellings 5
Keeping one's lover in the attic, hidden from the resident husband, has to require some chutzpah.
Full story here.
Dolly Oesterreich, 33 at the time, first became friendly with 17-year-old Otto Sanhuber (Jul 16, 1888 - ?)around 1913 and described him as her "vagabond half-brother." The two quickly became lovers and met clandestinely at Sanhuber's boarding room or at a nearby hotel. They also arranged trysts at Dolly's home but, when neighbors began noting Otto's increasingly frequent comings and goings and alerted her husband, Dolly suggested to Otto that he quit his job and secretly move into the Oesterreichs' upstairs attic to allay any further suspicions. He readily agreed to the arrangement. Not only would this put him in closer proximity to his lover but it would also give him time to pursue his dream of writing pulp fiction stories. Sanhuber would later describe himself as Dolly's "sex slave".
Posted By: Paul - Wed May 30, 2018 -
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Category: Crime, Unauthorized Dwellings, Death, Sexuality, Twentieth Century
Naughty Dallas
Jada the Stripper famous for something other than this film.
Posted By: Paul - Mon May 14, 2018 -
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Category: Death, Movies, Sex Symbols, Historical Figure, 1960s
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