^{Following are a list of odd deaths. Very odd deaths.  Best thing about it: THEY ARE ALL TRUE!!}

^{Tech Disaster: A 27 year-old French woman lost control over her car on a highway near Marseilles and crashed into a tree, seriously injuring her passenger and killing her. As a commonplace road accident, this would not have been something to gawk at were it not for the fact that the driver's attention had been distracted by her Tamagotchi (yes the child toy), which had started urgently beeping for food as she drove along. In attempting to press the correct buttons to save the Tamagotchi's life, the woman lost her own.                                                                                                                    Moral: if you can’t multi-task; don’t.}

^{Names used Literally – a bad thing: A 22-year-old Reston man was found dead after he tried to use bungee ropes (the stretchy little ropes with hooks on each end) to bungee jump off a 70-foot railroad trestle, police said. Fairfax County police said Eric A. Barcia, a fast-food worker, taped a bunch of these straps together, wrapped an end around one foot, anchored the other end to the trestle at Lake Accotink Park, jumped… and hit the pavement. Warren Carmichael, a police spokesman, said investigators think Barcia’s experiment could have worked but… The length of the cord that he had assembled was greater than the distance between the trestle and the ground.                                                               Moral: Boredom is deadly.}

^{Rattle Rattle: A man in Alabama died from rattlesnake bites. Big deal you may say, but there's a twist. It seems he and a friend were playing catch with the poor rattlesnake.                                                                                                          Moral: Catch is a game invented for it’s amusing nature; provided you play it with a ball.}

^{All gassed up: Several years ago, in a west Texas town, employees in a medium-sized warehouse noticed the smell of a gas leak. Sensibly, management evacuated the building, extinguishing all potential sources of ignition - lights, power, etc. After the building had been evacuated, two technicians from the gas company were dispatched. Upon entering the building, they found they had difficulty navigating in the dark. To their frustration, none of the lights worked. Witnesses later described the vision of one of the technicians reaching into his pocket, and retrieving an object that resembled a lighter. Upon operation of the lighter-like object, the gas in the warehouse exploded, sending pieces of it up to three miles away.     Moral: Common sense is a necessity.}

^{Why Women do the Washing: A 39-year-old Charlottesville man died in a freak accident involving his washing machine. According to police reports, Samuel Randolph Strickson was doing laundry when he tried to speed up the process. Strickson apparently tried to stuff approximately 50 pounds of laundry into his washing machine by climbing on top of the washer and attempting to force the clothing into the basin. Strickson then apparently accidentally kicked the washing machine's ON button. When the machine turned on, Strickson lost his balance and both feet went down into the machine, where they got stuck. The machine started its cycle, and Strickson, unable to free himself, started thrashing around as the machine's agitator went into gear. Strickson's head banged against a nearby shelf in the laundry room, knocking over a bottle of bleach, which poured over Strickson's face, blinding him. Forensic reports say Strickson apparently also swallowed some of the bleach. He then vomited, but was still unable to free himself. Strickson's dog, then apparently came into the laundry room. At about the same time, according to police, a large box of baking soda fell from the shelf, startling the dog, who then urinated. Urine, like vinegar, is acidic, and the chemical reaction between the urine and the baking soda resulted in "a small explosion," according to police reports. The dog, however, escaped unharmed. Strickson remained stuck in the washing machine, which eventually went into its high-speed spin cycle, spinning Strickson around at about 70 miles per hour, according to forensic experts. Strickson's head then smashed against a steel beam behind the washing machine, immediately killing him. A neighbor heard the commotion and called 911, but Strickson was pronounced dead at the scene. Moral: Patience is a virtue.}

^{Curiosity Killed the Man: In Detroit, a 41-year-old man was driving down a deserted street when he noticed something black on the road. Curios as he was, he got out of his car and started examining the thing. Turning out to be just a cloth the man tossed the cloth into sewer and accidentally tossed his car key with it. Going in head first into the 18-inch sewer grate, the man got stuck drowned in two feet of water.                                                                                                               Moral: Just keep driving.}

^{8 Feet Under: A man died on a beach when an 8-foot-deep hole he had dug into the sand caved in as he sat inside it. Beachgoers said Daniel Jones, 21, dug the hole for fun, or protection from the wind, and had been sitting in a beach chair at the bottom Thursday afternoon when it collapsed, burying him beneath 5 feet of sand. People on the beach, on the outer banks, used their hands and shovels, trying to claw their way to Jones, a resident of Woodbridge, but could not reach him. It took rescue workers using heavy equipment almost an hour to free him while about 200 people looked on Jones was pronounced dead at a hospital.                                                                                                                                     Moral: Holes are for groundhogs.}

 ^{It’s a Guy Thing: September 8 1998, an 8-year-old boy, Joe, fell off a 100-foot-high church steeple after he lost his grip swinging on the cross that marked the spot where another boy, Mark, had fallen to his death September 8 1990 while swinging on the same cross that another boy, Lucas, had fallen to his death September 8 1982. That is to say that Lucas, Joe and Mark all died the same way each passing away 8 years apart when each of them were 8.                               Moral: Celebration of death should not be done to make future people mourn over your death.}   

^{seriously. but that's not all!  there is this girl in my class, who's name is... lets just call her 'asswipe'. why are we going to call her asswipe you may ask? because it is the most truthful statement ever. she is the ugliest, most idiotic, most annoying, most insecure, most illiterate, most plain dumb piece of shit i have ever encounterd. she does everything i ask her to do. and sometimes thats not a good thing. she proves the quote "if you want something done right, do it yourself". because everything she does is just plain wrong!!!!!!!!!}

^{. . . . . it's early. yeah. very early. my mom had to leave early today (3.15 am)... yeah.}

^{at 10 pm last night, i took tylonol cold because my face felt like it was filled with cement. at 3.30 am this morning, my eyes shot open. i swear i could feel the two very blue tablets of tylonol cold rushing through my veins at top speed. i got up, drank half a bottle of water, went to the bathroom, and went back to bed. but i didn't sleep. not at all. i just lied there, doing nothing really. i was so wide awake that i couldn't fall back asleep. so. what do you do when you can't sleep? i don't really know actually... i don't know where i was going with that one...}

^{but i know what i did. i went outside. don't ask me why. i just sat up in bed. and thought, I want to go outside. so i did. i opened the back door and stepped onto the cold cold cold cold cold wood of my deck. it was cold. i think it was like, 3 degrees celcius out there. but it was refreshing.}

^{well. that was a stupid thing to do if you ask me. very very very stupid. know why? because all that refreshment made it even more impossible for me to fall asleep. and that brings me to now. im sitting in the cold computer room, lights off, bare feet on the cold cold wood floor. it actually reminds me of being on the deck, except minus three 'cold's.}

^{so thats what you do when you can't fall asleep.}

^or,

^{thats what I did when i couldn't fall asleep.}

^{i went on the computer to share my thoughts with the world.}