Curious and Unusual Deaths

- Season 2

(2012)

Today's lessons to help you stay alive: From baseball - don't try to predict an unpredictable pitch. From fishing - don't turn your back on the ocean. It will get in ways you'll never expect. From a professional tennis player - almost safe isn't safe.

As if it's not embarrassing enough to die in a freak accident, how about being killed by your own security system. These victims are killed by a home made electric fence, his own booby trap and an electronic hotel door lock.

Thinking that doing your own repairs isn't dangerous is almost as stupid as what these people did. These do it yourselfers do it to themselves with a home made sauna, electric chair and microwave oven.

The infrastructure of a city the size of New York needs daily repairs. WHen servicing systems that big and complex you better know what you're doing. When you don't; A city works is sucked down a drain pipe. A steam explosion below ground kills a woman several stories above ground. Woman is electrocuted stepping on a metal grating on the street.

Unusual deaths don't happen only to usual people. Brandon Lee, Rasputin and Isadora Duncan died in curious ways. Though in Rasputin's case he had even more curious cases of surviving death.

You'd think turning orange would be a hint to cut back on the mega-, make that giga-doses of carotene and vitamin A. But you wouldn't expect your wardrobe to hold you captive in a closet for a week. And following you doctor's instructions when combining medical treatments is a given because a quick tan shouldn't feel like a day in the Sahara.

Mother Nature isn't always nurturing and she was out to get an overly ambitious kite flyer. But a snake shouldn't kill after it's pickled in beer. And golf isn't a particularly lethal sport.

If you eat food in a chem lab, even gum, don't complain once you're dead. But you can't be blamed for being infected by a virus on a search and destroy mission. But what's the harm of a video game after a hard day's work.

In Michigan, an attendant at a car wash dies after he is entangled in the spinning brushes at the wash. In Dallas, Texas, theater director Margo Jones dies after being exposed to toxic fumes from a solvent that was used to clean her carpet. In New Zealand, a newlywed couple die after they are exposed to a deadly amount of underground Hydrogen Sulfide in their hotel room.

In Indiana, a woman cooking beets in a pressure cooker is kipped by shrapnel when it explodes. In Michigan, a college wrestler trying to make weight dies of hyperthermia when he exposes himself to heat and overexercises in a sweat suit. In Canada, a woman on a date is killed by falling concrete at a restaurant.

In Connecticut, a teenager falls into a sand hole on a beach and dies after it entombs him in sand. In Utah, a man crawls into a small crevice in a cave and dies after becoming trapped. In Moscow, a cosmonaut dies after he catches on fire in a high oxygen environment.

In New Jersey, a young man recently admitted to West Point dies after being electrocuted by lighting while on the telephone. In Malta, a farmer dies after he accidentally detonates an old mine he found buried in his field. In British Columbia, a man dies after his laptop computer catches fire.

In New Jersey, a teenage girl drowns when she gets caught underwater in the intake valve of a hot tub. On an oil platform in the North Sea, a group of deep sea divers die of explosive decompression when a clamp on a diving bell fails. In England, a man dies of a ripped blood vessel after a very powerful sneeze.