Strange Deaths:

In an apparent case os ostension (folklore becoming actual news)
wealthy Charles Felder, 71, died after his cleaner, 47-year-old
Pauline Jassey, unplugged his life support machine to use the vacuum
cleaner in his bedroom in Dallas Texas.


Werner Shenke bit off another man's ear during a bar room battle in
Bremen, Germany, and then choked to death on it.



Other tit bits:

Hitting the fan:  As he was asked to step into the witness box,
Subhasinghe Premasiri, a Sri Lankan charged with stealing gas cookers
and cylinders, took a plastic bag filled with human faeces out of his
pocket and threw it at policemen.  However, the bag struck a fan, got
entangled and the entire court in Colombo was showered in shit.