Hulleye Comes By!

this is a fascinating list of unusual recorded deaths. after skimming through the list, these are some of my favourites.

• 1327: Edward II of England, after being deposed and imprisoned by his Queen consort Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer, was rumored to have been murdered by having a red-hot iron inserted into his anus.
• 1834: David Douglas, Scottish botanist, who fell in a pit trap, was crushed by a bull that fell in the same pit.
• 1935: Baseball player Len Koenecke was bludgeoned to death with a fire extinguisher by the crew of an aircraft he had chartered, after provoking a fight with the pilot while the plane was in the air.
• 1997: David Bailey, an Irish man died when he was urinated on by a rat while attempting to retreive a lost golf ball from a ditch. Bailey apparently startled the rat, causing it to dart up his pant leg and urinate on him. After the incident, Bailey’s companions urged him to immediately shower, but Bailey refused stating that he had no bites or scratches. He died two weeks later from kidney failure brought on by an acute case of leptospirosis.
• 2003: Brian Wells, pizza deliveryman, was killed by a time bomb which was fastened around his neck. He was apprehended by the police after robbing a bank, and claimed he had been forced to do it by three people who had put the bomb around his neck and would kill him if he refused. The bomb then exploded, killing him.

The first five pages of the transformers movie leaked and scanned also including new photos of Ironhide and Ratchet.

i don’t know how many of you are the daily show or jon stewart fans, but he did a show after the fifth anniversary of 9-11 in which he ripped apart the president and how he marked the anniversary. what most of you probably don’t remember is the first show he did after 9-11 itself. it is not an intellectual viewpoint though it is an engaged, traumatized, and hopeful New Yorker’s viewpoint. go through it and i hope you understand what he is trying to say.