Death is never an easy thing to understand, though maybe some comic relief will help you out; we have the 10 most ironic deaths ever to occur in history. It may be cruel to find these events to be entertaining, but these deaths deserve some recognition. Look at it this way: they will never be forgotten! Read on to find out how it all happen, and just be thankful it didn’t happen to you. Also, don’t forget to check back soon for our part two article, with the five most ironic deaths of them all! Number Ten: Lifeguard Party. A man by the name of Jerome Moody attended what was actually a party for lifeguards one evening in New Orleans. The next morning, he was found dead in the pool of the location after drowning. Sadly, the event was held in …show more content…
In 2008, a weird action of justice took place in Kentucky. A 70-year-old man named Mel Ignato fell face first into his glass coffee table, and bled to death after being stuck so deeply by the glass. Don’t feel bad for him yet; a glass table was also what he bound his ex-girlfriend to 20 years before. That is, right before he tortured and raped the poor woman to death. Number Seven: Death Row. Criminal Lawrence Baker was sent to death row after he mugged a who he beat and later shot all on Christmas Day. He was originally to be sent to the electric chair, but the sentence was later changed to life in prison. However, during his sentence, he had tried to use faulty handmade headphones on an aluminum toilet and was shocked to death. Well, he was just meant to be electrocuted to death. Number Six: Organic Attack. If any of you remember The Dick Cavett show from the 70s, you might remember this odd event. J. I. Rodale fell dead on the set at 72 years of age, just as Cavett was interviewing another guest. Rodale was starring as a guest to explain his healthy lifestyle of organic foods. However, he died of a heart attack on spot. Before his death, he was witnessed to have said that he “had never felt better” and would live to be 100 years old. Don’t forget to check back soon for our part two article, with the five most ironic deaths of them
It was Labor Day weekend, 1997, at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, and Holly Dunn's world seemed full of possibilities. She was a popular sorority sister, and the 20-year-old had a new boyfriend, a theater major named Chris Maier. That August night, the couple took a midnight stroll to the railroad tracks and kissed under the stars. Suddenly a man appeared; he was holding what looked like an ice pick. Terrified, Chris offered him money. "No, I don't want that," the man said as he tied up the couple. A moment later he picked up a rock and smashed it against Chris's skull, killing him; he then raped Holly and bludgeoned her with a wooden board, breaking her jaw and eye socket. "I was screaming in my head," Holly recalls. "Then I was unconscious—I don't know how long. I just remember appearing in someone's front yard."
So, the Lake County High School student body was told today by Jimmy Snyder, that we will be having a school shooting drill sometime in the month of November. Therefore, be prepared for it at any given time of the school day. These people know about the upcoming drill: Parents, Staff, Policemen, and the
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I am tired of living in total fear that my school, town, or any other public place will be the new breaking news of a shooting. No person right in the head will go around shooting up a school or anywhere else because they were angry at the people there. If we want to actually do something other than cry we need to know the first step in how these things happen. 1)person makes plan 2)person buys gun 3)peruses plan. We may no be able to stop a person thought process but we can sure as heck change how someone messed up enough to kill people to buy a gun. There is no reason for those type of people to be aloud to. How am I supposed to go to school and leave my house without thinking "wow, this could be it". Today I walked out of school to see police
This was a very informative article. I was unaware of all the deaths in result of gun violence. I didn’t realize that people who worked for the government or who was in congress were often targets. In order to fully get rid of gun violence in schools, each and every school should have metal detectors that can detect weapons and always have security guards on duty. By doing this, parents are more comfortable with sending their students off to school. Taking this step in every school around the world would definitely cost lots of money but it will honestly be worth it. After all the school shooting we’ve heard about, we’d definitely be saving plenty of lives just in case an incident does happen. I went to highschool in a rough neighborhood and
Specific Purpose Statement: To persuade my audience that each individual must take responsibility for his or her own actions. The must not blame guns for problems caused by people. .
It is a sad time in American history when one can easily recount recent school shootings in their own area. This ease stems from a sharp increase in the number of firearms brought into elementary and middle schools across the country, with an intense focus on the issue beginning after the shooting of 20 children from Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut. Most school shooters are male, white, and often upper middle class. They are also more, often than not, under some type of mental stress that is causing them to create this type of violence in our communities. In fact, many school shooters are never suspected of doing any harm to their peers and teachers until it is much too late.
Specific Purpose: To persuade the audience that any attempt by the government to control guns should not be supported
Eighty-nine people die from gun violence in the United States every day according to the Brady Campaign , from school children to victims of domestic violence to people going about their daily lives. As we mourn the lives of those killed in incidents of gun violence across the country, we need to take action. We should all do everything in our power to keep tragedies like this from happening again. When it comes to addressing mass shootings, we need new answers
As us Americans we are actually making the stereotype of we always carry guns around sound true to the rest of the world considering that, we are the “31% percent of all public mass shootings which at least four people are killed.” (TheWeek.com) But under a broader definition USA counted 346 mass shootings including shooting deaths of four or more victims in a 17- year period. The worst part about this information is this year we already have recorded 249 mass shootings in about 7 months close to the same amount USA counted over 17 years! This is a problem that must be solve for the safety in this country but also prevent more mass shooting from happening. “According to a Mother Jones study: Only 23 percent have been treated for mental illness.” ( Gallagher )
Violence in the United States is a major problem, but our politicians only want to focus on gun violence, and some of them believe the solution to ending gun violence is by preventing law abiding citizens from exercising their second amendment rights. Guns are easier to commit a crime with than other weapons, or without a weapon at all, but with an estimated 270 million guns the hands of citizens (11 facts), if they were the problem we would know it by now. It is undeniable that guns are responsible for a high amount of crime, but we already have tens of thousands of gun laws in the United States (How many gun laws are there?), that haven’t been able to curb gun violence. If the current laws were working, then maybe there would be a reasonable
“August 2000, our family of six was on the way to a wedding. It was a rainy day, and Gregg was not familiar with the area. The car hit standing water in the high-way, and started hydro-planing. Greg lost control of the car. Then, the car went backwards down into a ditch and started sliding on its wheels sideways. After sliding for 100 feet or so, the car flipped, at least once. After flipping, the car came to rest on its wheels, and the passenger window broke out.
Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of the citizen to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be very carefully used and that definite rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of the citizen to bear arms is just one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible. -Hubert Humphrey, 1960 My background is probably atypical for a somewhat high-profile supporter of the right to keep and bear arms. I am black and grew up in Manhattan’s East Harlem, far removed from the great American gun culture of rural, white America.
People say the mind is a very complex thing. The mind gives people different interpretations of events and situations. A person state of mind can lead to a death of another person. As we all know death is all around us in movies, plays, and stories. The best stories that survive throughout time involve death in one form or another. For example, William Shakespeare is considered as one of the greatest writers in literary history known for having written a lot of stories concerning death like Macbeth or Julius Caesar. The topic of death in stories keeps people intrigued and on the edge of their seats. Edgar Allan Poe wrote two compelling stories that deal with death “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Raven.” In “The
The night of December 2nd 1992 Karen Norman and her passenger were drinking heavily. Bored, they decided to go visit “The Face” something of an urban legend in Galveston. The Face is what appears to be a man’s face emblazoned on the exterior wall on the second floor of Ewing Hall at the University of Texas. The Face was notorious in Galveston; the legend was if you stared into the eyes of “the Face” you could die. In a dance with death; Karen Norman and her passenger Josel Woods pulled up the Galveston Bay and drove up to a point where they could view “the Face”. After sitting there for an hour underwhelmed by the killing power of “the Face” they decided to go home. Karen Norman and her passenger stepped into Norman’s 1991 Honda Civic. As Karen Norman sat down the two point passive restraint system, a mechanically operated seatbelt which automatically draws taut over the shoulder, engaged. Karen buckled her lap belt manually and put her car into reverse, her passenger Josel Woods wasn’t wearing a seatbelt. Unbeknownst to her Norman was reversing down a boat ramp and into the Galveston Bay. When the car hit the water the automatic seatbelt pulled tightly over Karen’s shoulder in reaction to the cars’ speedy deceleration. As the car was slowly sinking into the water Josel Woods looked over to Norman who seemed fine. Woods manually rolled the passenger window down and climbed out. She even turned back to grab her purse out of the car. Woods then swam toward the boat ramp, however, as she was swimming towards the boat ramp she heard Karen Norman scream out, “Help me. I can’t get my seatbelt undone.” Woods noted that Norman yelled out about being stuck again as Woods reached the bo...