This Day In History: Mike Edwards, a cellist and founding member of the band Electric Light Orchestra, died when a large, round bale of hay rolled down a hill and collided with the van he was driving on this day in 2010. Recently a 49 year-old many died when a bale of hay fell on him in Delaware.
People do die in strange ways. In 2013, a Belarusian fisherman, 60, bled to death after being bitten by a beaver which he had tried to grab in order to have his picture taken with it.
Also in 2013, a man in Brazil was crushed in his bed by a cow falling through his roof.
In 2014, a boy in Turkey was killed by a goat that jumped off a roof and fell on to him.
In the same year, a chef in China was bitten by a cobra's severed head, which he had cut off 20 minutes earlier while preparing soup.
In 2015, a 50 year-old man became trapped and asphyxiated when rabbiting near Doncaster, England, after his head became stuck down a rabbit hole.
In 2019, a 29 year-old man died from angiostrongyliasis after eating a garden slug eight years earlier.
In 2014, Phillip Quinn, 24, from Kent, Washington, US, was killed when a lava lamp he was heating on a stove exploded, and a shard pierced his heart.
In 1998 Jonathan Capewell, 16, from Oldham, England, died from a heart attack brought on by the buildup of butane and propane in his blood after excessive use of deodorant sprays. He was reported to have been obsessed with personal hygiene.
In 1987, Franco Brun, 22, an inmate at the Metro Toronto East Detention Centre in Canada, died trying to swallow a pocket-size Bible.
In 1980, Lourdes Maria da Silva of Caxias do Sul, Brazil, was walking upstairs carrying a Pyrex glass when she tripped, broke it, and fell on the shards, cutting an artery in her neck. She died on her way to the hospital.
In 1977, Tina Christopherson died when she drank 4 US gallons (15 litres) of water a day to combat stomach cancer.
In 1975, after watching the "Kung Fu Kapers" episode of The Goodies, Alex Mitchell, of King's Lynn, Norfolk, England, laughed continuously for 25 minutes and then fell dead on his sofa from heart failure due to what doctors discovered years later, via his granddaughter, was a genetic condition called Long QT syndrome.
In 1974, Basil Brown, 48, a health food advocate from Croydon, England, died from liver damage after he consumed 70 million units of Vitamin A and around 10 US gallons (38 litres) of carrot juice over ten days, turning his skin bright yellow.
And lastly, in 1924, Thornton Jones, a lawyer in Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales, woke up to find that he had his throat slit. Motioning for a paper and pencil, he wrote, "I dreamt that I had done it. I awoke to find it true," and died 80 minutes later. He had done it himself while unconscious. An inquest at Bangor delivered a verdict of "suicide while temporarily insane".
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