Unusual deaths

[miracleboy]

Some I have heard of, some very strange ones, and some that probably won Darwin awards (the falling lawyer did I know). Very interesting all the same.

LINK

 

[Stinky]

Chrysippus, a Greek stoic philosopher, is believed to have died of laughter after watching his drunk donkey attempt to eat figs.

are you serious?? lol

 

[shauncr91]

336: Arius, the heretical priest who precipitated the Council of Nicea, passed wind and evacuated his internal organs.

 

[p4radox]

1993: Garry Hoy, a Toronto lawyer, fell to his death after he threw himself through the glass wall on the 24th floor of the Toronto-Dominion Centre in order to prove the glass was "unbreakable."

Haha

 

[Stinky]

1993: Garry Hoy, a Toronto lawyer, fell to his death after he threw himself through the glass wall on the 24th floor of the Toronto-Dominion Centre in order to prove the glass was "unbreakable."

Haha

oops

 

[Stinky]

1986: While on the air giving a traffic report, the helicopter that Jane Dornacker was riding in stalled and crashed into the Hudson River, killing her. This was the second helicopter crash she had been in that year.

i prob wouldnt have got in another one after the first crash

 

[Hostile_18]

i prob wouldnt have got in another one after the first crash

Statistically shouldn't you be a lot less likely to have another accident after all ready previously having one though lol.

 

[Ben M]

Statistically shouldn't you be a lot less likely to have another accident after all ready previously having one though lol.

Err no, the chance is still the same...

If I roll a dice and get a 6.
Then I roll another dice, what's the chance of rolling a 6?

Same as the first time 1/6.

 

[something_totally_different]

Err no, the chance is still the same...

If I roll a dice and get a 6.
Then I roll another dice, what's the chance of rolling a 6?

Same as the first time 1/6.

well true but theres nothing you can physically do to a dice to change the odds, with a chopper theres quite allot...

 

[titchard]

well true but theres nothing you can physically do to a dice to change the odds, with a chopper theres quite allot...

A fixed die - you can change the odds on a die.

And it's just as likely you crashed in a helicopter once, that it will happen again - no crazy odds that make it different, the die rule applies.

Rich

 

[Hostile_18]

Err no, the chance is still the same...

If I roll a dice and get a 6.
Then I roll another dice, what's the chance of rolling a 6?

Same as the first time 1/6.

Surly thats incorrect!?

I mean say I flip a coin and get a head statistically the chance of getting two heads in a row is a lot less than getting a heads and a tails?

 

[titchard]

Surly thats incorrect!?

I mean say I flip a coin and get a head statistically the chance of getting two heads in a row is a lot less than getting a heads and a tails?

Are you serious?

the odds of two heads is the same as heads / tails.

they are both 50/50.

Rich

 

[Hostile_18]

100 percent serious. So to take it to extremes the odds of getting 6 heads in a row is the same as say 3 heads/3 tails or 2 heads/4 tails? etc etc.

 

[Nebzor]

Are you serious?

the odds of two heads is the same as heads / tails.

they are both 50/50.

Rich

No, the odds of getting the second heads is 50-50.

The odds of getting two heads in a row is 1/4.

 

[Hostile_18]

No, the odds of getting the second heads is 50-50.

The odds of getting two heads in a row is 1/4.

exactly

 

[titchard]

100 percent serious. So to take it to extremes the odds of getting 6 heads in a row is the same as say 3 heads/3 tails or 2 heads/4 tails? etc etc.

there are only two options each time - heads / tails.

If you are doing them consecutively, they do mount up in coins - but the final probability figure whether it is 10 heads in a row, or heads / tails alternating, are always going to be the same.

The odds someone crashing in a helicopter again after flying before isn't crazy probability as the original crash does not affect the second.

Rich

 

[MarcLister]

458 BC: Aeschylus, Greek playwright, was killed when an eagle dropped a live tortoise on him, mistaking his bald head for a stone. The tortoise survived.

1322: Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford was fatally speared through the anus by a pikeman hidden under the bridge during the Battle of Boroughbridge.

 

[Hostile_18]

there are only two options each time - heads / tails.

If you are doing them consecutively, they do mount up in coins - but the final probability figure whether it is 10 heads in a row, or heads / tails alternating, are always going to be the same.

The odds someone crashing in a helicopter again after flying before isn't crazy probability as the original crash does not affect the second.

Rich

But come on whats the chance of say been hit by lightning twice? Its extremely, extremely unlikely, which was my original point.

 

[titchard]

No, the odds of getting the second heads is 50-50.

The odds of getting two heads in a row is 1/4.

Yeah I just said that - in the post above this.

exactly

Getting Heads Heads and Heads Tails is both 1 in 4.

Rich

 

[Nebzor]

Yeah I just said that - in the post above this.

You can't expect me to have predicted the future and known what you were going to write 2 posts after mine?

It was in response to your original, misguided post.