A San Anselmo, California man dies when he hit a lift tower at the Mammoth Mountain ski area while riding down the slope on a foam pad. 22-year old David Hubal was pronounced dead Centinela Mammoth Hospital. The accident occurred at about 3 a.m., The Mono County Sheriff's Department said. Hubal and his friends apparently had hiked up a ski run called Stump Alley and undid some yellow foam protectors from lift towers. The pads are used to protect skiers who hit towers. The group apparently used the pads to slide down the ski slope and Hubal crashed into a tower. The tower he hit was the one with the foam removed.

Robert Puelo, 32, was apparently being disorderly in a St. Louis market. When the clerk threatened to call; the police, Puelo grabbed a hot dog, shoved it into his mouth and walked out without paying. Police found him his body in front of the store - a paramedic removed the six-inch wiener from his throat where it had choked him to death.

The third runner up position goes to Marino Malerbo, a poacher from Spain, who shot a stag standing directly above him on an overhanging rock and was killed instantly when it fell on him.

Man loses face at party. A man at a West Virginia party (probably related to the man in Arkansas who used a .22 bullet to replace the fuse in his pick-up truck) popped a blasting cap into his mouth and bit down, triggering an explosion that blew off his lips, teeth, and tongue. Jerry Stromyer, 24, of Kincaid, bit the blasting cap as a prank during the party. Apparently, another man at the party had the blasting cap in an aquarium hooked to a battery and was trying blow it up. It wouldn't explode, so Jerry said, "I'll show you how to set it off," and put it in his mouth and bit down. It blew out all his teeth, his tongue, and his lips.

Doctors at Portland University said an Oregon man shot through the skull by a hunting arrow was lucky to be alive. Tony Roberts, 25, lost his right eye during an initiation into a man's rafting club, Mountain Man Anonymous (probably now know as Stupid Mountain Men Anonymous) in Grants Pass, Oregon. A friend tried to shoot a beer can off his head, but the arrow entered Roberts' left eye. Doctors say that had the arrow gone 1 millimeter to the left, Roberts would have died instantly. Neurosurgeon Johnny Delashaw at the University Hospital in Portland said the arrow went through 8 to 10 inches of brain with the tip protruding at the rear of his skull, yet somehow managed to miss all major blood vessels. Delashaw also said that if Roberts had tried to pull it out on his own, he would have killed himself. Roberts admitted that he and his friends had been drinking that afternoon. Roberts also said, "I feel so dumb about all this."

The fellow who was killed when he attached a JATO (Jet Assisted Take Off) unit to his Chevy Impala and shot himself and his car into a desert cliff at 300 MPH.

(The late) John Pernicky and his friend, (the late) Sal Hawkins, of the great state of Washington, decided to attend a local Metallica concert at the Gorge, Washington amphitheater. Having no ticket (but having 18 beers between them), they though it would be easy to "hop" over the nine-foot fence and sneak into the show. They pulled their pick-up truck over to the fence and the plan was for (the late) Mr. Pernicky (who was 100-pounds heavier than Mr. Hawkins) to hop the fence and then assist his friend over. Unfortunately for (the late) Mr. Pernicky, there was a 30-foot drop on the other side of the fence. Having heaved himself over, he found himself crashing through a tree. His fall was abruptly halted (and broken, along with his arm, as it were) by a large branch that snagged him by his shorts. Dangling from the tree with a broken arm, he looked down and saw some bushes below him. (Possibly) figuring the bushes would break his fall, he removed his pocketknife and proceeded to cut away his shorts to free himself from the tree. Finally free, (did I mention he is THE LATE) Mr. Pernicky crashed into Holly bushes. The sharp leaves scratched his ENTIRE body and now without the protection of shorts, a Holly branch penetrated his rectal cavity. To make matters worse (?!?), on landing, his pocketknife penetrated his thigh 3-inches. (The kate) Mr. Hawkins, on seeing (and hearing) his friend in considerable pain and agony, decided to throw him a rope and pull him to safety (now he thinks of the "S" word) by tying to rope to the pick-up and slowly driving away. However, in his drunken haste/state, he put the truck into reverse and crashed through the fence, landing on his friend and killing him. Police arrived to find the crashed pick-up with its driver thrown 100 feet from the truck and dead at the scene from massive internal injuries. Upon moving the truck, they found John under it, half naked with scratches on his body, a holly stick in his rectum, a knife in his thigh, and his shorts dangling from a tree branch 25-feet in the air.