Dead mad ways to go

By DAVE MASTERS
Sun Online

WE'VE all pondered at one stage or another how we will die but the stars of a new book could never have predicted their fate.

The World's Stupidest Deaths reveals the most outrageous passings on record.

From midgets being eaten by hippos to a saucy randy bloke who choked to death on his lover's knickers, this lists the lot.

So read on for some of the freakiest fatalities ever - you'll be dying to tell your mates about it!

Dog owner Araldo Anastasi was crushed to death by his own pet after it fell out of a window onto his head in Rome back in 1954.

Austrian dwarf and circus acrobat Franz Dasch spectacularly bounced from a trampoline into the mouth of a yawning hippo and died in July 1999. The animal suffered a gag reflex and ingested him in front of more than 7000 people during the show in Thailand.

A robber drowned in a river after being weighed down by the goods he had just stolen. The thief dived into the water to escape being caught by cops following a raid in the US.

Zookeeper Friedrich Reisfeldt was suffocated under more than 90 kilos of elephant poo in 1998 after feeding a constipated animal a jumbo portion of animal laxatives along with prunes, figs and berries.

A drunk decided to treat himself to some honey in September 2003 by ripping open a bee hive. But he didn’t count on more than a thousand bees attacking him as he did. The stings sent him into anaphylactic shock and he later died in hospital.

Writer Jack Drummond was penning a book called Bank Robber and decided to carry out a raid for research. But seconds after stepping into his chosen bank he was shot dead by a security guard.

A stupid driver drowned after taking his all-terrain vehicle out for a spin on some ice - just weeks after narrowly escaping death doing the same thing.

A bald man was burnt to death after the highly flammable fumes from his wig glue ignited. He had only just bought the toupee but was eager to put it on.

Seventeenth-century English playwright Tomas Otway died in poverty after becoming a beggar and choking on a loaf of bread he was given by a kind passer-by.

Randy Frenchman Jean-Louis copped for it after choking to death on his girlfriend's saucy edible knickers. The 44-year-old tried out the undies to liven up the couple's sex life in 2003.

Security-mad Italian Giacario Burranti got so fed-up with people robbing his house he rigged it with a bomb. But one day he forgot to turn off the system and blew himself to bits.

Unlucky Australian Sammy Bungan was electrocuted after going for a wee against a live power pole. He had been busting to go while travelling through the outback.

A lawyer plunged 24 floors to his death in July 2003, while trying to demonstrate the strength of a safety window - which fell through.