Top 10 Strangest Animals

<table cellpadding="5"><tbody><tr><td>This creature is most probably the creation of an environmental problem. Children at a nursery in Weston-super-Mare, England spotted the three headed frog hopping in the garden.<br /><strong>Source:</strong> <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/3534361.stm" target="_blank">BBC News</a> <br /></td> <td> <img alt="Three Headed Frog" src="http://www.hemmy.net/images/animals/strangeanimal01.jpg" /> </td> </tr></tbody></table><span id="more-257"></span><br /><table cellpadding="5"><tbody><tr> <td> <img alt="Cyclops Kitten" class="imagebd" src="http://www.hemmy.net/images/animals/strangeanimal02.jpg" /> </td> <td> The blog famous cyclops kitten, Cy was first thought to be a joke photo manipulation. Living only for a day, It had only one eye and was noseless. <br /><strong>Source:</strong> <a href="http://news.com.com/2061-11199_3-6026605.html" target="_blank">News.com</a> <br /></td> </tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="5"><tbody><tr> <td> The most infamous headless chicken, Mike wowed the world by living for 18 months which indefinitely entered it into the Guinness World Records. It could still live becuase most of his brain stem and ear was left on his body. <br /><strong>Source:</strong> <a href="http://www.miketheheadlesschicken.org/" target="_blank">Mike The Headless Chicken</a> <br /></td> <td> <img alt="The Headless Chicken" class="imagebd" src="http://www.hemmy.net/images/animals/strangeanimal03.jpg" /> </td> </tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="5"><tbody><tr> <td> <img alt="Purple Polar Bear" class="imagebd" src="http://www.hemmy.net/images/animals/strangeanimal04.jpg" /> </td> <td> Nope this is not photoshop manipulated. A female polar bear named Pelusa turned purple after she was given a special treatment to clear up a skin condition. This has attracted crowds at the Mendoza City Zoo in Argentina. The fur has returned to normal after a few days.<br /><strong>Source:</strong> <a href="http://www.nwbotanicals.org/mediawatch/purplebear.htm" target="_blank">NW Botanicals</a> <br /></td> </tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="5"><tbody><tr> <td> Genetic mutation called ‘feather duster’ of a parakeet.<br /><strong>Source:</strong> <a href="http://www.greenapple.com/%7Ejorp/amzanim/ffa21.htm" target="_blank">Green Apple</a> <br /></td> <td> <img alt="Parakeet Feather Duster" class="imagebd" src="http://www.hemmy.net/images/animals/strangeanimal05.jpg" /> </td> </tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="5"><tbody><tr> <td> <img alt="Parakeet" class="imagebd" src="http://www.hemmy.net/images/animals/strangeanimal06.jpg" /> </td> <td> Dolphins has taken a pink hue in the Pear River Delta situated between Hong Kong and Macau. It is not known why they are pink in colour but several assumptions include the lack of natural predators or the pink colour is a byproduct of blushing to regulate body temperature.<br /><strong>Source:</strong> <a href="http://www.2dolphins.com/2006/01/pretty-in-pink_27.html" target="_blank">2 Dolphins</a> <br /></td> </tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="5"><tbody><tr> <td> The two-month old animal, named Cham Leck which means ‘strange,’ was given to monks at a local pagoda by a farmer who feared the six legged cow would bring him bad fortune.<br /><strong>Source:</strong> <a href="http://www.stevequayle.com/News.alert/03_Genetic/031013.6-leg.cow.html" target="_blank">Steve Quayle</a> <br /></td> <td> <img alt="6 Legged Cow" class="imagebd" src="http://www.hemmy.net/images/animals/strangeanimal07.jpg" /> </td> </tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="5"><tbody><tr> <td> <img alt="Hooded Seal" class="imagebd" src="http://www.hemmy.net/images/animals/strangeanimal08.jpg" /> </td> <td> The hooded seal has a large elastic nasal cavity and when fully inflated resembles a large black ruber ball. They are large aggresive mammals that can exceed 3m in length and 400kg in weight.<br /><strong>Source:</strong> <a href="http://www.nature.ca/notebooks/english/hoodseal.htm" target="_blank">Canadian Museum Of Nature</a> <br /></td> </tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="5"><tbody><tr> <td> The large ocean sunfish vies for the title of strangest fish in the sea. It has an almost circular, flattened body. It weighs up to 2 tons and 3m long. The head is almost a third of the whole body length.<br /><strong>Source:</strong> <a href="http://www.earthwindow.com/mola.html" target="_blank">Earth Window</a> <br /></td> <td> <img alt="Sun Fish" class="imagebd" src="http://www.hemmy.net/images/animals/strangeanimal09.jpg" /> </td> </tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="5"><tbody><tr><td> <img alt="Liger" class="imagebd" src="http://www.hemmy.net/images/animals/strangeanimal10.jpg" /> </td> <td> If you had your facts about the Siberian tiger being the largest cat, then you are wrong. The liger is the world’s largest cat, a cross breed between a male lion and a female tiger. They exhibit conflicts between the social habits of the lion and solitary habits of the tiger.<br /><strong>Source:</strong> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liger" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a> </td></tr></tbody></table>

Top 10 Strangest Animals

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30 Strangest Deaths in History

<div style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><div style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://static.neatorama.com/images/2007-03/li-po.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" height="320" src="http://static.neatorama.com/images/2007-03/li-po.jpg" width="275" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Death by Embracing the Reflection of the Moon</b> </div><div style="text-align: center;">Chinese poet Li Po (701-706) is regarded as one of the two greatest poets in China’s literary history. He was well known for his love of liquor and often spouted his greatest poems while drunk.</div><div style="text-align: center;">One night, Li Po fell from his boat and drowned in the Yangtze River while trying to embrace the reflection of the moon in the water.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="320" src="http://static.neatorama.com/images/2007-02/hans-steininger.jpg" width="307" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Death by Beard</b> </div><div style="text-align: center;">Austrian Hans Steininger was famous for having the world’s longest beard (it was 4.5 feet or nearly 1.4 m long) and for dying because of it.</div><div style="text-align: center;">One day in 1567, there was a fire in town and in his haste Hans forgot to roll up his beard. He accidentally stepped on his beard, lost balance, stumbled, broke his neck and died!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="211" src="http://static.neatorama.com/images/2007-03/tyco-brahe.jpg" width="150" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Death From Holding a Pee In</b> </div><div style="text-align: center;">Danish nobleman and astronomer <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tycho_Brahe">Tycho Brahe</a> [wiki] was one interesting fellow. He kept a dwarf as a court jester who sat under the table during dinner. He even had a tame pet moose.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Tycho also lost the tip of his nose in a duel with another Danish nobleman and had to wear a “dummy” nose made from silver and gold, but that’s another story.</div><div style="text-align: center;">It was said that Tycho had to hold his pee during one particularly long banquet in 1601 (getting up in the middle of a dinner was considered really rude) that his bladder, strained to its limits, developed an infection which later killed him!</div><div style="text-align: center;">Later analyses suggested that Tycho died because of mercury poisoning but that’s not nearly as interesting as the original story.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="320" src="http://static.neatorama.com/images/2007-02/lully.jpg" width="240" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Death by Conductor’s Cane</b> </div><div style="text-align: center;">While conducting the hymnal <i>Te Deum</i> for French King Louis XIV in 1687, Jean-Baptiste Lully was so focused in keeping the rhythm by banging a staff against the floor (this was the method before conductor’s baton came into use), that he struck his toe hard but refused to stop.</div><div style="text-align: center;">The toe developed an abscess, which later turned gangrenous, but Lully refused to have it amputated. The gangrene spread and killed the stubborn musician.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Ironically, the hymn he was conducting was in celebration of the recovery of Louis XIV from an illness.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="211" src="http://static.neatorama.com/images/2007-03/adolf-frederick.jpg" width="150" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b> Death by Dessert</b> </div><div style="text-align: center;">King <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Frederick_of_Sweden">Adolf Frederick</a> [wiki] of Sweden loved to eat and died from it too!</div><div style="text-align: center;">The “King Who Ate Himself to Death” died in 1771 at the age of 61 from a digestive problem after eating a giant meal consisting of lobster, caviar, saurkraut, cabbage soup, smoked herring, champagne and 14 servings of his favorite dessert: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semla">semla</a> [wiki], a bun filled with marzipan and milk.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="233" src="http://static.neatorama.com/images/2007-02/clement-vallandigham.jpg" width="150" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Death by Jury Demonstration</b> </div><div style="text-align: center;">After the Civil War, controversial Ohio politician <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement_Vallandingham">Clement Vallandigham</a> [wiki] became a highly successful lawyer who rarely lost a case.</div><div style="text-align: center;">In 1871, he defended Thomas McGehan who was accused of shooting one Tom Myers during a barroom brawl. Vallandigham’s defense was that Myers had accidentally shot himself while drawing his pistol from a kneeling position.</div><div style="text-align: center;">To convince the jury, Vallandigham decided to demonstrate his theory. Unfortunately, he grabbed a loaded gun by mistake and ended up shooting himself!</div><div style="text-align: center;">By dying, Vallandigham succeeded in demonstrating the plausibility of the accidental shooting and got his client acquitted.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="177" src="http://static.neatorama.com/images/2007-03/pinkerton.jpg" width="150" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Death from Biting One’s Tongue</b> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Pinkerton">Allan Pinkerton</a> (1819-1884)[wiki], famous for creating the Pinkerton detective agency and developing investigative techniques such as surveilling a suspect and doing undercover work, died of an infection after biting his tongue when he slipped on a sidewalk!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="183" src="http://static.neatorama.com/images/2007-03/jack-daniel.jpg" width="150" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Death from Stubbing One’s Toe</b> </div><div style="text-align: center;">Famous Tennessee whiskey distiller <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Daniel">Jack Daniel</a> [wiki] decided to come in to work early one morning in 1911. He wanted to open his safe but couldn’t remember the combination. In anger, Daniel kicked the safe and injured his toe, which later developed an infection that killed him!</div><div style="text-align: center;">Moral of the story? Don’t go to work early.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="" height="194" src="http://static.neatorama.com/images/2007-02/bobbie-leach-niagara-barrel.jpg" width="320" /><b> </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Death by Orange Peel</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Leach">Bobby Leach</a> [wiki] wasn’t afraid to court death: in 1911, he was the second person in the world to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel. The daredevil went on to perform many other death-defying stunts, so his death is especially ironic.</div><div style="text-align: center;">One day while walking down a street in New Zealand, Leach slipped on a piece of orange peel. He broke his leg so badly it had to be amputated. Leach died due to complications that developed afterwards.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="185" src="http://static.neatorama.com/images/2007-02/franz-reichelt.jpg" width="150" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Death by Overcoat Parachute Failure</b> </div><div style="text-align: center;">In 1911, French tailor <a href="http://www.neatorama.com/2007/02/05/tailor-jumped-for-the-first-and-final-time-from-the-eiffel-tower-wearing-overcoat-parachute/">Franz Reichelt</a> decided to test his invention, a combination overcoat and parachute, by jumping off the Eiffel Tower. Actually, he told the authorities that he would use a dummy, but at the last minute decided to test it himself. It was no surprise that he fell to his death.</div><div style="text-align: center;">There’s even a <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=BepyTSzueno">YouTube clip</a> of his fatal jump.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="185" src="http://static.neatorama.com/images/2007-03/rasputin.jpg" width="150" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Death by 1) Poison, 2) Gunshot Wound (4x), 3) Beating by Clubs, 4) Drowning.</b> </div><div style="text-align: center;">According to legends, Russian mystic Grigori Rasputin (1869-1916) was first poisoned with enough cyanide to kill ten men, but he wasn’t affected.</div><div style="text-align: center;">So his killers shot him in the back with a revolver. Rasputin fell but later revived. So, he was shot again three more times, but Rasputin still lived. He was then clubbed, and for good measure thrown into the icy Neva River.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Rasputin was finally dead for good.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="204" src="http://static.neatorama.com/images/2007-03/ray-chapman.jpg" width="150" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Death by Baseball</b> </div><div style="text-align: center;">Cleveland Indians shortstop <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Chapman">Ray Chapman</a> [wiki] was <del datetime="2007-03-13T04:47:25+00:00"></del></div><div style="text-align: center;">the only man ever</div><div style="text-align: center;">killed by a baseball pitch.</div><div style="text-align: center;">At that time, baseball pitchers dirtied up a ball before it was thrown at the batter to make it harder to see. On August 6, 1920 in a game against the New York Yankees, Carl Mays pitched such a ball towards Chapman that fatally hit his skull.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="186" src="http://static.neatorama.com/images/2007-03/isadora-duncan.jpg" width="150" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Death by Scarf</b> </div><div style="text-align: center;">“Mother of modern dance” <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isadora_Duncan">Isadora Duncan</a> [wiki] was killed in 1927 by her trademark scarf she loved to wear:</div><blockquote><i>As the New York Times noted in its obituary of the dancer on 15 September 1927, “The automobile was going at full speed when the scarf of strong silk began winding around the wheel and with terrific force dragged Miss Duncan, around whom it was securely wrapped, bodily over the side of the car, precipitating her with violence against the cobblestone street. She was dragged for several yards before the chauffeur halted, attracted by her cries in the street. Medical aid was summoned, but it was stated that she had been strangled and killed instantly.”</i></blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <img alt="" height="241" src="http://static.neatorama.com/images/2007-03/collyer-hoard.jpg" width="320" /><b> </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Death by Garbage</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collyer_brothers">Homer and Langley Collyer</a> [wiki] were compulsive hoarders. The two brothers had a fear of throwing anything away and obsessively collected newspapers and other junk in their house. They even set up booby-traps in corridors and doorways to protect against intruders.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" class="imageleft" height="158" src="http://static.neatorama.com/images/2007-03/langley-collyer.jpg" width="150" /> </div><div style="text-align: center;">In 1947, an anonymous tip called that there was a dead body in the Collyer house, and after much initial difficulty getting in, the police found Homer Collyer dead and Langley no where to be found. About two weeks later, after removing nearly 100 tons of garbage from the house, workers found Langley Collyer’s partialy decomposed (and rat-chewed) body just 10 feet away from where they had found his brother.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Apparently, Langley had been crawling through tunnels of newspapers to bring food to his paralyzed brother when he set off one of his own booby-traps. Homer died several days later from starvation.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="195" src="http://static.neatorama.com/images/2007-02/jerome-irving-rodale.jpg" width="150" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Death at a Talk Show</b> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Irving_Rodale">Jerome Irving Rodale</a> [wiki] was a proponent of healthy eating. He was an early advocate for organic farming and sustainable agriculture, founder of Organic Farming and Gardening magazine and Rodale Press.</div><div style="text-align: center;">After bragging that he would “live to 100, unless I’m run down by a a sugar-crazy taxi driver”, Rodale died of a heart attack while being interviewed on the Dick Cavett Show in 1971. Appearing fast asleep, Dick Cavett joked “Are we boring you, Mr. Rodale?” before discovering that his 72-year-old guest had indeed died. The show was never aired.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="214" src="http://static.neatorama.com/images/2007-03/christine-chubbuck.jpg" width="150" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Death by Suicide During a Live TV News Broadcast</b>  </div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Chubbuck">Christine Chubbuck</a> [wiki] was the first and only TV news reporter to commit suicide during a live television broadcast.</div><div style="text-align: center;">On July 15, 1974, eight minutes into the broadcast, the depressed reporter said “<i>In keeping with Channel 40’s policy of bringing you the latest in blood and guts, and in living color, you are going to see another first: an attempted suicide.</i>” With that, Chubbuck drew up a revolver and shot herself in the head.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="176" src="http://static.neatorama.com/images/2007-03/elvis-presley.jpg" width="150" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Death on the Toilet</b> </div><div style="text-align: center;">There are several examples of death on the toilet, but that of Elvis Presley (1935 – 1977) was the most famous.</div><div style="text-align: center;">The King of Rock ‘n Roll was found lying on the floor of his Graceland mansion’s bathroom after throwing up while being seated on the toilet, taking care of business.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Doctors attributed his death to a heart attack from weight gain and taking too many prescription drugs.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="185" src="http://static.neatorama.com/images/2007-03/robot.jpg" width="150" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Death by Robot</b>  </div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Williams_%28robot_fatality%29">Robert Williams</a> [wiki] was the first man ever killed by a robot. On January 25, 1979, Williams climbed into a storage rack at the Ford Motor’s Flat Rock casting plant to retrieve a part because the parts-retrieval robot malfunctioned. Suddenly, the robot reactivated and slammed its arm into Williams’ head, killing him instantly.</div><div style="text-align: center;">The second death by robot happened just a couple of years afterwards in 1981. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenji_Urada">Kenji Urada</a> [wiki], a 37-year-old Japanese maintenance engineer was working on a broken robot at a Kawasaki plant when he failed to turn it off. The robot’s mechanical arm accidentally pushed him into a grinding machine.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="182" src="http://static.neatorama.com/images/2007-03/vic-morrow.jpg" width="150" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Death by Decapitation by Helicopter Rotor Blades</b> </div><div style="text-align: center;">Actor <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vic_Morrow">Vic Morrow</a> [wiki] died on the set of <i>Twilight Zone: The Movie</i> when a helicopter spun out of control due to special effect explosions, crashed, and <a href="http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/not_guilty/twilight_zone/2.html">decapitated him with its rotor blades</a>.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Two other child actors also died at the event, which triggered a massive reform in US child labor laws and safety regulations on movie sets.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="200" src="http://static.neatorama.com/images/2007-02/saguaro-cactus.jpg" width="150" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Death by Cactus</b> </div><div style="text-align: center;">In 1982, 27-year-old <a href="http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/saguaro.asp">David Grundman</a> and a roommate decided to do a little “cactus plugging,” by shooting the desert plant with a shotgun.</div><div style="text-align: center;">The first one, a small cactus, went off without a hitch and Grundman was encouraged to try a larger prey: a 26-foot-tall Saguaro cactus, probably a 100-year-old plant. Unfortunately, Grundman blasted off a large chuck of the cactus that fell on him and crushed him to death!</div><div style="text-align: center;">To date, this was probably the only known instance of revenge killing by a plant.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="139" src="http://static.neatorama.com/images/2007-03/tennessee-williams.jpg" width="150" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Death by Bottle Cap</b> </div><div style="text-align: center;">American playwright <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Williams">Tennessee Williams</a> [wiki] died in 1983 after he choked on a bottle cap in his hotel room. Yes, he had been drinking.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="177" src="http://static.neatorama.com/images/2007-03/lifeguard.jpg" width="150" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Death by Drowning at a Lifeguards’ Party.</b> </div><div style="text-align: center;">In 1985, to celebrate their first drowning-free season ever, the lifeguards of the New Orleans recreation department decided to throw themselves a party.</div><div style="text-align: center;">When the party ended, a 31-year-old guest named <a href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9806EFDE1038F931A3575BC0A963948260">Jerome Moody</a> was found dead on the bottom of the recreation department’s pool.</div><div style="text-align: center;">We suppose when it’s your time to go, then it’s your time to go: there were four lifeguards on duty and more than half of the 200 party-goers were themselves lifeguards!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="238" src="http://static.neatorama.com/images/2007-03/dick-shawn.jpg" width="150" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Death on Stage, While Telling a Joke</b> </div><div style="text-align: center;">Dick Shawn (1924-1987) was a comedian who had a heart attack and died during a joke that seemed strangely appropriate:</div><div style="text-align: center;">He was making fun of politicians by saying campaign cliches ending with “I will not lay down on the job!” Shawn then laid down on the floor face down. At first, the audience thought that it was all part of the show, until some time later a theater employee checked him for a pulse and began administering CPR.</div><div style="text-align: center;">The paramedics then arrived, and the audience were told to go home – Dick Shawn was dead.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="214" src="http://static.neatorama.com/images/2007-02/mal-king-kong-kirk.jpg" width="150" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Death by Belly Slam.</b> </div><div style="text-align: center;">British pro wrestler Mal “King Kong” Kirk died underneath the big belly of Shirley “Big Daddy” Crabtree.</div><div style="text-align: center;">In August 1987, during the final moments of the match, Crabtree delivered his signature “Belly-Splash” move (basically jumping up and down, slamming his belly onto a guy) on Kirk, who then had a heart attack and died.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Crabtree was cleared after it was revealed that Kirk had a serious heart condition prior to the match. However, Crabtree blamed himself for Kirk’s death and retired from pro wrestling.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Before the match, <a href="http://observer.guardian.co.uk/osm/story/0,,1140732,00.html">Kirk had told his friends</a>: “If I have to go, I hope it is in the ring.”</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="169" src="http://static.neatorama.com/images/2007-03/christo-umbrella.jpg" width="150" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Death by Giant Umbrellas</b> </div><div style="text-align: center;">In 1991, artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude put up an environmental installation art of thousands of giant yellow and blue umbrellas in California and Japan.</div><div style="text-align: center;">The giant umbrellas, which measured about 20 foot (6 m) in height, 28 foot (8.7 m) in diameter and weighed about 500 lb, became a huge tourist attraction.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Less than two months after the installation opened, Lori Rae Keevil-Mathews, a 33-year-old woman drove out to see the umbrellas in California. A wind gust uprooted one of the umbrellas and blew it straight at her, crushing her against a boulder and killing her.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Christo immediately ordered all of the umbrellas taken down. The umbrellas, however, took another life – this time in Japan. Crane operator Masaaki Nakamura was electrocuted when the machine’s arm touched a 65,000-volt high-tension line when removing the umbrellas.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="128" src="http://static.neatorama.com/images/2007-03/electrocution.jpg" width="150" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Death by Re-creation</b> </div><div style="text-align: center;">In 1991, a 57-year-old Thai woman Yooket Paen was walking in her farm when she accidentally slipped on a cow dung, grabbed a naked live wire and got electrocuted to death.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Soon after Paen’s funeral, her 52-year-old-sister Yooket Pan was showing her neighbors how the accident happened when she herself slipped, grabbed the same live wire and also got electrocuted to death!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="124" src="http://static.neatorama.com/images/2007-03/sheep.jpg" width="150" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Death by Sheep</b> </div><div style="text-align: center;">In 1999, <a href="http://www.thisistrue.com/insult_to_injury_6323.html">Betty Stobbs</a>, 67, of Durham, England, took a bale of hay to feed her flock of sheep on the back of her motorcycle.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Apparently, the sheep were very hungry. About forty of them rushed the hay and knocked her off a cliff into a 100-feet deep quarry. Stobbs survived the fall only to be killed when the motorcycle, which was also knocked off the cliff, tumbled down after her.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="225" src="http://static.neatorama.com/images/2007-03/brian-wells.jpg" width="150" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Death by Necklace Bomb</b> </div><div style="text-align: center;">On the afternoon of August 28, 2003, pizza deliveryman <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Wells">Brian Wells</a> [wiki] tried to rob a bank with a home-made shotgun disguised as a cane.</div><div style="text-align: center;">When he was caught by the police, Wells revealed that he had been forced by some people he delivered pizza to earlier to rob the bank. A necklace with an explosive device was attached to his neck.</div><div style="text-align: center;">The necklace bomb blew up before the bomb squad could deactivate it (indeed, there was controversy whether the police took his story seriously and delayed calling the bomb squad). Until today, it’s unclear whether Wells was a victim, a co-conspirator or the lone perpetrator of the robbery and subsequent death.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Update 3/12/07: Case solved, said the authorities, with indictments expected soon: <a href="http://www.komotv.com/news/national/5901066.html">Link</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="189" src="http://static.neatorama.com/images/2007-03/steve-irwin.jpg" width="150" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Death by Stingray</b> </div><div style="text-align: center;">In 2006, Australian wildlife expert and TV personality <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Irwin">Steve “The Crocodile Hunter” Irwin</a> [wiki] died when he was stabbed in the heart by a stingray spine while filming a documentary <i>Ocean’s Deadliest</i>.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="227" src="http://static.neatorama.com/images/2007-03/bookcase.jpg" width="150" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Death by Bookcase</b>  </div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15895965/">Mariesa Weber</a> was reported missing by her family for nearly two weeks before they found her in her bedroom, wedged behind a bookcase.</div><blockquote><i>“I’m sleeping in the same house as her for 11 days, looking for her,” her mother, Connie Weber, told the St. Petersburg Times. “And she’s right in the bedroom.”</i><br /><i>Both Weber and her sister had previously adjusted the television plug by standing on a bureau next to the shelf and leaning over the top. Her family believes Weber, who was 5-foot-3 and barely 100 pounds, may have fallen headfirst into the space.</i></blockquote>

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15 Strangest Contact Lenses

<div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">If you want something out of the ordinary when it comes to contact lenses then you might want to have a look at these special effect lenses, also known as crazy contacts or Halloween contact lenses, right from Hollywood plots. From a happy face to a soccer ball, see some of the craziest contact lenses ever worn.<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://strangestfunny.blogspot.com/2011/06/15-strangest-contact-lenses.html"><img border="0" height="381" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQwhiW9ZHg_ayCQ5l2ScC8FKwVpxo_9JSc1aiEnO-mTE504XS2yySr7etAfTxLyyw3pGFUKv_SrceZXWjv9GC6EmSoJASGcaS-sW2jRn6J4SilUVxg6ceO6HeiLrnLmnnHOAmwsGTsMaI/s400/1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /><center></center> <center><i><b>Mickey Mouse contact lens.</b></i><nobr></nobr></center><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://strangestfunny.blogspot.com/2011/06/15-strangest-contact-lenses.html"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKy1uLW20DjkpTcTRDCiierlbYEbxkrcnAsTi3gz0w2PQTdvUyRBMEA_nRkmodrP3DmWSNW-gXs_f9nI1_G7oncHXNpHVKHTT50dXnE6IFRsZtIQDrRsDdbJVExsErlW0XxJg9i8lVWIs/s400/2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">John Galliano is taking designer branding to a new frontier: contact lenses that outline the iris in fine circles of sparkling gold or black.The Dior Eyes — currently hitting shelves in Europe. </div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://strangestfunny.blogspot.com/2011/06/15-strangest-contact-lenses.html"><img border="0" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJtFPpPBCdXPjZh9PgqRSkMCtdLPfhbeZ4zhBQctB9zqY-K1uNm55zO2ITyUSY_Feq77wuYycsIIGMOYICJducxdVcXyMkgW1Xzh4Pm5ZmXtGta1miRgJT-n0JJYv3dpOCRTQm4DVbbEw/s400/3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj65p8D7GWns1n0SrIMc59RHZhIrfBnDTcog5XgJ9iR2AoIUK9I1IB6HtAmNoRBRqHxV6YE_1mAwx-MNRD3hELCqy3Kf33WkgR_GfQC_bPd-T9L8XzMcDY2EI9tx985tAzhUUhXQr0_1M4/s1600/4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Nike MaxSight contact lenses are very functional, but also very weird. Each one is designed for a different sport; this one is red and is designed for cyclists to reduce the road glare from the sun.</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://strangestfunny.blogspot.com/2011/06/15-strangest-contact-lenses.html" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj65p8D7GWns1n0SrIMc59RHZhIrfBnDTcog5XgJ9iR2AoIUK9I1IB6HtAmNoRBRqHxV6YE_1mAwx-MNRD3hELCqy3Kf33WkgR_GfQC_bPd-T9L8XzMcDY2EI9tx985tAzhUUhXQr0_1M4/s400/4.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /><center></center> <center><i><b>Cat Eye. </b></i><nobr></nobr></center><br /><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://strangestfunny.blogspot.com/2011/06/15-strangest-contact-lenses.html"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9tVjmCeA9v4YQ9_p6Z9vvjxackvNb9F1GXykXfLX-lECzL5zQcA3rThw6vdzmhmwDAo22CmwCI0X3eAZTeghYOZgVl-_9RajpNCcC8ea_1hOlixn6z2vZVrJUUjSXSNxbz59JNUxzcAs/s400/5.jpg" width="350" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI5TgaNMyklM-SNpcIjWFz4H4bWV-RAfEnlgnzpLKwGz5tJ9NDCJV5VPjFBY90T8AovS6f-uGtYjOV8tq0FHx1wXkF2XV6jycUJUtNmEuLs5sg8TW2IV5PvL3dVHKuI2EyL_nfdHVg3iY/s1600/6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><br /><br /><center></center> <center>Looking for an extra sparkle in your eyes? Designer Anthony Mallier from India has created ‘Sparkle' contact lenses to make your eyes “Sparkle like they've never sparkled before.” Imagine having tiny Swarovski crystals beaming out of your eyes? Sounds insane but at the same time hot, the Swarovski crystals surrounds the edges of the lenses to create that “sparkle”. <nobr><small></small></nobr></center><br /><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://strangestfunny.blogspot.com/2011/06/15-strangest-contact-lenses.html"><img border="0" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7FxeKHH1b3TFJyZ5gVUD2GHrGbqZnu7dMlFhtfUTbagYaZLoqIbS5L0qrYsmaQYi07R0GZJMevGxX3xtSBHaR-HUEu-YXdqvd4hjvtUdKZ2GVYJYBfTboVQLtF5-gWebMdeYEyoQ-pz8/s400/7.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvyJXe5m5Jav6jizaq_nIuG7HvOSXMJAxINTol_hNlhjxQMTTM0xYs6i1NkdWLkJQEDsaFCaR49WQGz2bHBz3jQzcY48mesXg7BhbfDhvFrl1ItwaHh44WJ31jXThcvUMKV0B6ABHuiS0/s1600/9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div>Keep your ball on the eye: German optician Stephanie Berndt shows off a soccer ball contact lens in Munich.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://strangestfunny.blogspot.com/2011/06/15-strangest-contact-lenses.html" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2cutx7pWFnyC3JRz43sCliLS2He7DXSj1xdYknmIGk54SREzMdF4nfSZef-BvQyqkdhCKJUZSo6L3gdvFecE3EBlIiRzmBm4vmHFjfFN2NgEdXLDIUBQyc6mLeeEa2ylxuTwNlS_gZ4k/s400/8.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /><center></center> <center>In the frenzy to come up with something different, one designer has created a line of jewelry which is intended to be worn on the eyes. The bizarre range features a number of adornments which hang on wire from contact lenses. Users attach a range of accessories, such as crystals and flowers, to the new prescription or dummy lenses and wear them throughout the day. <nobr></nobr></center><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://strangestfunny.blogspot.com/2011/06/15-strangest-contact-lenses.html" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="171" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvyJXe5m5Jav6jizaq_nIuG7HvOSXMJAxINTol_hNlhjxQMTTM0xYs6i1NkdWLkJQEDsaFCaR49WQGz2bHBz3jQzcY48mesXg7BhbfDhvFrl1ItwaHh44WJ31jXThcvUMKV0B6ABHuiS0/s400/9.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /><center></center> <center>While everything Hello Kitty freaks me out, there are definitely some Hello Kitty items that freak me out more than others. It's stuff like this that is definitely on the high end of freaking me out list – Hello Kitty contacts. <nobr><small></small></nobr></center><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://strangestfunny.blogspot.com/2011/06/15-strangest-contact-lenses.html" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMWBYmoCgSdPnOZRhs5ATRQ3FTXEa4J9moOEWyipHZ7f4b8jUPYhRL1o7IRrWVuJXqDpoXPQSDbJ81p-wUXteHZDKGPYLLh6SzEwxxzVJGEo3svfSjxbdTfT6gcVK_CG6qvSJlzb5fRNQ/s400/10.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /><center></center> <center>Contact lenses with imprinted electronic circuits and lights for augmented reality display vision are under development by University of Washington scientists. The UW engineers used microscopic scale manufacturing techniques to create a flexible, biologically safe contact lens with imprinted electronic circuits and lights. If used by human beings, a pair of contact lenses with circuits and lights would be the perfect display for augmented reality system. (This one was tested on a rabbit). <nobr><small></small></nobr></center><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMWBYmoCgSdPnOZRhs5ATRQ3FTXEa4J9moOEWyipHZ7f4b8jUPYhRL1o7IRrWVuJXqDpoXPQSDbJ81p-wUXteHZDKGPYLLh6SzEwxxzVJGEo3svfSjxbdTfT6gcVK_CG6qvSJlzb5fRNQ/s1600/10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> </a></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://strangestfunny.blogspot.com/2011/06/15-strangest-contact-lenses.html" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfdWunXVsFSWoJ1D29bcZwCwD8F43Dm-AxQEfogYKCcFCle88bX5MEqx4y7Te0S2L85M7ooKaDACbE4an4u_-Ouak8kG84kU-Q5B7ySBP3TD2rcjzZXHFSS9njJz2JHsR1Ms_YLv-Fqsk/s400/11.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /><center></center> <center>With Halloween fast approaching, everyone is scrambling to find a costume that will wow their friends and family. Contact lenses are a great way to change your look and make a costume even more believable. <nobr><small></small></nobr></center><br /><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://strangestfunny.blogspot.com/2011/06/15-strangest-contact-lenses.html" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="323" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiudn18EGxMbzSBpuOlzOROPfxz4LtEoW8vO9JODfvy4zoFxmSJxSrpesqWSwURZaanSCGcGzh-90V_JCtp7Q-MopLcIXcw-2G6Wg_QZzYrxPn4tMHDcMluQw1Zyf2UgEoNaz0Yagc9JR8/s400/12.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /><center></center> <center>This Dragon Eye contact lens is a full sclera covering contact lens that has a neon green and dark green outside that looks like the scales of a dragon or a lizard. The inside has a black cat eye type pupil with orange and black speckles like a dragon egg. <br /><br />If you want to buy the Dragon Eye contact lenses, they're not cheap. They're particularly not inexpensive because they are usually hand painted and they are full sclera contact lenses. If you've never used contact lenses, Dragon Eyes are probably not for you since getting a full scleral contact lens into your eye is very difficult. </center><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://strangestfunny.blogspot.com/2011/06/15-strangest-contact-lenses.html" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="100" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiswwamQbag-aKDg1bTotZIJDBAx8uTkUY2cq9bEj1tlY8GQ6c3IfHmVqTCqGgCZZIEQth-HT50fCbgjie91a_xFqOsSsWna82v0sB54aHvWMfSBGpgPSmgPeHogaZ6tGFlxGzdogbfr0U/s400/13.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /><center></center> <center><i><b>Wild Zebra Eyes.</b></i></center><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK4hgaYtfajdc6lkiN0-CHyCoeG5MqGmStsp_iaUO-VgHP35yzw6o6scfAwPMEgR0Bovz7vle_lSRQ8KqQ5YzTQ83l1RmY6pfDHBEmq3RccbJ6qicD2pbu7_7mOF7zC3lTer_-Z7HuxiU/s1600/14.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTfz-BVSA61yFUpUiVpAExu8edSpnK0UkXZjkylLx76CLQAVH_7NoeIEod_bRMGNyHkqqkNd8eFiSAtvDirWlEVRp0QfxRmgvraDpp9vw6oSr-ZW14qHxhSfYbMYf8QNbI70cKCY0ie7w/s1600/15.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"> </a></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://strangestfunny.blogspot.com/2011/06/15-strangest-contact-lenses.html" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="143" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK4hgaYtfajdc6lkiN0-CHyCoeG5MqGmStsp_iaUO-VgHP35yzw6o6scfAwPMEgR0Bovz7vle_lSRQ8KqQ5YzTQ83l1RmY6pfDHBEmq3RccbJ6qicD2pbu7_7mOF7zC3lTer_-Z7HuxiU/s400/14.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><center></center> <center>Dont Worry.. be happy. Wear the 80's logo with a smile!<nobr><small></small></nobr></center><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://strangestfunny.blogspot.com/2011/06/15-strangest-contact-lenses.html"><img border="0" height="100" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0w2MTI3oRJIDD-_Fn6oWbpdgOaw4Tn6VoOSGIwoZc0vrHX_g6eLj6eNhYuOn0FPo4A0u3XfW719bj7o_Phgjk4sNDJkGG4D7B60fI8HPRJtM7gLI5snAY3lRcrxS7TMZgtIwNy8AlUUo/s400/a96806_a503_yellow-green.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://strangestfunny.blogspot.com/2011/06/15-strangest-contact-lenses.html" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="382" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTfz-BVSA61yFUpUiVpAExu8edSpnK0UkXZjkylLx76CLQAVH_7NoeIEod_bRMGNyHkqqkNd8eFiSAtvDirWlEVRp0QfxRmgvraDpp9vw6oSr-ZW14qHxhSfYbMYf8QNbI70cKCY0ie7w/s400/15.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><center></center> <center><nobr><small><br /></small></nobr></center><center><nobr><small><br /></small></nobr></center> ( <a href="http://www.oddee.com/item_96806.aspx">link</a> )</div>

15 Strangest Contact Lenses

If you want something out of the ordinary when it comes to contact lenses then you might want to have a look at these special effect lense...

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