The 10 Most Strange Animal Deaths

We've looked at a number of weird historical deaths in the past, so this time we're turning the script. We all know that people may die in a variety of unexpected and unusual ways, but what about animals?

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the quickball In preparation for a spring training game against the San Francisco Giants on March 21, 2001, future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Andy Johnson went on to the mound for the Arizona Diamondbacks. Little did he realize, however, that he was about to inflict one of baseball's most infamous gaffes. Johnson, known as The Big Unit, launched a fastball that nearly reached 100 mph, but as the ball sped towards the hitter, a morning dove swooped in. The bird had the misfortune of flying directly in front of the wall's course, which caused the bird to be quickly killed, leaving behind a cloud of feathers and many perplexed bystanders. of what in the world just occurred Since there was no regulation addressing an animal interfering with the pitch, the umpires had to consult each other once the dove was taken out and the feathers were cleaned.

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murderous Despite its fancy name, the Spark Circus was a two-bit operation, and it didn't have the money for a proper handler; in fact, Eldridge had been working as a hotel bellhop just a few days earlier. Mary was the star attraction when the circus arrived in Sullivan County, Tennessee, in September 1916. On September 12th, the show was parading through the city of Kingsport, and at the front of the line was a 30-year-old female Asian elephant named Mary being ridden. However, something happened during the procession; we're not sure what exactly happened; some claim Red tugged Mary's ear with a hook; others say he poked an infected tooth; or perhaps she simply didn't like the guide; any way, the outcome was the same. Mary shot Ridge off her, killing him again, and then turned the gun on her. Currently, it is unknown how Charlie Sparks was put to death. Mary was his cash cow elephant, but the community wanted her killed, and the city wouldn't let him have a circus while Mary was still on the loose. The decision was made to hang Mary using a heavy-duty industrial derrick that they had, and because Sparks wasn't the kind of guy to let an opportunity pass him by, he invited the entire town to attend at no additional cost. He agreed to have her executed, but the question was how. They travelled to the nearby town of Irwin, which had a thriving railway repair industry.

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You might occasionally read of roosters producing eggs at Basel's Devil's Car Park, but can a male chicken genuinely lay eggs? The straightforward response is no; the more nuanced response is not actually, but it may appear that way. What actually occurred was a spontaneous sex reversal in a hen caused by a malfunctioning left ovary that caused the right ovary to release testosterone. As a result, the bird grew larger, developed male plumage, and may have even begun to crow; in other words, she appeared and behaved like a hen but was actually a hen in disguise. While we now understand the process and consider it to be a natural occurrence, in mediaeval times, such abnormalities even more clearly, the devil's job When one unfortunate chicken was mistaken for a rooster in Basel in 1474 and laid an egg, all hell broke loose. Both Berdin and the fowl were taken into custody, and the animal was put on trial for the heinous and unnatural crime of laying an egg. The fowl was found guilty. Cox eggs were thought to be very powerful ingredients in witchcraft; some even wrote that such eggs could be used to hatch the two-legged serpent-like creature known as a cockatrice.

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Some might argue that this portrayal of the sheep is a little unfair to them, but they might change their mind after learning about a strange event that happened in Turkey in 2005. According to the Woolly Jumpers, calling someone a sheep is a derogatory way of insinuating that they can't think for themselves and are easily influenced by others. There were approximately 1,500 sheep in the large herd, which was grazing outside of the town of Kavas near the shore of Lake Van. At one point, one of the sheep came up to a cliff and, for no apparent reason, jumped off the edge to its death. The other sheep thought this looked like a good idea. They proceeded to follow the shepherds, who could only watch in horror as 1500 sheep plunged from a cliff. Of them, around 450 perished; the others barely survived because they landed on a layer of dead sheep.

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The nuclear cow Since 1950, the US military has referred to accidents involving nuclear weapons or nuclear components that did not constitute a threat of igniting nuclear war as "broken arrows." The most infamous of these 32 incidents—reported by the Department of Defence—took place on May 22, 1957, when a Convair B-36 bomber carrying a 42, 000-pound thermonuclear device from Biggs Airfield in El Paso, Texas, unintentionally dropped a Mark 17 hydrogen bomb just south of Albuquerque, New Mexico. To be clear, the nuclear components were not inside the bomb, and there was never any chance of Mark 17 going nuclear, but the conventional explosives detonated on impact, leaving behind a 25-foot-wide crater. The failure's exact cause has never been determined, but the H-bomb was released from its confines, fell through the closed Bombay doors, and plummeted towards the Earth. Fortunately, there were no people in the vicinity of where it fell, but there was one unfortunate victim: a solitary cow that was grazing nearby.

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The bear with cocaine The recently released film Cocaine Bear pretty much follows what it says on the box; it depicts a bear who consumes copious amounts of the drug before going on the rampage, yet, while seeming like a ridiculous notion pulled from the furthest reaches of Hollywood fiction, it is really based on a genuine incident. In 1985, infamous drug smuggler Andrew Thornton lost control of his aircraft while flying from Colombia to the United States with a supply of cocaine. Before the crash, Thornton discharged his cargo in an effort to right the aircraft. It didn't work, but the drugs made it safely to a forest outside of Knoxville, Tennessee, where our fairy protagonist first encountered her. A few days later, a curious bear came across the goods. Intrigued by his new find, he tore open the duffel bag and promised himself he'd just take a taste. However, before he knew it, he had doused his entire face in the White Staff in Tony Montana fashion. While the Cinematic Critter went on a rampage, the actual bear merely died of an overdose because, well, he ate 70 pounds of cocaine, but what a way to go! This is how the movie varies from reality after the bear devoured over 70 pounds of cocaine.

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The pork fillet pig We're dealing with another mediaeval animal trial here; this one earned the nickname "the sour fillets," and, truth be told, if the charges are true, this one actually deserved to be put to death. In fact, this is by far the grimmest offence that any of the animals in this video have ever committed; in 1386, a Sal from the French town of Fillets ate a three-month-old baby who later died from his wounds. The pig was executed. Several legends developed about the sour fillets since the execution was such a huge affair in its day. Some said that the beast was clothed in human clothing. Others said that pigs from the area were brought in to see what happened to farm animals that tried to devour people on the day of their deaths, but no such accounts have survived. It was also rumored that the sight of the execution was depicted on a fresco inside the nearby church.

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There are certain moments in Fabio's foul folly that are not only immortalized in popular culture but also end up defining an entire generation: the moon's arrival, for instance, or the fall of the Berlin Wall for 90s kids anyway. The second came when Fabio killed a goose with his face; it was Walk the 30th of 1999. It wasn't until two decades later that Fabio revealed what had really happened in a plot twist worthy of Agatha Christie: the bird never touched him; in fact, the goose died by smashing into the video camera that had been mounted to the roller coaster with a piece of camera shrapnel. He had Fabio cut his nose, but the people at Busch Gardens eagerly promoted the initial version of the story in order to avoid liability. Fabio was a successful male model who rose to fame by posing for books.

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Topsy the Elephant: We show up at ostensibly the most famous creature execution in history, that of Topsy the Elephant. Topsy was killed on January 4, 1903, at Oconee Islands Luna Park through electric shock. The entire situation was captured on camera for the short movie "Shocking the Elephant," made by Thomas Edison's movie organisation. Edison's job in the entire Undertaking was another point that assisted the occasion with acquiring ignominy for a really long time he took the brunt of the fault for Topsy's demise being blamed for designing the entire trick to show the world how perilous substituting flow could be after all goodness would anybody need something in their homes that was sufficiently strong to immediately kill an elephant particularly when Edison's immediate flow should be a lot more secure it seemed like something Edison would do he had gained notoriety for being savage and manipulative in business and Topsy turned into a lamentable casualty of the purported Battle of the flows this time anyway Edison was honest the conflict of the flows finished in the mid 1890s with a resonating triumph for exchanging flow Topsy was killed 10 years after the fact on this specific occasion; his organization was only there to catch an exceptional second on film, and the genuine antiheroes of the story were Topsy's proprietors, who chose to kill the elephant for exposure.

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A cow, two Heathers, three sheep, and two sows cottonmouth was a seventeenth century New Britain Puritan minister and essayist as an individual from the Illustrious Society of London he was viewed as one of the Chief erudite people at pilgrim America and later acquired shame for his part in the Salem Witch Preliminaries no part of that intrigues us today anyway as we're here to discuss the person he revealed for having intercourse with animals his name was William Potter and he was in his 60s despite the fact that Potter was portrayed as being faithful pass and energetic in transforming the wrongdoings of others he admitted that he began sodomising animals when he was just 10 years of age and he never thought back his better half even gotten him in the Demonstration once with a family canine yet he convinced all her calm at the hour of his capture Potter had a yard massage parlour comprising a cow, a swan, three sheep, and two sows. Since brutishness was viewed as a type of evil, Potter was seen as liable and condemned to death. He was executed on June 6, 1662, at New Shelter. However, before he was killed, his savage lovers were all executed before him individually, making him breakdown in tears when he arrived at the Noose.