To help put out a forest-fire helicopters sometimes scoop large containers of water out of lakes and oceans to dump on the blazes. During one such occasion a man enjoying a bit of scuba-diving was accidently scooped up and dropped into the burning trees.

A young girl had decided to sneak out of the house to go to a party her protective parents wouldn't allow her to go to. While she was there she hooked up with a guy she liked and they went to a local make-out spot. The guy was drinking heavily and when he got too demanding she insisted on him taking her back to the party. On the way back they crashed into another vehicle. When the girl awoke in the hospital she knew she was dying, she was told that they guy she'd been with had died in the accident and so had the couple in the other car. She begged a nurse to tell her parents that she was very sorry she'd disobeyed them, the nurse just looked at her.

After the girl died another nurse asked why she hadn't said anything with the teen had asked her to give the message to her parents. The nurse said, "I didn't know what to say, the people in the other car were her parents."

A woman decided at the last minute to get a quick tan for a special occasion. When she found out about the limits the salons set on their tanning beds, she signed up at several different tanning salons. A few days later, her husband told her she "smelled funny". She showered and showered but the smell wouldn't go away.

When she finally went to the doctor he ran some tests and told her: "I'm sorry, it seems you've microwaved your internal organs, there's nothing we can do for you."

A Man on a motorcycle was passing an eighteen-wheeler carrying sheet metal when one of the sheets shifted and neatly cut off the driver's head. His headless body continued on it's path by the semi. The driver saw the headless cyclist and immediately had a heart-attack, and his truck swerved into a bus-stop full of people.

Over a hundred years ago, a cowboy shot a rattlesnake. It wasn't dead, so he stomped it to death. Within a few days, the man took ill and died mysteriously. When his son was grown, he proudly took his fathers favorite boots as his own, a few days later he turned grey and died. His wife had been pregnant at the time, and when her son was grown she gave him the boots, telling him "You're father and your grandfather died in these boots, take good care of them." A few days later he died.

Finally someone noticed that in the heel of the boot was the rattlesnake's fang, and it had enough venom left for several more generations.

The purpose of the brace or "crash" position that we're told to assume in the event of a plane crash is to make the passengers die quickly.

One day a worker fell feet-first into a large piece of equipment. His legs were crushed and his torso was hoplessly stuck. The paramedics said that if they pulled him out it would kill him, and if they left him there he'd die soon. They gave him some painkillers and his fellow workers called his wife to come by immediately. The woman ran to her husband, they exchanged a few words and a kiss, and called for the machine to be turned back on.

A state trooper was driving through a rural area one day and as he passed by a farm, the farmer yelled "PIG! PIG!" at him while shaking a pitchfork. The trooper wasn't the sensitive type and began yelling out the window "Redneck! Redneck!" as he ran into the large pig crossing the road.

A woman came home to find her husband in the kitchen, shaking frantically with what looked like a wire running from his waist towards the electric kettle. Intending to jolt him away from the deadly current she whacked him with a handy plank of wood by the back door, breaking his arm in two places. Until that moment he had been happily listening to his walkman.

An atheist who was training for the olympics had been given special pool priveliges at the university he was attending. Late one night he was considering the arguments a religious friend had been confronting him with as he climbed the high-dive for a little late-night practice. He stood on the board and prepared for a backward flip when he noticed the shadow he was casting on the wall formed a perfect cross in the partially-lit room.

Shaken, he sat down on the board to think. As he sat there a custodian came into the pool area and turned on the rest of lights and the diver saw that the pool had been drained for maintenance.

The construction of the ship was at such a fast pace that at least one worker was accidentally walled up in hull and left to die.

Catholic workers in Belfast almost stopped construction on the ship because the hull number 3909 04 seemed to spell out "NO POPE" when viewed in a mirror.

A cursed mummy that had already caused several deaths was in the cargo hold when the ship sunk.

The Titanic was the first ship to use SOS as a distress call.

One day a trucker was just approaching the mid-point of a hill, a couple of miles above a curvy road, when he lost his brakes. It's a busy road, and he had a full load on board. Unable to slow down, he careered along, flashing his lights and blaring the horn, swerving all over the road as he wrestled with the truck.

Miraculously, he kept on the road, and cars cleared out of his way. If he could keep the truck upright and get around the curvy roads, there was a safety ramp a few hundred yards beyond. By a miracle, he made it around the bend without rolling over, and turned the speeding truck off onto the safety ramp.

Halfway up, a family was having a picnic at what they thought was a rest stop.

by Chevross