DYING IN STUPID WAYS


Grenades Fly In Chicken Row

PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- A dispute over a chicken escalated into a pitched   
battle in which four people were killed, after two Pakistani tribal   
families tried to settle the row with rocket launchers and hand grenades.   

The clash occurred after the bird flew to a nearby house whose owner laid   
claim to it.

SIX DIE TRYING TO SAVE CHICKEN - August 1, 1995

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Six people drowned yesterday while trying to rescue a   
chicken that had fallen into a well in southern Egypt. An 18-year-old   
farmer was the first to descend into the 60-foot well. He drowned,   
apparently after an undercurrent in the water pulled him down, police   
said.

His sister and two brothers, none of whom could swim well, went in one by   
one to help him, but also drowned. Two elderly farmers then came to help,   
but they apparently were pulled down by the same undercurrent. The bodies   
of the six were later pulled out of the well in the village of Nazlat   
Imara, 240 miles south of Cairo. The chicken was also pulled out. It   
survived.

Man Killed Repairing Truck - April 1, 1995

Kalamazoo Gazette -- James Burns, 34, of Alamo, Mich., was killed in   
March as he was trying to repair what police described as a "farm-type   
dump truck." Burns got a friend to drive the truck on a highway while   
Burns hung underneath so that he could ascertain the source of a   
troubling noise. Burns's clothes caught on something, however, and the   
other man found Burns "wrapped in the drive shaft."