1912: Franz Reichelt, tailor, fell to his death off the first deck of the Eiffel Tower while testing his invention, the coat parachute. It was his first ever attempt with the parachute and he had told the authorities in advance he would test it first with a dummy.   Apparently he was one.

1926: Harry Houdini, a famous American escape artist, was punched in the stomach by an amateur boxer who had heard that Houdini could withstand any blow to his body above his waist, excluding his head. Though this had been done with Houdini’s permission, complications from this injury caused him to die days later, on Halloween (October 31) of 1926.   Suckerpunched!

1974: Christine Chubbuck, an American television news reporter, committed suicide during a live broadcast on 15 July. At 9:38 AM, 8 minutes into her talk show, on WXLT-TV in Sarasota, Florida, she drew out a revolver and shot herself in the head.   And…cut to commercial!

1979: Robert Williams, a worker at a Ford Motor Co. plant, was the first known human to be killed by a robot, after the arm of a one-ton factory robot hit him in the head.   Remember…they struck first!

Find more here:  List of unusual deaths – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Drew and Diggz talk about Halloween candy, U2, the side car rally, and strip bars with calls from Jason Barnhart and Mikey Millardo.

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