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A fierce gust of wind
blew 45-year-old Vittorio Luise's car into a river near Naples,
Italy, in 1983. He managed to break a window, climb out and
swim to shore -- where a tree blew over and killed him.
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Mike Stewart, 31, of
Dallas was filming a movie in 1983 on the dangers of low-level
bridges when the truck he was standing on passed under a
low-level bridge -- killing him.
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Walter Hallas, a
26-year-old store clerk in Leeds, England, was so afraid of dentists
that in 1979 he asked a fellow worker to try to cure his toothache
by punching him in the jaw. The punch caused Hallas to fall
down, hitting his head, and he died of a fractured skull.
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George Schwartz, owner
of a factory in Providence, R.I., narrowly escaped death when a 1983
blast flattened his factory except for one wall. After
treatment for minor injuries, he returned to the scene to
search for files. The remaining wall then collapsed on
him, killing him.
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Depressed since he could
not find a job, 42-year-old Romolo Ribolla sat in his kitchen
near Pisa, Italy, with a gun in his hand threatening to kill
himself in 1981. His wife pleaded for him not to do it,
and after about an hour he burst into tears and threw the gun
to the floor. It went off and killed his wife.
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In 1983, Mrs. Carson of
Lake Kushaqua, NY, was laid out in her coffin, presumed dead of
heart disease. As mourners watched, she suddenly sat up. Her
daughter dropped dead of fright.
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A man hit by a car in
New York in 1977 got up uninjured, but lay back down in front
of the car when a bystander told him to pretend he was hurt so
he could collect insurance money. The car rolled forward and
crushed him to death.
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