Psychiatrist Oscar Dominguez,45, shot dead a woman patient in his office in Sao Paolo, Brazil, as she told him about her sex life. At his trila he explained "I couldn't take those nutcases anymore..."

A naked man running across New York's Brooklyn Bridge in may 1993 singing "Oh what a beautiful morning" was run over by a car and kiled.

In Japan in 1981, Kenji Urada was killed by when a robot at the Kawasaki factory where he worked mistook his head for a component that needed tightening up.

Mike Stewart, 31, president of the Auto Convoy Company, Dallas, Texas, was filming a movie about the traffic dangers of low level bridges when the truck he was standing on passed under a suburban bridge and killed him.

A fisherman set up his rods on the banks of the Rio Negro in Amazonia. His fishing line caught in a tree, and as he tried to free it , he struck a bee's nest. The swarm of bees then attacked him, and he leapt into the river to escape. He was the devoured by piranha fish.

Ionnis Philippou set himself on fire while huddled over a heater in his home in Kato deftra, Cyprus. To douse the flames, he ran out of the house and jumped into the reservoir, where he drowned.

An unnamed man from Austin, Texas, became entangled in a garden hose and strangled himself while trying to get free. He was found in a field behind an Austin food plant in May 1983 with the hose wrapped around his waist and chest.

Charles Millbank crashed into an electricity pole near Brentwood, Essex. The car plunged over the embankment and he managed to get out unhurt. As he made his way back up the slope he touched the 11,000 colt cable and was instantly killed.

A man was knocked down by a car in New York in 1977. He got up uninjured when a bystander told him to lie down in front of the car and pretend he was hurt in order to get insurance money. He did this, and the car then rolled forward and crushed him to death.

Fisherman Anthony Fernando died in march 1988 off the coast of Sri Lanka. A swordfish like garfish then leapt out of the water and speared him in his neck.

Five mountain rescue police helping to make a film about the dangers of avalanches in the French Alps were swept away and killed by n avalanche in 1980.

Victor Villenti was a strict vegetarian and forced his family to follow the same regime. While jogging in 1991 he was killed by an eight pound frozen leg of lamb which fell form a third storey window.

Dragutin ilic who was an impressionist in Yugoslavia went into the woods to practice his rutting stag imitation. His imitation was so lifelike that he was shot and killed by a poacher.

Roseann Greco ran over her husband, Felix, repeatedly with her car after becoming convinced that he was possessed by the cartoon character Mickey Mouse.

Adelaide Magnasco, 80, went on holiday to Italy in 1993. Retiring for the night, she pulled down the cupboard bed from the wall of her chalet, got in, and died when it suddenly closed again. She was found crushed between the mattress and the wall.

Reclusive Miser Joseph Heer, 89, had his power cut off in January 1986. He was found in bed, fully clothed, having died of hypothermia. In an open safe and two steel boxes nearby, police found $200,000 in cash.

David M. Grundman went out into the desert and fired repeatedly into the trunk of a giant saguara cactus for target practice. The large pitch forked shaped cactus is Arizona’s state plant and an endangered species. As he fired his last round the upper section of the cactus toppled over and fell on him, spearing him to death.

Hardial Singh, 41, took a bath at his home in Leicester in November 1992. Afterwards, he tried to balance his backside on a broomstick while opening a window. He slipped and impaled himself on the broom handle, and fled the bathroom screaming. He was taken to hospital to have an operation to remove the injured bowel but died two weeks after when the blood clots reached his lungs.

Ramón Barrera who was famous for playing the worlds smallest harmonica. He was giving a performance in Iguala in January 1994 when he accidentally swallowed the harmonica and choked to death.

Fabio Spanu tried to kill a turkey for dinner in Nuoro, Sardinia, in February 1992. The 20 year old swung the axe, missed the bird, and hit himself in the chest. He died on the way to hospital. A police spokesman remarked “He was not very expert in killing turkeys.”

A village policeman in Belgium was sent to shoot a rabid alsation and ended up shooting the woman who owned the dog instead. At his trial for manslaughter, he said that everybody in the village knew he couldn’t shoot straight.

Donald Allanson, 41, became upset when he heard that a close friend was having an affair. He was so deeply hurt that he tied a chainsaw between branches of a tree, then jammed the throttle on full and then walked into, instantly beheading himself.

39 year old brick layer Herminio Rivera Couceiro abducted a hen in Orsense, Spain, and clambered down a river bank to consummate his passion. Unhappily, the Spaniard’s nocturnal movements dislodged a large rock and the curious conjunction of man and bird was rudely cut short as the granite boulder plunged down on the couple, killing both instantly. The pathologist later revealed that the man’s penis was covered in feathers.

An argument among a group of Filipino men over the aged old question “which came first the chicken or the egg?” ended in tragedy. On the side of the chicken were Georgio and Tomas, a pair of barbers from the town of Tamban. The men on the side of the egg were Jose and Francisco. Thinking he had won, Tomas cried out “You are fools! What I say proves that the chicken came first!” This upset his opponents and they pulled out pistols and shot both the barbers dead.

A disc jockey in Calcutta told listeners, as a joke, to drop a radio in their bath tub to get an LSD like high. He faced manslaughter charges after 20 teenagers followed his advice.

George Schwartz was working late alone in his office in a factory in Rhode Island. A huge explosion destroyed the building leaving only one wall standing. The blast swept Schwartz clear of the falling masonry and flames dumping him on the front steps. He went to hospital to get treatment for injuries and shock. Upon release he returned to the factory to try and salvage some files. The last remaining wall collapsed and killed him.

Chan Wai-fong set up a shrine at her son’s house in Hong Kong to thank the gods for her daughters lucky escape in a road accident. As she was praying in the street outside the apartment block, she was killed by a falling bag of cement.

In Camden, New Jersey, Doris triplett was cleared by reason of insanity after telling a psychiatrist that her teddy bear had ordered her to kill her three sons.