Man dies after Sex with Hornet Nest [Update: Fake.]
Für die Meldung gibt’s mehrere Quellen, scheint also zu stimmen. Die Bewerbungen für den Darwin Award 2013 sind hiermit geschlossen. Der Spruch „Don’t fuck with Hornets!“ war noch nie so passend wie hier.
A man in Sweden has died after trying to have sex with a hornet’s nest on his farm outside Ystad. The 35-year-old, known only as Hasse, had 146 sting marks on his body, including 54 to his genitals, News Sweden said.
His body was found by a neighbour, who said Hasse was so swollen he initially mistook him for a whale carcass.
Swedish Man Dies After Having Sex With Hornet’s Nest (via @Raketenmensch)
[update] Die Story ist ein Fake: „The original source for the story has now been traced to a satirical website in Sweden, which reported the stinging tale back in September, 2012.“
Beautiful Ad for Funeral Service
Tolle Anzeige von Mari Nishimura für ein japanischen Bestattungsunternehmen. Das Skelett haben sie in Lebensgröße aus getrockneten Blumen zusammengelegt: The most gorgeous ad for funeral home services.
101 Ways to Say „Died“
Von 2008 bis 2010 sammelte das Blog Vast Public Indifference 101 Euphemismen und Synonyme für das Verb „starb“ auf uralten Grabsteinen. Die ersten paar sind noch recht gewöhnlich (natürlich „died“, „deceased“, „left us“, „departed this life“ – aber auch „Killed by the Fall of a Tree“), hintenraus wird’s dann toll. Hier ein paar meiner Favorites:
Part 28: Barbarously Murdered in His Own Home by Gages Bloody Troops
Part 47: Her Existence Terminated
Part 62: Made His Exit
Part 77: Kill’d by Lightening
Part 83: Arrested By Death
Part 84: …And Have Never Since Been Heard Of
101 Ways to say „Died“ (via Boing Boing)
Bonustrack aus einem anderen Posting: „Also his Wife’s Arm Amputated Feby. 20th 1786.“
Vintage golden Skeleton-Actionfigure in a Silver-Sarcophagus
Bei Sothebys kann man grade ein goldenes, bewegliches Skelett in einem Sarg aus vergoldetem Silber ersteigern. Kostet nur run 200.000 Dollar.
The fully articulated human skeleton in a velvet-lined coffin chased around on each side with three panels showing the course of life, one end with attributes of the arts, the other with attributes of war, the removable cover with the journey in the footsteps of the Angel of Death, surrounded by the faces of infants alternately laughing and crying…
The Rouchomovsky Skeleton: A Russian Gold Articulated Skeleton In Silver-Gilt Sarcophagus (via Morbid Anatomy)
Dead Peoples’ Metal-Business
Eine holländische Firma recycelt Metallware aus Krematorien, Schwermetalle landen in Autos und Flugzeugen, Blech wird zu Straßenschildern und -laternen, die Einkünfte werden Charitys gespendet.
Metal body parts from the dead are being recycled into road signs, lamp posts, car parts and aircraft engines. Steel hips, plates and screws from legs and skulls are collected after cremation and sent off for recycling. Even metal plates from false teeth and tiny fragments from fillings can be recovered and re-used, together with metal fittings on coffins. High value metals which survive the 1000-degree cremation are then sold for use in the automobile and aeronautical industries. They include cobalt and titanium, found in some implants and dental work, with cobalt used in aircraft engines.
But other less valuable metals are smelted down and sold for more general use – including road signs, motorway barriers and lamp posts. The metal salvaged from cremations is put in large wheelie bins at the crematoriums and collected by contractors who take it to specialist plants for recycling. Items such as steel hips, metal plates from legs and skulls and screws fitted to various body parts are collected after cremations and then sent off for recycling, Money made is donated to charity and almost £1million has been raised for good causes since the project began in Britain in 2004.
Metal body parts from the dead are being recycled to make ROAD SIGNS (via Arbroath)
Vorher auf Nerdcore:
The Business of selling Body Parts
Inside the Business of Body Part Trading
Religious Nuts wrapped in Plastic on a Plane because dead People
„When it comes to bullshit, big-time, major league bullshit, you have to stand in awe. In Awe! Of the all-time champion of false promises and exaggerated claims, Religion. No contest.“ (George Carlin) Aber hey! Immerhin hat der Mann seine Religion mit ‘nem Stück Plastik gehackt, ist ja auch was!
Kohens are prohibited from flying over cemeteries (“A kohen initially was not supposed to approach any dead body, and if he did so he became ritually impure”), which as you can imagine, could be a major problem for travel. According to Haaretz, Rabbi Yosef Shalom Eliashiv, the leader of the Lithuanian Haredi community in Israel, “found a solution to this issue, ruling that wrapping oneself in thick plastic bags while the plane crossed over the cemetery is permissible.”
Orthodox Jewish Man Covers Himself In Plastic Bag On Plane (via Death&Taxes)
Robot Cemetery
Es gibt Roboter-betriebene Friedhöfe in Japan mit Online-Datenbanken der Toten für virtuelle Grabbesuche:
A six-story crypt near Tokyo’s busy Shinjuku Station is slated to open next year with space for 7,000 remains, according to The Japan Times. The high-capacity usage will be profitable for owners of the land, while users who work or live in the metropolis will find it conveniently close.
It won’t be the first of its kind. In similar facilities, people swipe electronic cards, prompting robot arms in the vault to retrieve urns and place them in mourning rooms for prayers. Photos of the deceased are displayed on screens. Meanwhile, if you’re too busy to actually visit the family grave or a robot-proffered urn to pay your respects, you can do it online.
Japanese turning to robotic crypts, virtual grave visits (via Creepy Robots)
Fraggle Rock Death-Supercuts
Youtube Direktfraggles, via Death&Taxes
Zach Woliner hat alle Referenzen des Todes in den Fraggles zusammengeschnitten. Bohr’ Dir doch ein Loch ins Knie, indeed.
While watching the classic show, Fraggle Rock, I noticed something of a pattern with frequent mentions of death, dying, and killing by the show’s characters. Here, I have compiled these instances for you to see, all in one place.
Und dann hat er nicht aufgehört damit, sondern hat noch eine Version mit Intro und einen Directors-Cut mit eher wagen Andeutungen des Grauens von fantastischen 18 Minuten online gestellt, die beiden gibt’s nach dem Klick: Gib mir den Rest, Baby…
TED-Talk about gay Duck Necrophilia
Kein Aprilscherz, passt aber wunderbar: Kees Moeliker erklärt auf der TED-Konferenz den Dead Duck Day, den sie seit dem ersten Todestag 1996 zum Gedenken einer Ente feiern, die das erste dokumentierte Opfer schwuler Enten-Nekrophilie wurde. Darüber hat Moeliker dann eine Arbeit geschrieben und den Ig-Nobelpreis gewonnen. Der Talk hat wirklich alles, von Frosch-Goldfisch-Facefuck bis Kröten-Nekrophilie in Missionarsstellung. Hilarious!
On 5 June 1995 an adult male mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) collided with the glass façade of the Natuurhistorisch Museum Rotterdam and died. An other drake mallard ‘raped’ the corpse almost continuously for 75 minutes. Then the author disturbed the scene and secured the dead duck. Dissection showed that the rape-victim indeed was of the male sex. It is concluded that the mallards were engaged in an ‘Attempted Rape Flight’ that resulted in the first described case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard.
TED: How a dead duck changed the TED audience’s life
Kees Moeliker: The Duck
Graverobbers jailed for selling Ghost Brides
In China haben sie ein paar Grabräuber verknackt, weil sie Leichen als Geisterbräute verkauft haben.
Four people have been jailed in China for digging up corpses to sell as brides for traditional “ghost marriages” – where dead single men are buried with a wife for the afterlife – local reports said. Marriage is an important part of Chinese society and, while the practice is increasingly rare, it is still kept up by some families whose young adult sons pass away before having a chance to wed.
Normally it is agreed between the families of the dead, but the Xian Evening News said the group “stole female corpses and after cleaning them, fabricated medical files for the deceased and sold them for a high price”.
Dead Mens Boots for the Police
In Bosnien haben sie 1300 Paar Schuhe für Polizisten gekauft, von einem Hersteller von Leichen-Schuhen für Beerdigungen. These Boots are not made for walking:
Police chiefs in Bosnia-Herzegovina have spent £70,000 buying 1,300 pairs of new shoes and boots for their officers from an outfitters that only supplies footwear for bodies to wear in coffins. Officers complained that the shoes, never meant to be walked in, fell apart after just a few hours on the beat in Sarajevo.
Disappointment over possibly carcinogenic dead mens shoes purchased for police officers
Black Mirror just got real: LivesOn, AI-Mirror of yourself after Death
Great review from Haley Joel Osment : “I tweet dead people” liveson.org
— LivesOn (@_Liveson) February 22, 2013
Ihr erinnert Euch an die Black Mirror-Folge „Be Right Back“ letzte Woche? (Und ja, Review zu E02 kommt noch.) Nun, kurz danach schickte mir jemand den Link zu LivesOn und meinte, es wäre ein Viral für die Folge. Problem ist nur: Es ist kein Viral, sondern ernst gemeint.
LivesOn wird eine App, die einen digitalen Zwilling erstellt, der nach dem Tod das Online-Leben des Verstorbenen imitieren soll. Das Teil wird von der Agentur Lean Mean Fighting Machine in Zusammenarbeit mit Wissenschaftlern der Queen Mary Universität in London entwickelt. Die arbeiten da wohl schon eine Weile dran und sie wollten den Viraleffekt zur Black Mirror-Folge mitnehmen. Well played und: Creepy!
“We are at the very beginning of the build process,” Dave Bedwood, creative partner at Lean Mean Fighting Machine, said in an email. “This site is very much for people to sign up now, get a second twitter account, private to them, and just watch it learn and grow. As A.I advances, then maybe we will then get into it being able to copy syntax. When you die, if you’ve had this account for a long time, it may be able to keep tweeting as you.”
The Verge: You’ll tweet when you’re dead: LivesOn says digital ‘twin’ can mimic your online persona
Interview mit Moving Brands: The un-friend-dead
(Bild: Grim reaper via Shutterstock)
More gruesome Safety-Clips from the 80s
Youtube Direktaua, danke Milchman!
Ich kannte dieses Safety-Video aus den 80ern mit Effekten von IL&M, aufgerissenen Händen und zermantschten Körperteilen, das vor ein paar Jahren rumging, und selbstverständlich hab’ ich Staplerfahrer Klaus ein paar mal gesehen, das Teil oben ist mir allerdings neu. Menschen im Häcksler, garniert mit cheesy Soundtrack und VHS-Type-Effekten.
Woman hides Poison in her Vagina for Oral Sex-Assassination
Eine Dame aus Brasilien hat ihre Vagina mit Gift präpariert, um ihren Mann beim Oralverkehr umzubringen. Ich bin da mehr als skeptisch, weil wegen Gift und Schleimhäute und das Zeug hätte die Dame wohl auch selbst umgebracht. Wie auch immer, Snip:
A woman is being sued by her husband for allegedly trying to kill him by putting poison in her genitals and then asking him to perform oral sex. […] Reports in the South American country suggest he was ready and willing, and only escaped death because he noticed a strange smell.
The curious husband then took his wife to hospital in Sao Jose do Rito Preto to find out the cause of the unusual odour. The alleged attempt on his life was exposed when tests on his wife discovered traces of a poisonous substance down below.
Oral sex ‘assassination plot’: Woman accused of putting poison in her privates in bid to kill husband (via Gawker)
