Curious and Unusual Deaths

Death By Handiwork (2x3)

Yayınlanma tarihi: Mar 23, 2012

“Overheated”: A retired teacher was such a do-it-yourself kind of guy that he made his own sauna. It worked well, heating the inside to over 80 C, but when the door handle broke off, both he and his wife where trapped inside. The elevated temperatures also elevated his heart heat, causing him to experience terminal cardiac arrest. “Electric Justice”: In the early 1900s, Charles Justice was jailed for attempted murder in the Ohio Penitentiary. As he served his sentence he also served as custodian for the death chamber, where he made an innovation to their electric chair, replacing the leather straps with metal clasps. Eleven years later, Justice was convicted of murder and died in that very same chair. “Microwaved!”: An amateur repairman tried to fix his own microwave. Although he took the precaution of unplugging it first, he was not aware that the machine’s capacitor continued to hold a charge even after it was unplugged. When his metal screwdriver touched the capacitor, approximately 2000 volts went through him and stopped his heart.