http://www.lookout-below.com Because everyone loves a train wreck Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:08:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A kite surfer remained in critical condition after being dragged and thrown across Fort Lauderdale Beach by Tropical Storm Fay.  A local news crew caught Kevin Kearney's accident on video.  "The wind was whipping around, picking him up and dragging him around," said Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue Chief Lois Bowman.  ... http://www.lookout-below.com/kite-surfer-seriously-injured-by-tropical-storm-fay/ ShareThis http://www.lookout-below.com/please-be-safe/ A U.K. businessman is surely to win the "Creative Suicide" contest.  Gerald Mellin, 54, decapitated himself in his sports car to get back at his younger wife for leaving him.  Mellin tied one end of a rope to a tree, got into his Aston Martin, and wrapped ... http://www.lookout-below.com/suicide-decapitation-by-sports-car/ Pirates armed with machetes hacked a U.S. tourist to death and seriously wounded his wife in an attack aboard the couple's sailboat in Guatemala.  Nancy Dryden, 67, said her husband, Daniel Perry Dryden, 66, was killed by four men who boarded their boat while it was anchored in Lake Izabal. ... http://www.lookout-below.com/us-tourist-killed-in-machete-attack/ At least 38 Warao Indians in remote Venezuela were killed by rabies spread by bites from vampire bats.  Police have yet to confirm the cause, but the symptoms point to rabies. If not vaccinated immediately after exposure to rabies, human victims will suffer horrible symptoms on their way to ... http://www.lookout-below.com/38-killed-by-vampire-bats/ A man in Long Island, New York, was charged with driving drunk with his wife on the roof of their car.  Police said Diamond Mircea was fighting with his wife, Monica Mircea, at their home around 12:30 Sunday morning.  They said he got into the car, and his ... http://www.lookout-below.com/man-drove-away-with-wife-on-hood/ Police shot and killed a wild black bear with a plastic jar stuck on its head.  The bear had led police on a six-day chase through Minnesota forests.  Officials had hoped to capture the bear but decided to shoot it after the bear wandered into a festival in the city ... http://www.lookout-below.com/cops-kill-jar-head-bear/ American Idol host Ryan Seacrest was swimming in the Pacific Ocean off Mexico on Sunday when he was bitten by a sand shark, he said on his radio show Monday.  Seacrest was "about eight feet out" when he felt something swim by his legs.  "I thought it ... http://www.lookout-below.com/ryan-seacrest-bitten-by-shark/ A 23-year-old Georgia Tech student died skydiving Saturday and happened to videotape his own fatal plunge.  Olen Reid Ashe III was an experienced skydiver, and this was his 299th jump.  The case is under investigation, but it appeared Ashe deployed his main parachute at 3,000 ... http://www.lookout-below.com/man-videotapes-own-fatal-skydive/ A female skydiver was killed when she walked into a spinning aircraft propeller at an airfield in Estonia, a country in northern Europe.  The accident occurred as a group of skydivers began to board the turbo-prop airplane in the town of Rapla.  Police say the 29-year-old victim died instantly when ... http://www.lookout-below.com/skydiver-killed-by-airplane-propeller/