Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Attempted car stabbing

A 27 year-old man in Arizona attempted suicide by affixing a sword to the steering wheel to a car and ramming the car into a wall. Instead of the sword fatally skewering him, however, the airbags deployed and bent the sword out of shape. The man only ended up getting non-fatal injuries, and his car just ended up in a swimming pool.

Friday, June 5, 2009

Breaking legs

A 25 year-old man in California jumped off the Santa Ana Bridge in an apparent attempt to kill himself. Hitting water after dropping from a great height is not much different from hitting concrete, but the result was that the man only managed to break both of his legs.