Skydiving Photographer Forgot His Parachute

An experienced skydiver with more than 800 jumps to his name made the most important and fundamental and fatal error in 1988 before jumping from a plane 10,000 feet above North Carolina.

Photographer forgot his parachute

Ivan McGuire was filming a private lesson given by an instructor for a trainee. He had attached a video camera to his helmet and wore the power supply and recorder in a rucksack on his back. Jumping from the rear of the plane, he carefully captured the moment as the student and instructor jumped from the front and pulled their ripcords. It was then, as McGuire reached for his own ripcord, that he realized to his horror that while remembering all his camera equipment, he had forgotten to strap on his parachute. Scary.

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Married Couple Die Of Exitement

When shy Japanese couple Sachi and Tomio Hidaka, both aged 34 years-old, waited for 14 years for them to make love for the first time in 1992, it definitely didn't went well.

Shy Japanese Couple waited 14 years

When "the night" finally came, the excitement proved to be too much for the couple to handle as both of them died of heart attacks.

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Man Dies For The Love Of His Car

When 68 year-old Ivece Plattner found himself trapped in his car on an Italian level crossing with a train fast approaching, his first thought was to save his... Porsche!

A classic Porsche: Worth it?

So, instead of scrambling to safety, he ran along the track towards the incoming train, waving his arms frantically in a bid to help save his car. The attempt was successful as the car received considerably less damage than its owner who was hit with such force by the train that he landed 100 feet away and was instantly killed.

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Spanish King Replaced By Homer Simpson On Coin

A Spanish shopkeeper stumbled across a defaced euro coin where the head of King Juan Carlos had been transformed into that of Homer Simpson, the cartoon character from the hit series, The Simpsons.

Homer Simpson Coin

Don Juan Carlos's regal half profile topped by a full beard curls had morphed seamlessly into the pop-eyed, big nosed, bald-headed feature of Homer, complete with familiar five o-clock shadow. "The coin must be done by a professional," said Jose Martinez who found it in the cash register of his shop in Aviles in 2008. "it's an impressive piece of work."

Don Juan Carlos on the left versus Homer on the right

Amid fears that the illegal defacement might be part of a republican conspiracy against the Spanish monarchy, thousands of Simpsons fans from across the globe bid over $30 for the coin.

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Cinderella and Show White arrested in Disneyland Protest

Cinderella, Snow White, Tinkerbell, and other fairy tale characters where handcuffed, frisked, and loaded into police vans following a protest at Disneyland, California, in 2008.

Fairy tale characters arrested, not your typical fairy tale story

The arrest of 32 protestors where many of whom were in costumes was part of a pay dispute among staff at three Disney owned hotels in the area. The incident left tourists bewildered. One visitor from England said: "Nothing Disney could create could be more surreal than seeing Tinkerbell being handcuffed and bundled into a police van.

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Man was shot for teasing a fish

When Ut Van Ho from Ada, Oklahoma, saw a 22 year-old man teasing or in his terms "harassing" his fishes in a fish tank by shinning them with a flashlight, he didn't give the best of responses.

Fishes in a tank teased

He was charged with shooting the "harasser" during an afternoon game of cards in 1992. He rather shoot a person than have his fishes flashed using a flashlight.

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Student Gets Marks for Swearing in an Exam

A British student who wrote "Fu*k off" as his answer to a GCSE English exam question in 2008 was given two marks just for spelling it correctly.

Ahh.. Stressed students in an exam hall, classic!

The student apparently gave the four-letter answer when asked to "describe the room you are sitting in". Peter Buckroyd, chief examiner of English, said: "It does show some very basic skills we are looking for, like conveying some meaning and some spelling. He would have got even more marks if he had added an exclamation mark (!).

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