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January
Widow Pany Jagger, 81, from Wakefield, killed herself with paracetamol after being told her old car
was beyond repair. Daily Express - 1 Jan 1992
Eager to try on a £750 toupee, shop manager Claude Jules, 53, of Abbeville, France, stopped his car,
dabbed on special glue and applied the wig. Then he lit a cigarette. The glue fumes ignited and the
car exploded, killing him instantly. Scottish Daily Record - 2 Jan
1992
A
man from Grahamstown, South Africa, asked tge police to guard his house while he was out of town,
saying he would be back on 12 January 1992. The police became suspicious on the night of 30 December
1991 when lights in the supposedly empty house went on and off. An officer went to the back of the
house and opened fire when a door suddenly opened, killing the homeowner, who had returned early.
Associated Press - 2 Jan 1992
Lee Hsi-lung and Lai Yun-kun were both born in Taitung, Taiwan, on 25 June 1973. They had not met
until they went to a party arranged by mutual friends. They didn't have much time to get acquainted,
as the car they were in smashed into a truck and they were killed, close to where they were born 19
years earlier. Edinburgh Evening News - 17 Jan 1992
Marshall Gambrell, 25, from Alexandria, Virginia, lost control of his car, crossed a grassy area, went
through a hedgerow into Beaverdale Memorial Park, Hamden, Conneticut, and was fatally hurled
head-first into a marble headstone. Associated Press - 18 Jan 1992
Charles Millbank, 25, crashed into an electricity pole on the A127 near Brentwood on 22 January and
plunged over an embankment, touched 11,000 volt cable trailing across the grass and was killed
instantly. Independant; Today - 23 January 1992
Paul Ferguson, 25, from Eccles, was found dead, stuck head first down a fox hole in waste ground by
Davyhulme sewage works, off Rivers Lane, Stretford, near Manchester. He ws out hunting rabbitts with
his six terriers and a ferret, and police believe he was trying to free one of the terriers, which was
latter found alive. He either suffocated or froze to death. Bradford
Telegraph - 27 Jan 1992
February
Registered nurse Betty Niemi, 46, rushed to the aid of Judge William Mallen, 55, who had a fatal heart
attack on the bench in San Francisco on 31 January 1992 while hearing a lawsuit challenging the
nurse's 1988 dismissal from nursing school for allegedly not reacting properly to emergencies. Associated Press - 2 Februaury 1992
Clinton Richard Doan, 35, died on 27 January 1992 when he opened the fridge in his garage in Ketchum,
Idaho. A beer keg ruptured, shot upwards and hit him in the head. Associated
Press - 2 February 1992
Only the legs of a 27-year-old meat worker could be seen when he was discovered by a colleague in a
ginat mincing machine at a meat packing plant in Pico rivera, California. The victim was alone
cleaning the machine when it somehow switched on. Police questioned workers to discover if it was a
freak accident or murder. Standard - 28 Feb 1992
March
Mrs Evelyn Houser, 70, driving near Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, struck an embankment and overturned. She
escaped unhurt. As she stood near a guard-rail while police investigated, she was fatally injured by a
16-year-old firefighter who lost control of his car his way to the accident. Belfast Telegraph - 19 March 1992
April
Philip Edwards, 26, from Edmundstown, Mid-Glamorgan, died trapped head first down a hole while trying
to rescue hi pet terrier. Bristol Evening News - 7 April 1992
May
Four boys in the western Algerian city of Maghnia, aged eight to fifteen, died shortly after eating
soup. Their mother had inadvertently brought home a poisonous snake hidden in vegetables wich she put
in the family refrigerator. The snake, seeking warmth, slithered into a soup pot and discharged its
venom into the soup. [AFP] - 4 May 1992
Snake-like steel cables from a blown-out tyre tore through a bus floor, snatched sleeping
four-year-old Ramon Prado from his mother's arms and dragged him to his death beneath the bus's
wheels. The boy and his family were returning to Santa Ana from Michoacan, Mexico, when the rear tyre
blew out near Oceanside, California. Associated Press - 12 May
1992
June
Wise-cracking bingo caller Michael Cave, 65, collapsed and died 15 minutes into his routine at the
Gala Bingo Club in London Street, Reading, Berks. The last number he called was "Number Eight ...
Pearly Gates." Daily Express - 18 June 1992
July
Born-again Christian Herbert Pickney comitted suicide in Charleston Jail, South Carolina, by eating
eight bars of soap and five cans of shaving cream. "The Lord told me to do it" he confided to warders.
Weekly News - 25 July 1992
August
Larry Moor, 45, a snake handler who founded a group to dispel the fear and misunderstanding of snakes,
died after being bitten by his Egyptian cobra, according to Canadian police. Moor, of Langley, near
Vancouver, ran screaming into the street for help but died within seconds. Associated Press - 3 Aug 1992
Dr Wuyl Pan, 42, an assistant professor of materials engineering at New Mexico Tech in Socorro, was
struck dead by lightning on 12 August 1992. Pan was married to Lin Zhang, a chemist who worked at the
Tech's lighning research lab in Magadalena Mountains 30 miles west of Socorro. New Mexico has the
highest rate of lightning deaths per capita in the United States. Associated
Press - 13 Aug 1992
Philip Hodges, 34, was cutting a yew hedge at Fownhope, near Hereford, when he slipped on a wet,
grassy bank and cut the jugular vein in his neck with the shears. He bled to death before an ambulance
arrived. The Sun/Daily Telegraph - 29 Aug 1992
September
Off-duty bus conductor Abdul Fadli Talib, 24, died after swallowing his dentures while sleeping on the
back seat of a bus as it travelled from Kuala Lumpar to Seremban in western Malaysia on 21 September
1992. Reuters - 23 September 1992
Mrs Rose Neale, 58, of Orpington, Kent, was so scared of dentists she never visited one in her life.
She contracted oral thrush from her rotting teeth, which caused a blood infection and developed into
meningitis, from which she died. Daily Telegraph - 26 Sept 1992
October
Giorgio Scrimin, 55, was kept awake by a howling cat and leaned out of a bedroom window to hit it with
a broom. The cat sprang on the roof of the house in Venice, dislodging a hump of marble which fell on
Senor Scimin's head and killed him. Today/Daily Star - 5 Oct 1992
Don Giacomo Perini, a priest, cursed the rain as he stood outside his church in Alto Adige, Italy;
whereupon cross, loosened by the rain, fell on his head and killed him. Ths
Sun - 6 Oct 1992
Shy married couple Sachi and Tomio Hidaka, both 34, waited 14 years to make love - and died of heart
attacks the first time they tried it. They had no history of heart trouble, according to their doctor
in Chiba, Japan. Daily Mirror - 11 October 1992
An elderly woman in Donetsk, Ukraine, probably a vagrant, was blown to pieces near the city's railway
station when she pulled the out of a hand grenade she had mistaken for a can of beer. Seventeen over
people were injured Police Review - 16 October 1992
November
North Sea oil worker Ellard Zuidema was decapitated by a helicopter's rotor blades on the diving
support ship Mayo in April 1992. Mr Zuidema, 6ft 3in, ducked to avoid the blades, but a hugh
wave caused the Mayo to shudder, and the blades dipped to 5ft 8in. Daily Telegraph - 5 November 1992
Nakorn Hawthong, 30, was fishing in the Thai province of Uthai Thani in november 1991 when he wa
choked to death by a fish he put between his teeth, because he didn't have a basket to put it in and
wanted to carry on fishing. This is not a unique death: 30 years previous, for instance, Mario Golfo
of Messina, Scicily, tried to stun a small sole bu\y bitting on it's head, but it wriggled from his
grasp, lodged in his throat and choked him. [Rueters] - 11 Nov 1992; Canberra
Times - 11 Feb 1963
Salvatore Chirilino picked a four leaf clover on a clifftop in Vibo Marina, Italy - then plunged 150ft
to his death. "He slipped on the wet grass", said his wife, "and went over the side". A police
spokesman added: "It's just not lucky for everyone". Daily Mirror - 20
November 1992
Hardial Singh, 41, a married hosiery knitter from Leicester, slipped and impaled himself on a broom
handle as he rested on it while trying to open a window after taking a bath. The handle perforated his
rectal wall, he had a colostomy the next day, but died two weeks latter, probably from blood clots in
his legs which had entered his lungs. Leicester Mercury; Daily Mirror; The
Sun - 20 November 1992
Giacario Burranti booby-trapped his Milan shop with a bomb after his tenth burglary; he was blasted to
death when he came in and forgot to switch the device off. News of the World
- 22 Nov 1992
Psychiatrist Oscar Dominguez, 45, shot dead a womam patient in his Sao Paulo office as she told him
about her sex life. "I couldn't take those nutcases any more", he told a court, where he faced a
25-year sentance. Daily Star - 27 November 1992
Believing that her husband had betrayed her, Vera Czermak of Prague jumped from her third storey
window - and landed on him as he passed below. She recovered hospital, but he died instantly. Daily Record - 28 November 1992
December
David Wayne Godin, 22, drowned near Dartmouth. Nova Scotia, last September as he was returning from
his bachelor stag party, when his vehicle plunged into a lake. Attached to Godin's leg, courtesy of
his friends at the party, was an authentic ball and chain. Hartford (CT)
Advocate - 3 December 1992
Josephine Turner, 17, collapsed on 1st February 1992 at Marlborough College, Wiltshire, after eating a
peanut-filled pretzel at her housemaster's cocktail perty. She died 50 minutes later. A few months
later, Kerry Foster, 18, a first-year-student at Kent University, died after eating a vegeburger
containing walnuts in her college canteen. In both cases an allergic reaction to nuts caused fatal
choking. Daily Telegraph - 4 February + 12 December 1992
Ken Charles Barger, 47, accidently shot himself to death last December in Newton, North Carolina.
Awakening to the sound of a ringing telephone beside his bed, he reached for the phone but grabbed
instead a Smith & Wesson .38 Special, which discharged when he drew it to his ear. Hickory Daily Record - 21 December 1992
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