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Showing posts with label Weird death. Show all posts
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Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Weird news - Dying with a stomach full of cocaine

The drug trade is a very lucrative trade, with the amount of money involved being huge. The difference in price of the drug in the drug producing regions such as Colombia, compared with the price in the developed countries is so huge that there are massive efforts made to transport this drug in large quantities to meet user demand. At the same time, there are a lot of efforts made by the enforcement agencies to stop this movement of drugs. As a part of this cat and mouse game, the drug cartels keep on thinking of new ways to move these drugs. In the past, drug supplies have been moved in through fast boats along the coastal regions, through hiding these items in regular trade, through the use of innovate methods such as small submarines, and in the below case, through using people as mules when they actually carry the drug on their persons.
This method involves taking small pouches of the drug, and ingesting it so that it can be carried in the stomach, and later excreted when their reach their destination. However, this is fraught with a high amount of risk since the stomach is full of strong acids that can dissolve items, and if the drugs are exposed in the stomach, their high concentration will be mostly fatal for the person (link to article):
A Japanese man with 246 packets of cocaine in his stomach and intestines died mid-flight on his way from Bogota to Tokyo, authorities said Monday in northern Mexico, where the plane made an emergency landing. The 42-year-old man, identified only as Udo "N," began having a seizure after traveling from the Colombian capital to Mexico City and catching a connecting flight to Japan, said the prosecutor's office for the state of Sonora. "Flight attendants noticed a person suffering convulsions, and requested permission to make an emergency landing in Hermosillo, Sonora," it said in a statement. "When the plane landed at 2:25 am on Friday, paramedics boarded it and declared Udo 'N' deceased." An autopsy found the man had swallowed 246 packets of cocaine, each measuring one by 2.5 centimeters (about one by one-third inch).

Tuesday, June 19, 2018

Weird: Son died after being hit by mother's coffin

This is probably right there in the list of weird tragic deaths. The funerals in the Torajan community in northern Indonesia can be ornate, and very expensive, depending on the position of the person who dies as well as their family. These funerals can even last days with a large number of people attending, animals being killed and eaten, and more germane to the current situation, the coffins are placed on a temporary high platform, and that is where the problem occurred.
Coffins can be heavy, and with the dead weight of a body inside the coffin, it can be even more heavy, dangerously so. So when a group of people were trying to carry the coffin on a bamboo ladder to a temporary platform, some of the bamboo supports collapsed and eventually the people carrying the coffin fell down, with the coffin finally falling on a man named Samen Kondorura, who by a sense of twisted logic, was the dead lady's son, and who died due to the impact of the falling coffin (link to article):
The coffin, now vertical and supported by nothing, dropped more than 10 feet to the ground as frightened onlookers stared or screamed. At the bottom of the mass of people and bamboo and fabric was Samen Kondorura, Berta's 40-year-old son. He had been near the end of the coffin — one of the last trying to push it up into the tower. “As the mother’s coffin was being raised to the lakkian, suddenly the ladder shifted and collapsed, the coffin fell and hit the victim,” Julianto Sirait, chief police commissioner of the Tana Toraja municipality on Sulawesi, told the Guardian. Onlookers tried to dig him out of the pile, but it was too late. Samen Kondorura died on his way to the hospital, according to NDTV.

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