#3560322 - 04/21/12 03:44 PM
87 YO man kills 3 by dressing up as the Grimm Reaper and 81 YO kills another by doing striptease.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewer%27s_Rogues,_Villains_and_Eccentrics In 1961, 87-year-old Harry Meadows, a resident at the Haslemere home for the elderly in Great Yarmouth, England, achieved late-in-life notoriety when he accidentally killed another 3 residents of his care home by dressing up as the grim reaper and peering through the residents' lounge window whilst holding a scythe.
The year before Harry's performance, another resident of the same home, the then 81-year-old Gladys Elton, for reasons best known to herself, had conceived the idea of performing a striptease for her fellow residents of the home; unfortunately such was the effect of Elton's performance that it caused the death of one resident by way of a cardiac arrest and the treatment for shock of five other residents.
The home was forced to shut down as a result of these two incidents. Not sure if I'm supposed to laugh or cry.
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#3560327 - 04/21/12 03:53 PM
Re: 87 YO man kills 3 by dressing up as the Grimm Reaper and 81 YO kills another by doing striptease.
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Laugh
Seriously, if these two things caused these people to die, it wouldn't have been long anyway. They were already dead and just didn't know it.
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#3560377 - 04/21/12 05:38 PM
Re: 87 YO man kills 3 by dressing up as the Grimm Reaper and 81 YO kills another by doing striptease.
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Yep Destructis.
I know I probably shouldn't laugh. But I did.
Sounds like that particular coffin dodging coalition were on their way out anyway, sadly. They had a good innings, and if the reaper didn't get them, a backfiring car, loud dog, or exploding birthday party balloon probably would have closed the deal in any event. When yer numbers up, it's up.
Although his reaper prank tragically went "a bit wrong", I think Mr Harry Meadows should be applauded for his Great British sense of humour, especially at 87 yrs of age. Bet he was a barrel of laughs! How was he to know that peering into the lounge window dressed as the berobed, skeletal embodiment of death and wielding a scythe ('for the lulz'), could have such unfortunate and unforeseen consequences? Bless.
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#3560413 - 04/21/12 06:28 PM
Re: 87 YO man kills 3 by dressing up as the Grimm Reaper and 81 YO kills another by doing striptease.
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I had no choice, The grim reaper was just to frickin funny. I did say a prayer and ask forgiveness . Bullet
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#3560561 - 04/21/12 11:26 PM
Re: 87 YO man kills 3 by dressing up as the Grimm Reaper and 81 YO kills another by doing striptease.
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You would have thought the Grim Reaper guy would have stopped after killing the first one. But NOoooooooooooooo he had to go for that third strike. Unless of course he got all three of them at the same time, he hit the trifecta.
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#3560571 - 04/21/12 11:59 PM
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You would have thought the Grim Reaper guy would have stopped after killing the first one. But NOoooooooooooooo he had to go for that third strike. Unless of course he got all three of them at the same time, he hit the trifecta. ' No plan survives contact', D. His mission was an innocent, fun loving jape, that went so terribly, and tragically wrong. The cheeky 87 year auld funster could never have predicted such a dread, macabre outcome. The right honourable Mr Harry Meadows is entirely absolved of any wrong doing....by official decree...of me. And other right thinking folk, who agree. Amen.
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