re: Strangest death of someone you know

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Ronnie Nye

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Such a freak occurrence. I had just moved out of LA exactly a week prior and made the drive right back to BR to pay my respects. So tragic.

He was a great guy. I think about him all the time.

When I was in Jr. High this old guy that helped out with our youth group at church died while cutting limbs for someone. He was in a basket lift thing and fell out directly into the wood chipper. His wife and friend saw the whole thing.

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A guy I knew in HS was fixing up a roof, fell off and died. Another guy I knew in HS is on death row... not dead yet though.

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Livingston Parish?

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About 15 yrs ago my SIL's brother was found in his back yard dead. He had been practicing with his bow (rigged for bow fishing) and there must have been a kink or knot in the line, causing it to spring back at high speed. Arrow entered his eye went through his skull (nock first). Gruesome way to die. I know it sounds impossible, and I would not have believed it if not close to the family.

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That must happen a lot.I know a guy that's really into Bow Fishing.His Father owns an Archery Shop.He drew his Bow back to shoot and then let off.His next shot the line had slack in it.It came back and hit him in the mouth.

eta:Didn't kill him,just messed his mouth up.

Family friend had gone out to shoot some snakes he had seen on his dock. He slipped and fell and somehow shot himself in the chest.

Here in st. Tammany, a Sheriff's officer died while driving in a funeral procession for another fallen officer - a sudden thunderstorm erupted and a tree fell on his car killing him and seriously injuring the deputy riding with him, who was also his fiancée.

Another Covington PD (I believe friends with the above, I know they knew each other since kids) died while camping with his daughter when a storm blew up and a huge tree limb fell on their tent - he was shielding her when it hit him.

Another guy, same as above (not sure if they were friends but knew each other well and since grade school), also a cop (either STP Sheriffs or Cov PD), died when he was bush hogging on a tractor and somehow got knocked off and under.

So bizarre, all 3 really good guys, all police, had known each other since kids although I have no idea what their friend status was when they were older.

I grew up in Houma. There was a 10-12 year-old mentally handicap boy who would ride his bike all over the neighborhood, and was very curious. The kind that would ride up into your driveway/garage and awkwardly ask what you are doing.
Well he got curious around a garbage truck on day and apparently was looking up into the wheel well when the truck driver decided to move. He was killed and quite the nasty scene.

A guy I knew was a big bow hunter. He shot a buck in his back pasture late one evening. He found a blood trail, but never could find the deer. He even went back the next morning and looked. Nothing.

THREE days later, this buck busts through a picture window in this guy's house. The buck gored the dude to death and ended up bleeding to death in the house from the glass cuts. They found his arrow still lodged in the buck.

Crazy as hell.

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Strangest death of someone you know
A guy I knew was a big bow hunter. He shot a buck in his back pasture late one evening. He found a blood trail, but never could find the deer. He even went back the next morning and looked. Nothing.

THREE days later, this buck busts through a picture window in this guy's house. The buck gored the dude to death and ended up bleeding to death in the house from the glass cuts. They found his arrow still lodged in the buck.

Crazy as hell.

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now your going overboard

Mens Softball game, 2nd baseman for other team dove for flyball in short right, his face buried into thigh of rightfielder pushing his nose into brian. Died right there. He was 21. 3weeks ago a man i know was cleaning deer he had killed, apparently the knife slipped cutting his femoral artery ,they found him at camp with strap tied around leg ,but already dead.