Source: BreitBart:
Evel Knievel, the red-white-and-blue-spangled motorcycle daredevil whose jumps over crazy obstacles including Greyhound buses, live sharks and Idaho’s Snake River Canyon made him an international icon in the 1970s, died Friday. He was 69.
He had been in failing health for years, suffering from diabetes and pulmonary fibrosis, an incurable condition that scarred his lungs. [...]

Source: BreitBart and others.
A New Zealand woman drowned in a family exorcism ceremony and her younger cousin had her eyes gouged by relatives in an attempt to lift a curse, a newspaper reported on Monday. Janet Moses, 22, had her eyes scratched and water syringed into them before drowning in front of 40 relatives during [...]

From the Taserama department.
Video of Taser death in Canada sparks probe
Source: AFP.
A video of a Polish man dying while being restrained with a taser by Canadian policemen sparked a diplomatic protest and controversy on Thursday over the use of stun guns.
The 40-year-old immigrant Robert Dziekanski died on October 14 about 10 hours after he [...]

American flags fell to the ground around Hillary at a press conference.

Quite an omen, isn’t it?

Robot Cannon Kills 9, Wounds 14
Story found on Gizmodo and Wired:
A robot cannon began wildly and autonomously firing its huge gun in South Africa last Friday, killing 9 soldiers and wounding 14. The Oerlikon GDF-005 antiaircraft gun suddenly began uncontrollably shooting as it swung back and forth, spraying hundreds of high-explosive 35mm cannon shells all [...]

This was sent to me by a coworker. I love how a few seconds after she throws up, she’s right back to the hosting gig like nothing happened! According to a translator, this is what went down:
Yes, Hello?
- Hello.
Hello, what’s your name?
- Niclas.
Hi Niclas, what’s your answer?
- tölp (English: boor)
*BARF!*
Whooo, OK! I just have to [...]

A Crater and Questions
On Saturday night, a fiery object fell from the sky in Carangas, located in the Puno province of Peru. Stunned residents said they tracked it to a fresh hole in the earth that was more than 60 feet wide, 15 feet deep, filled with boiling water and steaming with noxious fumes, according [...]

Two stories this week:
Gamer dies at Chinese Internet cafe:

The Internets in China: It Kills
A three-day Internet gaming binge turned tragedy in China when a man had died of exhaustion, state media said Monday. The 30-year-old man fainted at a cybercafe in the city of Guangzhou on Saturday afternoon after he’d been playing games online for [...]

Ronald Tridico crashed his brand-new, $400,000 Lamborghini while apparently driving under the influence.

This apparently happened not long after he just bought the thing.
Ronald Tridico happens to, as J. Napsterista eloquently put it, sling spam faxes.
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
[...]

The collapse of the Interstate 35W bridge over the Mississippi river is sadly not the first time bridges in America have collapsed.
I-40 bridge disaster

On May 26, 2002, the captain of the tugboat Robert Y. Love accidentally crashed his barge into an I-40 bridge support in Webbers Falls, Oklahoma. A 580 foot section of the bridge [...]