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Curious and Unusual Deaths Season 2 Episodes

Season 2 Episode Guide

13 Episodes 2011 - 2012

Episode 1

Death by Sports

Today's lessons to help you stay alive: From baseball - don't try to predict an unpredictable pitch. From fishing - don't turn your back on the ocean. It will get in ways you'll never expect. From a professional tennis player - almost safe isn't safe.

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Episode 2

Death by Security Measures

A Denver man is electrocuted by a home-made electrical fence when he is trying to pick a tomato in his garden. A Belgium man dies from a shot gun blast after he triggers a booby trap he set up in his own house while reaching for soup. An Ohio saleswoman in Maryland hotel is killed after swiping a key card and opening a door.

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Episode 3

Death by Handiwork

A man in Hamburg, Germany, build his own wooden sauna and end up heating themselves to death when he can't get out. An inmate at the Ohio State Penitentiary improves the prison's electric chair only to be put to death in the same chair. A Kentucky man is electrocuted when he is trying to repair his microwave oven.

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Episode 4

Deaths in New York

The infrastructure of a city the size of New York needs daily repairs. WHen servicing systems that big and complex you better know what you're doing. When you don't; A city works is sucked down a drain pipe. A steam explosion below ground kills a woman several stories above ground. Woman is electrocuted stepping on a metal grating on the street.

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Episode 5

Rich and Famous Deaths

In Wilmington, North Carolina, Brandon Lee is killed during the film of The Crow (1994) after an accident with a prop gun. In St. Petersburg, Russia, the mystic Rasputin is murdered after bring poisoned, shot, beaten, and dumped into a river. In Nice, France, dancer Isadora Duncan dies when her long silk scarf gets caught in a car wheel.

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Episode 6

Death by a Remedy

You'd think turning orange would be a hint to cut back on the mega-, make that giga-doses of carotene and vitamin A. But you wouldn't expect your wardrobe to hold you captive in a closet for a week. And following you doctor's instructions when combining medical treatments is a given because a quick tan shouldn't feel like a day in the Sahara.

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Episode 7

Death by the Great Outdoors

In Washington state, a kite enthusiast is falls to his death when he is dragged into the sky by an enormous kite. In West Virginia, a group of friends traveling in the woods die after drinking from a keg of beer that been contaminated by strychnine from the body of a dead snake. In New York state, an intense golfer dies after loosing his temper and accidentally stabbing himself with part of a club.

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Episode 8

Death by Innocent Pastimes

In Ukraine, a chemistry student dies after accidentally dipping him gum in an explosive. In England, a medical photographer dies after being exposed to smallpox while working one floor up from a research lab. In Australia, a novice fisherman is electrocuted while playing video games during a storm.

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Episode 9

Death by Routine Maintenance

In Michigan, an attendant at a car wash dies after he is entangled in the spinning brushes at the wash. In Dallas, Texas, theater director Margo Jones dies after being exposed to toxic fumes from a solvent that was used to clean her carpet. In New Zealand, a newlywed couple die after they are exposed to a deadly amount of underground Hydrogen Sulfide in their hotel room.

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Episode 10

Death by Mechanical Breakdown

In Indiana, a woman cooking beets in a pressure cooker is kipped by shrapnel when it explodes. In Michigan, a college wrestler trying to make weight dies of hyperthermia when he exposes himself to heat and overexercises in a sweat suit. In Canada, a woman on a date is killed by falling concrete at a restaurant.

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Episode 11

Trapped in Death

In Connecticut, a teenager falls into a sand hole on a beach and dies after it entombs him in sand. In Utah, a man crawls into a small crevice in a cave and dies after becoming trapped. In Moscow, a cosmonaut dies after he catches on fire in a high oxygen environment.

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Episode 12

Death by Hardware

In New Jersey, a young man recently admitted to West Point dies after being electrocuted by lighting while on the telephone. In Malta, a farmer dies after he accidentally detonates an old mine he found buried in his field. In British Columbia, a man dies after his laptop computer catches fire.

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Episode 13

Death Under Pressure

In New Jersey, a teenage girl drowns when she gets caught underwater in the intake valve of a hot tub. On an oil platform in the North Sea, a group of deep sea divers die of explosive decompression when a clamp on a diving bell fails. In England, a man dies of a ripped blood vessel after a very powerful sneeze.

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