I've heard that more people die from falling coconuts than shark attacks...

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.dailynews.lk/2001/11/26/new30.html

Falling coconut kills woman

A woman from Ballapana in the Galigomuwa area, having seen a coconut falling from a neighbouring tree near her house, walked there in order to pick the fallen nut and coincidentally, another nut fell and it was right on to her head causing her a fatal injury.

The victim S. P. Nanda Purasinghe (46), married with two children, was rushed to Kegalle Base Hospital. On admission life was found to be extinct.

Based on the medical report produced at the post-mortem by Dr. Deshapriya of Kegalle Base Hospital, it was concluded that the death was due to the severe injuries caused to the head due to the falling of a coconut on her head and also this was confirmed by the evidence given by the family members of the victim Nanda Purasinghe.

[WMliberal]

1. the natalee holloway disappearance case cracked!!

whoa, bad pun

[shoelace414]

2. (puts on helmet)

just because I haven't seen a coconut tree in Wisconsin, doesn't mean there aren't any.

[Ian David]

3. Conflicting information. Browser crashed before I could post it

I'm going to have to re-boot.

Just do a google search:
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=mozclient&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=%22shark+attack%22+and+%22falling+coconut%22

[acmejack]

4. I was almost the victim of a coconut palm!

In Kwajelien, the thing barely missed me.

[shance]

5. Are these suicide coconut pilots? CNN should really keep us up to date.

I've heard of coconuts being aggressive, but I never realized they attacked humans.

****

[ThomWV]

6. More Die From Goose attacks than Snake bits too

In city parks with ponds, very young children, beaten to death when they find and inspect nests. Happens about 5 or 6 times a year somewhere in the US.

[Chipper Chat]

7. Some may laugh at this

but two years ago I was taking a bag of stale bagels out to the ducks in a hotel pond when a nesting female Canadian goose flew at me (from 5 feet away). She tried to "bite," but it was her claws that did the damage (bloody chest & arm).
Kinda reminds me of Ken Mehlman defending Rove.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

8. Myth Busters

[InkAddict]

9. Ah hah - that explains it

''The locals seem pretty nonchalant about it," said Becky Hart, 29, a teacher from Madera, Calif., as she waited to board a plane. ''But then at the hotel they started chopping down the coconuts from the trees and moving people from the top floors."

http://www.boston.com/news/world/latinamerica/articles/2005/07/17/mexico_evacuates_85000_as_hurricane_emily_builds/

[shanti]

10. probably true!

i was told by a jamaican friend never to walk under coconut trees at nite. that's when the rats go after the nuts, knocking them down, and if you're the unlucky walker....

[kentuck]

11. But there's not as much blood, ergo...

the attraction to sharks.

[Cocoa]

12. great untapped horror movie theme

supersmart coconuts strike back. :scared:

[Zhade]

14. Where's Swamp Rat or Distressed American when they're needed?

NIGHT OF THE COCONUTS!

[Fuzz]

13. Imagine the graphic and music for that on the news channel

What would THAT be like? :)

[oneighty]

15. I've Got A Lovely Bunch Of Coconuts?

There they are a-standing in a row?

Big ones, little ones

Some the size of your head.

From memory.

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