Some Bizarre Deaths of 2006-2007

* 2006 - Steve Irwin, television personality, Wildlife Warrior and owner of Australia Zoo, otherwise known as The Crocodile Hunter, died when his heart was impaled by a short-tail stingray barb while filming a documentary entitled "Ocean's Deadliest" in Queensland's Great Barrier Reef.

Ironically, the stingray was not the creature being filmed. It was deemed "not dangerous enough" to be featured in the documentary.

* 2006 - Alexander Litvinenko, a former member of the Russian Federal Security Service who had been investigating the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, was intentionally poisoned by polonium-210, an extremely rare radioactive metalloid.

* 2006 - Mariesa Weber, a 5'3" Florida woman, fell behind a 6' tall bookcase in her family's home and suffocated. She was not discovered for 11 days; her family thought she had been kidnapped.

* 2006 - Ohtaj Humbat ohli Makhmudov a 45 year old Azerbaijani man lowered himself by a rope into a lion enclosure at the Kyiv zoo and shouted to horrified zoo visitors, "Because God loves me, the lions will not harm me!"
Moments later a lioness pounced on him, severing his carotid artery, killing him instantly.

* 2007 - Jennifer Strange, a 28-year-old woman from Sacramento, died of water intoxication while trying to win a Wii console in a KDND 107.9 "The End" radio station's "Hold Your Wee for a Wii" contest, which involved drinking large quantities of water without urinating.
She placed second in the contest.

* 2007 - Kevin Whitrick, a 42-year-old man committed suicide by hanging himself live on a webcam during an internet chat session.

* 2007 - A naked man and woman in Columbia, South Carolina, died after falling off the roof of a local restaurant during, apparently, a sexual encounter.
Their bodies were found by a cab driver.