Dead Unlucky! ; Champagne Corks. Inflatable Elephants. Too Much Viagra. A New Book Reveals the Very Unlikely Ways Some People Meet Their Maker

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A MAN died last week during a game of petanque -- a form of boules -- in South-West France after being struck on the head by a rival player's ball. Out of all the different ways to die, many of them run of the mill, this was rather extraordinary.

Here, courtesy of a new book, JANE FRYER reveals a few of the more bizarre farewells&

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Dead Unlucky! ; Champagne Corks. Inflatable Elephants. Too Much Viagra. A New Book Reveals the Very Unlikely Ways Some People Meet Their Maker

MORE people are killed each year by flying champagne corks than bites from poisonous spiders. Of the nearly two dozen champagne- accident fatalities a year, more than a third occur at weddings.

IN 2005, children's entertainer Marlon Pistol -- known for his giant blow-up elephant Colonel Jumbo -- was killed when driving along a Californian highway on his...

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