A 27-year-old woman was killed in Melvindale, Mich., while setting off Fourth of July fireworks when she failed to move her head out of the way after launching a 3-inch mortar bomb. [CNN-AP, 7-4-07]
A 55-year-old man in Fall River County, S.D., was killed in August when he accidentally shot himself in the stomach. According to police, he was attempting to show friends that a key point in a recent CSI television show was wrong (that is, according to the script, a victim could not physically have managed to shoot herself in the stomach). [Dakota Radio Group (Pierre)-AP, 8-6-07]
A 58-year-old man stood up in his boat to urinate while fishing and fell into a lake near Farmington, N.M., and drowned (August). [Farmington Daily Times, 8-20-07]
A train driver in Berlin, Germany, apparently attempting to urinate out of a door at 70 mph, fell to his death (May). [Metro (London), 6-11-07]
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