Hard to Believe: Unbecoming Deaths

In Pittsburgh in February, Antwon Williams, 45, who police said was in the act of consummating a drug sale, reached into a customer's car to prevent him from driving away without paying but got stuck in the window, and as the customer sped down the street, Williams' body was severed cleanly in two by a utility pole.

(1) A 50-year-old man fell through the ice at Donner Lake near Truckee, Calif., in February and drowned. Police said he was ice-skating about 100 yards off shore while wearing two-foot-tall stilts (thus, the stilts were wearing the skates), and couldn't recover after falling through. (2) California Highway Patrol officers at the scene near Yuba City said the 28-year-old driver that crossed into oncoming traffic and fatally crashed into a Hummer in February was, perhaps, working at his laptop computer while driving. Though the screen was shattered in the crash, the computer was open in the seat beside him and plugged into his car's cigarette lighter.

A 50-year-old man fell through the ice at Donner Lake near Truckee, Calif., in February and drowned. Police said he was ice-skating about 100 yards off shore while wearing 2-foot-tall stilts (thus, the stilts were wearing the skates), and couldn't recover after falling through.

(1) A 47-year-old registered sex offender died of a heart attack in a retirement community in Palm Beach County, Fla., in January; his body was found, nude, in front of his home computer on which he had been viewing pornographic websites. (2) Another 47-year-old man was killed late at night, in February in Belle River, Ontario, when his snowmobile collided with a tree stump embedded in Lake St. Clair; the man had been waging a notorious, three-year battle to have the stump removed from the lake because of the danger it posed to nighttime snowmobilers.

A 47-year-old registered sex offender died of a heart attack in Palm Beach County, Fla., in January; his body was found, nude, in front of his home computer on which he had been viewing pornography.

(1) In Pittsburgh, Pa., in February, Antwon Williams, 45, who police said was in the act of consummating a drug sale, reached into a customer's car to prevent him from driving away without paying but got stuck in the window, and as the customer sped down the street, Williams's body was severed cleanly in two by a utility pole. (2) The South Carolina Public Safety Department reported in January that 122 pedestrians were killed on the state's roads in 2006, but "almost one-third," according to an Associated Press analysis, weren't actually "pedestrians," but people "lying illegally in

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