accidents-some of these stories Many people are interested in stories of unusual have happy endings, but some, unfortunately, have unhappy ones. UNHAPPY ENDINGs According to the legend, the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus was killed when an eagle dropped a tortoise on his head. The bird was trying to break the tortoise's shell on a rock in order to eat it. Aeschylus was bald, and the eagle thought the unfortunate man's head was a good rock on which it could break the shell On Memorial Day of 1987, a forty-year-old Louisiana lawyer was in his boat as a approached. He raised his arms to the sky and said, as if thunderstorm challenge nature: "Here am.". He was struck by a bolt of lightning and died instantly. The man's last name was Graves. Some people worry about being hit from things falling from outer space. There is only one person in all recorded history who has been killed by a meteorite The tragedy happened in 1680. Manfredo In Prague, Czech Republic, a woman hurled herself out of a floor window because she had learned that her husband was in love with another. woman. The husband was entering the building just as she jumped, and she fell on top of him She survived. He died on the spot.