Gardener, 80, drowns after falling off ladder and landing head-first in water butt

Water way to go.....

lol

Not nice to be the butt of jokes. 

that laurel & hardy film when stan has to hide in a water barrell and when he comes out, he's drank all the water and he's HUGE..

Hahaha! I just said to my friend it puts me in mind of summat from a laurel & Hardy film!

slimfern

do me a favour-cos youre clever

put a vid up of 'something stupid' by the sinatras

its the anniversary of my dads death today, pc is playing up and i cant watch it

hope you dont mind me asking-im a bit drunk to try again

ta

If only my 'end'  would be so funny.... 

 cheers

i tried to put a pic on of my dad-but pc is being wanky-so off to the settee with a zopiclone, cant go to bed cos i do that holding your breathe sleep apne..whatever thing and it keeps me lovely OH awake, it inspires her to wallop me

settee sounds good lol

goodnight fair maidens/gentlemen

im docking the good ship 'pirate films'

Night Pirate! pleasant dreams x

From the report: "The inquest heard that Jessie last saw Arthur at 4pm on March 11 this year when he made her a cup of tea."

I think this is a really tragic story. God bless his wife and family

Just as tragic as any death in the family........just they don't all land legs up, and in the news....

I may well be a bit drunk but ..........................I find that really sad - not funny.

Edit ......................I am actually a bit more than drunk TBH.

Night pirate  x

Your sensitivity is touching. 

My sensitivity, would mean, that I would not have been insensitive enough to tell of a relatives death in a (somewhat funny way) to the press.....

How can you be sure his relatives did that? 

It may have come from other sources. 

I can't be Scotty, but, I am not laughing at people dying.......just at the (funny) way some of us might go........I hope I go in a (funny) way........

News Headlines........

Syd gets shock........RIP...

Whilst multi tasking a forummer called Syd was cooking, cleaning, nannying, and trying to appease her husband.......

Leave it to the rest of you to tell of my demise..........

I did find it really very sad - sorry Slim..

But cannot help agreeing that it should not have been reported -how did they find out?

I suppose though if the police were called to the scene, generally journos sniff stories out...

What a horrible way to die... truly horrible.

Of course any death is tragic for the family of the person concerned, but I'm afraid that the way the article was written did make me laugh.

i agree with  growly, one can feel  for the family and the fella himself  and think it's a horrible way to  die, and a t the same time  find the story funny,  thats not saying   one finds the grief   or the loss funny, as well.

what a horrible way to go  Drowning or dying in a fire is one of my biggest fears...I just picture the guy landing head first and struggling to get out but he can't

it reminds me when my friend went to a funeral off a man that had fell off a ladder and they played R kelly i believe i can fly at the end

How tragic. I've been trapped head first inside a laundry bucket, and it was terrifying. You feel totally helpless. Add water to that equation, along with the realisation that you are going to die... Doesn't bear thinking about.

Yes, very wrong to laugh!!

(Ros)

temps - i can see why its funny but i feel like you - its the struggling = - it makes me feel sick but can see why it is funny and cartoonish as well

night pirate

I keep coming in and out of this thread and I can't stop laughing cos it reminds me of when my nan died she was found with a brew on the arm of the chair, a plate of biscuits on her knee and her teeth had dropped out and were lying on her chest and alls I could think about was her teeth still wanted the biscuits....

  great to be remembered with laughter   (and a lot of sadness cos the laughter stopped) 

The laughter started once that old bat was gone....

That's it....it's the struggling...I can't even get to the rest of the story   Funny deaths I can usually giggle at...but some one struggling to get out of water   If he didn't struggle, if he'd hit his head or summat first or something and then landed arse out of the bucket, then I'd giggle

Shame he never landed in the compost heap.  Could have left him a few months then spread him around the garden.  Pushing up the daisies etc.

An 80 year old man dying in unnatural tragic circumstances....I can't find anything funny in that 

You is baaaad