You’re not supposed to laugh when someone slips on a banana peel or stubs their toe and falls down. But here are some exceptions; video clips of accidents, mishaps, and bloopers that somehow lighten the heart and give you a sense of elation.

The black and white pictures in this collection were taken with a one minute developing Polaroid in 1963. Color shots were taken with a Nikon D-80.

A lot of people in the western world may read this piece and look at it as fiction but a lot of other people with African roots will appraise its truthfulness.

What to do if you see escaped livestock on a road.

Drinking and driving should never be done together.

Considered the worst industrial accident in history. 25,000 people died because of the gas leak and 500,000 left with permanent injuries. How the accident occurred isn’t clearly known.

This is probably the oldest ghost story in the history of aviation. The little Irishman Desmond Arthur, black-haired and grey-eyed, gained his Royal Aero Club certificate in June 1912 and was killed in May 1913 when the BE2 biplane he was flying over Montrose in Scotland folded up in the air. But it was no flying accident. It was murder…

A collection of some of the strangest and most interesting deaths in history ranging form the gruesome to the banal.

A multiple law violator was let loose to hurt more people.

Guns and Children.