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> In December 1923, in New Castle, Pennsylvania, a man was killed while trying to crack open a coconut with the butt end of a loaded revolver. The gun discharged and the man was shot in the abdomen.

Wow ... is that really death by coconut? or death by stupidity?

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I like the idea of having different degrees of "death by coconut."

1st degree: you were struck and killed by a falling coconut. 2nd degree: you shot and killed yourself trying to open a coconut with a gun. 3rd degree: someone else got hit in the head with a coconut but lived, albeit with severe brain trauma. Years later, they suffer from intense CTE and go on a murder/suicide rampage and kill you... but the coconut kinda started it.

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