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Strange Death Award

Fortean Times' Strange Days #1 A Year in Weirdness lists The Schwascar Awards for Strange(est) Death and runners-up. The winner is slapstick comedian Yves Abouchar, 45, who choked to death on a custard pie thrown at his face. The French star breathed in just as the pie landed and was suffocated by the foam. Most intriguing runner-up is Chef Juan Ruiz who was stabbed through the heart with uncooked spaghetti strands when 150 mph winds hit his restaurant in Mexico City. The weirdest death on the list was actually a suicide where Cory Quinn, from Sydney, Australia, locked himself in his estranged wife Mary's freezer when she went on holiday. He left a note for the 280-pound woman which said: "Gorge on this, you fat pig!"

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