[Golden Accident via Switched]

Following the old adage, "There’s gold in them thar computer parts," a man was poisoned a couple of weeks ago while trying to use mercury to extract gold from … his computer parts. On Saturday, the man — Tulsa resident Tony Winnett — died. In the end, he lleft his home so contaminated that it cannot be lived in.
What was he thinking? Well, mercury chemically reacts with gold and causes it to separate, according to Durant/Bryan County Emergency Management Director James Dalton. Authorities believe that Winnett, along with his partner Melissa Lake, heated the mercury in an attempt to separate the gold and accidentally inhaled it.

A man in New Zealand was knocked off of his toilet when a SUV plowed through the wall of his house and into his bathroom. The vehicle had been parked by a local builder on an embankment nearby when it is thought that the Brakes failed and the SUV began to roll.

The man who owned the SUV was not present during the accident. He came back to find his vehicle missing and a new hole in the neighbor’s house. Great quote after the jump.
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