I'm not saying I'm buying into this, but I heard this wasn't true based entirely on "It just wouldn't happen, it's like Bonnie and Clyde dying in their sleep instead of machine gun fire". Didn't Al Capone die of an STD, or am I thinking of some other notorious crime boss?
And though he wasn't at all a criminal but the analogy of an unlikely death is still there, I guess people have already forgotten the Crocodile Hunter was killed by a stingray.

Where are these lemmings going? The
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