1. On the set of The Hunger Games in Hawaii, a boulder came loose, rolled down a mountain, and wrecked the sound booth. "The Hawaiians were like, 'Oh my god, it's the curse!'" recalled Jennifer Lawrence, who'd been rubbing on the rock to relieve an itchy bum. "I'm around the corner going, 'I'm your curse - I wedged it loose with my ass!'"
  2. An Alabama woman got a bruised hip while lying on her couch one day in 1954 after an 8.5-pound meteorite crashed through the roof and hit her.
  3. In 1968, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents held an exhibition in the town of Harrogate. The entire display fell down.
  4. In 1950, a woman sued the City of San Francisco for $50,000 after a streetcar accident left her prone to uncontrollable orgasms.
  5. West Wing star Bradley Whitford once hugged his mom so hard that he broke one of her ribs.
  6. In a fight scene, Bruce Lee accidentally smacked young Jackie Chan with a wooden stick. When Lee ran over and apologized, Chan milked the moment: "I pretend very painful: 'Ohhh, ohhh.' I just want Bruce Lee hold me as long as he can."
  7. While showing off a 1787 Chateau Margaux once owned by Thomas Jefferson at a wine event, a merchant bumped a serving tray, cracked the bottle, and felt 80% of its contents trickle down his leg. Insurers paid $225,000, 43% of the asking price.
  8. In 1991, a militant 50-year-old South African vegetarian was killed while jogging—by an 8-pound frozen leg of lamb accidentally dropped from a 3rd-story window.
  9. During a concert in Detroit one night, rocker Billy Idol split his pants and, as People put it, "revealed his disdain for underwear."
  10. In 2021, a lobster diver in Cape Cod was swallowed—and then spit out—by a humpback whale.