Freak Accident

Debunked:

Kelli wrote in with a question about this strange photo showing a woman impaled by a long, yellowish-looking stick. The photo comes with this explanatory caption: "This unfortunate woman was found dead on parkland in Yorkshire, England. She's believed to have been pierced by a shaft of frozen urine which had fallen from a leak in a toilet facility of an overhead plane." Kelli wants to know if it's real. Well, of course it's not. This photo has actually been floating around the internet for quite a while.

As explained over at the Darwin Awards and Museum of Hoaxes, it comes from a spoof news program aired in Britain called The Day Today.