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* Before the start of the [[Olympic Games|Vancouver 2010 Olympics]] Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili's last phone call to his father included "I'll win or die trying."
* [[Sarah Palin]]'s "Take Back the 20" website showed crosshairs over various states, including the very district in Arizona Gabrielle Giffords was elected for. A fundraiser event for Gifford's opponent, Jesse Kelly, featured shooting a fully automatic M15 with Kelly. Then Mrs. Giffords was shot in the head...However, she survived.
** Just for the record, defenders of Palin's map claimed that they were surveyor's symbols, a common element of maps. Compare [https://web.archive.org/web/20110302183114/http://bigjournalism.com/files/2011/01/Picture-910.png surveyor's symbols] with actual [[wikipedia:File:Reticles vector.svg|crosshairs]]. [[Your Mileage May Vary]] on which side is more truthful, [[Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment|notwithstanding that this has nothing to do with the man who shot Representative Giffords]].
* Related to the above note, a blogger had stated that Giffords was, "dead to me", just days before her shooting [http://twitpic.com/3o7s5c] It should be noted it was a figure of speech.
* In January 2001, Oklahoma State University basketball coach Eddie Sutton aired a broadcast of his regular OSU Basketball show, which opened with a CGI plane flying over an open field. The guest was OSU point guard Nate Fleming. The show ended with Coach Sutton thanking the OSU donors who provided the planes to transport the OSU players and staff to and from various road games. However, on the return trip from the following road game, one of the planes crashed in a field, killing ten passengers, including Nate Fleming.
* The fact that [[Demi Lovato]] has been criticized for being 'larger' than the average Disney star, when in reality she actually has an eating disorder.
** The line in "La La Land" of "I'm no supermodel, I still eat McDonald's" might count as HIH/FAM, yet in performances of the song on her 2011 comeback tour, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBNjM2q20iI she's very definitely] both [[Lampshade Hanging|throwing a lampshade on it]] and [[Girls Need Role Models|using it notationally]], [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|all at the same time]]. [[Earn Your Happy Ending|All to rapturous applause, too]].
* The real "[[Church of Happyology]]'s" introduction film ends with "If you leave this room after seeing this film and walk out and never mention [Happyology] again, you are perfectly free to do so. It would be stupid. But you can do it. You can also dive off a bridge or blow your brains out. That is your choice." Would [[wikipedia:Scientology controversies#Noah Lottick|jumping out of a building]] and [http://www.9news.com/news/article/183072/188/Murder-trial-begins-for-office-shooting- blowing someone else's brains out]{{Dead link}} (three times!) suffice? [[Hilarious in Hindsight|On a lighter note]], the film's host [https://web.archive.org/web/20100616194124/http://www.tampabay.com/news/scientology/article1067720.ece has since quit the church and wants his money back].
* When Pat Nixon died on June 22, 1993, an observer opined that [[Richard Nixon]], without his wife, "wouldn't last a year". He died on April 22, 1994, four days after having a massive stroke.
* In 2006, Bam and April Margera said that they had Jackass co-star Ryan Dunn [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbhh_fcfl_k "in the death pool" for "death by vehicle".] On June 20, 2011, Ryan Dunn and his friend died in a fiery car crash after a night of drinking.
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* At the 2011 White House Correspondents' Dinner, Seth Meyers joked that [[Osama Bin Laden]] was hosting a talk show on C-SPAN. The next day, Obama announced Bin Laden's death. This one was arguably [[Hilarious in Hindsight]] for most people.
** Hillary Clinton had been at a wedding that weekend and someone had asked her "when are we gonna get Bin Laden?" Being one of only a handful of people who knew about the raid (she couldn't even tell her husband), she quickly made some non-committal remark and excused herself.
* A New Hampshire Christian teenage girl was forced to repent in front of her church for sexual misconduct leading to pregnancy. [https://web.archive.org/web/20131106035444/http://www.truecrimereport.com/2011/05/christina_anderson_15_raped_by.php She had been raped by a deacon of that church.]
** The ''pastor'' allegedly [[It Got Worse|had even told her]] that "she was lucky not to have been born during Old Testament times when she would have been stoned to death".
* Jokes about former NFL bust Ryan Leaf are a lot harsher since he got cancer.
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