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'''Ennesby:''' Congratulations. You just invented "negligent regicide."|''[[Schlock Mercenary]]''}}
Either way, it's simple bad luck for the dead guy, and for his killer. No one was meant to die, but someone died anyway. The ultimate result of an
See also [[I Didn't Mean to Kill Him]], which is usually what Bob tells the police when he's arrested. Compare to [[Murder by Mistake]], where Bob had every intention of killing Alice, but for some reason ended up killing Carol.
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*** Her parents refuse to listen to this explanation, convinced that she was murdered by someone. Of course, it's human nature to want to blame something (or someone) specific instead of a series of unlikely events. Grissom is actually confused by this, as facts are everything to him.
** And then we have the guy who slipped on Jello and in the process accidentally stabbed his wife with a shard of glass.
** Also the Season Two episode where two men got into a heated argument over the sale of their shared-ownership land, and the first punched the second in the
** Then there was the [[Firing in the Air a Lot]] case where a stray bullet shot accidentally into the air (instead of a target in the shooter's backyard) ended up killing someone halfway across town.
** In early seasons, especially, these types of accidental slayings were pretty common. Especially when perpetrated by a guileless party, like a child or someone just going about his business. Sometimes it would cause the investigators to angst over the necessity of upholding the law despite their sympathy for the "murderer."
** A shootout in a mini-mart results in all the crooks dead. Unfortunately, an innocent bystander is also shot during the firefight. It turns out that the cop was aiming for the crook who was running and shot at him at the exact moment he was passing the bystander. The bullet hit the crook, came out the other side, and killed the woman. The cop got a commendation for his actions.
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'': Warren tries to knock Katrina out by hitting her over the head, but she dies.
** Earlier in the show, an
** And then there's the worst case of a Type 2; Warren wildly fires into the air after having shot Buffy, hitting Tara through the window and driving Willow [[Big Bad|insane with grief.]]
* In ''[[Lost]]'', after hearing whispers in the forest, Ana Lucia accidentally shoots Shannon. Later on, while Michael kills Ana in cold blood to let Benjamin Linus escape, he sees Libby shoots her in the panic.
* On ''[[Castle]]'', it turned out the murder victim was having an argument with a client that was angry, but not bloodthirsty, and the killer pushed her
* In ''[[Misfits]]'' the protagonists have ended up killing multiple people, and would have killed more if Curtis hadn't rewound time to prevent them killing their ''third'' probation worker.
* In ''[[Bones]]'', a man is killed while having an argument with a colleague, who pushes him, not realizing that there is a plane propeller spinning up behind the former. This would not be a murder, except the accidental killer and his wife then decide to cover it up by dropping the body from a plane.
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