Bye, stander

Getting your name in the newspaper isn't always a good thing. Especially if you're the victim of a freak accident.

The friends and loved ones of young William Lemaine probably weren't thrilled to see him in the news after fate played a cruel joke on him April 14, 1931. Here's how he ended up in the paper -- and in a tomb.

Lemaine was being a typical bystander, minding his own business, keeping a "safe distance" from a certain Constable Cote, who was about to kill a horse (a typical policeman's duty back then).

But the distance wasn't safe enough, because the policeman's bullet went clean through the horse's head, bounced off a brick wall, deflected off of a door, and ended up in Lemaine's mouth, severing an artery.

Before long, Lemaine was as dead as the horse.