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STRANGE DEATHS

A 25-year-old man in Houston, Texas, died while dancing on top of a moving 18-wheeler truck. Footage recorded by another driver shows the man standing on the roof of the truck gyrating his hips and waving his arms as it travels down the Eastex Freeway in Houston. He dodges one overpass, then gets up to continue dancing but fails to spot the Tuan Street Bridge, which he struck at speed, sending him crashing to the tarmac. “I.

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