Man Killed By L Train As He Attempted To Cross Tracks

A man was struck and killed by a Rockaway Park bound L train at the Morgan Avenue stop last night as he attempted to cross the tracks. According to the NYPD, an MTA motorman said Brooklyn resident Grzegoiz Bartosiewicz, 42, was crossing from the northbound tracks to the southbound tracks at 9:50 p.m., and was trying to climb onto the southbound platform when he was hit. Both trains in the station stopped, and the power to the tracks was shut off. The MTA confirmed that Bartosiewicz died at the scene.

Woman Suffocates After Getting Stuck In Clothing Drop Box

A Staten Island woman whom authorities believe was trying to steal donations from a clothing drop box apparently suffocated to death after she became trapped inside. Authorities say that Melissa Mazzeo, 51, climbed into the drop box in Sunnyside around noon yesterday and became stuck when the container door dropped on her neck. A maintenance worker for the next door bagel store who went to check on what was going on founder her unresponsive: "Two hands and a head, that's it, just out the door," Peter Schenck told SILive. "Not a sight to see."

A woman had heard the cries of the woman and told Schenck about it; police and rescue workers had to wait several hours for a someone to remove the lock to be able to take her out of the box: "It's got to be about the bizarrest thing I've ever seen—ever," Schenck said.

Witnesses told police that Mazzeo, who has a 17-year-old son, had been seen climbing into the clothing box before. She was arrested last November and charged with attempted petit larceny and criminal possession of stolen property. "She was a little eccentric," said neighbor Mike Caruselle. "She was always walking around the neighborhood. She used to jog a lot. Everybody in the neighborhood knew her."

Man Dies Buried Alive Trying to Set World Record

A man in Sri Lanka buried himself alive in order to set a world record, but only managed to get himself killed.

Janaka Basnayake's family and friends reportedly helped him dig a 10-foot hole in the town of Kantele, about 137 miles north of the nation's capital, Colombo, according to London's Telegraph.

The 24-year-old climbed into the hole, which was sealed using soil and wood, around 9:30 a.m. on Saturday.

When they pulled him out around 4 p.m. on Sunday, Basnayake was unconscious, officials said. He was rushed to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

The man's mother, LD Leelawathi, said her son was fond of doing bizarre stunts since he was a boy, according to the Lankadeepa newspaper.

Basnayake tried the same stunt before, his mother said. Once he was buried alive for two and a half hours, another time for six hours.

Guinness World Records does not list a record for being buried alive.

A British man claimed to have set a record for being buried underground for three months in 1998. However, Guinness would not recognize it at the time because it did not want to encourage dangerous stunts, BBC News reported.

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