Dead Pool 14th June 2026

Better late than never! This week we find Tinkerbell has died, along with Britains most overrated artist. I wonder if Peter Pan will be next…

Look Who You Could Have Had:

Anthony Guidera, 65, American actor (Species, The Godfather Part III, The Rock).
David Hockney, 88, English painter (A Bigger Splash, Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy, The Blue Guitar), draughtsman and printmaker.
Kenny Jackett, 64, English-born Welsh football player (Watford, Wales national team) and manager (Millwall).
Bajrakitiyabha, 47, Thai royal and diplomat, complications from heart disease and infection
Margaret Kerry, 97, American dancer and actress (Peter Pan, If You Knew Susie), lung cancer.
David Gamble, 70, British film editor (Shakespeare in Love, Veronica Guerin, Shopgirl).
Ronnie Schell, 94, American actor (Gomer Pyle – USMC, Goober and the Ghost Chasers, Jetsons: The Movie).
Dee Palmer, 88, English musician (Jethro Tull), arranger, and composer.

In Other News

A man has died after reportedly using high-strength adhesive instead of a condom for contraception. Salman Mirza, 25, a drug user, is said to have sealed his cock with an ultra-strong epoxy resin during sex with his partner, with a mystery green liquid found in his abdomen. The couple were inhaling the glue “for a kick” before opting to use it as a contraceptive during a meet up at the Amber Hotel in Ahmedabad, a city in India’s western state of Gujarat. Within a day of checking into the hotel, Salman was discovered unconscious in the “shrubs” outside the hotel by an acquaintance. He was immediately rushed to hospital but sadly passed away shortly afterwards. The Flying Monkeys reported the pair decided to engage in sexual activity after consuming drugs. “Since they didn’t have any protection, they decided to apply the adhesive onto his dick to ensure that she didn’t get pregnant.” Following his death, Salman’s family alleges that it was his partner who applied the adhesive to his meat and two veg. They have lodged a complaint with the police accusing his partner of murder. Police have confirmed samples have been sent for forensic analysis to determine if this was indeed the case, and an autopsy is currently in progress. Police have declared the official cause of the 25-year-old’s death was due to “multiple organ failure”. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention maintains a website listing different possible birth control methods. It divides them into different categories such as intrauterine contraception, hormonal methods, barrier methods, emergency contraception, and permanent methods of birth control. Notably, gluing your snake eye shut is not one of the methods listed.

A 21-year-old woman died in Limera, Brazil, after a rope jumping crew failed to connect her to the safety rope used in the extreme sport, military police and witness accounts said. About six men were arrested following the woman’s death. Three of them were released following questioning. The other three will be investigated on charges of homicide with implied malice, local media reported. Maria Eduarda Rodrigues de Freitas, a graduate of physical education and sports management, had gone rope jumping with her fiancé at the Ponte do Esqueleto (Skeleton Bridge). According to military police, people on site reported that the safety equipment was not secured on to the woman before she was launched by two men off the platform. Two videos emerged of the incident. The videos also show that the rope was not secured to the woman before the men carried her to be thrown off the bridge. Right before she was launched off the platform, someone can be heard shouting, “Guys, the rope,” after realising the woman was not connected to the safety rope. The woman fell 40 meters and suffered multiple injuries. Paramedics confirmed her death on site. Before her death, Freitas posted photographs on her Instagram. In one of the captions, she joked, “Who was the crazy person who let me jump off a bridge?” Her profile was taken down after her death. Her social media showed that she was a recent graduate and was a resident of Jandira in Greater São Paulo, where she worked at a gym. The gym posted a message mourning Freitas’s death. The company that runs the rope-jumping business, Entre Cordas, deleted its page with 80,000 followers after the incident. The Limeira City Hall said Saturday that it will sue the Federal Government in court “due to the omission regarding the Ponte do Esqueleto”, after the death of a young woman at the site. In a statement, the City Hall claimed that the responsibility for the inspection, maintenance, and access control of the bridge lay exclusively with the Federal Government. They stated that since 2025, they had already sent official letters to the responsible bodies demanding security measures on the bridge, including a request to block access and place warning sites. Despite this activities continued. The three men who were arrested are 47,32 and 27 years old. One of them is a civilian firefighter, and the other two helped on-site with the jumping. The woman’s fiancé reportedly fell ill after her death and was given medical attention. In rope jumping, the practitioner jumps from an elevated location like bridges, buildings or rock faces while attached to climbing ropes connected to an anchor. The ropes used are less elastic, giving the person a feeling that they are free-falling for a longer time. Adventure sports require rigorous planning and calculations regarding height and equipment. The founder of rope jumping, Dan Osman, died in 1998 when his anchoring system failed during a jump in Yosemite National Park, California.

X-Men star Tyler Mane has revealed a “super rare” breast cancer diagnosis. This week, the 59-year-old, who starred as Sabretooth in X-Men and Deadpool & Wolverine, opened up about the “bad news” regarding his health. “Yep. I have breast cancer. And yep, it’s super rare. Only one per cent of breast cancers are men,” he shared on Instagram. “I’ll be honest, my first reaction was to keep it secret. I mean it’s kind of embarrassing. But then I found out that men are more likely to be diagnosed in advance stages BECAUSE it’s not talked about and not looked for. In fact, my doctors all dismissed it and it was only because my wife pushed me to get the lump removed that I got in early.” Breast cancer in men is rare and accounts for less than one per cent of all cancers in men. Mane, a former professional wrestler, promised to share his treatment journey on social media, hoping to raise awareness. He said breast cancer in men was normally detected later and therefore led to poorer prognoses than in women. In footage from his first chemotherapy session, Mane flipped the bird and quietly said “fuck cancer”. Mane said thankfully, the cancers had not spread to his lymph nodes and he would undergo four rounds of chemotherapy over 12 weeks.

On This Day

1822 – Charles Babbage proposes a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society.
1949 – Albert II, a rhesus monkey, rides a V-2 rocket to an altitude of 134 km (83 mi), thereby becoming the first mammal and first monkey in space.
2017 – The Grenfell Tower fire, a catastrophic fire in a high-rise apartment building in North Kensington, London, UK, leaves 72 people dead and another 74 injured.

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