The following people reported being hit by various items:
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Carlton Carroll, 5, was knocked unconscious in 1987 by a 250-pound
brown-spotted ray that leapt from the water into his family's fishing
boat.

Elmer Searle, 80, was knocked unconscious by a "flying dog" that had
been propelled through the air after being struck by a car in
Sacramento.

Lui Wai-kwong, 36, was injured when hit on the head by a two-pound
turtle while walking to work in Hong Kong in 1987. The turtle
apparently fell from a nearby high-rise building.

Biagio di Crescenzo, 23, smashed his car into a tree near Rome and was
badly injured. After a motorist took him to a hospital, he was sent in
an ambulance toward another hospital for further treatment, but the
ambulance smashed into an oncoming car. A motorist took him to another
hospital, where he was again dispatched in an ambulance for further
treatment. That ambulance smashed into another car in a suburb of
Rome, killing di Crescenzo.

Don Oestreich and Bernice Johnson, distracted by the colors of the
fall foliage while boating on the Mississippi River in Minnesota, shot
over a 40-foot dam and into the rushing overflow below, but were
rescued by two fishermen.

Lung-cancer patient George Stickler, 59, couldn't wait until he was
off pure-oxygen therapy before lighting up a cigarette at a Lafayette,
Louisiana, hospital in 1988. The resulting fire gave Stickler
second-degree bums and forced the evacuation of several other
patients.

In a 1981 incident, as gunfire rang out in a Las Vegas casino when
police scurried to catch some troublemakers, dozens of officers had to
climb over casino customers, who had dropped to their knees but
continued to feed the slot machines.

In 1978 Leonard Njuguna Muraya, a Kenyan exchange student at the
University of Oregon, attempted to commit suicide by jumping through a
closed second-story window. The fall wasn't steep enough, so he went
back upstairs to a neighbor's second-story apartment and jumped
through that closed window. Again, he failed so he went back to the
neighbor's apartment and tried it a third time. He was rushed to the
hospital but pronounced dead shortly after arrival.