Bizzare: Tampa Bay Man Dies of 'Uppercut from Batman'

We all knew it was a distinct possibility. If you get hit by Batman, you could die. Now, according to a coroner in Tampa, Florida, it finally happened.

According to his obituary in The Tampa Bay Ledger, Stephan Merrill, 31, of Winter Haven, FL died of ‘an uppercut from Batman’ on February 12th.

Seriously.

"He would have been honored to have died by an uppercut from Batman."

According to his fiancee Stephanie Vella.

"“Everyone was starting to get a little tense. We didn’t have a cause of death but we were told we had to have one,” said Brandon Moxam, a close friend of Merrill.It is a long-standing policy of the The Ledger that obituaries have to include a cause of death in order to be published in the paper.“I made a joke,” said Moxam, “Say the cause of death was an ‘uppercut from Batman.’”Moxam said everyone in the room including Merrill’s family, fiancée and close friends, all started laughing. According to Moxam, that’s when Merrill’s dad, Larry Merrill, said, “Yeah, the cause of death was an uppercut from Batman.”The family decided to go with it."

I can’t really argue with that. We should all be so lucky to go out that way.

Source: WFTS

Bizzare: Tampa Bay Man Dies of ‘Uppercut from Batman’

By Skip Harvey | Feb 20, 2015