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Gallery of the Gruesome

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        Red bullet = false
        Multiple status bullet = multiple truth values
        Yellow bullet = undetermined
        White bullet = unclassifiable veracity

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Green bullet Photograph shows a man who lost an arm in a grisly tug-of-war contest.

Multi-status bullet Photographs show a failed carjacker run over by a truck.

Red bullet Photograph shows a man who tried to scratch his nose with a power drill.

Red bullet Photograph shows a chupacabra's head on a fence.

Green bullet Photographs show a man decapitated by a wrought-iron fence while fleeing from police.

Multi-status bullet Photographs show a suicide bomber killed in Iraq's Green Zone.

Green bullet Video shows a suspect in police custody committing suicide in an interrogation room.

Yellow bullet Photograph shows a motorcycle accident victim impaled by a wooden post.

Yellow bullet Photograph shows the remains of an electrocuted cat.

Red bullet Night-vision video documents the bizarre existence of a teenage mutant known as "Rubber Johnny."

Yellow bullet Photographs show the brain-avulsed victim of a vehicular accident.

Yellow bullet Photograph shows man pulling his eyeballs down to cheek level.

Green bullet Photographs show the victim of a shark attack.

Multi-status bullet Photographs show a boy having his arm crushed under a truck as a punishment for stealing bread.

Multi-status bullet Photographs show a USAF airman slashed in a barroom knife attack in South Korea.

Multi-status bullet Photographs show the aftermath of a campsite attack by a polar bear.

Yellow bullet Photographs show a man whose head was crushed when a piece of heavy construction equipment rolled off a truck.

Red bullet Photograph shows fingers damaged from too much mouse and keyboard use.

Yellow bullet Photographs show a motorcyclist cut in half by a collision with a roadside pole.

Yellow bullet Photographs show human remains discovered inside a crocodile.

Yellow bullet Photographs show a motorist whose torso was severed when he crashed into a truck while talking on a cell phone.

Red bullet Photograph shows a suicide victim stepping off the Eiffel Tower just before plunging to his death.

Multi-status bullet Photographs show a golfer whose arm was torn off by an alligator.

Green bullet Photograph shows a dog injured by fireworks placed in its mouth.

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