>
In 1961, 87-year-old Harry Meadows, a resident at the Haslemere Home for the Elderly in Great Yarmouth, England, achieved late-in-life notoriety when he accidentally killed another 3 residents of his care home by dressing up as the grim reaper and peering through the residents’ lounge window whilst holding a scythe.
You Must Be From Away 
>I wasn't quite sure whether I should believe you so I googled the humorous Harry Meadows, but I believe that this is even funnier (or stranger!): "The year before Harry's performance, another resident of the same home, the then 81 year old Gladys Elton, for reasons best known to herself, had conceived the idea of performing a striptease for her fellow residents of the home; unfortunately such was the effect of Elton's performance that it caused the death of one resident by way of a cardiac arrest and the treatment for shock of five other residents."
This was only talked about on the TV show QI.
>PS. Is this what you do when you're bored…surf the web for these fantastic tales?
And that’s how Harry Meadows & Gladys Elton killed off the Haslemere Home for the Elderly in Great Yarmouth, 1962.
No-one had a stroke. (Let’s not get all ‘Carry On up the Khyber’.)
All hail William Donaldson’s splendid compendium ‘Brewer’s Rogues, Villains and Eccentrics’ for this & other bawdy guffaws.