AT least he died doing what he loved - that's the possible conclusion of friends of a man whose body was found in America's Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Sep, after an autopsy revealed that he wasn't actually killed by the black bear that was eating him.
The results of the post-mortem, released this week, indicated that in fact William Lee Hill Jr died of "accidental methamphetamine intoxication," meaning he was already dead when the bear attacked him.
The finding wasn't such great news for the bear, which was euthanased in the interest of public safety following the grisly discovery of the body.
"Vaping" is increasingly being shown as risky to health - but a 24-year-old man killed in Texas in the USA last week probably didn't expect it to act so quickly.
The tragic case saw William Brown die after his vape pen exploded, with debris from the shattered device slicing open his carotid artery.
Authorities in Canada have hastily issued a retraction after earlier this week warning the public about bubble-gum allegedly laced with fentanyl.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police had said testing of the Hubba Bubba Bubble Tape found near a man treated with Naloxone after an overdose, had indicated the presence of fentanyl.
However further examination found the drug was only on the outside of the packaging, with "no linkages to gum purchased in retail establishments".
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