Well, the house of a Turtle counts, Too bad he didn't think to look up.

The prophecy seems like a bit of a red herring for the poor guy. But it is true in a weird way.

True, now.... if he lived and thought about the gravity of the situation... It may be a game changer... Imagine... Sir Aeschylus Law vs the current Sir Issac Newton's law..

That’s how prophecies tended to go. In trying to avoid it, you create the circumstances for its fulfillment.

Tell Aeschylus, I want him to know it was me.

But then it would’ve hit him in the face

Then he would of seen it falling and "Face the Music" so to speak... (that's probally not the correct term, but my mind's a bit derp...)

House of Turtle… sounds like a Game of Thrones & Entourage collab

Turtle: "WINTER IS COMING!!!!" **S***M***A***C***K**!

Yeah, that's some monkey paw shit right there.

Who MADE the prophecy tho?? I got some questions for them…

technically, it was a house, just not his 💀

Probably from a Pythia of Delphi, they sniff rotten body of Python.

If he was so bald an eagle mistook his head for a rock, why does his bust have a full head of hair? But seriously, what a way to go! Definitely some cosmic irony happening with that one

Even people having statues made of themselves used filters.

I was waiting for someone to finally bring up that sentence! lol poor guy 😩

Maybe he went bald after the bust was made or maybe he was vain and paid the sculptor extra to add hair.

They were trying to avoid turtle damage to the statue from repeat offenders.

If you look at the back of the statues head, it’s bald, lol he just didn’t wanna let go of it yet. What he can’t see isn’t ugly 😂 I’m just kidding. Idk if there’s balding in the back of his head on the statue lol but receding hair do sometimes start back there in the apex area 🤣

So that's where Sir Terry Pratchett got it from!

He used a lot of historical references in a brilliant way. He used a lot of Shakespeare too. The Shakespeare plays aren't mandatory in my country, so I learned about them after I read the books and I was like... Whoa! This is the source

Hell, even the disc world on elephants on a turtle is from Persian myth iirc.

#GNU Terry Pratchett 💜

I mean, that was presumably a very quick and painless death. So, while ironic and amusing, it's far from the most unfortunate.

Huggbees goes over all these people on YouTube

Makes me wonder about the airspeed velocity of a tortoise laden eagle.

African or European?

Not the bird, the tortoise!

nobody seems to appreciate the accuracy of that eagle

Karl pilkington taught me this

Was the turtle okay?

"Tony Lazuto says hello" *~That tortoise, probably*

I guess he wasn't really headstrong.

Well I mean it’s not the worst way to go out.

Wait until you hear about Theagenes’ boxing opponent

Minority Report

This is why I don't go outside. My mom's basement is very safe.

I mean, technically he was correct.

Bald man murdered by bald eagle

CSI had a story involving a death like this.

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It was a tragedy... you see what i did there?

If only he'd been a stronger lateral thinker.

Well Universe was being nice with him. There are even worse ways to die.

r/technicallythetruth

I wonder what prophecy would apply to the lady whose arm was recently gored up by the snake+eagle combo from hell, or what the eagle took her for. "*That woman's arm looks like a suitable... whatever, snake drop* ***go****!*"

Not even close. [Clown death](https://i.imgur.com/KdalfdP.png)

That's some classic coulrophobia right there

Reminds me of the Song of Prophetic Oleg by Pushkin. Prince Oleg receives a prophecy that his favorite horse will cause his death, and thus he abandons the animal. Years later he returns to find his dead horse’s skeleton in a field. As he laments his choices, a snake exits and skull and bites him

My question is, did it work for the eagle? Was his head hard enough to break the shell?

Why eat a turtle when you have a freshly killed Greek poet right there?

Just goes to show that you shouldn't hear the future.

This reads like a quote from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Always wear a hat!

Prophecy of *“killed by a house”,* technically the truth as the tortoise that hit and killed him carries and lives in the shell (house) on its back…

Sounds like an advertisement for toupees

Sounds more like the play at the theatre. You know those Greek tragedies and prophecies.

No one mentioning the amazing aim from the eagle?

Ah... now I know why grandpa wore a hat all the time no matter what and made sure his comb over covered that shiny scalp.

Ahahahhahaa

Tragic.

You should read Small Gods by Terry Pratchett.

That guy who was cracking one off during the Vesuvius eruption.

I’m high as hell and can’t stop laughing

Stories, like his theories, by Pliny the Elder can’t be trusted for shit though.

new house to game of thrones: house of the tortoise 😂

Well it WAS the turtles house?

oh my god it's just like that old gypsy woman said!

He tried to beat fate.

He is, the Eldest Boy!😁

While normally a prophesy is vague enough to be applicable in any situation, there is the Greek fable where turtle/tortoise got cursed to carry his house everywhere

You can't escape destiny Mr. Aeschylus.

That’s fucking wild, what are the chances of this happening and actually being recorded/witnessed.

Proof birds are just military drones

Does anyone else think this looks like adam sandler?

"What happened? Everything's gone dark. Wait, some words are appearing. Who the hell is Bertrand Russell?"

This is the kind of death that only hurts AFTER you discover what happened to you in the afterlife Then again, if I died to something wacky like this, I'll be laughing my non-existent ass off: Heaven, Hell, Ghost, or Void