Few had predicted the record would be broken by Tomlinson, especially after a freak accident during the winter when he broke both his wrists weight training.
And then, a freak accident: during the truck dance competition, a tire explodes, firing a portion of the fractured wheel rim like an artillery shell.
Wakefield Trinity 26, St Helens 36 Paul Sculthorpe needed 50 stitches to sew the inside of his lip back together after a freak clash during the Origin match on the Tuesday before last.
Boucher was forced to call time on his 15-year international career on Tuesday after suffering a severe eye injury in a freak incident during the tour match against Somerset.
Alas, Lemmy was a self-described "speed freak" during his time in the band and was fired from Hawkwind after getting busted for possession on the Canadian border in 1975.
In the footage, Tebbets jumps up and down, clasps her hands together, scrunches her shoulders, clenches her fists, and generally freaks out during the "I can't hide" part of "I Want to Hold Your Hand"; she fits in with the screamers.
When he was 18, he robbed a gas station with another teenager who freaked out during the robbery and stabbed several people to death.
The London previews garnered buzz after people in the audience reportedly vomited and freaked out during the play's bloody scenes and over-stimulating sounds and lights but that didn't dissuade Broadway fans in the States from checking out the play's debut and subsequently freaking out as well.
The Moate fighter was due a bit of good fortune after missing out on last year's Olympic Games following a hugely controversial qualifying defeat in Turkey and then suffering a freak leg injury during the European Championship in June.
But he first threatened to quit last Thursday in protest after Ted Turner, the founder of CNN, referred to staff members wearing Ash Wednesday markings on their foreheads as "Jesus freaks" during a meeting in Washington.
