@beardalaxy @binkle Woah!
> Steininger was a popular mayor, serving multiple terms, but in 1567, he met an ignominious end. On September 28 of that year, there was a large fire in the town that caused a general panic. Steininger usually kept his prodigious beard hair rolled up and stuffed in a pocket, but during the commotion he was running around with it hanging free. In the midst of the chaos, he managed to step on his own beard, sending him tumbling down a flight of stairs and breaking his neck. Killed by his own beard.
> His beard become so massive, that, when he turned his head to look at a seagull, the momentum of the beard pulled him right over the safety railing of the bridge, and too his death...