I've had a few silly deaths in the last couple of days (including promising characters killed by an acid vortex, a door trap, and animated trees), but this one is by far the stupidest.
Demba, a level 10 priest, had spent a bit of time in the big room looking for a ratling archer for the first dwarf quest, but decided to give up temporarily and sell some of the stuff he'd found in the shop in dwarftown.
He hadn't identified a scroll of identify yet, but he had a pile of 3 scrolls of x, so tried reading one of those in the hope that it was a scroll of identify.
"Suddenly it goes dark!". Ah, must have been a scroll of darkness. Never mind, lets go and sell some SIs.
"You hit something and slightly wound it"
"You hear the sound of a gong".
Oh, no! I didn't mean it! Maybe if I 'C'hat to Waldy, he'll understand and stop trying to kill me.
"You talk to Waldy. "I hates thieves". Waldy hits you. You die..."