Pipe dream
A Pennsylvania woman died in a car crash, after her car's brakes were cut by her boyfriend to make a crack pipe. She was, according to his testimony, driving him crazy
for a pipe and, instead of going to a store to buy one, he decided to improvise.
To (probably mis)quote Oscar Wilde on the death of little Nell in The Old Curiosity Shop: one would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.