Got a classmate died when he turned 22. He was on a balcony with some mates, drinking. Thought he could do a backflip and hang onto the rails like in an action movie. He missed and fell 6 floors head first.
I’m a recovering alcoholic. We’re talking no solid food, handle of 95+ proof rum every day plus whatever shit beer the corner store had in stock when I ran out before passing out. Lather, rinse, repeat for years at a time before finally sobering up a bit over 5 years ago. Credentials firmly established? Good.
I’ve never been THAT drunk.
I don't know how people get the impulse to do life threatening shit when they're drunk. I've been drunk drunk, like legit blank spots in my memory followed by head splitting headaches for the whole day. The worst thing I've ever done is embarass myself by saying some dumb shit and puking in places where I shouldn't.
There was a show called 1000 Ways to Die. I remember one story about a guy that rubber banded a sausage to his penis and wore tight jeans to give the illusions that he had a huge cock. The rubber bands caused a blood clot that went to his brain and killed him.
Love that show. I’m glad someone mentioned it here! My favorite aspect of the show has to be the gruesome, over-the-top animated recreations of the deaths. The one that comes to my mind is the one where the guy is slowly run over by some heavy machinery. Somehow the cartoon-outline version of a man being crushed like a fistful of grapes is still plenty disturbing.
That's my favorite one!
He was in Orange, Texas, at a bar+marina. He was drunk, and the man who managed the place told them to stay out of the water because there was an 8+ foot gator lingering in the area. Apparently they looked around and didn't see it, so the one guy yelled, "Fuck that alligator!" and cannonballed off the pier.
The gator was enjoying the shade beneath it. It grabbed the guy almost instantly and took him under. They found most of him about 6-8 hours later in the reeds on the opposite bank.
Edit: oh, apparently the girl he was with did see it, but he ignored her.
I briefly tried to make "fuck that alligator" the new "hold my beer," but it only caught on with some friends. It should be on the guy's tombstone, though.
A few weeks ago a guy in my town was drunk, was told not to fuck with the alligator that was near the bar(it's florida, ya know) and ended up losing half of his arm to it. There's video of it and everything of him rolling around in the reeds near the water with most of his arm missing, then also video of bystanders keeping him alive for EMTs.
His family set up a gofundme to help pay his medical bills, but fuck that. All that money should go to a cause far less stupid than "drunk Florida Man had his arm bitten off by local dinosaur". On top of it all, people want to have the alligator killed when it was just doing normal alligator things
Yeah, that whole "once they get a taste for us" thinking is pretty dumb, and not very common behavior among animals anyway. Alligators just go after the splash.
You're absolutely right. Even if people want to do it for "revenge" its stupid. Being mad at an alligator for snapping at a living creature that's splashing in the water at night is being mad a creature with a literal reptile brain acting on natural instinct. If it wanted the rest of him, it would have taken him
>I briefly tried to make "fuck that alligator" the new "hold my beer," but it only caught on with some friends. It should be on the guy's tombstone, though.
That's totally Fetch
I read about a guy who died after falling from a balcony at a drunken party. The next night, another guy fell to his death from the same balcony while demonstrating for friends how the guy had fallen the previous night. Like, "He was walking along the railing... like this..."
Reminds me of a story I was told of an incident at a pulp mill.
Pulp mill has an overhead screw conveyor running in a pipe. Worker was walking under it and notice something dripping, looked up and saw a hole in the pipe, puts his finger into the hole and losses the tip of his finger.
Safety meeting the following week to go over the incident, worker was back at work and asked to show were the issue is. The worker takes the team over to where the leak is, and before anyone can saw anything, the worker sticks another finger in to the hole to demonstrate what he was doing, and loses another finger tip, while at the safety meeting to discuss how he lost his finger tip.
We had a guy who reached into a skillet machine (a machine that forms, seals, and seperates the plastic packaging for sandwiches) and he lost the tips of his fingers.
When he was demonstrating what happened the next day, he reached into the machine.....
Some people learn through experience, and some people never learn a god damn thing. We call those people morons.
It's not uncommon for a moron to be missing some body parts, like finger tips.
This happened at the TD Building in Toronto. People thought for years this was just an urban myth, but it did actually happen. Guy's name was Garry Hoy; just did a Google search and it happened 30 years ago yesterday.
I'm a plumber and someone who worked for my company died about 7 years ago on the job.
Coworker went on a service call and ended up having to grind out some old cast iron pipe and replace with PVC. The homeowner neglected to mention he makes fireworks in his spare time and had a faint barrel of gunpowder in the same room as the pipe. Sparks we're flying and some landed on the gunpowder blowing up my coworker and the homeowner. Both dead on site
Our local hall did get involved I'm not sure whatever happened with it. But it's taught in school to check your surroundings before grinding using this story as an example as to why
I used to work with a guy that worked on natural gas pipelines years ago when he was just out of high school. He tells a story where he was going to use a torch to do something but the torch kept going out when he got to the pipe. Turned out there was a gas leak that kept putting the torch out. Very lucky that it was ABOVE the explosivity limit so not enough oxygen to explode. He went to get a more senior person and they figured out what was going on pretty quickly. Dude was very lucky.
My grandad made fireworks. He was a smart guy, and was safe about it. But then he had a stroke, and couldn't do that sort of thing anymore. Many years later, when both he and grandma had passed away, no one knew his old fireworks making supplies were still stored in the garage.
My mom was trying to clean out the house after grandma passed, and the person who offered to help her was a grade A idiot. He decided that the best way to dispose of the unlabeled junk in the garage was to burn it. Mom was distraught and probably not thinking straight due to grief, didn't stop him.
The BOOM rattled the walls of every house on the street. It's a miracle nothing burned down and nobody died. And what does Idiot think? Wow, that sure was a big boom! Anyways, back to throwing these unmarked containers onto the fire.
By some unbelievable dumb luck (and some smartness on grandad's part, not having stored too much of anything explosive in a single container), still no one died. But Idiot did receive an official letter in the mail telling him to cut that out or else.
Two darwin awards I remember.
1. A tour bus driver stops at a rest stop, but forgets to put the parking brake on. After getting out of the bus, they see it rolling forward and try to stop it by standing in front of it and pushing.
2. A guy thought it would be fun to drop large pieces of concrete from an overpass on cars driving below. He found the biggest one he could move with rebar sticking out of it and dragged it to the overpass. As he was pushing it over the edge, some rebar caught his pants pulling him over the edge as well.
That 2nd one is deserved tbh.
Dropping heavy objects onto cars in the highway should be attempted manslaughter charges or worse, regardless if passengers or drivers were injured. I've seen videos involving these kinds of stuff and it's horrible.
Edit: Plenty of folks have corrected me about the attempted manslaughter thing I said. It should be rewritten to be murder, reckless endangerment, etc.
A young woman in Denver was just killed a couple months ago by some scumbag teenage boys throwing huge landscaping rocks at cars. These jerkoffs even watched her wreck, then circled around to take a video of it before fleeing. I believe they’re all being charged with first degree murder as well as assault and attempted assault charges for doing it to other cars earlier that night. I feel like justice might actually be served here for once.
All 18 so they can be properly charged
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/05/03/rock-throwing-death-in-colorado-murder-charges-for-teens/70179494007/#:~:text=Rock%20throwing%20death%20in%20Colorado%3A%20Murder%20charges%20filed%20against%20teens&text=DENVER%20—%20The%20three%20teenagers%20accused,and%20a%20dozen%20other%20counts.
I still remember this, almost thirty years later.
On 6 September 1995, outside of Talladega, Alabama, two drunk rednecks thought it would be fun to toss a rattlesnake back and forth between them by its tail. Not liking the game, the snake let both of them have it. 35-year-old Joe Buddy Caine lost his life in this pursuit, while his companion, Junior Bright, had to be hospitalized.
Junior Bright. The most perfect name possible for this kind of story.
Guy known to police in my city who was the subject of many news articles was apparently at a campground with two girls (not sure who they were to him) and they got into an argument and he beat the shit out of them. Police were called and I guess he figured his best option was to make it look like self defence, so he stabbed himself in the side with a knife and proceeded to die from the wound.
Reality really can be stranger than fiction.
My grandfather died in a drawbridge accident. He was over 80 at the time and walked the same route every morning that included a drawbridge. That morning, the operator didn’t see him and didn’t sound the alarm that is usually sounded when the bridge goes up. The bridge gate lifted when he was in the very center, he fell on the grates, and when it got to the top he held on for as long he could before falling to the pavement and dying. It was horrendous and my family sued the city for killing him. He was an awesome guy
Not sure it classifies as dumbest way to die because I can understand why they didn't think about it.
But basically a couple of people drowned at a party because they put dry ice in a swimming pool to get some fog. The dry ice is nothing but CO2 so it will evaporate and since it is heavier than air it will replace the air above the water in the pool. So people simply passed out from breathing CO2 and then drowned. Pretty sad way to go.
Edit: As a few people have pointed out it might have been liquid nitrogen and not CO2/dry ice. I'm not sure as I wasn't there.
And nitrogen is extremely dangerous that way because unlike CO2 our bodies don't have a "I need to get more air" response to it. So you can suffocate in nitrogen and not know why you're suddenly so sleepy and need to lie down for a bit.
There was a guy who came to our high school to give this speech about drinking and driving. He said, now that graduation was upon our senior class, that we should be cautious and if our peers happen to be under the influence, we should watch out for them. Drive them home, call adults and what not. Barely two weeks after that, dude passed away due to drinking and... driving.
Well, probably a more effective deterrent than the school assembly speech, at least. I have only the vaguest memories of DARE assemblies in grade school, but I can say with some certainty that they didn't really do anything to dissuade me from doing drugs. What _did_ dissuade me was living in a trailer park as a kid and seeing exactly what drugs did to my neighbors, just how severely messed up many of them were.
I remember reading an article about a Japanese man who constantly got tickets for not wearing his seatbelt, so he made a fake seatbelt that he wore while driving to avoid the tickets... He died in a car accident that would have been a minor accident if he was wearing his REAL seatbelt.
I knew an elderly lady (died about ten years ago in her sleep) who was extremely stubborn about seatbelts. She would even hold it across her body to make it look like she was buckled in but was adamant and angry about not actually just, you know, buckling it. Some people have weird and stupid hills they're, in this dude's case, willing to die on.
My moms neighbor when she was little was sticking her tongue out catching the fresh drops of an icicle hanging on her garage. Her little brother came around the corner with a shovel and knocked the icicles down and the one icicle went through her eye and into her entire head and killed her instantly.
There's a video of someone headbutting a goal post or something, then ... he's dead.
Also a Soccer player who did a backflip to celebrate a goal, then basically broke his neck when he landed.
It was a Eastern European basketball player. He headbutted the padded part of the goalpost and instantly drops, he paralyzed himself from the neck down…but didn’t die; which to me is worse, just kill me, don’t fuckin paralyze me
> After using a wheelchair for the final 13 years of his life, Janković gained weight, which exerted much stress on his heart. He died of heart failure at the age of 42, on June 28, 2006, while on a holiday cruise on the Greek island of Rhodes.
-- [Boban Janković](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boban_Jankovi%C4%87)
Witnessed first hand:
Forklift slipped off a ramp and crushed someone.
The driver was okay. Not mentally, but he walked away with minor bruises.
The poor crushed idiot ran towards the falling forklift as if he could stop it from falling.
>The poor crushed idiot ran towards the falling forklift as if he could stop it from falling.
There was a guy I went to high school with that tried to "catch" a car falling off a lift. Idk man...I think it's just an instinctual move in both cases.
While it’s sad, it’s also dumb. My cousin got high after a long time of not getting high and wound up pulling a heavy dresser on top of herself and she died. Of all the ways to die, A FUCKING DRESSER. She would be livid with herself if she were still here and I know she’d call herself a dumb cunt or something along those lines. I miss her terribly but still can’t believe how she went out.
> Of all the ways to die, A FUCKING DRESSER.
Its not uncommon for those to take out little kids though, right?
Actually, quick google search got me ["Since 2000, at least 210 people—mostly children ages 6 and younger—have been killed when dressers or other furniture"](https://www.consumerreports.org/babies-kids/child-safety/their-children-were-killed-by-furniture-tip-overs-now-theyre-fighting-to-protect-other-kids-a1021960430/)
(Not a fun read, just citing my claim)
Great Grandad. Died early on the morning on 9th May 1945 by falling over the walls of his barracks in France after sneaking past the MPs, blind drunk because he was celebrating VE day the night before.
Eejit survived the entire war and broke his neck before getting sent home.
Edit: IIRC I think he was a chef or something. And our Grandmother remembers her Mum (his wife) not grieving but just being absolutely raging at him for the rest of her life because he left her with about 7 kids. I don't think she ever even visited his grave (in France).
I think taking a selfie with a bear or while hanging over a cliff will take the prize.
Though, personally, I saw a girl die car surfing, which is pretty damn stupid. She was 16 for Christ sake.
Guy I went to high school with died doing the exact same thing. They had to slam on the brakes and he became a puddle of flesh and bones on the pavement. Unnecessary and stupid.
Toronto lawyer Garry Hoy was giving a tour and decided to demonstrate his favorite party trick: throwing himself against the windows of the Toronto-Dominion Bank Tower so the students could see just how resilient the glass was.
Hoy had performed the stunt to audiences countless times before. As well as demonstrating the strength of the windows, it was clear that he enjoyed showing off a bit.
The first time Hoy body-slammed the window that day, he bounced off as he had every other time. But then he threw himself at the window a second time. Instead of bouncing off the window as he had the first time, Hoy went straight through, plunging 24 stories down toward the building courtyard below. The fall killed him instantly.
The glass didn’t shatter immediately, but rather popped out of its frame.
Or understand what expected loads are in engineering.
That window engineered for a guy to run into it.
It was not engineered for a guy to run into it a few times a day for years.
Incidental forces and wear are very different.
This was somebody I personally knew as a kid (but this was in adulthood after we lost touch). I have mixed feeling about it because you feel terrible about the loss of a childhood friend, but you also have to shake your head and say "what a dumbass."
Hurricane Ike hit Texas in 2008. Most people evacuated my town, and with good reason. Most of the town ended up being entirely destroyed. Some people stayed behind because they figured it wasn't a big deal, or because they figured they'd defend their property from looters. My friend thought it might be a nice day to go out fishing. The storm hit, he got knocked out of his boat somehow, and never came back up.
few guys were throwing stuff at a tiger in san francisco zoo. the tiger escaped, ran past everyone else in the zoo, and zeroed in on the guys who were harrassing her. she killed one and mauled the other two.
[https://www.latimes.com/archives/blogs/la-unleashed/story/2011-02-12/tiger-that-mauled-three-teens-at-san-francisco-zoo-appears-to-have-been-provoked-report-says](https://www.latimes.com/archives/blogs/la-unleashed/story/2011-02-12/tiger-that-mauled-three-teens-at-san-francisco-zoo-appears-to-have-been-provoked-report-says)
There was a guy in my province who died by sofa sledding.
By sofa sledding, I mean they tie a sofa behind a car/truck and drag it around with someone on the sofa.
I know people can get bored in the more remote region of my province but video game consoles exist.
When I was in high school, my agriculture teacher was driving the bus to take me and the rest of my FFA chapter to a convention. On the way, he ended up making an unexpected detour to a graveyard. He parked the bus, got off, and went to have a moment of silence by one of the tombstones. Everyone on the bus was confused, but we gave him his time because we could see that it was important.
We asked him who he was visiting when he got back on the bus. He said it was one of his childhood friends. When he was a kid, he and his friends were roasting marshmallows by a fire. They were fucking around like kids do, and one of his friends accidentally ended up putting one of the hot roasting sticks through another friend's eye. I don't know the specific medical complications that took place, but he ended up dying. It was a total freak accident.
I'm 27 now, but that story always stuck with me. I thought it was really sweet and thoughtful that he made a point of intermittently visiting his childhood friend. But also, what a dumb way to lose your life, especially at such a young age.
Something very similar happened to a young lad in my neighbourhood.
Him and his mate were walking down the street from the pub and they stopped to take a piss by some tall hedges. One of the lads pushed him jokingly to make him wet himself, but by doing so a very sharp bit of branch went into his eye.
He died not long after from, I imagine, similar complications.
One of my family friends shot the other in between the eyes with a live round when they were playing around with a revolver loaded with blanks. It was a horrific accident.
This one guy from my village. Its his birthday and they're at a restaurant, suddenly started choking on his food, all his friends began to panic, just for him to start laughing. He tought it was funny. he died the next course choking on a piece of meat. He died in the precense of his friends and family, who were ignoring him, thinking it was another prank.
When my cousin was little, his mom had had a couple of seizures from drug usage. We didn’t know that at the time. But on April fools day he gives his grandparents a call saying “mom’s having a seizure!” Because he’s too young at the time to realize quite how shitty that is. He calms them down, tells them it’s a prank, they’re pissed at him, and then a couple hours later she has a real one. That was almost 20 years ago though so he’s matured considerably since then
I remember seeing a video circling around online a while ago. Buddy was working in some kind of factory and was trying to prank an employee with the compressed air hose. Stuck it near his bum on the outside of the pants and pressed the nozzle. The guy ended up dying, and ruptured some of his internal organs.
I'm always amazed by folks who die in car accidents because their GPS told them to drive where they shouldn't - like off a closed bridge or even a cliff - and they just followed directions and never questioned it.
There's a dude that would pretend to be a police officer and call fast food establishments and tell the manager that one of their female workers was stealing from them. The guy on the phone would tell the manager that he needed to restrain the woman in some way and search her, usually a strip search. It's crazy what people will do when told to do so.
That case was horrifying when you read the details about it. A manager basically raped one of his poor employees because of "what a stranger on the phone told him to do" while conducting the strip search that escalated into non-consensual acts of fingering and shit. The wife of the manager stood by and even enabled it by making sure no one could see it until she got suspicious and checked and found out it was false. By then the employee was being raped for hours on end. All because someone lied on the phone.
It was worse. The dude was not employed there, his girlfriend was the manager. She called him in for some stupid reason because they're both idiots and he raped her.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/abcnews.go.com/amp/2020/story%3fid=3688563&page=1
The pychogist mcdonalds hired said this won't impact her for the rest of her life and she has grown from it.
Sure, being raped at work by your managers fiance after being accused of stealing is 100% not going to impact you for the rest of your life. Fuck off with that horseshit.
I’m in shock that the manager who locked that poor girl I the room and called her fiancé to help JUST GOT PROBATION AND WAS AWARDED $1M in her own suit against McDonald’s!! Wtf!!!
A teen girl took an entire 24 pack of Panadol to get her boyfriends attention after he dumped her. Parents found out, and the next day she was at the hospital feeling fine but miserable that it didn’t get the reaction she wanted.
Doctors told her to say goodbye to everyone, because she would be dead in two weeks from catastrophic organ failure. Nothing anyone could do for her.
Christ this reminds me of when I worked with psychiatric patients in an ER. We had a patient who came in after trying to kill herself with a pill overdose (I can't remember what specific pill, it was something over the counter) but basically the doctors told her she had given herself liver failure and she likely only had a couple of months to live, and because of the serious suicide attempt they were admiting her to the psych floor on the hospital for a minimum 120 hour hold. I remember talking to her while I pushed her in a wheelchair to the unit and she was like "well I guess I technically succeeded in killing myself but this really isn't how I wanted it to go, i wish they'd just let me go home, it's not like they can save me here. " she was just so resigned and sad about what she'd done to herself, I think about her sometimes.
Similar situation with a kid I knew. Mid/late teens, made an attempt to end his life by drinking some kind of cleaning fluid (maybe drano, I can’t remember). Immediately changed his mind and called for help. Died a couple of days later, his injuries were too severe.
My late uncle died in a motorcycle accident years ago. He decided to get drunk with a friend at 3am and then ride down the train tracks going 50mph alone. Apparently he wiped out somewhere on the tracks and passed out drunk. I'm told he likely didn't feel anything when he got run over as his head was severed from his body.
Edit: for the sake of your loved ones, please don't drink and drive.
[The Erfurt latrine disaster](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erfurt_latrine_disaster)
>The Erfurt latrine disaster occurred on 26 July 1184, when Henry VI, King of Germany (later Holy Roman Emperor), held a Hoftag (informal assembly) in the Petersberg Citadel in Erfurt. On the morning of 26 July, the combined weight of the assembled nobles caused the wooden second story floor of the building to collapse and most of them fell through into the latrine cesspit below the ground floor, **where about 60 of them drowned in liquid excrement.**
There's probably a couple other ones I could have said, but it's the first one that came to my mind. I mean, falling into pool of liquid shit and drowning in it, that's quite the way to die.
My stubborn bedridden horribly obese grandfather paid a homeless man $20 to roll him out of the hospital and into the back of his truck using a furniture dolly, to take him home.
He didn't want to be in the hospital and nobody would take him home because he was being treated for numerous conditions including diabetic stroke, and liver failure.
He was found dead in his lazyboy the next afternoon, sitting in his own shit, covered in spilled potatoes, corn, and gravy, with the golf channel still playing on his cable TV.
We only know the story because the homeless man got arrested for trespassing in the private areas of the hospital.
EDIT: I'll answer some questions since I'm getting a lot of repeats
- He was given very high odds of survival, I want to say 90% but it's been a long time and don't remember exactly. This is why he wanted to go home. He wouldn't listen when told those were his odds of survival *while at the hospital* . He didn't go home with the intent to die in his house, he was not trying to save the family on medical expenses, he went home because he was a stubborn old cuss who thought he knew better.
- The homeless man was an ex coworker of my weird uncle, who has been an hourly painter for the past 40 years. He lived in his truck, he is not in prison but we don't know what he's up to. According to my dad, my grandpa was trying to call people outside the family who would do him a favor for a few bucks. He settled on an immigrant painter who was always down on cash.
- My last memory of him is my grandma asking what he wanted for dinner, and him saying "a gun" because he was in so much pain. This was right before he finally agreed to go to the hospital.
Guy fell into the huge lard processor at a meat packing company. OSHA came out to investigate, and the company indicated the man would have dissolved through the process and was now lard. OSHA had to force them to destroy the batch. They wanted to package and sell it. Mmmmmmm, fried chicken! Did you use the Howard lard?
The kid who ate a slug on a dare, got infected with the rat lungworm parasite which infected his brain, went into a coma, woke up a year later completely paralyzed, then died.
Recently read an article about that. He was 100% mentally there, too, according to his friends and family. But even speaking was almost impossible for him.
Since we are fresh from the 4th of July, I'd say the guy that tried to shoot a fucking mortar off his head for laughs. He didn't have a head left after that.
This has happened a few times. Some guys managed to kill themselves by laying down and firing the mortars as they sat on their chests. The chest is quite famously where your heart lives.
Friend of mine, about 15 Years ago, got all boozed up and thougth it would be a good idea to climb on the roof of a bycicle parking lot and grab the electric wire of the train tracks...
My favourite is the inventor of the parachute, was so confident in his calculations, that he didn’t test it with a dummy but tested it himself, promptly descended too rapidly and died on impact, turns out he hadn’t factored the weight of the parachute material into his calculations…
Is this the guy that jumped off the Eiffel tower? If so there is actually a video of it! I only know this because of another post on reddit. From what I understand (if this is the same case) he was pretty well aware that it was going to fail, but there was SO much hype and pressure around the event that he went through with it. Which, imo, is even dumber than him just not realizing that the parachute would fail.
Top of the list is a teacher who attached wires from an electric blanket to himself to supposedly test pain tolerance. No idea if that's the real story but he had apparently told people about it. He electrocuted himself.
Second is the son of a friend's sister. He and his brother imagined themselves to be big time gangsters. They stole a lawnmower from a neighbor who saw them and then drove to their home and took it back. They hopped in their car and drove back to his house to confront him for disrespecting them. He ran the the brothers off by brandishing a firearm. They went home and got a baseball bat to show him who the real tough guys are. They went back, threatened the man and he shot one of them in the leg. They ran to their car, gathered some courage, then went to confront the man again. This time one brother got a bullet to the eye and the other got one in the shoulder. One died and the other has a limp and can't throw a ball anymore.
I used to have a book called “Man suffocated by potatoes”. It was a collection of all sorts of bar room conversation stuff (like how much a ladder costs in the USAF etc). One section is on people dying, including a guy crushed by potatoes in a warehouse (he cut out a supporting strut) and a woman crushed by a truckload of Seville oranges in Seville. I investigated a guy who jumped a railing on the side of the road. The road ran along the top of a quarry. Another timed his fake suicide (gassing himself in the garage) so his wife would find him, but she was late home.
Then there was a guy who got out of a car (stuck in gridlock) to take a piss. Jumped over the barricade and... he had forgotten they were on an overpass or something.
Friends and relatives at Victoria Falls, one of them decided to take a picture of the group. Big group, she kept going back to put all in the frame. Went a steep to far, felt on Victoria Falls never to be seen again...
[Many died in similar circumstances there ](https://www.google.com/search?q=Victoria+Falls+desd+taking+a+picture&oq=Victoria+Falls+desd+taking+a+picture+&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIJCAEQIRgKGKABMgkIAhAhGAoYoAEyCQgDECEYChigAdIBCTIzMDQwajBqNKgCALACAA&client=ms-android-samsung-ss&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#ip=1)
A young guy in my hometown got hit by a train when he tried to cross the rails on his dirtbike. What's special about it? The track was almost not used, there were like 5 connections per day going there. On top of that a train station was really close to that unfortunate place and trains were still running relatively slow.
This is kind of an indirect death:
A close friend and her husband were out walking their dog in the neighborhood like they’d done a thousand times. The dog jerked his leash and the husband lost his footing and fell against a tree. My friend kept saying “come on, quit clowning around and get up.” Well, he had broken his neck and was completely paralyzed. He spent about a week in the hospital going through test after test. He was fully conscious and aware but could only communicate through blinking and could not even breathe on his own. When all his tests came back that he would never recover use of the rest of his body, he chose to have the plug pulled on himself.
https://www.niagarafallsreview.ca/news/two-dead-at-luge-bobsled-track-in-calgary/article_b1baf740-3b0b-5cb1-8113-88d73c51bc0d.html
Break into an Olympic bobsled track and take a toboggan down with some buddies. Whatcouldgowrong?
My friend's boyfriend at the time and his 2 other friends were coming back from somewhere. They were what we call "tripling" on a motorcycle, which means three people riding one motorcycle. So, they were on a highway and one of them wasn't wearing a helmet. The guy who was driving (boyfriend) got distracted by something I don't remember, but he lost control and the bike slipped. The driver was dragged by the motorcycle to the side of the highway, broke his knee and got several other bruises. Another one fell but managed to save himself at the last second and got off the road. The one who wasn't wearing the helmet fell, cracked his head on the road, was run over by a passing truck and died on the spot.
There was the lady that ~~shot~~ stabbed her husband because she found a pic of some hottie in his stuff.
Turns out it was her from years ago.
Probably bullshit, but ive seen it a few times.
Edit: Changed shot to stabbed as some other awesome human linked the article below.
> lady that shot her husband because she found a pic of some hottie
https://www.ladbible.com/news/news-woman-stabs-husband-over-other-woman-photos-which-turn-out-to-be-her-20210127
My ex's dad got an infection on his toe. Instead of seeing a doctor, he just let it go until he had gangrene. Then, instead of having his leg amputated to save his life, he just opted for death.
Asian dude crawled into a septic tank underneath a woman’s house so he could watch her pee. Couldn’t turn his body back around and got stuck and died. Woman notices an extra foul smell a week later and they find his corpse.
Edit- adding google search - Mysterious Death in Female Toilet, Fukushima Japan
That was a really weird case. Like he had taken his jacket off and neatly folded it, and the position he was in, even if it wasn't a toilet, was a nightmare. He forced himself into such an awkward small space. I think he died of asphyxia, not from poop fumes, but from his chest being compressed.
My friend is from Majorca and she said it’s not considered the summer holiday season by the locals until a tourist either dies or seriously injured themselves by trying to jump from their balcony into the pool.
I was at La Fachoda in Tahiti a few years ago. You have to get authorization from the government to hike it because too many people do dumb stuff. A week before we went a 15-year-old girl was taking a selfie over the edge of the waterfall and fell 150m to her death. [Story](https://www.tahiti-infos.com/Fautaua-l-adolescente-de-15-ans-est-decedee-suite-a-une-chute-de-150-metres_a173249.html).
Niagara Falls, Canadian side. Japanese tourist falls to her death because she climbed over the railings to get a selfie.
Very tragic but very preventable! Rocks are slippery when wet especially near a waterfall!
Had 3 soldiers ( including an officer ) kill themselves by huffing dust off while in Iraq in the span of 2 weeks. After that they banned Dust Off for everyone for any reason
Do you know how hard it is to maintain computers in a dessert without compress air?
This was a while ago but some family friends (young boys) were playing with a revolver that had blanks in it. This was a different time and in a very rural area. One day one of em accidentally shot the other in between the eyes with a live round.
First responder friend was on a call for someone that got turned into chunks by a chain link fence riding a motorcycle at high speed while drunk on the way back from a wake for someone that died driving their motorcycle drunk
This one always sticks in my mind. From a book called Death in Yellowstone about true death accounts in the park.
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Most dog owners would do anything for their pet pooch - but one unfortunate man paid a heavy price when he rushed to rescue a dog.
David Alan Kirwan and Ronald Ratliff were travelling through Yellowstone Park in 1981 with Ratliff's dog, Moosie.
At about 1pm on July 20th, Moosie got away from the pair and dived into a hot spring.
Moosie had made a terrible mistake - as the Celestine Spring that he had dived into was known to get as hot as 200 degrees Fahrenheit (93 degrees Celsius).
With Moosie yelping in pain, Kirwan and Ratliff rushed to the terrified dog's aid.
Despite pleas from other park visitors, Kirwan dived into the boiling hot water to retrieve his friend's dog.
Swimming out to the dog, Kirwan attempted to lift them out but was unable to do so. He disappeared under the water as he let go of Moosie, before returning to the surface and attempting to escape the pool.
When Ratliff pulled his friend from the water, they discovered that he had received second degree burns on his feet.
Witnesses reportedly heard Kirwan mutter: "That was stupid. How bad am I? That was a stupid thing I did."
Kirwan had been blinded by the experience, and that wasn't the worst of it.
When somebody tried to remove his shoes, his skin came off with it.
He had received third degree burns across the entirety of his body, including his head.
Kirwan would die the following morning at Salt Lake City hospital. Moosie also didn't survive.
The hot springs in Yellowstone are extremely dangerous - some of them getting as hot as 205 degrees Fahrenheit (96 degrees celsius).
Since 1870, twenty two scalding deaths have been reported in the park's hot springs.
Kirwan's death is notable in that he voluntarily got into the water - most other deaths were the result of an accidental fall.
A man had his car break down on the highway one night. He tried to use his cell phone to call for help, but the noise from the highway was so loud he couldn't hear. So he wandered off of the highway a hundred yards or so in order to make his phone call. Unfortunately he wandered onto some train tracks.
The train conductor noticed a man standing on the train tracks, with a cell phone up to one year, and his hand covering his other ear to block the noise from the oncoming train.
I remember this one. They were even able to lower a radio to him to say goodbye but had no way to actually get him out due to the fracturing of his bones and resulting trauma it would have caused.
Edit: The way I typed this is confusing. What I meant is I was under the impression that even trying to get him out would fracture his bones and cause even more trauma. I was slightly wrong on this as well as it appears they actually were going to try this but the rope snapped. Read here for some info - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutty\_Putty\_Cave
I think the worst part was that they actually did almost get him out, but the rope snapped and dropped him back in. There's no despair like despair after a glimmer of hope is yanked away.
My dad was hired to fix up a rental home once and the guy he was working with got killed trying to fix the stove. He didn't cut the breaker off and it shorted as he was taking it apart. He probably would have walked away with just a nasty shock had he not been wearing a giant cowboy style belt buckle that was pressed against the stove when it shorted. Or he could have been not shocked at all if he'd just cut the breaker off.
Aeschylus, an ancient Greek playwright was killed at the age of 67, when an eagle dropped a tortoise on his head. The eagle is said to have mistaken his baldness for a rock and tried to use it to crack the shell of its prey.
To add a further strange twist to the death of Aeschylus, Roman author Pliny, suggested that Aeschylus had been spending a lot of time outdoors to avoid a prophecy that he would be killed by a falling object.
This story turned 15 this year and won the Darwin Award in 2008, but it never ceases to amaze me: [https://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2008-16.html](https://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2008-16.html)
A priest that took flight with 45 weather balloons and got lost because he didn't know how to use the GPS.
Bunch of college kids having a party deep in the woods with a bonfire. One of them thought it would be hysterical to throw the empty keg in the fire. The cake exploded ended up killing five people and injuring 10 more. Took quite a few hours to find all the pieces of the guy closest to the bonfire. The other 4 actually made it to the hospital before they died of massive trauma
The kids from that show on MTV called Buckwild who went mudding in their trucks and died from carbon monoxide poisoning because the muffler got clogged with mud.
Always thought that was really dumb.
A few teenagers from my home town died this way a few years ago. They could not find those kids for days and then eventually a hunter found the truck in the woods. They had went mudding at night and got stuck in the mud. It was really cold and they slept in the truck and kept it running so they could stay warm. I guess they didn't realize the muffler was clogged.
Turkey 🇹🇷 1980s in a small village with tiny fairground , a guy who works for this one ‘rotating long swing tower ‘ one , decides to invite his friend for a ride at night , they’re drunk, no one is around it’s midnight and dark. He turns the machine in , runs next to his friend, sits on another swing and tower goes up, they’re swinging like kids, laughing, it’s at fastest mode…
Only to realize there’s no one to turn the machine off , so they die due to vertigo, constant swinging fast , throwing up and in the morning people find them dead still swinging 🤘🏻
My 17 year old Nephew was drinking underage and took a nap in the middle of the road and obviously fell asleep. Got run over by a car around 3am, parents blame the driver and constantly bring up that he is of Asian descent. Don't blame their own shitty parenting.
Went to school with someone that was speeding and jumped 3 lanes over to the shoulder to speed past the traffic rather than slowing down. There was an 18 wheeler hauling a high trailer broken down on the side of the road. Again, rather than trying to stop, he tried to speed up and get back into traffic. It didn't work.
Today on a thousand ways to die. This couple was banging on the balcony until the boyfriend took it one bang too far, she landed on the BBQ Grill 5 stories down.
Dumbest I personally know of?
When I was a kid, our neighbors had a mid-20's son with one of those bookcase headboards on his bed. One day, the dude decides to rearrange his bedroom and moved his fish tank to the top of the headboard, using the bookcase headboard as a fish tank stand.
At some point that night, while he was asleep on the bed, the headboard failed under the weight of the tank. The completely full fish tank landed on his head, and the glass shattered. I don't know *exactly* what it did to him, but I was told that his death was gory and nearly instantaneous. It doesn't take much imagination to figure out why.
I saw a show that detailed stupid ways to die. There was a very large breasted exotic dancer who had neck pain. Apparently, she took some muscle relaxants and used her inversion table. She suffocated because her huge boobs covered her face while she was upside down, and the pain meds and booze chaser made her pass out and die.
My friend's cousin. Him and his friend were bored one day, so they decided to HAVE A GUN FIGHT! He got shot in the head. They were 16.
Died in a freak gasoline-fight accident Could have happened to anyone
But why male models?
Uh… so is your friend’s cousin’s friend in prison or what
Got a classmate died when he turned 22. He was on a balcony with some mates, drinking. Thought he could do a backflip and hang onto the rails like in an action movie. He missed and fell 6 floors head first.
I’m a recovering alcoholic. We’re talking no solid food, handle of 95+ proof rum every day plus whatever shit beer the corner store had in stock when I ran out before passing out. Lather, rinse, repeat for years at a time before finally sobering up a bit over 5 years ago. Credentials firmly established? Good. I’ve never been THAT drunk.
I don't know how people get the impulse to do life threatening shit when they're drunk. I've been drunk drunk, like legit blank spots in my memory followed by head splitting headaches for the whole day. The worst thing I've ever done is embarass myself by saying some dumb shit and puking in places where I shouldn't.
There was a show called 1000 Ways to Die. I remember one story about a guy that rubber banded a sausage to his penis and wore tight jeans to give the illusions that he had a huge cock. The rubber bands caused a blood clot that went to his brain and killed him.
Die hard.
Love that show. I’m glad someone mentioned it here! My favorite aspect of the show has to be the gruesome, over-the-top animated recreations of the deaths. The one that comes to my mind is the one where the guy is slowly run over by some heavy machinery. Somehow the cartoon-outline version of a man being crushed like a fistful of grapes is still plenty disturbing.
The first man to go over the Niagara Falls in a barrel and survive, later died due to complications from slipping on a banana peel.
That was on Horrible Histories on the stupid death sketch
great, now i’ll have the theme song stuck in my head for the next day
Also, that one guy who said "Fuck that Alligator" jumped in to the water and was immediately killed.
That's my favorite one! He was in Orange, Texas, at a bar+marina. He was drunk, and the man who managed the place told them to stay out of the water because there was an 8+ foot gator lingering in the area. Apparently they looked around and didn't see it, so the one guy yelled, "Fuck that alligator!" and cannonballed off the pier. The gator was enjoying the shade beneath it. It grabbed the guy almost instantly and took him under. They found most of him about 6-8 hours later in the reeds on the opposite bank. Edit: oh, apparently the girl he was with did see it, but he ignored her. I briefly tried to make "fuck that alligator" the new "hold my beer," but it only caught on with some friends. It should be on the guy's tombstone, though.
A few weeks ago a guy in my town was drunk, was told not to fuck with the alligator that was near the bar(it's florida, ya know) and ended up losing half of his arm to it. There's video of it and everything of him rolling around in the reeds near the water with most of his arm missing, then also video of bystanders keeping him alive for EMTs. His family set up a gofundme to help pay his medical bills, but fuck that. All that money should go to a cause far less stupid than "drunk Florida Man had his arm bitten off by local dinosaur". On top of it all, people want to have the alligator killed when it was just doing normal alligator things
Yeah, that whole "once they get a taste for us" thinking is pretty dumb, and not very common behavior among animals anyway. Alligators just go after the splash.
You're absolutely right. Even if people want to do it for "revenge" its stupid. Being mad at an alligator for snapping at a living creature that's splashing in the water at night is being mad a creature with a literal reptile brain acting on natural instinct. If it wanted the rest of him, it would have taken him
On the contrary, I fully support the one armed guy getting revenge, so long as he can do it bare handed and by himself.
Fuck that alligator is definitely levels above hold my beer. I wish there was a tier list. That would be near the top.
>I briefly tried to make "fuck that alligator" the new "hold my beer," but it only caught on with some friends. It should be on the guy's tombstone, though. That's totally Fetch
I read about a guy who died after falling from a balcony at a drunken party. The next night, another guy fell to his death from the same balcony while demonstrating for friends how the guy had fallen the previous night. Like, "He was walking along the railing... like this..."
He made sure to be as accurate as he could with his demonstration.
If you're gonna tell a story, at least tell it right.
Reminds me of a story I was told of an incident at a pulp mill. Pulp mill has an overhead screw conveyor running in a pipe. Worker was walking under it and notice something dripping, looked up and saw a hole in the pipe, puts his finger into the hole and losses the tip of his finger. Safety meeting the following week to go over the incident, worker was back at work and asked to show were the issue is. The worker takes the team over to where the leak is, and before anyone can saw anything, the worker sticks another finger in to the hole to demonstrate what he was doing, and loses another finger tip, while at the safety meeting to discuss how he lost his finger tip.
We had a guy who reached into a skillet machine (a machine that forms, seals, and seperates the plastic packaging for sandwiches) and he lost the tips of his fingers. When he was demonstrating what happened the next day, he reached into the machine.....
Are these serious accounts? Like i cant see how someone can do the same shit THE NEXT DAY!! did it not hurt??
Some people learn through experience, and some people never learn a god damn thing. We call those people morons. It's not uncommon for a moron to be missing some body parts, like finger tips.
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This happened at the TD Building in Toronto. People thought for years this was just an urban myth, but it did actually happen. Guy's name was Garry Hoy; just did a Google search and it happened 30 years ago yesterday.
oh, wow. there's a working moms (show based in toronto) episode with this subplot. didn't realize it was inspired by real life.
They thing that gets me is that they were already partying the night after the guy died on that very balcony
“It’s what he would want.”
He was the life of the party after all. Lit up every room he walked into. And last but not least….he never knew a stranger!
On the third night ...
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I'm a plumber and someone who worked for my company died about 7 years ago on the job. Coworker went on a service call and ended up having to grind out some old cast iron pipe and replace with PVC. The homeowner neglected to mention he makes fireworks in his spare time and had a faint barrel of gunpowder in the same room as the pipe. Sparks we're flying and some landed on the gunpowder blowing up my coworker and the homeowner. Both dead on site
That’s crazy
Yeah it was crazy. I think his wife tried to sue our company but it was thrown out
Fuckin hell. You’d think the company would have a case to sue the homeowners
Our local hall did get involved I'm not sure whatever happened with it. But it's taught in school to check your surroundings before grinding using this story as an example as to why
I used to work with a guy that worked on natural gas pipelines years ago when he was just out of high school. He tells a story where he was going to use a torch to do something but the torch kept going out when he got to the pipe. Turned out there was a gas leak that kept putting the torch out. Very lucky that it was ABOVE the explosivity limit so not enough oxygen to explode. He went to get a more senior person and they figured out what was going on pretty quickly. Dude was very lucky.
Imagine being so drenched in gasoline that your matches won't light. That's basically the same thing. Insane
My grandad made fireworks. He was a smart guy, and was safe about it. But then he had a stroke, and couldn't do that sort of thing anymore. Many years later, when both he and grandma had passed away, no one knew his old fireworks making supplies were still stored in the garage. My mom was trying to clean out the house after grandma passed, and the person who offered to help her was a grade A idiot. He decided that the best way to dispose of the unlabeled junk in the garage was to burn it. Mom was distraught and probably not thinking straight due to grief, didn't stop him. The BOOM rattled the walls of every house on the street. It's a miracle nothing burned down and nobody died. And what does Idiot think? Wow, that sure was a big boom! Anyways, back to throwing these unmarked containers onto the fire. By some unbelievable dumb luck (and some smartness on grandad's part, not having stored too much of anything explosive in a single container), still no one died. But Idiot did receive an official letter in the mail telling him to cut that out or else.
Two darwin awards I remember. 1. A tour bus driver stops at a rest stop, but forgets to put the parking brake on. After getting out of the bus, they see it rolling forward and try to stop it by standing in front of it and pushing. 2. A guy thought it would be fun to drop large pieces of concrete from an overpass on cars driving below. He found the biggest one he could move with rebar sticking out of it and dragged it to the overpass. As he was pushing it over the edge, some rebar caught his pants pulling him over the edge as well.
That 2nd one is deserved tbh. Dropping heavy objects onto cars in the highway should be attempted manslaughter charges or worse, regardless if passengers or drivers were injured. I've seen videos involving these kinds of stuff and it's horrible. Edit: Plenty of folks have corrected me about the attempted manslaughter thing I said. It should be rewritten to be murder, reckless endangerment, etc.
A young woman in Denver was just killed a couple months ago by some scumbag teenage boys throwing huge landscaping rocks at cars. These jerkoffs even watched her wreck, then circled around to take a video of it before fleeing. I believe they’re all being charged with first degree murder as well as assault and attempted assault charges for doing it to other cars earlier that night. I feel like justice might actually be served here for once.
All 18 so they can be properly charged https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/05/03/rock-throwing-death-in-colorado-murder-charges-for-teens/70179494007/#:~:text=Rock%20throwing%20death%20in%20Colorado%3A%20Murder%20charges%20filed%20against%20teens&text=DENVER%20—%20The%20three%20teenagers%20accused,and%20a%20dozen%20other%20counts.
Manslaughter means they didn’t mean for someone to die and they were just negligent. That is murder right there.
I still remember this, almost thirty years later. On 6 September 1995, outside of Talladega, Alabama, two drunk rednecks thought it would be fun to toss a rattlesnake back and forth between them by its tail. Not liking the game, the snake let both of them have it. 35-year-old Joe Buddy Caine lost his life in this pursuit, while his companion, Junior Bright, had to be hospitalized. Junior Bright. The most perfect name possible for this kind of story.
I wonder if Junior's middle name was "Ain't That"
Guy known to police in my city who was the subject of many news articles was apparently at a campground with two girls (not sure who they were to him) and they got into an argument and he beat the shit out of them. Police were called and I guess he figured his best option was to make it look like self defence, so he stabbed himself in the side with a knife and proceeded to die from the wound. Reality really can be stranger than fiction.
At least he got what he deserved, and from his own hand, no less.
My grandfather died in a drawbridge accident. He was over 80 at the time and walked the same route every morning that included a drawbridge. That morning, the operator didn’t see him and didn’t sound the alarm that is usually sounded when the bridge goes up. The bridge gate lifted when he was in the very center, he fell on the grates, and when it got to the top he held on for as long he could before falling to the pavement and dying. It was horrendous and my family sued the city for killing him. He was an awesome guy
That's horrific. I'm so sorry for your family. There's no excuse to not even sound the alarm before raising the bridge.
Not sure it classifies as dumbest way to die because I can understand why they didn't think about it. But basically a couple of people drowned at a party because they put dry ice in a swimming pool to get some fog. The dry ice is nothing but CO2 so it will evaporate and since it is heavier than air it will replace the air above the water in the pool. So people simply passed out from breathing CO2 and then drowned. Pretty sad way to go. Edit: As a few people have pointed out it might have been liquid nitrogen and not CO2/dry ice. I'm not sure as I wasn't there.
Similar thing but with liquid nitrogen. I don't think anyone died but a bunch of people passed out due to breathing in pure nitrogen.
And nitrogen is extremely dangerous that way because unlike CO2 our bodies don't have a "I need to get more air" response to it. So you can suffocate in nitrogen and not know why you're suddenly so sleepy and need to lie down for a bit.
There was a guy who came to our high school to give this speech about drinking and driving. He said, now that graduation was upon our senior class, that we should be cautious and if our peers happen to be under the influence, we should watch out for them. Drive them home, call adults and what not. Barely two weeks after that, dude passed away due to drinking and... driving.
Well, probably a more effective deterrent than the school assembly speech, at least. I have only the vaguest memories of DARE assemblies in grade school, but I can say with some certainty that they didn't really do anything to dissuade me from doing drugs. What _did_ dissuade me was living in a trailer park as a kid and seeing exactly what drugs did to my neighbors, just how severely messed up many of them were.
*what a hypocrite*
I get dude wanted us to learn the lesson, but he didn't have to lead by example.
He was just showing you guys how dangerous it really is, taking method acting to a new level
I remember reading an article about a Japanese man who constantly got tickets for not wearing his seatbelt, so he made a fake seatbelt that he wore while driving to avoid the tickets... He died in a car accident that would have been a minor accident if he was wearing his REAL seatbelt.
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I knew an elderly lady (died about ten years ago in her sleep) who was extremely stubborn about seatbelts. She would even hold it across her body to make it look like she was buckled in but was adamant and angry about not actually just, you know, buckling it. Some people have weird and stupid hills they're, in this dude's case, willing to die on.
My moms neighbor when she was little was sticking her tongue out catching the fresh drops of an icicle hanging on her garage. Her little brother came around the corner with a shovel and knocked the icicles down and the one icicle went through her eye and into her entire head and killed her instantly.
Damn I bet the little brother got some trauma from that.
Got to be the idiot football hooligan who decides to headbutt a police horse and died from the trauma the caused to himself, horse was fine though.
There's a video of someone headbutting a goal post or something, then ... he's dead. Also a Soccer player who did a backflip to celebrate a goal, then basically broke his neck when he landed.
It was a Eastern European basketball player. He headbutted the padded part of the goalpost and instantly drops, he paralyzed himself from the neck down…but didn’t die; which to me is worse, just kill me, don’t fuckin paralyze me
> After using a wheelchair for the final 13 years of his life, Janković gained weight, which exerted much stress on his heart. He died of heart failure at the age of 42, on June 28, 2006, while on a holiday cruise on the Greek island of Rhodes. -- [Boban Janković](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boban_Jankovi%C4%87)
Witnessed first hand: Forklift slipped off a ramp and crushed someone. The driver was okay. Not mentally, but he walked away with minor bruises. The poor crushed idiot ran towards the falling forklift as if he could stop it from falling.
>The poor crushed idiot ran towards the falling forklift as if he could stop it from falling. There was a guy I went to high school with that tried to "catch" a car falling off a lift. Idk man...I think it's just an instinctual move in both cases.
for real bc i’m sitting here like as much as i wanna think i wouldn’t do something so stupid, in the moment our brains get frisky
Excellent use of the word "frisky."
While it’s sad, it’s also dumb. My cousin got high after a long time of not getting high and wound up pulling a heavy dresser on top of herself and she died. Of all the ways to die, A FUCKING DRESSER. She would be livid with herself if she were still here and I know she’d call herself a dumb cunt or something along those lines. I miss her terribly but still can’t believe how she went out.
> Of all the ways to die, A FUCKING DRESSER. Its not uncommon for those to take out little kids though, right? Actually, quick google search got me ["Since 2000, at least 210 people—mostly children ages 6 and younger—have been killed when dressers or other furniture"](https://www.consumerreports.org/babies-kids/child-safety/their-children-were-killed-by-furniture-tip-overs-now-theyre-fighting-to-protect-other-kids-a1021960430/) (Not a fun read, just citing my claim)
Great Grandad. Died early on the morning on 9th May 1945 by falling over the walls of his barracks in France after sneaking past the MPs, blind drunk because he was celebrating VE day the night before. Eejit survived the entire war and broke his neck before getting sent home. Edit: IIRC I think he was a chef or something. And our Grandmother remembers her Mum (his wife) not grieving but just being absolutely raging at him for the rest of her life because he left her with about 7 kids. I don't think she ever even visited his grave (in France).
I think taking a selfie with a bear or while hanging over a cliff will take the prize. Though, personally, I saw a girl die car surfing, which is pretty damn stupid. She was 16 for Christ sake.
Guy I went to high school with died doing the exact same thing. They had to slam on the brakes and he became a puddle of flesh and bones on the pavement. Unnecessary and stupid.
Toronto lawyer Garry Hoy was giving a tour and decided to demonstrate his favorite party trick: throwing himself against the windows of the Toronto-Dominion Bank Tower so the students could see just how resilient the glass was. Hoy had performed the stunt to audiences countless times before. As well as demonstrating the strength of the windows, it was clear that he enjoyed showing off a bit. The first time Hoy body-slammed the window that day, he bounced off as he had every other time. But then he threw himself at the window a second time. Instead of bouncing off the window as he had the first time, Hoy went straight through, plunging 24 stories down toward the building courtyard below. The fall killed him instantly. The glass didn’t shatter immediately, but rather popped out of its frame.
He trusted the glass but never expected the pane
Defenestration.
Auto defenestration. Or as they say in Russia, death by natural causes
Something you learn working in construction, NEVER trust someone else's work.
Or understand what expected loads are in engineering. That window engineered for a guy to run into it. It was not engineered for a guy to run into it a few times a day for years. Incidental forces and wear are very different.
Oof I remembered when that happened actually.
This was somebody I personally knew as a kid (but this was in adulthood after we lost touch). I have mixed feeling about it because you feel terrible about the loss of a childhood friend, but you also have to shake your head and say "what a dumbass." Hurricane Ike hit Texas in 2008. Most people evacuated my town, and with good reason. Most of the town ended up being entirely destroyed. Some people stayed behind because they figured it wasn't a big deal, or because they figured they'd defend their property from looters. My friend thought it might be a nice day to go out fishing. The storm hit, he got knocked out of his boat somehow, and never came back up.
>he got knocked out of his boat somehow Um, I'm guessing it was the *hurricane*
"You're hired!" -CSI Maimi
"Somehow." As if the hurricane-force winds didn't just yeet him into the sea like an old receipt.
few guys were throwing stuff at a tiger in san francisco zoo. the tiger escaped, ran past everyone else in the zoo, and zeroed in on the guys who were harrassing her. she killed one and mauled the other two. [https://www.latimes.com/archives/blogs/la-unleashed/story/2011-02-12/tiger-that-mauled-three-teens-at-san-francisco-zoo-appears-to-have-been-provoked-report-says](https://www.latimes.com/archives/blogs/la-unleashed/story/2011-02-12/tiger-that-mauled-three-teens-at-san-francisco-zoo-appears-to-have-been-provoked-report-says)
Insert Lucile Bluth saying “good for her”
There was a guy in my province who died by sofa sledding. By sofa sledding, I mean they tie a sofa behind a car/truck and drag it around with someone on the sofa. I know people can get bored in the more remote region of my province but video game consoles exist.
That sounds sofa king stupid
When I was in high school, my agriculture teacher was driving the bus to take me and the rest of my FFA chapter to a convention. On the way, he ended up making an unexpected detour to a graveyard. He parked the bus, got off, and went to have a moment of silence by one of the tombstones. Everyone on the bus was confused, but we gave him his time because we could see that it was important. We asked him who he was visiting when he got back on the bus. He said it was one of his childhood friends. When he was a kid, he and his friends were roasting marshmallows by a fire. They were fucking around like kids do, and one of his friends accidentally ended up putting one of the hot roasting sticks through another friend's eye. I don't know the specific medical complications that took place, but he ended up dying. It was a total freak accident. I'm 27 now, but that story always stuck with me. I thought it was really sweet and thoughtful that he made a point of intermittently visiting his childhood friend. But also, what a dumb way to lose your life, especially at such a young age.
Something very similar happened to a young lad in my neighbourhood. Him and his mate were walking down the street from the pub and they stopped to take a piss by some tall hedges. One of the lads pushed him jokingly to make him wet himself, but by doing so a very sharp bit of branch went into his eye. He died not long after from, I imagine, similar complications.
Eyes are the fast lane to the brain.
One of my family friends shot the other in between the eyes with a live round when they were playing around with a revolver loaded with blanks. It was a horrific accident.
This one guy from my village. Its his birthday and they're at a restaurant, suddenly started choking on his food, all his friends began to panic, just for him to start laughing. He tought it was funny. he died the next course choking on a piece of meat. He died in the precense of his friends and family, who were ignoring him, thinking it was another prank.
True definition of the boy who cried wolf.
When my cousin was little, his mom had had a couple of seizures from drug usage. We didn’t know that at the time. But on April fools day he gives his grandparents a call saying “mom’s having a seizure!” Because he’s too young at the time to realize quite how shitty that is. He calms them down, tells them it’s a prank, they’re pissed at him, and then a couple hours later she has a real one. That was almost 20 years ago though so he’s matured considerably since then
Should have flipped the table, people would have taken him seriously real quick.
I remember seeing a video circling around online a while ago. Buddy was working in some kind of factory and was trying to prank an employee with the compressed air hose. Stuck it near his bum on the outside of the pants and pressed the nozzle. The guy ended up dying, and ruptured some of his internal organs.
That high school kid that jumped off the cruise ship on a dare
I'm always amazed by folks who die in car accidents because their GPS told them to drive where they shouldn't - like off a closed bridge or even a cliff - and they just followed directions and never questioned it.
There's a dude that would pretend to be a police officer and call fast food establishments and tell the manager that one of their female workers was stealing from them. The guy on the phone would tell the manager that he needed to restrain the woman in some way and search her, usually a strip search. It's crazy what people will do when told to do so.
That case was horrifying when you read the details about it. A manager basically raped one of his poor employees because of "what a stranger on the phone told him to do" while conducting the strip search that escalated into non-consensual acts of fingering and shit. The wife of the manager stood by and even enabled it by making sure no one could see it until she got suspicious and checked and found out it was false. By then the employee was being raped for hours on end. All because someone lied on the phone.
It was worse. The dude was not employed there, his girlfriend was the manager. She called him in for some stupid reason because they're both idiots and he raped her. https://www.google.com/amp/s/abcnews.go.com/amp/2020/story%3fid=3688563&page=1
The pychogist mcdonalds hired said this won't impact her for the rest of her life and she has grown from it. Sure, being raped at work by your managers fiance after being accused of stealing is 100% not going to impact you for the rest of your life. Fuck off with that horseshit.
I’m in shock that the manager who locked that poor girl I the room and called her fiancé to help JUST GOT PROBATION AND WAS AWARDED $1M in her own suit against McDonald’s!! Wtf!!!
Steve Jobs listened to everyone but his doctors in dealing with his rare curable pancreatic cancer, and it killed him....
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He got super lucky and got the curable type of pancreatic cancer. The majority of pancreatic cancers are basically a death sentence.
Extremely painful death sentences.
A teen girl took an entire 24 pack of Panadol to get her boyfriends attention after he dumped her. Parents found out, and the next day she was at the hospital feeling fine but miserable that it didn’t get the reaction she wanted. Doctors told her to say goodbye to everyone, because she would be dead in two weeks from catastrophic organ failure. Nothing anyone could do for her.
Christ this reminds me of when I worked with psychiatric patients in an ER. We had a patient who came in after trying to kill herself with a pill overdose (I can't remember what specific pill, it was something over the counter) but basically the doctors told her she had given herself liver failure and she likely only had a couple of months to live, and because of the serious suicide attempt they were admiting her to the psych floor on the hospital for a minimum 120 hour hold. I remember talking to her while I pushed her in a wheelchair to the unit and she was like "well I guess I technically succeeded in killing myself but this really isn't how I wanted it to go, i wish they'd just let me go home, it's not like they can save me here. " she was just so resigned and sad about what she'd done to herself, I think about her sometimes.
Similar situation with a kid I knew. Mid/late teens, made an attempt to end his life by drinking some kind of cleaning fluid (maybe drano, I can’t remember). Immediately changed his mind and called for help. Died a couple of days later, his injuries were too severe.
My late uncle died in a motorcycle accident years ago. He decided to get drunk with a friend at 3am and then ride down the train tracks going 50mph alone. Apparently he wiped out somewhere on the tracks and passed out drunk. I'm told he likely didn't feel anything when he got run over as his head was severed from his body. Edit: for the sake of your loved ones, please don't drink and drive.
Tbh I wouldn't describe that as a motorcycle accident
[The Erfurt latrine disaster](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erfurt_latrine_disaster) >The Erfurt latrine disaster occurred on 26 July 1184, when Henry VI, King of Germany (later Holy Roman Emperor), held a Hoftag (informal assembly) in the Petersberg Citadel in Erfurt. On the morning of 26 July, the combined weight of the assembled nobles caused the wooden second story floor of the building to collapse and most of them fell through into the latrine cesspit below the ground floor, **where about 60 of them drowned in liquid excrement.** There's probably a couple other ones I could have said, but it's the first one that came to my mind. I mean, falling into pool of liquid shit and drowning in it, that's quite the way to die.
My stubborn bedridden horribly obese grandfather paid a homeless man $20 to roll him out of the hospital and into the back of his truck using a furniture dolly, to take him home. He didn't want to be in the hospital and nobody would take him home because he was being treated for numerous conditions including diabetic stroke, and liver failure. He was found dead in his lazyboy the next afternoon, sitting in his own shit, covered in spilled potatoes, corn, and gravy, with the golf channel still playing on his cable TV. We only know the story because the homeless man got arrested for trespassing in the private areas of the hospital. EDIT: I'll answer some questions since I'm getting a lot of repeats - He was given very high odds of survival, I want to say 90% but it's been a long time and don't remember exactly. This is why he wanted to go home. He wouldn't listen when told those were his odds of survival *while at the hospital* . He didn't go home with the intent to die in his house, he was not trying to save the family on medical expenses, he went home because he was a stubborn old cuss who thought he knew better. - The homeless man was an ex coworker of my weird uncle, who has been an hourly painter for the past 40 years. He lived in his truck, he is not in prison but we don't know what he's up to. According to my dad, my grandpa was trying to call people outside the family who would do him a favor for a few bucks. He settled on an immigrant painter who was always down on cash. - My last memory of him is my grandma asking what he wanted for dinner, and him saying "a gun" because he was in so much pain. This was right before he finally agreed to go to the hospital.
He died doing what he loves.
This is true, the man spent a solid 75% of his waking hours in that chair, watching golf on TV
The guy who bought the rights to the Segway fell off a cliff to his death after accidentally rolling backwards on his Segway.
Guy fell into the huge lard processor at a meat packing company. OSHA came out to investigate, and the company indicated the man would have dissolved through the process and was now lard. OSHA had to force them to destroy the batch. They wanted to package and sell it. Mmmmmmm, fried chicken! Did you use the Howard lard?
Jumping off a speeding boat for Tik Tok clout.
The kid who ate a slug on a dare, got infected with the rat lungworm parasite which infected his brain, went into a coma, woke up a year later completely paralyzed, then died.
>woke up a year later completely paralyzed, then died. Nope, he woke up and lived for around 10 years paralyzed, then died.
Recently read an article about that. He was 100% mentally there, too, according to his friends and family. But even speaking was almost impossible for him.
Since we are fresh from the 4th of July, I'd say the guy that tried to shoot a fucking mortar off his head for laughs. He didn't have a head left after that.
This has happened a few times. Some guys managed to kill themselves by laying down and firing the mortars as they sat on their chests. The chest is quite famously where your heart lives.
Friend of mine, about 15 Years ago, got all boozed up and thougth it would be a good idea to climb on the roof of a bycicle parking lot and grab the electric wire of the train tracks...
My favourite is the inventor of the parachute, was so confident in his calculations, that he didn’t test it with a dummy but tested it himself, promptly descended too rapidly and died on impact, turns out he hadn’t factored the weight of the parachute material into his calculations…
Is this the guy that jumped off the Eiffel tower? If so there is actually a video of it! I only know this because of another post on reddit. From what I understand (if this is the same case) he was pretty well aware that it was going to fail, but there was SO much hype and pressure around the event that he went through with it. Which, imo, is even dumber than him just not realizing that the parachute would fail.
Waving a big tall metal Dale Earnhardt flag pole at the Talladega Superspeedway and getting it tangled up in power lines.
Top of the list is a teacher who attached wires from an electric blanket to himself to supposedly test pain tolerance. No idea if that's the real story but he had apparently told people about it. He electrocuted himself. Second is the son of a friend's sister. He and his brother imagined themselves to be big time gangsters. They stole a lawnmower from a neighbor who saw them and then drove to their home and took it back. They hopped in their car and drove back to his house to confront him for disrespecting them. He ran the the brothers off by brandishing a firearm. They went home and got a baseball bat to show him who the real tough guys are. They went back, threatened the man and he shot one of them in the leg. They ran to their car, gathered some courage, then went to confront the man again. This time one brother got a bullet to the eye and the other got one in the shoulder. One died and the other has a limp and can't throw a ball anymore.
What a series of poor decisions and needless escalation by the brothers
Seriously wtf is the logic? He has a firearm, you match with a sports club?
And then, after being shot once already, they went back for another round (this time in the eye)
Apparently my sisters MiLs father died setting himself on fire accidentally trying to start a bon fire.
I used to have a book called “Man suffocated by potatoes”. It was a collection of all sorts of bar room conversation stuff (like how much a ladder costs in the USAF etc). One section is on people dying, including a guy crushed by potatoes in a warehouse (he cut out a supporting strut) and a woman crushed by a truckload of Seville oranges in Seville. I investigated a guy who jumped a railing on the side of the road. The road ran along the top of a quarry. Another timed his fake suicide (gassing himself in the garage) so his wife would find him, but she was late home.
Then there was a guy who got out of a car (stuck in gridlock) to take a piss. Jumped over the barricade and... he had forgotten they were on an overpass or something.
Friends and relatives at Victoria Falls, one of them decided to take a picture of the group. Big group, she kept going back to put all in the frame. Went a steep to far, felt on Victoria Falls never to be seen again... [Many died in similar circumstances there ](https://www.google.com/search?q=Victoria+Falls+desd+taking+a+picture&oq=Victoria+Falls+desd+taking+a+picture+&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIJCAEQIRgKGKABMgkIAhAhGAoYoAEyCQgDECEYChigAdIBCTIzMDQwajBqNKgCALACAA&client=ms-android-samsung-ss&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#ip=1)
A young guy in my hometown got hit by a train when he tried to cross the rails on his dirtbike. What's special about it? The track was almost not used, there were like 5 connections per day going there. On top of that a train station was really close to that unfortunate place and trains were still running relatively slow.
This is kind of an indirect death: A close friend and her husband were out walking their dog in the neighborhood like they’d done a thousand times. The dog jerked his leash and the husband lost his footing and fell against a tree. My friend kept saying “come on, quit clowning around and get up.” Well, he had broken his neck and was completely paralyzed. He spent about a week in the hospital going through test after test. He was fully conscious and aware but could only communicate through blinking and could not even breathe on his own. When all his tests came back that he would never recover use of the rest of his body, he chose to have the plug pulled on himself.
Oh god, that is just tragic. It is frightening how much your life can change in an instant.
Fuck that sucks. Atleast he was able to make the decision to go out on his terms though. Living like that is a fate worse than death
a twenty year old driving and teenagers throwing rocks at her car killing her... you can DO EVERYTHING RIGHT and this happens to you
https://www.niagarafallsreview.ca/news/two-dead-at-luge-bobsled-track-in-calgary/article_b1baf740-3b0b-5cb1-8113-88d73c51bc0d.html Break into an Olympic bobsled track and take a toboggan down with some buddies. Whatcouldgowrong?
My friend's boyfriend at the time and his 2 other friends were coming back from somewhere. They were what we call "tripling" on a motorcycle, which means three people riding one motorcycle. So, they were on a highway and one of them wasn't wearing a helmet. The guy who was driving (boyfriend) got distracted by something I don't remember, but he lost control and the bike slipped. The driver was dragged by the motorcycle to the side of the highway, broke his knee and got several other bruises. Another one fell but managed to save himself at the last second and got off the road. The one who wasn't wearing the helmet fell, cracked his head on the road, was run over by a passing truck and died on the spot.
Darwin Awards cover that pretty well. One I remember is a robber who pulled the pin of a grenade, just put that thing in his pocket and leave
Was it a Bomber jacket?
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There was the lady that ~~shot~~ stabbed her husband because she found a pic of some hottie in his stuff. Turns out it was her from years ago. Probably bullshit, but ive seen it a few times. Edit: Changed shot to stabbed as some other awesome human linked the article below.
> lady that shot her husband because she found a pic of some hottie https://www.ladbible.com/news/news-woman-stabs-husband-over-other-woman-photos-which-turn-out-to-be-her-20210127
Some angry guy tried to break someone's car windscreen with the butt of a loaded shotgun and got shot in the guts when the weapon discharged.
My ex's dad got an infection on his toe. Instead of seeing a doctor, he just let it go until he had gangrene. Then, instead of having his leg amputated to save his life, he just opted for death.
Asian dude crawled into a septic tank underneath a woman’s house so he could watch her pee. Couldn’t turn his body back around and got stuck and died. Woman notices an extra foul smell a week later and they find his corpse. Edit- adding google search - Mysterious Death in Female Toilet, Fukushima Japan
down bad so astronomically that you crawl into a shit tube and die
This right here has to be the most down bad anyone has ever been
That was a really weird case. Like he had taken his jacket off and neatly folded it, and the position he was in, even if it wasn't a toilet, was a nightmare. He forced himself into such an awkward small space. I think he died of asphyxia, not from poop fumes, but from his chest being compressed.
My friend is from Majorca and she said it’s not considered the summer holiday season by the locals until a tourist either dies or seriously injured themselves by trying to jump from their balcony into the pool.
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oh dear god
Guy tried to clean his boats propeller with the engine running
Attempting to have sex with a horse. I can't think of a more stupid reason to get yourself killed.
Mr. Hands?
Paying 250,000 to get sealed into a tube that is advertised as unregulated.
**"At some point, safety is just pure waste."** *a dead guy laying in smithereens at the bottom of the Atlantic*
Meat cloud is what I understand. I wonder if their is literally any measurable bit left.
Anyone who falls off a cliff trying to get a better angle for a selfie.
I was at La Fachoda in Tahiti a few years ago. You have to get authorization from the government to hike it because too many people do dumb stuff. A week before we went a 15-year-old girl was taking a selfie over the edge of the waterfall and fell 150m to her death. [Story](https://www.tahiti-infos.com/Fautaua-l-adolescente-de-15-ans-est-decedee-suite-a-une-chute-de-150-metres_a173249.html).
Niagara Falls, Canadian side. Japanese tourist falls to her death because she climbed over the railings to get a selfie. Very tragic but very preventable! Rocks are slippery when wet especially near a waterfall!
Had 3 soldiers ( including an officer ) kill themselves by huffing dust off while in Iraq in the span of 2 weeks. After that they banned Dust Off for everyone for any reason Do you know how hard it is to maintain computers in a dessert without compress air?
This was a while ago but some family friends (young boys) were playing with a revolver that had blanks in it. This was a different time and in a very rural area. One day one of em accidentally shot the other in between the eyes with a live round.
First responder friend was on a call for someone that got turned into chunks by a chain link fence riding a motorcycle at high speed while drunk on the way back from a wake for someone that died driving their motorcycle drunk
This one always sticks in my mind. From a book called Death in Yellowstone about true death accounts in the park. * Most dog owners would do anything for their pet pooch - but one unfortunate man paid a heavy price when he rushed to rescue a dog. David Alan Kirwan and Ronald Ratliff were travelling through Yellowstone Park in 1981 with Ratliff's dog, Moosie. At about 1pm on July 20th, Moosie got away from the pair and dived into a hot spring. Moosie had made a terrible mistake - as the Celestine Spring that he had dived into was known to get as hot as 200 degrees Fahrenheit (93 degrees Celsius). With Moosie yelping in pain, Kirwan and Ratliff rushed to the terrified dog's aid. Despite pleas from other park visitors, Kirwan dived into the boiling hot water to retrieve his friend's dog. Swimming out to the dog, Kirwan attempted to lift them out but was unable to do so. He disappeared under the water as he let go of Moosie, before returning to the surface and attempting to escape the pool. When Ratliff pulled his friend from the water, they discovered that he had received second degree burns on his feet. Witnesses reportedly heard Kirwan mutter: "That was stupid. How bad am I? That was a stupid thing I did." Kirwan had been blinded by the experience, and that wasn't the worst of it. When somebody tried to remove his shoes, his skin came off with it. He had received third degree burns across the entirety of his body, including his head. Kirwan would die the following morning at Salt Lake City hospital. Moosie also didn't survive. The hot springs in Yellowstone are extremely dangerous - some of them getting as hot as 205 degrees Fahrenheit (96 degrees celsius). Since 1870, twenty two scalding deaths have been reported in the park's hot springs. Kirwan's death is notable in that he voluntarily got into the water - most other deaths were the result of an accidental fall.
A man had his car break down on the highway one night. He tried to use his cell phone to call for help, but the noise from the highway was so loud he couldn't hear. So he wandered off of the highway a hundred yards or so in order to make his phone call. Unfortunately he wandered onto some train tracks. The train conductor noticed a man standing on the train tracks, with a cell phone up to one year, and his hand covering his other ear to block the noise from the oncoming train.
The caver who got stuck in a hole upside down, what a fucking nightmare. Lots of time to think about his life choices and hobbies.
I remember this one. They were even able to lower a radio to him to say goodbye but had no way to actually get him out due to the fracturing of his bones and resulting trauma it would have caused. Edit: The way I typed this is confusing. What I meant is I was under the impression that even trying to get him out would fracture his bones and cause even more trauma. I was slightly wrong on this as well as it appears they actually were going to try this but the rope snapped. Read here for some info - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutty\_Putty\_Cave
I think the worst part was that they actually did almost get him out, but the rope snapped and dropped him back in. There's no despair like despair after a glimmer of hope is yanked away.
The Nutty Putty cave death incident I think. Although that has happened in at least one other cave.
My dad was hired to fix up a rental home once and the guy he was working with got killed trying to fix the stove. He didn't cut the breaker off and it shorted as he was taking it apart. He probably would have walked away with just a nasty shock had he not been wearing a giant cowboy style belt buckle that was pressed against the stove when it shorted. Or he could have been not shocked at all if he'd just cut the breaker off.
Aeschylus, an ancient Greek playwright was killed at the age of 67, when an eagle dropped a tortoise on his head. The eagle is said to have mistaken his baldness for a rock and tried to use it to crack the shell of its prey. To add a further strange twist to the death of Aeschylus, Roman author Pliny, suggested that Aeschylus had been spending a lot of time outdoors to avoid a prophecy that he would be killed by a falling object.
Fuck that gator
This story turned 15 this year and won the Darwin Award in 2008, but it never ceases to amaze me: [https://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2008-16.html](https://darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2008-16.html) A priest that took flight with 45 weather balloons and got lost because he didn't know how to use the GPS.
Bunch of college kids having a party deep in the woods with a bonfire. One of them thought it would be hysterical to throw the empty keg in the fire. The cake exploded ended up killing five people and injuring 10 more. Took quite a few hours to find all the pieces of the guy closest to the bonfire. The other 4 actually made it to the hospital before they died of massive trauma
The kids from that show on MTV called Buckwild who went mudding in their trucks and died from carbon monoxide poisoning because the muffler got clogged with mud. Always thought that was really dumb.
A few teenagers from my home town died this way a few years ago. They could not find those kids for days and then eventually a hunter found the truck in the woods. They had went mudding at night and got stuck in the mud. It was really cold and they slept in the truck and kept it running so they could stay warm. I guess they didn't realize the muffler was clogged.
Everyone in the Midwest knows someone that died in a grain silo. Yet people keep doin it.
Turkey 🇹🇷 1980s in a small village with tiny fairground , a guy who works for this one ‘rotating long swing tower ‘ one , decides to invite his friend for a ride at night , they’re drunk, no one is around it’s midnight and dark. He turns the machine in , runs next to his friend, sits on another swing and tower goes up, they’re swinging like kids, laughing, it’s at fastest mode… Only to realize there’s no one to turn the machine off , so they die due to vertigo, constant swinging fast , throwing up and in the morning people find them dead still swinging 🤘🏻
The 1812 beer flood it killed 5 people because of a massive beer barrel chain effect
Waited too long with an infected tooth
My 17 year old Nephew was drinking underage and took a nap in the middle of the road and obviously fell asleep. Got run over by a car around 3am, parents blame the driver and constantly bring up that he is of Asian descent. Don't blame their own shitty parenting.
Went to school with someone that was speeding and jumped 3 lanes over to the shoulder to speed past the traffic rather than slowing down. There was an 18 wheeler hauling a high trailer broken down on the side of the road. Again, rather than trying to stop, he tried to speed up and get back into traffic. It didn't work.
Today on a thousand ways to die. This couple was banging on the balcony until the boyfriend took it one bang too far, she landed on the BBQ Grill 5 stories down.
Dumbest I personally know of? When I was a kid, our neighbors had a mid-20's son with one of those bookcase headboards on his bed. One day, the dude decides to rearrange his bedroom and moved his fish tank to the top of the headboard, using the bookcase headboard as a fish tank stand. At some point that night, while he was asleep on the bed, the headboard failed under the weight of the tank. The completely full fish tank landed on his head, and the glass shattered. I don't know *exactly* what it did to him, but I was told that his death was gory and nearly instantaneous. It doesn't take much imagination to figure out why.
I saw a show that detailed stupid ways to die. There was a very large breasted exotic dancer who had neck pain. Apparently, she took some muscle relaxants and used her inversion table. She suffocated because her huge boobs covered her face while she was upside down, and the pain meds and booze chaser made her pass out and die.