Embarrassingly Dumb Ways People Died - Darwin Awards Winners [Part 10]

despite all the advancements of modern society people still find ways to fall through the safety nets and put themselves in danger some people are so dumb no amount of health and safety regulations can keep them around past their self-inflicted expiry date so without further ado let's marvel at the unfortunate souls who selected themselves out of the gene pool winning a posthumous darwin award in the [Music] process geocaching out for those with a love for the activity geocaching is a great way to get outdoors and put their exploration skills to the test the rules are simple use some form of gps alongside other navigational techniques to find hidden geotag containers in the great outdoors once the container is found you sign the logbook inside and hide it ready for the next geocacher to find sounds enjoyable but for four geocachers in the czech republic in 2018 their lack of common sense turned fun into fatalities according to reports weather warnings of storms and torrential rains weren't enough to stop this group heading out on their exploration which wouldn't be so bad had their destination not been this extremely long underground waterway i wouldn't even go in there in the sunshine but the group still ventured in and when the storm pushed a huge wave through the tunnel the extent of their mistake quickly became apparent while two of the explorers survived being swept down the tunnel the other two weren't so lucky carried away into a powerful river they soon drowned and were later found washed up along the shoreline worst of all they never found the geocache going on a treacherous trip like that they should have known they were taking a one-way path to geocaching out corona kiss if you're a normal sensible person you probably understand that people with infectious diseases are probably best given some space but a man from the indian state of madhya pradesh chose to reject this approach completely after he started telling people he could heal illnesses like coronavirus by kissing their hands unbelievably superstitious folk began taking him up on the offer by the dozen but with the contact between the healer's lips and countless hands it wasn't long before unbeknownst to him the healer caught coronavirus and with each hand he kissed he unwittingly began passing the virus onto other people ultimately 19 people were infected after coming into contact with the deluded healer though they didn't have to wait long for justice to be administered by the time the 19th person had been diagnosed the healer had died from the virus as far as i can tell no amount of kissing is going to bring him back and hopefully nobody tries sanitized sipping with all the delicious drinks available in our modern society this next story will leave you asking just why that's because in june 2020 a number of people in santa fe new mexico decided to try drinking hand sanitizer likely as a substitute for alcohol now it goes without saying that hand sanitizer isn't good for you but unlike most sanitizers this particular brand happened to contain methanol a highly toxic substance out of the individuals who were found to have consumed the sanitizer one was left permanently blinded by methanol poisoning three were in critical condition and three more died almost immediately so unless you want an agonizingly painful death where your insides feel like they're on fire opt for a tequila shot not a sanitizer slammer eccentric tastes ridiculous deaths are nothing new for humans indeed the ability to die in a ridiculous manner seems to go beyond any particular era this is proven by the story of one man who died on july 14 1908 in goldfield nevada the man whose name remains unknown was found dead in the street next to an empty tub of library paste this was a type of glue-like adhesive used to bind paper and was mostly made of water and flour apparently being unable or unwilling to acquire an alternative food source he tucked into the paste eating most of it unfortunately though the batch that this fellow had fished out of a trash can appeared to have turned bad or possibly even solidified in his body while he ate it not that it's advisable to consume library paste in the first place but this guy's meal choice ultimately cost him his life his unusual demise is commemorated in a gravestone referred to by goldfield's locals as the pace eater's grave while truthfully the guy was probably just super hungry it doesn't change the fact that this is one seriously embarrassing way to be memorialized needing to vent when the staff at 17th street market in delhi in knoxville tennessee opened up shop one morning in june 2019 they expected a day like any other however when they turned the in-store stove on ready for the day's hot food they never expected the screaming that began coming from inside the building's ventilation duct when police arrived soon after they were able to figure out who the source of the screams were it turned out a heavily intoxicated man had climbed onto the store's roof the night before and attempted to climb down the vent and into the store but horrifyingly the vent proved to be too small to fit through and he became thoroughly wedged when the morning crew came into work and started the cooker the heat transferred up the vent making the metal walls incredibly hot by the time the police pulled him out he was already badly burnt and unconscious and he expired in the hospital a few days later whatever's waiting for him on the other side at least it can't be much worse than the way he went out spray paint pariah you don't have to be smart to be a criminal but it certainly helps if you're planning to stay alive for a while but smarts were not the strong suit of a man from south carolina who robbed a sprint phone shop back in 2009. moments before the robbery took place the man spray painted the entirety of his face in an attempt at a disguise naturally there's a reason robbers tend to favor balaclavas and masks over this unique approach neither of those two other options are lethal to breathe in and while the burglary itself went off without a hitch the spray-painted rubber began having trouble breathing once it was over before long he was dead having been choked out by the noxious paint fumes you think it'd be obvious but if you're getting your robbery fashion tips from this guy you're asking for trouble final trick if you ever find yourself inclined to make the claim that you're immortal you should think twice before attempting to prove it if you don't you might end up like one psychic medium from chiang mai thailand his downfall came during an attempt to carry out so-called proof that he couldn't be killed by plunging a sword into his chest now it transpired that he'd performed this supposedly supernatural feat a number of times before and had made it out alive but that was only because he was actually a big phony and used swords that were designed to break on impact making it appear like his skin couldn't be pierced but when he tried the trick again in april 2017 the weapon failed to break and instead penetrated straight into his chest unsurprisingly the human body doesn't tend to appreciate that sort of thing and he died shortly after in the hospital making both his fakery and stupidity public all at once but at least he didn't have to face the embarrassment i guess fashion no no now it should obviously be commonly accepted that women can wear whatever makes them feel good but for one taiwanese woman in 2019 a slightly more practical outfit would undoubtedly have led to a different outcome than the one she met known online as the bikini hiker the 36 year old made a name for herself hiking mountains around taiwan wearing only bikinis while her outfits may have been great for the beach they don't offer the protection of standard climbing clothes something the bikini hiker learned the hard way on several occasions but the graces to her legs she sustained after a tumble in 2018 were nothing compared to the fall she took in january the next year hiking alone in yushan national park in the snowy coldness of winter she fell down a ravine and was unable to climb out she called for help on her satellite phone but poor weather caused delays in the rescue and by the time help arrived she was frozen to death it goes to show if you want to get online attention try to avoid doing something with a high risk of becoming a human ice cube unless you're the real ice cube of course no stealing when some people leave this mortal coil they leave behind a mystery so bizarre it truly does seem stranger than fiction like when a resident of calhoun county alabama spotted a skull in their front yard in 2019. initially it was unclear where it had come from until a burnt to a crisp headless body was found at the bottom of a utility pole badly decomposed a fifth of a mile away though initially baffled the police soon put the puzzle pieces together revealing the utterly crazy truth the man had been attempting to illegally wire up his home to the street's electricity to get it for free unfortunately though he didn't seem to have the first clue what he was doing nor did he understand how dangerous playing around with power lines was at some point during the attempt the man made contact with the live wire shocking himself to death but how did his head end up so far down the road here's the weirdest part of all the neighbor who discovered the skull claimed his dog has dragged it there apparently having torn it from the electricity fried body pretty shocking right pain for fame in the world of online entertainment it takes a lot of work to make great content and get it seen by as many people as possible trust me i know and sometimes you have to take risks to reap the rewards but one spanish youtuber tried to reach too high too soon by taking a risk that most definitely didn't pay off breaking into a cement factory in the dead of night with a friend the youtuber hoped to kick up his numbers from the six subscribers he had with an extreme stunt while wearing a parachute he climbed to the top of a 165 foot tower and when the moment was right he jumped but disaster struck as he realized his parachute wasn't opening with nothing he could do his friend watched on in horror as the reckless attempt at online recognition ended with a loud thud ouch the youtuber didn't survive so obviously that's not a good way to get subscribers but if you're interested in learning more about how to avoid a humiliating demise subscribing to be amazed is the best way to do it with daily content and regular updates to the darwin awards series you're currently watching i guarantee you won't regret it sting operation in life some of the things we assume are universally understood to be bad ideas are occasionally seen as great ideas by the dimmer folk among us like how if i were to ask you to swallow a mouthful of wasp spray you'd probably think i'd lost my mind but in 2019 boone county west virginia saw the rise of an alarming trend people had begun using wasp spray as an intoxicant and it turned out to be about as safe as you'd expect while some reports emerged of milder symptoms after use including extreme swelling and redness of the hands and feet as well as erratic behavior other cases were more serious three people died after the harmful spray triggered allergic reactions following repeated usages proving to whoever was too dumb to see it before you don't inhale wall spray shouldn't that be obvious go cart departure when you think of motor racing accidents you probably picture high-speed sports cars flipping over a load of times and exploding but as this next story proves not all demises on the track are so morbidly mesmerizing to behold one night in august 2019 at the showtime speedway in florida two people snuck in and started racing around the track and go cards but while zooming along one of the rookie racers failed to spot a guardrail across the lane he was driving in and he crashed into it at full speed wearing no helmet and with no safety harness on his go-kart he took the full force of the impact and was later declared dead in the hospital as far as bad ass ways to die go death by go-kart has to be last place over the finish line taking a tumble sometimes generally smart people make incredibly stupid decisions and in the case of one philadelphia medical student one awful decision came at an extremely high price for reasons unknown the student had decided it'd be a good idea to jump between the rooftops around his apartment in the northern side of the city but after several successful jumps his luck ran out on his final leap he came up short and fell two stories to the ground below though the foam might have seemed survivable from afar he hit his head on the way down which proved fatal almost immediately the unfortunate incident provides an important lesson it doesn't always take plummeting from 160 feet for a fall to be fatal and making the foolish decision to mess around at even a slight elevation can prove fatal you'd think a medical student would know this but perhaps he hadn't reached the jumping across rooftops part of the course yet tis only a flesh wound some people love to live life on the edge like these guys who captured themselves performing a practice known as car skiing whereby a car turned sharply at speed allowing it to drive on two wheels two of them even made the brazenly stupid decision to lie in the road during this time while these fellows will likely meet a deadly end if they keep it up their love of risk-taking hasn't caught up with them yet but in august 2019 one brazilian man's disastrously dumb drunken risk-taking did indeed catch up to him when he and his friends stumbled across an orange snake with white and black stripes instead of heeding nature's natural color warning they did the opposite with the misplaced confidence only excessive drinking can afford the man picked up the snake in his bare hands and waved it around mocking the creature reportedly this was normal behavior for the man and something he'd often be seen doing after a few too many beverages but the reptile would have the last laugh because it just so happened to be a coral snake one of the most venomous species in the world eventually it decided enough was enough and bit the man on the hand at first he laughed it off and continued to hold the snake but mere moments later he was on the ground fighting for his life as the venom made its way around his body by the time he made it to the emergency room it was already too late i don't know what they taught this guy in school but i can tell you one thing first-hand experience is absolutely not the best way of learning about how snake venom works don't make a scene for many people who have done bad things in their life there's often a turning point at which they begin to seek redemption on the other side of the coin some people are total pieces of work right up until their final moments like one unpleasant man from cornumont france who's trunkin planned to hassle the customers and staff of a kebab restaurant one evening in may 2019 proved a fatal mistake after shouting obscenities insults and threats at the people in the restaurant he proceeded to punch through the front window severely injuring himself in the process his lacerations were so bad that within minutes he was on the floor quickly growing pale but even as his final moments of consciousness slowly faded away he continued his barrage of verbal abuse of the people around him going out with a bang is a desire for many people but i wonder how many hope that banks followed by the smashing of glass and a dictionary's worth of swear words french swear words at that sacred blue weight problem it's a very real fear for many people that one day they'll bend over and their pants will split from having gained too much weight or that a chair will collapse when they sit on it of course neither of those are necessarily fatal but what one unfortunate canadian tourist experienced in his final moments in chiang mai thailand can be described as true fatal embarrassment disaster struck for the canadian when he attempted to ride a zipline across a forested creek while the recommended max weight for zipliners at the spot was 275 pounds the man reportedly weighed upwards of 300 pounds it remains uncertain whether he disclosed his full weight or whether the organizers decided to turn a blind eye to his obesity but regardless the outcome proved a man of his size should never have been allowed to take the plunge that's because the moment he left from the platform the rope and safety locks pulled tight and immediately broke sending him plummeting 160 feet into the force below as you can imagine it was far from a soft landing and ultimately proved fatal of course the accident wasn't entirely this man's fault it was clearly some serious negligence on the part of the people running the zipline but there's no denying being obese enough to snap a harness and fall to your death is one of the most humiliating ends imaginable a dangerous mix it doesn't take a genius to know that mixing flammable compounds together without understanding the effects is an outrageously dumb idea but unfortunately that realization never occurred for one man from new zealand back in 2018. in an attempt to improve the efficiency of his metal welding setup the man decided to try his hand at a little chemistry modifying a gas container he attempted to mix oxygen with acetylene a highly flammable gas usually these two are kept in separate containers though of course that doesn't keep them completely safe when there are fate tempters like this around but in the case of the new zealand welder his diy redesigned container meant that the usual measures for controlling gas flow and stopping too much oxygen being added were absent this meant that when he attached a welding torch to the container and sparked her up boom in a flash the shed he'd been working in was flattened to the ground and he was killed in the explosion rule number one of explosive compounds don't use them as your personal chemistry experiment questionable cure if someone commanded you to guzzle down a mouthful of bleach you'd probably throw it right back in their face but unfortunately religion can make people do some crazy things in the name of faith as demonstrated by a disturbingly stupid event that occurred in zambia in 2019 at a particularly faith-focused church the congregants gathered one april day for what they assumed would be a normal service but soon their clergyman who referred to himself as a prophet of god proposed a new way of purging his congregation of their demons insisting it would be an act of faith he commanded his followers to drink from a bottle of bleach and with the pressure of their faith overpowering any senses of reason or self-preservation an alarming number of the congregants drank up right on command as a result of blindly following a man who by all means appeared to be insane 27 of the churchgoers died and another 18 were put in critical condition the lesson here is clear if your local spiritual leader asks you to do something this dangerous tell them where to stick it call the police and find yourself a new way to worship that doesn't involve guzzling cleaning products angle grinder investigation if on your travels you found a metal object that looked kind of like a bomb you'd probably get as far away from it as possible right well when one man from the pulva municipality of estonia stumbled across an old rusted cylinder that looked remarkably like an artillery shell he failed to make the connection instead his curiosity was piqued and he nonchalantly picked the object up and took it home for investigation but rather than taking the utmost care to avoid triggering the thing his seemingly total unawareness of what it might be led into a much more invasive approach firing up his angle grinder the man set to work on cutting the thing open to see what was inside but seeing as the object was indeed a bomb from a war of the past the inside became the outside very quickly because it exploded killing the man the phrase curiosity killed the cat comes to mind though i don't imagine the person who coined that phrase envisioned the cat being killed in the fiery explosion but then again cats don't tend to make the supremely bad decision to cut open bombs with angle grinders that kind of stupidity is reserved solely for us humans have you encountered any tales of people removing themselves from the gene pool in spectacularly stupid ways let me know in the comments section below or hit me up via email at stories bmas.com for a chance to be featured with a shout out and a future episode and as always thanks for watching and stay safe out there

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Published: Tue Nov 24 2020