Embarrassingly Dumb Ways People Died - Darwin Awards Winners [Part 11]

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 some of the unfortunate souls who've selected themselves out of the gene pool winning a posthumous darwin award in the process dumpster drank of all the places you should never gather a nice refreshing drink from a landfill site is pretty high on the list or at least it should be but for one couple from belarus a landfill seemed just as good as a convenience store for acquiring drinks back in october 2020. while scouring the local dump as you do a man found this bottle filled with a mysterious murky liquid and took the bottle home to share its contents with his wife it seemed the pair assumed it contained some perfectly safe to drink homemade hooch and like a nice bottle of wine after a hard day's work popped it open to share unsurprisingly the next day the couple became extremely ill and while emergency services were called it proved too late the concoction in the bottle it turned out had indeed been homemade alcohol but its owner had seemingly disposed of it after realizing it wasn't very good at all in fact it was completely poisonous as a result the couple kicked the bucket together after what might be considered the worst romantic dinner of all time pretty dumb right well i'll tell you what most certainly isn't dumb doing yourself the favor of liking this video and subscribing to be amazed with fascinating and funny content posted daily it might just be the smartest thing you do today now back to some folk who are the opposite of smart on the fence some people will go to great lengths to protect their personal possessions but one brazilian man's desperation to keep his car safe from thieves back in 2010 proved to be his downfall as robberies were becoming increasingly frequent in his local area the fellow decided to keep his car protected by building a miniature electric fence around it only this wasn't any old touch it and get a slightly uncomfortable warning shock kind of fence this one was amped up and designed to hurt a lot for a while it seemed to work well seeing as nobody stole the car but things soon came to a shocking conclusion when on one occasion he forgot he'd left the electric fence turned on when he attempted to move it aside to get into his car he was electrocuted and he'd built his contraption with such a high current that it killed him talk about being your own worst enemy a refreshing swim how far would you go to save your phone would you be crazy enough to dive into an icy partially frozen river to retrieve it well one man from detroit did exactly that in february 2020 while fishing through a large hole he'd cut out of the ice the fellow accidentally dropped his phone into the water clearly lacking in any notion of self-preservation he dove straight into the hole after it unfortunately he failed to realize that sudden submersion in ice-cold water can be pretty bad for the human body it can send you into shock can instantly paralyze your muscles if you haven't received training beforehand and can even cause a heart attack due to intense constriction of your blood vessels whether one of these physiological problems took hold or whether he simply became disoriented under the ice remains unclear all we know for sure is that he didn't re-emerge until several hours later when emergency responders pulled his lifeless body from the water we can only assume he must have had a glorious collection of cute animal pics on his phone to make jumping into icy doom seem worth it lesson not learned as the kovid 19 pandemic came into full swing in 2020 it brought a lot of darwin award contenders out of the woodwork one example occurred at a serbian orthodox church in november 2020 following the death of a high-ranking bishop the bishop's death had been caused by coronavirus yet the funeral held at the church showed no regard at all for the types of conditions that led to such an infection the funeral was essentially a checklist of everything you shouldn't do if you want to avoid the disease there was large crowds in an enclosed space countless people being fed holy communion from the same unwashed spoon and of course countless people kissing the hand of the recently deceased who i must reiterate died of coronavirus on top of that there were only a handful of people wearing masks in a twist you probably saw coming almost immediately after the funeral the church patriarch who'd organized and led the event also became seriously ill with covet 19. he too died having willingly failed to respect the advice of scientists on one of the most serious health disasters of the past 100 years i just hope his funeral was a little more restrained clotheslined there are many dangers facing motorcyclists on the road but one of the greatest of all is a rider's own recklessness this was proven one morning in 2008 when one motorcyclist took the ride of a lifetime near manasota key in florida witnesses reported seeing the risky rider wearing nothing but swim trunks and sneakers speeding towards the mana soda key drawbridge which was in the process of being raised up he ignored the flashing red lights warning drivers to stay away from the bridge and instead attempted to accelerate hoping to jump the ever-growing gap news flash he didn't make it he'd failed to spot the safety gate arms which had already descended he crashed head first straight into one of the gates and was instantly swept from his bike and onto the asphalt while the bike itself continued up the ramp across the gap to the other side while the rider failed to survive the ordeal at least one of them made it across proving a point on may 19 1885 a man named robert emmett odlum sent out to be the first man to jump into new york city's east river from the brooklyn bridge his reasons for this strange aspiration were surprisingly well-meaning for the most part first and foremost he sought to prove that against the commonly held beliefs of the time people did not die by simply falling through the air he hoped this demonstration would encourage people to be willing to jump from burning buildings into a safety net in the incident of a fire as people were too distrusting of this idea at the time he also hoped to achieve some fame in proving it was safe but unfortunately any hopes he'd had of reassuring people about the safety of leaping from great heights were soon dashed when it came time to jump as oddlam left from the bridge's roadway 130 feet up he attempted to stay straight in the air but a strong wind blew him into a diagonal angle of descent this meant when he eventually struck the water the angle of impact caused some serious damage slapping the water at approximately 62 miles per hour it exerted enough force to rupture his spleen liver and kidneys and break several of his ribs the official cause of death however was declared to be concussion on the bright side people now know that rapidly falling doesn't kill you as much the landing in the words of british tv legend jeremy clarkson speed has never killed anyone suddenly becoming stationary that's what gets you hazard prevention sometimes you really have to wonder about people's sense of logic case in point two guys who suddenly landed on a sense of hazard awareness after doing something incredibly dangerous and stupid back in 2002 in a farm field in pennsylvania two friends were practicing their marksmanship by shooting not at bottles or cans but the electrical insulators holding power lines aloft overhead after shooting six of the insulators off of two utility poles a live high voltage wire fell to the ground risking setting the entire surrounding field ablaze suddenly seized by an uncharacteristic sense of health and safety one of the men rushed over to the wire and attempted to pick it up to move it to prevent danger the instant he seized it in his hand the powerful current passed through him and he was fatally electrocuted the lesson if you're going to suddenly grow a conscience maybe try doing it before you do something lethally stupid safety first the saying practice what you preach has never been more ironically fitting than in the case of one man who met his untimely demise in australia in 2017 while filming a forklift safety video the owner of a safety training school was thrown from the forklift he was driving and fatally crushed by his payload an investigation revealed that despite what the intentions of the video had been the man had broken several crucial rules to forklift safety he was driving over rough uneven terrain at high speed all while not wearing a seat belt alongside an unhealthy sprinkling of driver error it proved that sometimes you really should listen to your own advice don't go chasing waterfalls as most rational people can easily conclude safety advice displayed at dangerous locations tend to be there for a reason not so bright people however often seem to have problems grasping this idea this was proven by one woman on a pleasure trip to a natural waterfall at a tourist hotspot in cocka colombia in january 2020. while searching for the perfect selfie angle the woman ignored safety warnings about wandering too close to the edge of the waterfall paying more attention to her phone than where she was headed she ended up plummeting over the waterfall's edge straight down into the boulder and rock-filled pool below the hard landing caused enough damage to her skull to set her expiry date to right there right then how many misguided lives will be lost before people finally learn selfies are never worth dying over vending fatality at some point you may have heard you shouldn't shake a vending machine because it might fall on you but nobody ever believes that's ever actually happened right well as it turns out it actually did happen back in 1984 in safety harbor florida as a newspaper article from the time recounts a man had been attempting to get a can of soda from the vending machine in his apartment complexes recreation center whether he paid his cash and the machine failed to dispense his goods or whether he just decided to shake it to try and get a free drink remains unclear to this day all that's known for sure is that an hour later the thirsty fella was found utterly crushed with a vending machine on top of him yeesh going by this tale if you want to stay safe safety harbor is not the place to go especially if you're thirsty troublesome transport in 2020 a poorly chosen seating arrangement on a bus resulted in the unexpected demise of several people in manitou india while being transported to a wedding venue on a very overcrowded bus several of the guests climbed up onto the rooftop for the ride this was of course already a very risky idea from the risk of falling off alone but it wasn't a fall that proved to be these rooftop riders is ruin their downfall came instead in the form of some high tension relatively low hanging electrical wires at their lofty perch the riders were at head level with the wires and before they had the chance to react three of them struck the exposed wire directly and were electrocuted one was killed instantly another succumbed to his injuries later while the third survived albeit thoroughly fried next time i've got a feeling he'll just wait for the next bus to come instead watching the skies if an opportunity presented itself for you to communicate with extraterrestrials would you take it and if so how far would you go to make sure you didn't let the chance pass you by well one woman put the chance to commune with little green men above her own safety back in 1982 believing she'd been contacted by some type of intergalactic power she convinced a willing companion to accompany her in carrying out the instructions of her alien contacts she claimed they'd commanded her to drive out to an isolated location in the northeastern minnesota wilderness and await further instruction assuming this would be a hugely significant moment in the interstellar advancement of humankind the pair did exactly that despite the extremely snowy winter weather once parked up in the designated location they dutifully awaited the arrival of their extraterrestrial acquaintances and they waited and waited and waited unfortunately their food supplies ran out after a week and they lost access to water when the nearby lake froze over still they refused to leave their post on the off chance that the aliens appeared while they were gone putting total faith in the idea that the aliens would appear before anything bad happened to either of them they stayed in the freezing cold with nothing to eat or drink eventually frozen starving and fatally dehydrated the woman died shortly after the man accompanying her in his much weakened state and with the car having been rendered unusable by the icy conditions crawled through a quarter mile of snow to save himself he survived but his alien contacting partner did not and their little green guests never showed up i guess the aliens must have got the wrong address best seats in the house for as long as there have been sports events requiring tickets there have also been people trying to find ways to watch for free this unfortunate tendency to save a bit of cash proved to be the quite literal downfall of a number of football fans in san francisco back in 1900 to avoid the ticket fees between 400 and 500 supporters clambered onto the roof of a glass factory so they could view a game taking place at san francisco's nearby old recreation park stadium but in a twist of fate that somehow occurred to none of them as a possibility the factory roof proved incapable of supporting all that weight 20 minutes after kickoff not only did the roof collapse but it also sent the revelers falling directly onto the blazing hot brick cover of a furnace vat filled with molten glass to paint a picture of how hot this furnace was several of the men who fell onto the cover instantly caught ablaze 22 of the participants in this ill-thought-out plan were sent shuffling off this mortal coil from the incident while 100 more suffered serious injuries while people today may still not have learned their lesson to always pay for tickets they seem to have learned not to pile on mass onto factory roofs in the years since deadliest catch being a magician can be a dangerous job at times particularly if you specialize in risky looking illusions while many classic nail-biting tricks are often much safer than they seem some of them are genuinely hazardous if not followed correctly like catching up bullet tricks now obviously tricks of this category under normal circumstances are never actually supposed to involve real bullets being fired by a magician's assistant but in 1889 an early performer of this trick had a serious mishap on stage magician and cabinet maker michael hattal took to the stage promising his audience he could catch a speeding bullet using nothing more than the american flag wrapped around his body he called an assistant up to the stage and asked him to pick two pieces of ammunition from an ammo box for hattal to load into a rifle at this point attal would usually switch out the rounds for blanks but on this occasion he accidentally swapped the real ammo for more ammo the volunteer took aim and fired delivering a fatal blow to the unfortunate performer luckily hatal survived just long enough to take responsibility for the blunder clearing the volunteer's name on his deathbed on the bright side he certainly gave the audience a performance they'd remember [Applause] man vs cactus staying on the topic of firearm mishaps now we have the story of one man who lost a shootout against a stationary target in 1982 a couple of petty criminals headed out into arizona's sonoran desert for a decidedly dumb purpose shooting at cacti their targets of choice were the local saguaro cacti which can grow well over 40 feet tall a fact which should have probably raised some alarm bells but it didn't and the tremendous size and weight of each cactus only made them more appealing targets the first cactus was shot down without incident thanks to the powerful blast of a 16 gauge shotgun but the second target was larger at almost 30 feet tall one of the cactus vandals moved into point-blank range to deliver the kill shot pulled the trigger and brought huge chunks of the two-ton spiky behemoth raining down upon himself he was killed almost instantly by the weight of the spiky chunks that landed on him while his buddy lived to share the tale i suppose the moral of the story is don't bring a gun to a cactus fight something to lean on in august 2020 an attempt to pose for a picture in an unusual spot ended very badly showing just why you should be careful what you lean on the photo opportunity in question occurred for one man at a large statue of a cross in sao paulo brazil the man climbed up the central concrete column of the cross and onto one of the arms where he posed for a picture giving a thumbs up however he overestimated the strength of the upper beam which he lent against while the picture was being taken as he lent on it the beam came loose and toppled right over sending it and the man falling straight down to the ground a particularly nasty landing waited for him at the bottom and to make matters worse the heavy beam landed right on top of him with the man's religious photo opportunity ultimately proving fatal if there is a god it looks like he doesn't appreciate selfies alligator affection sometimes the universe seems to have a funny tendency of punishing people who put too much faith in their own good luck particularly those who willingly put themselves in unbelievably dangerous situations like one woman who put too much faith in her ability to not get eaten by hungry wild animals in kiawah island south carolina in may 2020 while in a drunken state the woman decided to get ways deep in a local pond which she knew was home to an alligator this was despite the friend who watched from horror at the shore warning her the gator had been observed chowing down on a live deer a few days earlier instead of taking that as a sign of the gator's killing power the woman instead retorted i don't look like a deer and waited over to pet the reptile the gator of course wasn't too keen on this idea and grabbed her with its powerful jaws miraculously the woman managed to break free and began wading back to the shore telling her friend i guess i won't do that again and she was technically right because she wouldn't have the chance why because the gator grabbed her again while she was retreating and dragged her below the water to her demise unfortunately one very important realization came all too late to this woman you don't mess with alligators a dangerous mix in the world of lethal combinations there are few dangerous pairings more obvious than water and electricity but some people totally failed to grasp that fact like one man in new york who grew impatient after a storm damaged some power lines along his street leaving him without electricity somehow he'd landed on the idea that he'd be able to fix the problem easily if he could just remove the downed wires and replace them himself assuming he knew better than the emergency workers guarding the downed wires to keep the public safe the man repeatedly attempted to gain access to them but after being shooed away several times he decided to wait until the cover of darkness at which point he returned to the site with plastic bags on his feet for what he must have assumed was total protection from any electric threats he began his idea of a fix attempting to fast-track the repairs he tried to cut off part of the downed wire with an industrial power saw while absentmindedly standing on the wet puddle-covered floor left by the storm as his saw reached the metal core of the wire which he'd failed to realize was still live his body and the wet puddle his feet were in provided the perfect circuit to the ground he was electrocuted with a full force of 4800 volts needless to say while his determination to help was commendable a human body just wasn't made to endure that kind of a shock in a moment of lethal stupidity the d-i-y-o-y moment proved fatal well and truly earning this man a darwin award have any darwin award winners made headlines in your local area let me know in the comments below or email me at stories bmas.com for the chance of a shout out in a future video thanks for watching you

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Length: 23min 13sec (1393 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 31 2021