Embarrassingly Dumb Ways People Died - Darwin Awards Winners [Part 18]

Welcome back to another episode of our Darwin Awards series!

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[michael]

“Can you guess what happened? Consequences.. consequences happened” is by far the single funniest thing I’ve heard on this channel and I watch every vid. Keep up the good work!

[thekarlkeeper]

I heard a joke once that went like this:
There’s two men defusing a time bomb in a building. One has the scissors for cutting the wires, and the other is reading from the bomb defusal manual.
The guy reading from the manual says “It says here to cut the blue wire…”
*snip*
“…after cutting the red one.”

[vladtheimpaler]

As a wise man once said
"Only two things are infinite: The universe and human stupidity."

[antonanderson]

In 1931, British novelist Arnold Bennett was dining in Paris with his partner, Dorothy. He drank two glasses of tap water during the meal, scoffing at Dorothy's claims that the water in Paris was not properly treated to be safe to drink. Within two days, he contracted typhoid fever and died two months later, on March 27 1931.

[WeirdbutTrue]

Well theoretically this series can never come to an end

[itztwiztxdkhriz_]

Story: Back in 2019 a super paranoid dude decided to set up a Home Alone-esque trap, it was literally a SHOTGUN attached to his front door that would activate whenever someone tried to entered the home, well an hour or so later the dude himself opened his own front door and triggered his own trap...And this is why you install security systems and cameras.

[dustybunny]

I wanna buy that Darwin Awards poster and take it to my nephews elementary class and replace their 'Where's Waldo?' poster and see how long till someone notices.

[antonanderson]

In 2013, an unknown 60-year-old Belarusian fisherman was out fishing when he suddenly spotted a beaver. Wanting to have his picture taken with it, the man made the incredibly dumb decision to try and grab the 30 kg rodent. Now beavers have large skulls with powerful chewing muscles, as well as four chisel-shaped incisors that are really sharp--sharp enough to gnaw through tree bark and wood--that continue to grow throughout their lives. In other words, it would REALLY hurt if the beaver decided to bite him, which of course was exactly what ended up happening. The beaver gave the overly-handsy fisherman a nasty bite, and he eventually bled to death as a result. Moral of the story: admire nature, but do so from a distance.

[ZapperRS]

This part won't end anytime soon. Can't wait for episode 20

[Zyktofren]

I have a story from my country: In 1996, the competition organizers were surprised by a candidate from Poland. The award went to a farmer, Krzysztof A., who decided to prove that he was the biggest macho in the world by cutting off his own head. The winner, together with a group of drunk friends, organized a masculinity competition. When one of the participants cut off his leg with a chainsaw, he responded to the challenge by decapitating himself. This is not the end of the story, over the body of the "champion of masculinity" one of the friends paid a short tribute with these words: "even though in his youth he dressed in his sister's underwear, in the end he died like a man".

[mochmn]

how do people die in dumb ways so frequently that this man has made 18 parts of this series…

[antonanderson]

On October 27, 2019, Pamela Kreimeyer, a 56-year-old from Marion County, Iowa, was killed during an explosion during a gender reveal party. In an attempt to film a gender reveal worthy of posting online, members of her family filled a steel umbrella stand with gunpowder. Instead of emitting a shower of sparks as intended, the metal pipe failed to contain the overpressure, and the device acted as a pipe bomb instead. Kreimeyer was struck in the head by a metal fragment and was killed instantly. When will people learn that explosives and gender reveal parties rarely mix well?

[antonanderson]

In January of 2019, an unknown man from Massachusetts died after eating a bag and a half of black liquorice every day for a few weeks, which caused so low potassium levels in his body that his heart stopped. Liquorice contains glycyrrhizinic acid, which along with its metabolite glycyrrhetinic acid interferes with the body's ability to retain potassium by mimicking the hormone aldosterone, resulting in excessive excretion of the nutrient in cases of overconsumption, a condition referred to as pseudohyperaldosteronism. If you ever needed another reason to avoid eating black liquorice, here you go!

[GalenNight]

I have one from when I was a teenager.

A local boy in Auburn, CA, let’s call him Felix for this story, was apparently going to dive off the No Hands Bridge into the American River in March of 2010.

Here’s a problem though. That river is pure snow melt and no one really swims in it til summer time and the water’s warmed up a bit. What’s worse is people have drowned in this river before.

But he was throwing caution to the wind I guess so he jumped in and died from drowning cause the sudden shock of the cold water made him reflexively gasp for air and filled his lungs with water. He wasn’t found til two months later miles down river.

What’s tragic is he was a high school senior and about to graduate with the rest of us.

[caydenno]

18:32 a apple a day keeps the doctor away a raw marmet kidney one day takes your life away

[McMiner]

I'm kinda surprised I'm not seeing any Florida Man stories here, however, I'm kinda glad too, because I myself am Floridian and I've never seen anyone do anything like anything I've seen on this channel. At least not in person...

[piggyplayzmc]

Y-Pestis is actually not Bubonic plague, it’s Pneumonic plague which is significantly deadlier. It was a specific strain of the Black Death which made up the majority of fatalities. It was this strain Giovanni Boccaccio was referring to when he said “Plague victims had lunch with their friends, and dinner with their ancestors in paradise.”

[sandrasausville]

It is just amazing how there's so many Darwin Award winners out there 😂😂

[harryboyes]

I'm the son of an Australian truckie, and if there's one thing Dad taught me about big rigs, it's don't mess with them. Ever. It all but guarantees a Darwin award. Bring on part 19.

[gunnerjooy]

The best series is

100% getting that poster!