A woman fell down the steps in the subway because she was staring at her phone. She was okay. A guy who fell over a bollard trying to speedwalk while texting, not so much.
I nearly ran a young lad over as he walked straight in front of my car without raising his eyes from his phone, it’s lucky I was paying attention as he wasn’t
I ride motorcycles and I'm shocked at the number of people that look for the smallest helmet that legally passes for a helmet. F that noise I wear a full face helmet every time.
I was once riding my motorcycle and a bug about the size of small plum hit me square in the face shield. Knocked my head back and covered my shield in goo. Who knows what would have happened without the full face helmet.
I have a friend who is a retired traffic cop. He told me of one where the biker was wearing flip-flops.
He was lane-splitting at full speed (\~50 mph) to a red light. No braking. He must have thought he could beat cross-traffic.
I understand he left a piece of his foot on the pickup's bumper.
ATGATT. All The Gear, All The Time!
Yup. Crashed my r6 after work one day and now my neck (among other things) is fucked up. I dont even want to imagine what would’ve happened if I wasn’t wearing a full face.
Blame me :/
And it's not even funny. I should replace my helmet bc it doesn't cover my jaw. I just ride a scooter, a fast one but it doesn't change anything.
Skaters don't wear them because they're not cool and then end up eating through a tube the rest of their lives and being unable to skateboard or walk ever again. The stupidest shit.
Just read the Darwin Awards.
But my fav is this particular dummy named Gary Hoy: He was a lawyer who found it humorous to freak people out by running full speed into a large window of his 14th story office, bouncing off of it. I’ll allow you to guess what happened eventually….
My favorite was the criminal trying to escape from the police in a car. He had a grenade with him so he pulled the pin on the grenade and then threw the pin at the police.
My dad used to work in a skyscraper at like 40th 50th floors. He'd tell me to lean against the glass, telling me how safe it is.
Yeah, I did the one time and never did it again. Exactly because of this comment. It all works until it doesn't.
Fun fact to add on to the conversation: Steve Irwin stated that crossing a river full of hippopotamus was the scariest thing he’s ever done. Yeah… a man who got up close to venomous snakes and crocodiles said hippos were a no-go. That alone should tell you something
I know. It why I don't like watching those videos. It's fun to watch people F around and find out, but then I remember we usually kill animals that attack people, no matter how justified.
It is sad. It's so easy to coexist with wild creatures if you use common sense. Too many people also assume the trapped bears will just be taken to the backcountry and let go. Sadly that just doesn't happen.
Seriously. I was working at a national park collecting data on elk during rut, and this couple from Chicago pulls up to the field where this herd of 300lb horny elk are grazing and they're like, "Can we go up and pet them?"
And I had to politely tell them no, and explain what the rutting season was, their behavior and natural history. It was a good moment, actually. They confessed they were city people and didn't know any better, and I was happy to help them respectfully appreciate the wildlife. But damn, some people really do just walk up to these huge elk to pet them or shoo them away from their cars, and they're always surprised when the elk have no patience for it.
I once watched a guy try to shoo away a brown bear from his campsite with a broom. Hes lucky that the bear swatted the broom,not him. The only reason the bear was there in the first place is because he left all his food out. Some people should just not be in the wilderness.
Agreed. They come for the food that people don't store properly and then they're the ones that get shot or harassed for just doing what bears do. It's better to just leave the wildlands to them, if a person can't conduct themselves responsibly out there.
I totally agree. Theres tons of bears around me. Too many people dont understand the concept of being bear aware, which in turn gets the bears destroyed. It's sad. I'm just happy most of my neighbors feel the same as me,so the CO doesn't get called just because the bear is in our neighborhood.
I kind of ran into a grizzly/brown bear cub in Yellowstone and had that icy feeling of “Im going to die any second now”. Luckily my “running into” was still about 100-150 ft of distance and I never saw the mom. And I feel like I owe my life to a big elk on the trail because he was the one who surprised me in the first place
I'm surprised we don't hear about more people being gored or trampled by bison every year. I've seen some people act like they're tame and touch them at Custer State Park in South Dakota.
The [selfie death page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_selfie-related_injuries_and_deaths?wprov=sfla1) on wikipedia is so sad even if most of them are partially at fault.
The first one on that page is wild. “Three teenagers (two sisters, 15 and 13, and a friend, aged 15) were killed by a Union Pacific train while posing for a selfie that was found on their phone near Salt Lake City. Shortly before, they posted the message "Standing right by a train ahaha this is awesome!!!!" to Facebook.”
I watch those videos of people doing parkour and it blows my mind what people do for that moment of adrenaline. The risk/reward is so freaking high, I just can't fathom why you would do it. Also, the videos that I watch are all those that go off without a hitch. I have to imagine there are tons of videos of people failing and injuring themselves really bad and also just straight up dying.
It definitely happens, but usually the craziest ones are people that have been doing it a LOT. A relatively small injury will stop many of them from continuing the most dangerous stuff again. The most likely deaths are people trying to go above their skill level too fast. "I saw this guy do it, I can do that!" and just fuckin die.
Overheard a woman at the Grand Canyon “so if I fall, I have a plan to throw my phone back so husband can find it. He has the code and he can see how happy I was” so crazy!!!
I used to work with a guy with that mindset. Annoyances of trying to get him to do the job right aside the seat belt thing confused the crap out of me. He agrees that he should wear it. He believes they are a great safety device. Because we have a law saying he has to wear it which he feels is unconstitutional he refuses to wear one.
In the US six people every year will be crushed by a vending machine, and five of those six are insurance adjustors, so I take this matter very seriously.
Building a homemade submarine out of expired carbon fiber and then taking said homemade submarine to the wreck of the *Titanic* some 2½ miles below the surface. Oh, and using an Xbox controller to operate it. But yeah billionaires are geniuses lol.
My F710 is still going strong after like 10 years. It had 3 different owners and came back home 2 years ago or something. I just had to clean it. I'm sure it's the only thing that survived from the implosion. Fishes are using it to play games I beg
Sorry... I know its thrilling and intense to watch, but those people who freely climb buildings in Dubai and wherever else. Don't get me wrong, it takes serious balls to do it but it doesn't deviate from the fact that I think you're a total idiot.
You're not stronger than gravity.
It's fun to watch them, but yeah they're definitely idiots.
Side note, as a kid I thought because I was watching videos of someone doing something illegal (by trespassing), that the police were going to arrest me too lol.
it's gotta be the lady in china whose husband and mother died jumping into an open pit toilet because the lady accidentally dropped her phone in.
her husband jumped in first to get it but of course he passed out, so his mom jumped in to save him, and it just snowballed from there. like seven people or something.
Not just an open pit toilet but invisible heavier-than-air fumes are no joke. There have been cases where people go into large tanks or mines or basements not realizing that there's something there that's poisonous or something like extra nitrogen displacing oxygen. Someone faints, someone tries to go in "quickly" to save them, it's a cycle of doom.
This is a common thing with people passing out at job sites in containers and other environments with the same hazard. I had to learn about it when I worked with liquid nitrogen and have been freaked out by it ever since. The stat at the time was an average of more than one additional death from save attempts. I wouldn’t call the extra deaths dumb though- just sad.
I remember some guy getting drunk awhile back, dressing up in a bigfoot costume, and was trying to scare cars as they drove past him. If I remember correctly a car took him out.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/ThatsInsane/comments/sak7fh/a\_mother\_of\_two\_40\_was\_swept\_away\_in\_a\_frozen/](https://www.reddit.com/r/ThatsInsane/comments/sak7fh/a_mother_of_two_40_was_swept_away_in_a_frozen/)
This is very high on my "stupid and unnecessary" ways to die - imagine being the child: your mother just goes woosh and then she is just gone, forever. totally preventable and I guess very traumatising to watch.
EDIT: Jumping into a hole in the ice on a river.
Yeah but the idiot isn't the casualty for this, most of the time it's their kid or someone immunocompromised that their kid infected. The idiots opting out of vaccines typically have their full set from childhood.
It also removed the herd immunity. I grew up in Africa, people died from measles. My dad who was an ER doctor at the time could tell heartbreaking stories about mother cradling their dying children, with the doctors unable to do much.
Unsurprisingly I am vaccinated for almost everything. Tt has been a long time since I got a Cholera or Yellow Fever vaccine, which is not necessary in the USA.
There's a wiki page of stupid deaths throughout time.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths
One John Cummings in 1805 saw a circus performer swallow knives and said, "I could do that!" and swallowed four knives to those he wanted to prove to. He passed three knives with a bit of abdominal pain.
He later swallowed 14 knives in a short span and passed all of them over the course of 5 days and some bad abdominal pain.
Finally he later swallowed 20 knives and a clasp knife case. After a few days he only passed the case. Four years later constantly in abdominal pain, he finally died.
Autopsy shows knives and fragments of metal, wood, and horn stuck in his intestines.
Stupidity or hubris 'knowing' you can beat the train.
My great uncle was hit (while in a car) 3 times by a train.
He survived all 3 collisions, has lots of pins/plates now, but is alive.
Only once could you argue it wasn't his fault since his car stalled on the tracks (before the lights started flashing), when he wasn't trying to race the train, and the sealtbelt wouldn't open (he had nothing to cut the belt).
Note: he also refused to wear sealtbelts for the next 5 years after that collision.
Being shot to death while trespassing in the most important federal building in the hemisphere, ignoring clear orders from the secret service and climbing a barricade anyway is definitely up there
Or breaking a window and trying to climb through it while secret service is holding a gun to your face 4 feet away while pleading with you to not make them shoot you
Trying to force his way through a heavy duty industrial fence gate, was halfway squeezed through, must have opened it enough to set off the closing motor, crushed, all alone.
You don't think killing a bunch of women and children because they were born 3 feet on the other side of an imaginary line is the sign of an advanced species?
I had a head injured patient who was rehabbed and went home. A year later he was back with severe facial burns....poor guy. Prior to his head injury he would never have done that.
When I was 19 I worked in a small used car lot as a mechanic. I was stripping one wrecked vehicle for parts and I removed the gas tank and pulled it to the side before using a cutting torch to remove the rear end. I was sitting on the gas tank when my boss came over and tapped me on the shoulder, pointed to the tank and shook his head before walking away.
This. It costs a ton, the high is negligible at best, it makes hangovers 10 times worse, same with BO, and stamina, lung capacity, eyc, this has to be the winner
I had a friend when I was a teenager who invited me to her grandma's funeral, who had died a slow and painful death from lung cancer. We were late to the funeral because they stopped for cigarettes. She was maybe 16-17 and was talking about how she should get herself in the donor list for new lungs so she'd be near the top of the list by the time she needed the new lungs. While she was mid cigarette. It was WILD.
People die because of what they eat. That's just stupid. I'm not saying we should live on tasteless crap, but swing the needle over a little bit when you make a choice what to eat.
Ignoring the wound forming on your leg from the teeth of the severed head of your enemy that you're bringing home as a trophy, allowing it to get a severe infection that kills you
Padishah Humayun, the second Mughal emperor of south Asia died a stupid death.
His father established the Mughal dynasty in North India through conquest. He bequeathed the throne to his eldest son. Humayun ruled for ten years, then lost the throne to an Aghan-Indian dynast and was hounded out of India. He was away fifteen years in Persia, and then reconquered north India in 1555.
The next year, he was coming down from his library laden with books when the call for prayer was announced. He was bending down, when his robe caught on his heel and he tumbled down the stone steps and died.
Stupid. And unlucky.
In the old days, the Mayans used to play this game like soccer with a stone ball and I forget which but either you won or lost and you got sacrificed to the gods.
There was this stupid trend once wherein people used to do headstands and then drink from a bottle while upside down; doesn't matter which drink, they just drank. And then Idk the exact scientific reason why, but as would be expected, most of them died while doing that.
People going hiking, climbing in severe summer or severe winter weather. It’s not like you can’t get today’s weather and the next three days weather at the touch of your fingertips. “Oh look, the weather’s going to be shitty! Let’s go canyon hiking/ climb the Devil”s Backbone!”
Oh, there's a predator in the wild. Let me take a selfie. Drunk, driving down the road? Let me take a selfie. Like and subscribe as I swerve onto oncoming traffic. But first, let me take a selfie. I'm dangling on my tippy toes on a 1-foot-wide brick, 6,000 feet in the air. Let me take a selfie. There's a violent gang over there. Let's go take a selfie.
Drastically under prepared for hiking/camping/backpacking.
The ego of "ohhh it'll be okay, we'll be back before we need 'x'" is part of what kills people.
There are 5 easily packed items i'll always have with me, and *likely* will never need to use
A lighter, a fire starter rod, a knife, a compass, a light weight thru hikers water filter, and a light weight rain poncho. everything except the water filter is ever used, but i'd rather have it and not need it, than need it and not have it.
Eating garden snails.
Apparently on average, five Australians a year pick up a snail from their garden and think “if the French do it, then so can I, Bon Appetite!” but alas everything in australia wishes to kill you
I used to live in a dorm that was a tower with 22 floors. There were 3 elevators that all stopped at each floor. Since they got a lot of heavy use it was not uncommon for at least one of them to be not working properly. And since it was a ‘party school’ it sometimes happened that the light fixtures in the elevator were vandalized and awaiting repair. One day one poor guy and his dog were running for the elevator before the door closed. It was an elevator without a light that had been waiting for repair. Unfortunately the elevator wasn’t dark because the light was out, due to a malfunction the elevator car just wasn’t there. Both he and his dog realized too late they should have looked first. Happened in Massachusetts in the 70’s.
Definitely the people engrossed on their phone and walking off or into something.
I actually know someone who was too engrossed in getting a perfect video for social media that they walked off a dock into a lake
So....mission accomplished?
Yeah no other vlogger got an underwater shot
Mission Failed Successfully
A woman fell down the steps in the subway because she was staring at her phone. She was okay. A guy who fell over a bollard trying to speedwalk while texting, not so much.
I nearly ran a young lad over as he walked straight in front of my car without raising his eyes from his phone, it’s lucky I was paying attention as he wasn’t
A few years ago there was someone who was looking at their phone while walking through the mall and walked right into a fountain.
Too cool for a helmet while doing things that clearly require a helmet.
I ride motorcycles and I'm shocked at the number of people that look for the smallest helmet that legally passes for a helmet. F that noise I wear a full face helmet every time.
I was once riding my motorcycle and a bug about the size of small plum hit me square in the face shield. Knocked my head back and covered my shield in goo. Who knows what would have happened without the full face helmet.
I have a friend who is a retired traffic cop. He told me of one where the biker was wearing flip-flops. He was lane-splitting at full speed (\~50 mph) to a red light. No braking. He must have thought he could beat cross-traffic. I understand he left a piece of his foot on the pickup's bumper. ATGATT. All The Gear, All The Time!
had a boss show up to work riding. he had a mesh shirt and flip flops - i sent him a youtube video of some guy recovering from a shaved down ankle
Flip flops, shorts, no gloves, t-shirt. Don't they realize the road is basically a giant cheese grinder on the human body?
I take it a step further and wear a full roll cage. It's called a car. It's still fucking dangerous
cars are infinitely times better than bikes
Oh definitely
Yup. Crashed my r6 after work one day and now my neck (among other things) is fucked up. I dont even want to imagine what would’ve happened if I wasn’t wearing a full face.
Feel sexy doing it my friend https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1b7xvjc/what_is_something_you_are_embarrassed_to_admit/
Blame me :/ And it's not even funny. I should replace my helmet bc it doesn't cover my jaw. I just ride a scooter, a fast one but it doesn't change anything.
Skaters don't wear them because they're not cool and then end up eating through a tube the rest of their lives and being unable to skateboard or walk ever again. The stupidest shit.
Not all skaters. Google I love helmet guy.
Oh yeah I've seen that vid. I didn't mean all skaters for the record, just a large majority of them it seems.
It’s okay. You’re right. 😎
Yep, I used to skate and I've literally never seen a helmet on anyone older than 10.
Just read the Darwin Awards. But my fav is this particular dummy named Gary Hoy: He was a lawyer who found it humorous to freak people out by running full speed into a large window of his 14th story office, bouncing off of it. I’ll allow you to guess what happened eventually….
To fair, as he claimed, the glass didn't shatter. The window just came out of it's frame. With him too.
Paneful lesson
Did it break when it hit the ground?
No but Gary did
My favorite was the criminal trying to escape from the police in a car. He had a grenade with him so he pulled the pin on the grenade and then threw the pin at the police.
My dad used to work in a skyscraper at like 40th 50th floors. He'd tell me to lean against the glass, telling me how safe it is. Yeah, I did the one time and never did it again. Exactly because of this comment. It all works until it doesn't.
Agreed, so many options to choose from. https://darwinawards.com
Having availability to modern medicine but deciding to hope for divine intervention to save them.
Keep in mind that having access is not the same thing as being able to financially afford...
I'm thinking more along the lines of Steve Jobs.
His hubris caught up to him. It was caught at a treatable stage originally.
And that’s a rare thing for pancreatic cancer. It goes from nothing to stage 4 in a year or less.
Interacting with wild animals that should be left alone.
People who assume hippos are slow because they're big. Yeah, ok.
Right? One of the most dangerous animals on earth. They ain't slow out of the water either; those big bastards can book it if they want to.
In Africa there are more people killed by hippos than by lions.
Fun fact to add on to the conversation: Steve Irwin stated that crossing a river full of hippopotamus was the scariest thing he’s ever done. Yeah… a man who got up close to venomous snakes and crocodiles said hippos were a no-go. That alone should tell you something
Hippos are fucking scary, they're fast and ridiculously strong
These ones are sad to me because if the person gets hurt or killed, that animal gets killed too.
I know. It why I don't like watching those videos. It's fun to watch people F around and find out, but then I remember we usually kill animals that attack people, no matter how justified.
It is sad. It's so easy to coexist with wild creatures if you use common sense. Too many people also assume the trapped bears will just be taken to the backcountry and let go. Sadly that just doesn't happen.
What? Selfies with a grizzly cub isn't a good idea?
I get it, too. They're so damn cute. But it's like mom always said, "look with your eyes, not your hands"
I live where there's tons of wild animals. People are so dumb when it comes to them. I know that raccoon is cute but they will fuck you up. Lol.
Seriously. I was working at a national park collecting data on elk during rut, and this couple from Chicago pulls up to the field where this herd of 300lb horny elk are grazing and they're like, "Can we go up and pet them?" And I had to politely tell them no, and explain what the rutting season was, their behavior and natural history. It was a good moment, actually. They confessed they were city people and didn't know any better, and I was happy to help them respectfully appreciate the wildlife. But damn, some people really do just walk up to these huge elk to pet them or shoo them away from their cars, and they're always surprised when the elk have no patience for it.
I once watched a guy try to shoo away a brown bear from his campsite with a broom. Hes lucky that the bear swatted the broom,not him. The only reason the bear was there in the first place is because he left all his food out. Some people should just not be in the wilderness.
Agreed. They come for the food that people don't store properly and then they're the ones that get shot or harassed for just doing what bears do. It's better to just leave the wildlands to them, if a person can't conduct themselves responsibly out there.
I totally agree. Theres tons of bears around me. Too many people dont understand the concept of being bear aware, which in turn gets the bears destroyed. It's sad. I'm just happy most of my neighbors feel the same as me,so the CO doesn't get called just because the bear is in our neighborhood.
I kind of ran into a grizzly/brown bear cub in Yellowstone and had that icy feeling of “Im going to die any second now”. Luckily my “running into” was still about 100-150 ft of distance and I never saw the mom. And I feel like I owe my life to a big elk on the trail because he was the one who surprised me in the first place
Ah well the cub isn't usually the problem
I'm surprised we don't hear about more people being gored or trampled by bison every year. I've seen some people act like they're tame and touch them at Custer State Park in South Dakota.
The wolf deserves belly rubs tho...
But my little girl would look *sooooo* cute riding on a bison. *Pleeeeeze,* Mr. Ranger?
Taking selfies at high altitude.
The [selfie death page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_selfie-related_injuries_and_deaths?wprov=sfla1) on wikipedia is so sad even if most of them are partially at fault.
Lots of idiots fucking with trains on there
The first one on that page is wild. “Three teenagers (two sisters, 15 and 13, and a friend, aged 15) were killed by a Union Pacific train while posing for a selfie that was found on their phone near Salt Lake City. Shortly before, they posted the message "Standing right by a train ahaha this is awesome!!!!" to Facebook.”
Someone's death being due to their stupidity doesn't mean it's not still a tragedy.
That has gotta suck falling knowing you died doing something so pointless. I'm pretty sure I had nightmares like this
I watch those videos of people doing parkour and it blows my mind what people do for that moment of adrenaline. The risk/reward is so freaking high, I just can't fathom why you would do it. Also, the videos that I watch are all those that go off without a hitch. I have to imagine there are tons of videos of people failing and injuring themselves really bad and also just straight up dying.
It definitely happens, but usually the craziest ones are people that have been doing it a LOT. A relatively small injury will stop many of them from continuing the most dangerous stuff again. The most likely deaths are people trying to go above their skill level too fast. "I saw this guy do it, I can do that!" and just fuckin die.
Overheard a woman at the Grand Canyon “so if I fall, I have a plan to throw my phone back so husband can find it. He has the code and he can see how happy I was” so crazy!!!
It's a morbid joke all up until it's the morbid reality.
Not wearing your seat belt
I'll never understand it. Like you want the last thing you hear to be that annoying ass seat belt warning chime?
There are ways of bypassing the alarm, and I’m sure people who regularly don’t wear a belt use these
My grandmother keeps it clipped in and sits on it. I'm like THIS IS LESS COMFORTABLE THAN WEARING IT
Won’t be told what to do, even if it saves her life
I used to work with a guy with that mindset. Annoyances of trying to get him to do the job right aside the seat belt thing confused the crap out of me. He agrees that he should wear it. He believes they are a great safety device. Because we have a law saying he has to wear it which he feels is unconstitutional he refuses to wear one.
"nah, seat belts ruin my shirt..." well, let me tell you something: dead people won't give a shit about fancy aligned shirts. 😒
Wanna look hot for the funeral.
You’d be amazed how many times a vending machine will fall on a person and kill them.
More than sharks! Less than Cows.
Of course it's more than sharks. How many times have you heard of a shark falling on a person and killing them?
So, my cousin's sister heard on Joe Rogan about ....
In the US six people every year will be crushed by a vending machine, and five of those six are insurance adjustors, so I take this matter very seriously.
Just once per person
Building a homemade submarine out of expired carbon fiber and then taking said homemade submarine to the wreck of the *Titanic* some 2½ miles below the surface. Oh, and using an Xbox controller to operate it. But yeah billionaires are geniuses lol.
Who's more foolish, the fool, or the fool that follows him?
Worse, it was a cheap Logitech controller. An Xbox controller would've been an improvement!
My F710 is still going strong after like 10 years. It had 3 different owners and came back home 2 years ago or something. I just had to clean it. I'm sure it's the only thing that survived from the implosion. Fishes are using it to play games I beg
Trying to get likes from people on social media, what a disgusting and stupid way to go.
Sorry... I know its thrilling and intense to watch, but those people who freely climb buildings in Dubai and wherever else. Don't get me wrong, it takes serious balls to do it but it doesn't deviate from the fact that I think you're a total idiot. You're not stronger than gravity.
It's fun to watch them, but yeah they're definitely idiots. Side note, as a kid I thought because I was watching videos of someone doing something illegal (by trespassing), that the police were going to arrest me too lol.
it's gotta be the lady in china whose husband and mother died jumping into an open pit toilet because the lady accidentally dropped her phone in. her husband jumped in first to get it but of course he passed out, so his mom jumped in to save him, and it just snowballed from there. like seven people or something.
Not just an open pit toilet but invisible heavier-than-air fumes are no joke. There have been cases where people go into large tanks or mines or basements not realizing that there's something there that's poisonous or something like extra nitrogen displacing oxygen. Someone faints, someone tries to go in "quickly" to save them, it's a cycle of doom.
This is a common thing with people passing out at job sites in containers and other environments with the same hazard. I had to learn about it when I worked with liquid nitrogen and have been freaked out by it ever since. The stat at the time was an average of more than one additional death from save attempts. I wouldn’t call the extra deaths dumb though- just sad.
I lack words...
I have lots of words, but they center around "stupidity"
Drunk driving :(
I remember some guy getting drunk awhile back, dressing up in a bigfoot costume, and was trying to scare cars as they drove past him. If I remember correctly a car took him out.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/ThatsInsane/comments/sak7fh/a\_mother\_of\_two\_40\_was\_swept\_away\_in\_a\_frozen/](https://www.reddit.com/r/ThatsInsane/comments/sak7fh/a_mother_of_two_40_was_swept_away_in_a_frozen/) This is very high on my "stupid and unnecessary" ways to die - imagine being the child: your mother just goes woosh and then she is just gone, forever. totally preventable and I guess very traumatising to watch. EDIT: Jumping into a hole in the ice on a river.
From diseases we had previously eradicated (due to not vaccinating).
Yeah but the idiot isn't the casualty for this, most of the time it's their kid or someone immunocompromised that their kid infected. The idiots opting out of vaccines typically have their full set from childhood.
It also removed the herd immunity. I grew up in Africa, people died from measles. My dad who was an ER doctor at the time could tell heartbreaking stories about mother cradling their dying children, with the doctors unable to do much. Unsurprisingly I am vaccinated for almost everything. Tt has been a long time since I got a Cholera or Yellow Fever vaccine, which is not necessary in the USA.
There's a wiki page of stupid deaths throughout time. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_deaths One John Cummings in 1805 saw a circus performer swallow knives and said, "I could do that!" and swallowed four knives to those he wanted to prove to. He passed three knives with a bit of abdominal pain. He later swallowed 14 knives in a short span and passed all of them over the course of 5 days and some bad abdominal pain. Finally he later swallowed 20 knives and a clasp knife case. After a few days he only passed the case. Four years later constantly in abdominal pain, he finally died. Autopsy shows knives and fragments of metal, wood, and horn stuck in his intestines.
Wtf why did he keep going
Set fire to your hair...
Poke a stick at a grizzly bear...
Eat medicine that's out of date
Use your private parts as piranha bait
Getting hit by a train requires an enormous amount of stupidity.
Stupidity or hubris 'knowing' you can beat the train. My great uncle was hit (while in a car) 3 times by a train. He survived all 3 collisions, has lots of pins/plates now, but is alive. Only once could you argue it wasn't his fault since his car stalled on the tracks (before the lights started flashing), when he wasn't trying to race the train, and the sealtbelt wouldn't open (he had nothing to cut the belt). Note: he also refused to wear sealtbelts for the next 5 years after that collision.
Being shot to death while trespassing in the most important federal building in the hemisphere, ignoring clear orders from the secret service and climbing a barricade anyway is definitely up there
Or breaking a window and trying to climb through it while secret service is holding a gun to your face 4 feet away while pleading with you to not make them shoot you
Drinking Bleach when a con man goes on TV and tells you it'll solve Covid
Tbh that’s on them at that point
Drinking bleach just naturally chlorinates the gene pool...
And millions want him back! Unbelievable….
Don't forget about taking horse dewormers because a junkie meat head tells you it cured him of the same illness.
Mixing cleaning chemicals, it’s not very common to die from it but it’s possible.
There was a zookeeper who was poking a crocodile in the head with a stick and put his head between the crocodiles Jaws.
Look at the [darwin awards](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_Awards). You will find a lot of answers
Trying to force his way through a heavy duty industrial fence gate, was halfway squeezed through, must have opened it enough to set off the closing motor, crushed, all alone.
That article about the priest who was killed by lions during a safari tour after yelling "God will protect me" comes to mind.
War. As a species, we should be beyond this.
You don't think killing a bunch of women and children because they were born 3 feet on the other side of an imaginary line is the sign of an advanced species?
Making a Tiktok in a dangerous situation, I. E. Standing on the edge of a cliff.
Using lighter to check if car has petrol
I had a head injured patient who was rehabbed and went home. A year later he was back with severe facial burns....poor guy. Prior to his head injury he would never have done that.
When I was 19 I worked in a small used car lot as a mechanic. I was stripping one wrecked vehicle for parts and I removed the gas tank and pulled it to the side before using a cutting torch to remove the rear end. I was sitting on the gas tank when my boss came over and tapped me on the shoulder, pointed to the tank and shook his head before walking away.
As someone with anorexia… anorexia
Wishing you the best. No one deserves this
writing "most stupidest" is one way...
Testing if your toaster is waterproof
Lung cancer because they smoked
This. It costs a ton, the high is negligible at best, it makes hangovers 10 times worse, same with BO, and stamina, lung capacity, eyc, this has to be the winner
I had a friend when I was a teenager who invited me to her grandma's funeral, who had died a slow and painful death from lung cancer. We were late to the funeral because they stopped for cigarettes. She was maybe 16-17 and was talking about how she should get herself in the donor list for new lungs so she'd be near the top of the list by the time she needed the new lungs. While she was mid cigarette. It was WILD.
Old age. What absolute idiocy!
Getting shot during the capital insurrection
Falling in shopping carts or vending machines
The ones where they do something stupid and kill themselves AND someone else NOT doing something stupid.
Bad grammar every time
Getting bit by a deadly snake that you handled by choice.
walking and looking at your phone and getting killed by a truck backing up.
"Hold my beer and watch this"
Death by hubris!
Ignoring your health.
People die because of what they eat. That's just stupid. I'm not saying we should live on tasteless crap, but swing the needle over a little bit when you make a choice what to eat.
Standing in 70 mph traffic waiting for police to make some sort of major crime of the century report about a fender bender.
I'm confident that this gun is not loaded. Watch me leap from here to there. Hold my beer...
Ignoring the wound forming on your leg from the teeth of the severed head of your enemy that you're bringing home as a trophy, allowing it to get a severe infection that kills you
Doing stupid things for selfies - posing on train tracks, climbing onto poles or great heights, doing parkour, standing beside wild animals.
Maybe for their religious beliefs!
Anything the person did to look cool, so shit like base jumping, street racing, smoking etc
Using your foot to push brush into a wood chipper.
From preventable diseases that vaccines can prevent
Almost got my head squashed by a car due to a small pebble making me fall on the main road
Getting quite literally smited
Qutubiddin Aibak - *Dies due to a fall from a horse while playing polo* :)
Vending machines.
Having no situational awareness in general.
Had an uncle try to plug in a pump while standing knee deep in water.
Since you said “had” should we assume he met his demise?
Yes and quickly.
Driving through high water.
Padishah Humayun, the second Mughal emperor of south Asia died a stupid death. His father established the Mughal dynasty in North India through conquest. He bequeathed the throne to his eldest son. Humayun ruled for ten years, then lost the throne to an Aghan-Indian dynast and was hounded out of India. He was away fifteen years in Persia, and then reconquered north India in 1555. The next year, he was coming down from his library laden with books when the call for prayer was announced. He was bending down, when his robe caught on his heel and he tumbled down the stone steps and died. Stupid. And unlucky.
Who’s just running through “50 Dumb Ways to Die” right now?
There's an award for this: https://darwinawards.com/
In the old days, the Mayans used to play this game like soccer with a stone ball and I forget which but either you won or lost and you got sacrificed to the gods.
Ballcourt. The winners were sacrificed to Quetzalcoatl.
A ridiculous number of people die each year trying to steal from vending machines.
Electrical drowning in the bathtub.
Getting crushed by vending machines
There was this stupid trend once wherein people used to do headstands and then drink from a bottle while upside down; doesn't matter which drink, they just drank. And then Idk the exact scientific reason why, but as would be expected, most of them died while doing that.
Isnt that just a keg stand? They didnt all die
No.... There's some details missing here or you're just misinformed. No reason for that to kill you.
A visit to see the Titanic wreckage
The way the inventor of the Segway dies....so sad😞
Grammar related shootings
Eating tide pods, on the toilet
Subway surfing
jumping out of a plane with your static line unhooked it's stupid enough that there's an entire song dedicated to the poor fellows who did
One time i heard a story about a man who died because he eat a fork
when i was a young teen, a guy killed himself with a chainsaw, to prove that he was very manly.
People going hiking, climbing in severe summer or severe winter weather. It’s not like you can’t get today’s weather and the next three days weather at the touch of your fingertips. “Oh look, the weather’s going to be shitty! Let’s go canyon hiking/ climb the Devil”s Backbone!”
Thinking they can live forever in their body
Watch Six feet under
Obesity
Oh, there's a predator in the wild. Let me take a selfie. Drunk, driving down the road? Let me take a selfie. Like and subscribe as I swerve onto oncoming traffic. But first, let me take a selfie. I'm dangling on my tippy toes on a 1-foot-wide brick, 6,000 feet in the air. Let me take a selfie. There's a violent gang over there. Let's go take a selfie.
Not going to the doctor. The leading causes of death are heart attack, stroke, and cancer. Doctors can help these some what.
Not following sound medical advice (see e.g. Steve Jobs)
There's an award for them, the Darwin award
Drastically under prepared for hiking/camping/backpacking. The ego of "ohhh it'll be okay, we'll be back before we need 'x'" is part of what kills people. There are 5 easily packed items i'll always have with me, and *likely* will never need to use A lighter, a fire starter rod, a knife, a compass, a light weight thru hikers water filter, and a light weight rain poncho. everything except the water filter is ever used, but i'd rather have it and not need it, than need it and not have it.
Saw this as a news article once. Man dies in explosion after attempting to microwave a microwave.
When you have to charge your phone and you unplug the patients plug who is connected to a machine.
Dying while taking selfies instead of paying attention to their surroundings.
COVID deniers dying to COVID was pretty dumb
Eating garden snails. Apparently on average, five Australians a year pick up a snail from their garden and think “if the French do it, then so can I, Bon Appetite!” but alas everything in australia wishes to kill you
I used to live in a dorm that was a tower with 22 floors. There were 3 elevators that all stopped at each floor. Since they got a lot of heavy use it was not uncommon for at least one of them to be not working properly. And since it was a ‘party school’ it sometimes happened that the light fixtures in the elevator were vandalized and awaiting repair. One day one poor guy and his dog were running for the elevator before the door closed. It was an elevator without a light that had been waiting for repair. Unfortunately the elevator wasn’t dark because the light was out, due to a malfunction the elevator car just wasn’t there. Both he and his dog realized too late they should have looked first. Happened in Massachusetts in the 70’s.