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The truth about death

Get to know more about death

By Buhle CarolinePublished 3 years ago 9 min read

The truth about death

we'd all like to be remembered for

something great but surprisingly often

incredibly dumb folks leave this world

with a parting tale, they'd probably

prefer to be forgotten that said some of

these spectacularly dim-witted

accidental exit strategies are

irresistible and entertaining to hear about

so without further ado let's check out

some of the most embarrassingly dumb

ways people died labels what labels

whatever blow torches fall into the

hands of the less Brandes members

of our species, it's always best to take

a few steps back by which mean moving to

the next country over if this piece of

common sense wasn't already obvious a

a man from Topeka Kansas certainly made it

clear in June when he stumbled upon

what appeared to be an empty metal drum

the inquisitive fellow thought best at

cut the thing open with a blowtorch

he was hoping to use the divided

drum for is anyone's guess as it

exploded violently before the fellow got

the chance to finish his task apparently

he'd ignored the bold warnings that the

drum contained methanol a highly

instructions to keep away from naked

the flame must sound like a challenge the

the only reward of course is a Darwin Award

for removing yourself from the gene pool

whether he read the labels or not this

The guy's overeager blowtorch trigger finger

cost him his life Disney's other Dumbo

and Disney's Beauty and the Beast Gaston

is an incredibly arrogant character with

an endless supply of misplaced

self-confidence so perhaps the man who

played the role of Gaston at Disney

World Orlando was still in character

what he brought about his explosive

demise in it would seem so

because he plays too much

confidence in the strength of his own

skull when he launched a firework from

atop his head, he'd been drinking and

joking around with the idea when the

firework accidentally caught a light

within seconds the mortar tube exploded

in a colorful fiery explosion that no

amount of beer could take the edge off

needless to say, Disneyworld had to find

a new Gaston but hopefully the new one

was less of a method actor to stay in your

lane riding in a bicycle lane can be

dangerous enough sometimes but riding a

this obvious no-no should speak for

itself

one man in September 201 was clearly

different from most people as he decided

to take a late-night bike ride along the

405 freeway in Long Beach California he

traveled along in the auxiliary lane

which is designed to allow drivers to

speed up or slow down on a mile-per-hour highway in the dark

unaware of the danger unsurprisingly a

driver using the auxiliary Lane not

expecting to see a cyclist plowed into

the bicycle at full speed unable to stop

the cyclist was killed and the driver

was traumatized by an accident that

should never have happened so unless

you're a superhuman who can ride their

bicycle at miles per hour and over

leave the highways to the motorists

boredom cure when you're prone to rage

asleep bad decisions tempting fate is

about twice as dumb as it is for regular

people that didn't stop a Brazilian

student through whose Facebook bio

proudly proclaimed the infinitely wise

proverb better to die from vodka than

from boredom, he put that adage to the

test at a drinking contest in when

then 60 seconds shortly after singing

the final one the student said he felt

ill and collapsed on the way to the

the hospital he died of alcohol poisoning

even over an hour that many shots could

have been potentially deadly but in a

minute forget about it it's fair to say

anyone who is cheering this guy on it's

just as dumb as he was past your bedtime

we're often reminded of how important a

A good night's sleep is for good

reason but the impact of staying up too

late went far beyond feeling groggy the

next morning for one Chinese fellow in

has a huge soccer fan losing sleep

during the World Cup due to the hour

time difference between the host nation

Brazil and his own who is no biggie but

the stress exhaustion and excitement of

watching soccer's greatest players go

head to head non-stop for the hour

stretch he stayed awake for took its

toll his extreme exhaustion is thought

to have triggered a brain hemorrhage

something research suggests sleep

deprivation significantly increases the

chances of he died shortly after the

last match of the day when Costa Rica

defeated Uruguay three-to-one

and took the loss particularly and

fatally hard

is unclear but if my parents had told me

I could die from staying up too late probably would have got more sleep as a

teenager calamity convoy one night in

In April 2016 a truly bizarre convoy was

seen chugging along a road in Louisiana

one man was driving a sit-down lawnmower

while another sat upon the hood and a

third sat in a wheelchair holding onto

the back being pulled along the trio was

reportedly having the time of their

lives on their ride along a busy road

that is until a truck smashed into them

from behind as shocking as it seems it

turned out a darkened roadway wasn't the

the best place for a tag-along DY joyride

miraculously the only person to die in

the incident was the man behind the

wheel of the lawnmower who had seemingly

instigated the ridiculous activity

hopefully, his friends will keep their

mowers firmly on the grass from now on

shotgun wedding it's not my place to

criticize another culture's traditions

but a circle of dancing men haphazardly

firing shotguns into the air doesn't

seem like the smartest way to celebrate

a wedding unfortunately that was the

method of choice for a group of endian

wedding attendees with a taste for

celebratory gunfire in 2019 the first

round of gunshots fired dangerously

closely over the dancer's heads almost

deafened several of them but the next

a round fired without any regard for things

like don't know if aiming resulted in one

shot gun-wielding guests receiving a

direct hit to the face unaware the

oblivious reveler continued to gleefully

fire shots until he was made aware of

what he'd done

needless to say after he'd finally

decided to look around him the

festivities were over from now on how

about we stick the wedding bells rather

than shotgun shells a premature

detonation every master criminal has to

start with the smaller jobs before the

big bucks come along that said we're

having a machine full of condoms for its

contents and cash isn't exactly the

usual mark of a criminal genius in the

making but on Christmas Day a group

of amateur German thieves decided it was

time to make headway in the crab game

they bundled some explosives into a

condom dispenser and later

but to their surprise the explosion

blasted chunks of the metal enclosure

outwards with enough speed to become

deadly projectiles one of the rubber

robbers were struck in the head and died

shortly afterward the machine wasn't in

a much better state either hate to

state the obvious but I think

that condom crazy criminal would have

been okay if he'd just won protection

cold-blooded companions for many people

the idea of having a snake in their

house is nightmare fuel for others a

snake is an ideal pet for a woman living

in ndiana in though one snake

wasn't enough her ideal number wasn't

two or three it was a hundred and forty

as an enthusiast and part-time breeder

you'd think that year old would have

had a solid understanding of the risks

of living with reptiles that have the

ability to kill you but whether she let

her guard down or just felt comfortable

letting the creatures roam free one

the fateful evening saw one of her snakes

turn on its owner the next day the town

the sheriff was horrified to discover the

reptile enthusiast held in a deadly

embrace by one of her beloved pets an foot-long Python it had strangled her to

hours before but was still wrapped

around her neck proving that when a

Python wants a hug there is no half

measures

pythons just say no look ma no hands

of all the times to show off doing so

while cruising on a motorbike at miles per hour this is undoubtedly among

the stupidest and then stop one Russian

motorbike blogger who fancied himself

somewhat of a daredevil on his

Harley-Davidson in June though he

raced a log using his feet to steer

while filming with his hands bragging

about how his ability to not give up

made these kinds of stunts possible mere

moments after sending the outrageously

dangerous video on to a friend that

biker lost control and his Harley

flipped dozens of times smashing against

the tarmac the vehicle ended up only

slightly less mangled than its rider did

but even the most skilled mechanics and

doctors combined couldn't put the two

back together texting and riding is dumb

enough but if you follow this guy's

footsteps are the only thing waiting down

the road is a tarmac-covered Darwin

Award

bumping your head is one of the most

rage-inducing minor pains a person can

sustain but even a direct smacking to

the hardest low-hanging shelf

doesn't compare to what one daredevil

with a taste for trains and trespassing

went through in North Carolina in in an attempt to satisfy his adrenaline

cravings he climbed onto the roof of a train

and as if it was a wild metal stallion

attempted to ride it it went well

initially, he'd been issued warnings

previously for similar incidents so he

probably had his head around the

balancing act train top cruising

required but his head ended up around

something else when the train passed

under a low-hanging bridge apparently

not seeing the bridge in time he hit it

at full speed and it turns out hitting

solid objects at around miles per

an hour isn't very good for the human body

two months later his skull was found on

the side of the railroad approximately a

hundred and twenty-eight miles from

where his body was found on the day of

the accident

this led authorities to a grisly

conclusion he'd been quite literally

of the bridge and his body had continued

along its journey before eventually

falling off the train the conclusion is

simple do be a trained cowboy it's a

real headache bad time for a stroll

drive through safari parks are a great

the way for anyone with a love for nature

wildest beasts to experience them up

close

safely Well it's safe just as long as

you follow one simple rule stay inside

your vehicle at all times but on a

summer's Day in at battling Safari

world in Beijing that simple rule was

broken in an act of overwhelming

stupidity after an argument broke out

between a passenger and the driver of a car

driving through the tiger enclosure the

passengers stormed out of the car in

frustration the head moves within seconds

a tiger left over and snatched her off

in its jaws but while this was indeed a

a mind-numbingly stupid decision the

response of the other occupants of the

car is what proved deadly despite the

the fact that Park officials were already

merely feet away on their rescue mission

one passenger decided she'd be able to

overpower the tiger herself so she got

by one of nature's most efficient murder

ironically the person she named to save

survived and if she'd only waited a

second for the highly-trained park

officials to take over she could have -

it shouldn't need to be said but if

you're going to fight a tiger unarmed

you're going to lose together forever of

all the ways to go passing away while

doing the dirty is probably one of the

best but for an elderly man who hired an

escort in the aftermath was worth

of real embarrassment lay unfortunately

in the heat of passion, the man suffered

a heart attack and died much to his paid

companions horror but to make matters

worse the combination of the escorts

panic and the man no longer circulated

blood flow the pair became well stuck

unable to break free from the

horrifically morbid embrace of the woman

had no choice but to seek medical

assistance after paramedics picked her

up she was wheeled past crowds of

Hospital onlookers under a blanket still

very much attached to the man she'd

given a very happy hinting to guess

the whole parting bit of till death do

us part only applies to married couples

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