here at toptenz we've covered the darwin
awards once before of course one video
is hardly enough to contain all of the
world's stupidity now in case this is
the first time you've heard of it the
Darwin Awards are based on Charles
Darwin's theory of evolution in nature
there is the survival of the fittest and
this of course extends to the human race
every year folks on the internet gather
a collection of incidents where people
have died or made themselves infertile
by doing incredibly stupid things they
aren't declared winners of a Darwin
Award guaranteeing that they will never
pass on their genes to the next
generation
and in the video today we're looking at
ten more of the best number ten thief
gets Instant Karma just a few days
before Christmas of 2005 a couple was
out on a date in Blom Vontae in south
africa or on a saturday night a thief
approached them in the dark he was
holding a knife and demanding to take
their money
this criminal stole the woman's person
started running away the man was so
focused on escaping that he jumped over
a fence which just so happened to be the
wall of a zoo when he landed he found
himself inside of the Tigers den the
next morning though the thief's body was
found inside of the den since the tiger
had been well fed it didn't feel the
need to eat the man most like most big
cats who finally catch their prey the
tiger had killed the thief in the middle
of the night we can only imagine there
must've been purring loudly for a job
well done chlorinating the human gene
pool by the time the security guards
showed up to recover the body
number nine machinery dies trying to
teach murderous tribe about Jesus for
hundreds of years missionary groups have
taken it upon themselves to bring
Christianity to native populations
whether those populations wanted it or
not even after all of this there are
still some untouched tribes that have
miraculously survived with virtually
zero interaction with the outside world
like the Sentinelese tribe on the
Andaman Islands off the coast of India
the tribe has lived on that Island for
tens of thousands of years and was
briefly colonized by Great Britain since
then the majority of the population was
wiped out and they're only believed to
be about 50 or 150 people left alive
once India gained its independence the
island was left alone so that the
natives could live in peace tourists
have been instructed that it is strict
forbidden to attempt to come into
contact with this tribe because of the
potential to infect them with diseases
from the outside world even taking
pictures from a boat is punishable with
up to three years in prison the tribe
has also been known to attack outsiders
because they must have grown up hearing
stories of foreign men who came to
enslave their people but we should all
know by now that there is nothing you
can do to stop the irrational
overconfidence and entitlement of a
Millenial in November of 2018 a 26 year
old American man named John Allen sharp
a fisherman to bring him to the Andaman
Islands even though he knew that this
was dangerous and illegal he even took a
selfie and posted a picture of himself
on his way to the island and posted it
on Instagram his goal was to preach
Christianity to the natives even though
they couldn't speak the same language as
him when the fishermen came to pick him
up the tribe that shot John multiple
times with their arrows and then used a
rope to drag his body to the beach so
that the fishermen couldn't retrieve his
body the fishermen were all arrested for
illegally transporting him to the island
but since the laws of the outside world
do not apply to the Sentinelese people
no one is going to be held accountable
for its death number 8 segue all the way
there are the segways when they were
first invented some people believed that
they would be the way of the future but
today the only people who seem to use
the upright transportation devices are
mall cops when they first premiered
Segway claims that their cross country
model was going to revolutionize the way
people explore the great outdoors or
just change the way they commute to work
of course since they cost thousands of
dollars there is a very limited number
of people who would actually buy one of
these things one of their customers
though was a millionaire named Jimmy
Heseltine he had amassed his fortune by
selling defense items essentially
profiting from the spoils of war but he
wasn't just a customer of Segway devices
he was a customer of the company having
bought it in 2010 there same yeah he
couldn't even be bothered to go for a
normal walk anymore that's too much like
being a peasant he was riding his Segway
around the countryside of West Yorkshire
when he somehow lost control of the
vehicle and ended up going straight into
the Leeds River the only question that
remains is if he knew the Segway was
going out of control why didn't he just
jump off number 7 man steals hot dog
from vendor and loses his own
this next story is an example of how
someone doesn't have to die to get a
Darwin Awards and also that the universe
must enjoy the divine Ernie on Halloween
2017 a 19 year old man named Terry and
Pouncy held up a hot dog vendor in
Chicago with a gun he demanded that the
vendor take all of the cash out of the
cart and give it to him
Pouncy chose an awful time to rob the
cook because he was in the middle of
holding a pan of hot grease
he dropped the pan in order to reach for
the money and it ended up splashing
boiling hot grease all over pal see
during this confusion pounds he
accidentally set off the gun while it
was pointed at his own let's say hot dog
during the commotion the vendor was able
to jump on Pouncy and he was later
caught by the police he was rushed to
the hospital and while he is still alive
there's a very good chance he won't be
able to ever have kids number 6
man dies while trying to steal wheels it
was a cold dark December night in
Pittsburgh Pennsylvania in 2017 when a
thief attempted to steal expensive pyres
off a van in the darkness he cut open a
wire fence and rigged up the van on
cinder blocks almost anyone would know
that this is a terrible idea but this
man he continued with the plan that was
at least until the van collapsed on top
of him while he was laying underneath it
the next morning at 8:50 a.m. the police
found the body of the unidentified man
crushed under the van based on the tools
and tires surrounding him it was obvious
what have happened that the police were
not able to figure out who he was number
5 the worst kind of New Year's
resolution on December the 31st 2010
thousands of people were gathered for
New Year's Eve in Moscow's Red Square
getting ready to countdown for the
beginning of 2011 a woman who was part
of a terrorist group was strapped with a
suicide belt Bauman's they were using a
brand new cell phone as a detonator
their plan was for the woman to walk
into the middle of the crowd hide the
bomb and then they were going to text
the phone at midnight and set off the
explosion this would have killed
hundreds of people at the very least on
a way to Red Square though the cell
phone company sent a generic happy
holidays message to the new phone number
this set off the bomb early making the
unnamed woman the one and only victim
two of her accomplices were witnessed
running away from the explosion when
they were caught they were identified as
being part of a radical Islamic a group
that was responsible for setting off a
bomb in an airport just a few days prior
number
for the kiss of death in 2017 a man
named Anthony Powell was serving a life
sentence in the Oregon State
Penitentiary for killing his
father-in-law by stabbing him to death
he was high on meth at the time and
clearly he hadn't learned his lesson
while he was in jail he met a woman
named Melissa and Blair online she was a
fellow drug addict who just so happened
to have a thing for convicts healthy
when there visited Powell in the
visitors room they exchanged a
passionate kiss unbeknownst to the
guards Blair was passing seven small
balloons filled with math into Powell's
mouth he swallowed these regurgitated
balloons piling to past them later when
he got back to his cell the fellow must
not have thought this plan through very
clearly though because the balloons
ended up rupturing on the way down and
he died of an overdose Blair was
arrested and found guilty of committing
a drug conspiracy number three a prickly
predicament in southern Arizona there is
a breed of cactus called Suarez that are
iconic fixtures of the Old West some of
these plants can live as long as 300
years and they can grow as high as 60
feet there are laws protecting these
endangered cacti but that doesn't stop
bored and stupid young men from cactus
plugging which is where they use these
plants as target practice the goal is to
bring guns and ammunition out into the
desert so they can rizal a cactus with
so many bullet holes that it falls to
the grounds in 1982 a man called David
gruneman was cactus plug in with his
roommate James Joseph's Akatsuki
the two men were laughing and destroying
these hundred-year-old plants one by one
he must not have judged the distance of
one of the extra-large plants they
because the cactus came straight down on
top of him and impaled his body with
spikes and he died almost instantly
number two the danger zone there is this
stereotype that stockbrokers a high
strung and pumped up on a never ending
run of caffeine and adrenaline this was
especially true back in the 1980s and
1990s one only has to watch the wolf of
Wall Street have learned that it was
commonplace for stockbrokers to do lines
of cocaine in their office in order to
help keep them awake and motivated to
keep trading well we don't know the ins
and outs of his personal life Jack
Sullivan was one of these successful
brokers who made a killing working on
Wall Street after becoming a millionaire
he decided to retire in his forties and
moved to San Francisco with his wife one
Sunday morning in 1996 he woke happens
for a run at the Lincoln Park Golf
Course his wife said that he had a habit
of carrying a tape recorder with him so
that he could talk about all of his
brilliant ideas when he went on a run
unfortunately for Sullivan he was a
little too absorbed in himself in said
of being aware of his surroundings he
ran full speed off a cliff known as
eagle's point overlook and died at just
49 years old
number one the sympathy vote in 1979 a
man named Notaro was running for the
Japanese House of Representatives he was
afraid that he wouldn't actually win the
election so he concocted a plan to gain
sympathy from the voters and also make
his competition look bad in the process
he wanted to pretend that he had been
attacked by a gang of thugs without even
pointing fingers and this would have
begun a conspiracy theory that these men
were hired by his competitors and sent
to kill him in order to make this a
convincing story he had to stab himself
so that he would have some kind of proof
that an attack actually happens he
decided to grab a huge kitchen knife and
lunge it into his own leg unfortunately
for him he had a major artery and died
before Election Day
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