Number 13 Wayne Roth
In November of 1997, Pennsylvania man Wayne Roth was at the home of his friend, Roger Croteau,
who had a pet cobra. Roth decided that he wanted to play with the highly-venomous reptile. He
reached into the tank but the cobra perceived him as threat and bit the 38-year-old as he picked it
up. In spite of his friend’s warnings and against what most would argue as common sense, Roth didn’t
go to the emergency room. Instead he believed that he’d be able to withstand the reptile’s venom,
reportedly telling his friend “I’m a man, I can handle it”. Instead of the hospital,
Roth went to a bar, where he had a few drinks and boasted to other patrons about having
just been bit by a cobra. The animal’s venom attacks the central nervous system but it’s
generally rather slow-acting. In spite of Roth’s belief in his masculine imperviousness,
he ended up dying a few hours later. Number 12 Stephen Whinfrey
On New Year’s Day, 2015, British man Stephen Whinfrey was hunting for rabbits near his home
in Doncaster, South Yorkshire. On January the 2nd, a passerby found the 50-year-old man with half his
body sticking out of a rabbit hole. Whinfrey‘s head was inside while only his legs and torso
were visible. The man had been dead for several hours. The ferrets he’d been using to hunt were
found in bags while his dog was discovered tied to a tree nearby. Next to the man’s lifeless body was
a mound of soil and a dead rabbit. Judging by the scratch marks on the ground, Whinfrey had
struggled to get out but his efforts were to no avail. He’d succumbed to asphyxia after sticking
his head inside the hole and becoming stuck. Number 11 Daniel Kiluba
On January the 14th of 2021, a teenager from the Bena Dibele region in the Democratic Republic
of the Congo died after striking a soccer ball filled with hardened concrete. The team that
18-year-old Daniel Kiluba played for had brought the ball and intended to use it to prank their
opponents. However, the players then decided to warm up using the concrete ball and to test
their abilities to kick it. Kiluba called for a header and his teammate passed accordingly.
The teenager struck the ball with his head and the impact inflicted severe injuries.
Kiluba died as a result while the player who’d passed the ball to him
reportedly faced charges. Number 10 Quimby Ghilotti
On June the 2nd of 1997, teenager Quimby Ghilotti died in an accident involving 32 other students
from California’s Napa High School. They were on a senior class trip to Concord’s Waterworld USA.
The students wanted to see how many of them could fit on a single section of the 40-foot
high Banzai Pipeline waterslide. By piling into it, they subjected the attraction to weight forces
three times greater than those for which it had been designed. A section of the slide broke open
and twisted upside down as it fell, sending students plummeting to the ground. 18-year-old
Ghilotti died while over a dozen students were hospitalized as result of the accident.
Number 9 Mauled by Bengal Tigers In May of 1999, two elderly German tourists
were mauled to death by three Bengal tigers at a wildlife park in Spain’s Alicante province.
The unnamed married couple, both reported as being in their 70s, ignored the warnings issued
by staff at Safari El Vergel. The park’s safety guidelines stated that visitors should drive on
the grounds with their windows rolled up. Signs, written in multiple languages, informed the couple
that they were in a dangerous area and, under no circumstances, were they to exit their vehicle.
Even though their lives were at stake, they still got out of their car. Before long, three massive
Bengal tigers pounced on them. The felines swiftly inflicted devastating neck injuries,
to which the man and his wife would later succumb. Number 8 Explosive Selfies
In January of 2015, two young men travelling in Russia’s Ural Mountains found a live grenade and
decided to take a selfie with it. Some sources report that they’d discovered the explosive
weapon without a safety pin while others claim that they’d pulled the pin out specifically for
the selfie. Whatever the case might’ve been, a grenade without a safety on is extremely dangerous
as this means it’s armed and ready for use. Both men were instantly obliterated as the grenade
went off in their faces. Only the phone with the picture remained and served as evidence of
how they’d died. In 2017, another grenade selfie went horribly wrong. Russian man Alexander Chechik
had sent photos to a friend of him holding the armed explosive in his hand. It’s believed that
the man couldn’t put the safety pin back in, at which point the weapon went off, killing Chechik
by tearing his body in half. Number 7 Clifford Ray Jones
In 2016, Detroit man Clifford Ray Jones died in a car crash, under rather unusual circumstances.
He was watching an X-Rated movie on his phone, while driving down I-75, without wearing pants.
Jones’ seatbelt wasn’t fastened and the sunroof on his 1996 Toyota was open. At some point, the
58-year-old had become too distracted and crashed into a roadway ramp. His vehicle rolled and Jones
was ejected through the sunroof, sustaining fatal injuries. Upon reaching the crash site,
one Michigan State Police lieutenant referred to the incident as the strangest thing he’d ever
encountered on the roadway. Number 6 David Monk
British man David Monk died in the Italian Alps, in 2008, from an accident involving an improvised
sledge. 46-year-old Monk and a few of his friends had removed some of the foam barriers that were
used as protection at the end of the run. The men then used them as sledges and sped down the ski
slope. In a dark ironic twist, the men crashed into the very fence from where they’d earlier
removed the foam barriers. Monk struck a post with his head and was killed instantly.
Two of his friends were also badly injured but they survived.
Number 5 Jose Tony Alvarez Umanzor On the 4th of July, 2020, a man from Washington
DC died in the aftermath of a mishap with fireworks. 33-year-old Jose Tony Alvarez Umanzor
was reportedly holding a commercial-grade firework above his head. The mortar-style pyrotechnic
device was described as being so powerful that it was deemed illegal in the state. Nevertheless,
Umanzor held it above his head after lighting it. Once ignited, the base of the firework ejected
downwards causing critical injuries to the man’s head and upper body. Umanzor was rushed to the
hospital where he was ultimately pronounced dead. Number 4 Sukhram Yadav
In January of 2021, Indian man Sukhram Yadav died after what was described as an
“air compressor enema”. The incident occurred in the Katni district of the Madhya Pradesh state.
Yadav had been suffering from constipation and asked his friend, 35-year-old Vino Thakur,
to help him resolve the matter by inserting an air compressor nozzle into his rectum. Thakur did
as asked and, within seconds, Yadav’s stomach swelled up and he became unconscious. He was
rushed to the emergency room and later transferred to a different hospital, where doctors performed
three surgeries in an attempt to save his life. Unfortunately, the man succumbed to his extensive
internal injuries. Even though the matter was attributed to ignorance rather than malevolence,
Thakur was arrested by the police. Number 3 Cynthia Covert
In May of 2020, Cynthia Covert was visiting a friend on Kiawah Island, near Charleston,
South Carolina. At some point, the 58-year-old beautician saw an alligator near the pond behind
her friend’s house. Covert decided that she wanted to pet the beast, which is frequently mentioned
among the deadliest predators in North America. Her friend warned Covert that she’d witnessed the
alligator snatch a deer from the water’s edge, only a few days prior. The woman replied that
she didn’t look like a deer and proceeded with her plan of touching the animal. It was still immersed
in the water when Covert bent over and reached out to pet it. In an instant, the beast lunged at the
woman, clamped on her leg and dragged her in the pond. A struggle ensued from which Covert emerged,
albeit briefly. She only had the chance to jokingly claim that she “won’t do that again”
before the alligator bit her once more. The attack ended with the beast dragging the
woman underwater and drowning her. It was later reportedly killed by local wildlife officers, even
though it was argued that the beast had simply done what was inherent to its predatory nature.
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comments section below Number 2 Henry Hill Jr
In November of 2020, a man from Kershaw County, South Carolina,
died in a fire, under what was deemed as entirely preventable circumstances. 68-year-old Henry Hill
Jr had become trapped in his trailer home, when it caught fire in the early hours of the morning.
Hill and two others managed to get out. However, according to the responding firefighters
and witnesses from the scene, Hill went back inside the flaming structure
to retrieve a pair of pants. The man was found dead on the bedroom floor after succumbing
to the intense heat and smoke inhalation. Number 1 Michael Anderson Godwin
In the 1980s, Michael Anderson Godwin was convicted of murder and sentenced to death
via the electric chair. However, that verdict was eventually overturned on appeal and Godwin
was given life in prison, in 1983. Still, Godwin would end up dying of electrocution
several years later. In 1989, the 28-year-old was sitting on a steel toilet in his cell. At
the same time, he was trying to repair a pair of headphones that was still connected to his TV set.
Godwin would make the fatal mistake of biting into the cable, while trying to split and reconnect it.
He sustained a massive electric shock and was found dead in his cell at the Central Correctional
Institution, in South Carolina. The combination of conducting metal and the frayed cable
essentially meant that Godwin had died on an electric chair of his own inadvertent design.
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