Hey guys what's up it's Charlie here and today we're going to be looking at the
dumbest ways people have died the Darwin Awards are based off of Darwin's theory
of evolution Darwin Awards are given to people who were kind of stupid and have
passed away some of these are silly accidents while others are cases of
Instant Karma but before we get into it why not
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nowadays everyone likes to look cool in selfies many people passed away actually
from taking dangerous images but that usually involves falling off a cliff or
skyscraper while taking a cool selfie in this case that the Russian man was just
ridiculous one day 26 year old Aleksandr Sasser check in had a grenade he wanted
to pose with the hand grenade and take a selfie now that would have been risky
but not as stupid as what he did he took it to the next level and took the pin
out of the grenade to pose with it he sent the picture to his friends
showing the pin had been taken out his friend then said where are you are you
ok another friend responded saying listen don't do stupid things
where are you now he thought that as long as he didn't throw the grenade it
wouldn't go off but of course anyone with basic knowledge knows if you take
the pin out of a grenade it's going off whether you throw it or not yeah it's
not like the movies where you can cling on to it for ages before it goes off the
russian cops investigated the explosion and released the text messages showing
the photo he sent to his friends I do feel bad for the guy but this is still
one really dumb death next up is planking let me take you back to 2010 in
2010 planking became a viral trend it consisted of simply lying down like a
plaque sometimes people would do this in an unusual location and take a funny
photo or at least it was funny back in 2010 planking actually started as a
trend in Australia and was biggest there well on may 5th 2011 in Brisbane
Australia a 20 year old decided to do some planking he then attempted to take
a photograph of himself this on the skyscraper he stretched
himself on a railing over a skyscraper but of course on the railing he lost his
balance and he failed seven storeys yep this guy really passed away all thanks
to a viral fad it just goes to show if it sounds like a funny trend at the time
chances are it actually isn't next up is anti helmet rider in July of 2011 a
motorcycle helmet protest took place in New York New York were implementing a
new law which meant that motorcyclists had to wear a helmet at all times
now many people did not like this because helmets are bad I guess they
thought they didn't look as cool on there Harley Davidsons while having to
wear a big helmet so to protest this new law many rode their motorbikes through
the city without a helmet but while doing this one helmetless protester
flipped over his handlebars he then hit his head and it took his life the
medical report later concluded he would have lived if he was wearing a helmet
the 55 year old had been riding helmet list for 30 years so it's kind of ironic
that the one time he falls off his bike and passes away was during an anti
helmet rally next up is window test now this one really does sound like it's out
of a comedy movie but no this actually happened in real life
one day Canadian lawyer named Gary hoy was determined to prove his 24th floor
story windows were unbreakable he said the windows were so strong reinforced
nothing could break them so to prove this he ran at the windows and slammed
his body into the glass at high speeds now he proved his point as the window
didn't break but for whatever reason that that wasn't enough so once again he
ran and smashed into his window with his body but this time he was not so lucky
as the window gave way and smashed the lawyer then felt 24 stories and did not
make it out alive however Gary was actually kind of right
the window really smashed when it hit the ground
it wasn't Gary's body that shattered the window instead the window simply popped
out of its frame so Gary did prove his point but not in a very good way as it
resulted in his death I know an lawyers job is to be persuasive but this
taking it way too far next up is wife tosser
this is one case of Instant Karma in the form of a diamond award and this took
place in Buenos Aires Argentina one day a married couple were having a dispute
in their eighth floor apartment that was when the 25 year old husband picked up
his 20 year old wife he then trucked her off the balcony of their eighth floor
apartment but she didn't hit the ground instead she was tangled in the
powerlines below enraged that she was okay he then left
from the balcony himself towards his wife but he totally missed the power
lines and instead hit the ground the guy obviously did not make it out of the
situation alive but the woman managed to swing off the wires onto a nearby
balcony like James Bond luckily the 20 year old woman saved
herself and the 25 year old wife tosser did not this surely is one case of
Instant Karma and I think the moral of this story is don't throw your wife off
a balcony I don't know that just seems to be a
pretty good rule to live by next up is elephant dung one day a zookeeper was
helping an elephant with some digestive problems normally you would just wait
for these things to sort themselves out naturally but the zookeeper had a unique
idea and decided to give the elephant some laxatives he then waited for the
laxatives to work on this elephant however while he was waiting he stood
behind the elephant for some reason the elephant then relieved itself all over
the zookeeper but the force of it was so powerful it actually pushed the
zookeeper onto the ground the zookeeper was buried in 120 kilos of elephant dung
and this ended up actually taking the zookeepers life this happened at a zoo
in Paderborn Germany it was said that the sheer force
of the elephant's tongue knocked the zookeeper onto the ground the zookeeper
named Stefan then was buried on top of all of this elephant dung he lay there
for an hour underneath the dung and unfortunately by
the time someone came to rescue him he had suffocated next up is loud music
this is one story you should show to your friend who plays their music way
too loud in their headphone in 2010 a man was walking on a beach in
South Carolina USA he was listening to his ipod with the volume on full but
that was when an aeroplane smashed right into him when it made an emergency
landing the guy in the red shirt had been listening to music so loudly that
he didn't hear the roll of the plane's engines behind him the man was wearing a
bright red shirt and many said why didn't the pilot just move out of the
way of this man allowed anywhere else in the beach but I guess the plane was so
out of control he had no option but to land right on top of this guy I don't
know what song he was listening to so loudly that he couldn't hear the rule of
a Jets engines right behind him but sadly this guy was hit by the plane and
did not make it out okay next up is Wi-Fi hotspot we all know the terrible
moment when you connect us in Wi-Fi and the signal is super slow maybe you only
have one bar of Wi-Fi Internet and we all know that when this happens the
first thing we do is stand on a table or a chair and wave our phone in the air
this often doesn't work but we do do it subconsciously to try and get a better
Wi-Fi connection well one day a guy in Spain was trying to find a good Wi-Fi
connection on his cell phone he couldn't get it in his apartment so he went out
onto his two-story balcony he climbed around on his balcony waving his phone
in the air trying to get a good signal but as he did this he fell from the
balcony and passed away I don't know what the 23 year old was doing which
made it so crucial he had to get a good Wi-Fi connection but trust me guys
nothing on the Internet is worth risking your life over
except maybe top tens but is cellular dated really that expensive in Spain
this guy had to climb into his balcony to get a good Wi-Fi connection and
finally on our list of Darwin Awards we have video gamer do you know someone who
seems to be addicted to playing video games well they're not gonna beat this
one guy from South Korea South Korea is said to be the video game capital of
Asia and there's actually many gaming cafes in South Korea where people spend
hours at a time gaming one day a South Korean man went one of these gaming
cafes the 28 year old decided he was going to play a game it called Starcraft
for 50 hours straight didn't stop to do anything except use
the bathroom every now and then however after 50 hours of gaming he
passed away from dehydration and heart failure I'm not sure why he got so
sucked into this game but many say that people in South Korea get addicted to
video games sadly in real life there are no respawns
so never spend 50 hours playing a video game guys it's not good for your health
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