From the guy who got paralyzed after being dared to eat a slug to the soldier who messed
up with a live grenade, here are 10 times dares went wrong!
10: Eating a Gecko David Dowell was known as a lovable hooligan.
The 34 year old was a wonderful father to three children and he never backed down from
a dare.
However, at a Christmas party with family and friends, David’s daring attitude would
be the death of him.
A friend dared David to do something extremely bizarre - eat a gecko – yes, a living gecko
lizard, like the geico commercial gecko.
So, he did.
It’s not exactly clear what the terms of the dare were, whether or not he had to eat
the gecko whole or what.
But what David did not expect was to be rushed to his local hospital just two days after
eating the gecko.
He had incredibly intense pain throughout his entire body.
At first, David just thought he was getting sick or was possibly a bit hungover.
But after being brought to the hospital, he suffered in agony there for ten whole days
before finally dying.
It was one of the worst ways to die, with doctors saying that his testicles had swollen
to the size of grapefruits and had fluid leaking out of them!
And this all happened because of an accumulation of fluids built up inside his stomach cavity.
He then went into surgery, but died on the table, basically from internal rotting.
There was never an official cause of death.
It's unclear how exactly he died, though he was diagnosed with salmonella poisoning.
9: Playground Dare Backfire In Germany, a man was hanging out at a playground
in Bavaria with a couple of his friends.
The friends decided it would be a funny idea if somebody taped themselves to the spinning
roundabout.
They dared him to do it and he did.
It was not a good idea.
The unnamed man let his peers tie him to the roundabout with adhesive tape and then tie
the roundabout to their car.
They sped off quickly, spinning the carousel at a dangerously high speed.
But here's where everything seriously backfired for this childish dare.
The tape holding the guy to the roundabout came undone and he was flung through the air,
where he smashed his head open and died at the scene!
Imagine that for a second.
You and your friends come up with all kinds of stupid ideas, but to actually go through
with one and the result kills one of you?!
These guys had just been messing around and then one of them was dead and the police were
treating it as involuntary manslaughter!
According to the Bavarian police, the three friends had to be taken to the hospital because
they were in shock about what happened.
And while they probably won't spend any time in jail for what they did to the poor guy,
seeing as it was voluntary on a dare, they’ll no doubt have to live with the horrifying
memory for the rest of their lives.
8: Boiling Water An 8-year-old girl has died after being dared
to drink boiling water.
She wasn't dared personally.
It actually happened after watching somebody else do it in a YouTube dare video!
Oh no!
The dangers of the internet!
The dare was to drink boiling water out of a straw.
So, the little girl did it.
But within minutes, she was having difficulty breathing and fell unconscious and needed
to be rushed to the hospital.
Ki’ari Pope suffered burns to her mouth and throat, and this led to issues breathing.
She had to go immediately into emergency surgery to get a tracheotomy, and this left her with
chronic respiratory problems.
She couldn’t even talk.
And even though she seemed to be getting better after a while, she later had difficulty breathing,
became unresponsive, and died after paramedics spent 40 minutes trying to resuscitate her.
Basically, the scalding hot water seared the child's throat, which caused an unending string
of problems eventually leading to her being unable to breathe – and all because of an
online dare video.
This is one of the reasons parents should monitor what their kids are doing online!
7: A Live Drowning In Mississippi, a man drowned.
And he drowned in the absolutely worst possible way.
It was in a pond, and it was being filmed on Facebook live, and all for a dare.
The guy’s friends bullied him and said that there was no way he could swim all the way
across the pond.
They dared him to do it, and said that if he could get to the other side, they would
give him cash for a down payment on a new vehicle.
But he was nervous even before jumping into the pond and could be heard saying in the
video, “But if I drown, who’s going to come in and get me?”
As it turned out, nobody went in to get him.
He got halfway across the pond and could be heard screaming for help and flailing in the
water.
One of his friends phoned 911 but nobody actually jumped in to save him.
What good friends they were..
The so-called friends waited until emergency services got there, and they eventually pulled
his limp and cold corpse out of the water.
In the end, 20-year-old J.W.
Ransom was dead, he didn't get a down payment on his car, and his friends were right: he
couldn’t swim across the pond after all.
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Would you let your friends talk you into doing a stupid stunt like this?
Have you before?
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6: Off the Bridge A videoblogger and arts student named Shah
Faisal Shinwari is extremely lucky after narrowly surviving one of the craziest dares ever.
Somebody actually dared him to jump off Tower Bridge in London and he agreed to do it!
The bridge is approximately 213 feet(65m) high above the River of Thames - and no - people
are not supposed to jump off of it.
Part of the reasoning behind the dare was to help the vlogger get over his fear of heights.
At 17 years old, the vlogger thought it was a mighty fine idea, though I’m sure we could
come up with a few other less deadly ideas..
BUT, he decided to go through with it and he climbed onto the Tower Bridge.
His cameraman started to egg him on, and just a few seconds later, he jumped directly into
the water below.
But the river was a bit stronger than he anticipated.
He was sent spiraling downstream, with his mouth filling with water and his arms flapping
like some kind of crazy person.
Shinwari eventually washed up on the side of the river and was rescued by paramedics,
but he almost didn't survive.
He swallowed a lot of dirty water, risked drowning internally, and was in danger of
getting an infection.
He did live to tell the tale, but he almost didn't…
And I wonder if he still has a fear of heights?
5: Hammer Stuck in the Mouth A teenage girl got into a bit of trouble after
getting a hammer stuck inside of her mouth.
Kaley had previously been talking about her favorite korean boy band, BTS.
According to the New York Post, she described one of them as being “so beautiful I could
shove a hammer in my mouth.”
Kaley from Louisiana was 14 when her friend dared her to stick an entire hammer’s head
inside of her mouth.
If you've ever seen a hammer, this doesn't even seem like something that's physically
possible.
It's no wonder she got the hammer stuck and couldn't seem to remove it from inside of
her face.
She seemed to be quite amused by it though and even took a picture and captioned it with,
“how do u tell ur mom you got a hammer stuck in ur mouth.”
It took 10 minutes of struggling for Kaley to get the hammer out – and it wasn’t
a pleasant sensation.
But the silliest part is that after Kaley got the hammer out of her mouth, she put it
back in several times later to show off her new skill to her friends!
Her mother has since said she’ll be hiding the toolbox, probably to keep Kaley from sticking
any other dirty tools in her mouth.
4: Salt & Ice The salt-and-ice challenge is one of the most
absurd dares currently floating around on the Internet.
Here's how it works.
You put some salt on your bare skin, then ice cubes over the salt, then apply pressure
and experience an immediate explosion of horrible pain.
The dare has become something of an epidemic with people all over the country being burnt
because they want to see if it works.
It works.
You don’t have to try it after watching this video.
In fact I beg you not to.
According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, one of these burn victims was a 12-year-old
boy who participated in the dare after learning about it online.
He burned himself so terribly with the salt and ice that he had to be treated at the West
Penn Burn Center!
Ouch!
Normally, the burns are fairly mild, usually first degree, and only taking a few days to
heal.
But in this case, the youth took a bit more pain than anticipated and had severe blistering
all over his skin and had to apply a special lotion four times a day for months and wasn't
allowed to go outside without a shirt on for the rest of the summer.
According to his mom, he let himself be burned for 20 minutes straight!
"The injury is similar to frostbite that can result in mild cold injury but it also could
increase in severity based on the time the ice is applied.
The longer, the more serious the injury.
This patient went for a few minutes, but there have been cases that went for six or seven
minutes that resulted in third-degree injuries.”
Dr. Aballay said.
Do not try this at home kids!
3: Paralyzed by a Slug An Australian teenager named Sam Ballard was
dared to eat a slug.
It seemed like a perfectly innocent, however disgusting prank.
So, he put the slimy creature in his mouth and swallowed it.
But what Sam didn't know was that the slug had a deadly worm inside of it that would
put him into a coma for over a year, paralyze his entire body, and eventually cause him
to die.
This was huge news and an awful tragedy in Australia back in 2010.
Sam was only 19 and was drinking with a few of his friends when the slug crawled across
the patio in front of them.
It was a total spur of the moment thing and caused Sam, who had been a rugby player at
the time, to have the worst year of his life, then die.
As for how the slug killed him, it was the parasitic worm inside of the slimy critter
that gave Sam rat lungworm disease.
The disease can actually be caught from eating freshwater crab, shrimp, frogs, or anything
else that carries the parasitic worm.
Just a silly dare among friends can always take a turn for the worse…
2: D.A.R.E.
The D.A.R.E. program was a fun idea to make kids aware of drugs and to stop them from
using them.
Do you remember this from school?
The basic idea behind D.A.R.E. was that drugs are bad and you should stay far away from
them.
But not everyone took the lessons to heart.
A man from Missouri named Tanner Hutcheson was one of these people.
He was recently arrested following an automobile accident in Colombia.
Hutcheson was arrested on a felony narcotics charge while wearing a D.A.R.E t-shirt, in
possession of controlled substances.
The crash had actually been caused by a driver who was impaired, and Hutcheson himself already
had a rap sheet complete with drug possession, theft, and even burglary.
Maybe he thought it was funny to wear the D.A.R.E shirt, or maybe he thought it was
a little ironic.
Whatever the case, he was sentenced to spend five years in prison, with the sentence later
being reduced to five years of probation.
When he was booked into the Boone County Jail, he had his D.A.R.E shirt confiscated.
Tanner sir, you are not fit to wear that shirt!
1: Live Grenade Gone Wrong In China, a soldier just messing around with
a grenade nearly lost his life.
First of all, there is no ‘just messing around with a grenade.’
That’s just a terrible idea!
The soldier was part of the 26th Army Artillery Unit in China.
It's not clear exactly what happened, whether he thought it would be a smart idea to fool
around with the grenade or if maybe one of his fellow soldiers dared him to try and juggle
the thing – but whatever the case, the pin got pulled and the live grenade fell right
at his feet.
There were only seconds for the soldier to get away before the grenade exploded, leaving
a black cloud behind in its wake.
Iff it hadn't been for his training partner who thought quickly and grabbed the man and
threw him to safety, he would have exploded into dozens of little pieces.
When it comes to dares and fooling around, grenades should absolutely never be used.
If you ever want to juggle something, try apples!
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