From the guy who died after getting stuck in a dinosaur statue to the chef who fell
into a vat of soup and cooked himself to death, here are 10 of the craziest and dumbest ways
people have died!
10: The Last Selfie An unfortunate teenager spent her final moments
trying to take a selfie on the top of a railway bridge in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Before she could get the picture, she plunged 30 feet(10m) to her death.
The teen’s name was Xenia Ignatyeva, and she was only 17 years young when she climbed
onto the railway bridge with one goal: to take the ultimate selfie.
But as she was setting herself up for the dramatic picture, Xenia fell to her death.
She may have survived the 30-foot(10m) drop if she hadn’t tried to save herself by desperately
grabbing hold of a live wire.
The wire shot 1500 volts through her body, essentially igniting her from the inside out.
This is tragic for all the obvious reasons and a few more.
Xenia had purchased an expensive camera at the end of her summer job and was keen on
becoming a professional photographer.
It was her big passion in life.
Unfortunately, her passion ultimately led to her death in a brazen attempt to get a
risky selfie with her new camera.
She also had a friend waiting down below that witnessed the entire incident.
Her friend was absolutely mortified and will most likely never recover from seeing her
best pal die right before her eyes.
Martin Voigt, a psychologist from Munich University had this to say about it, "We need to look
at the deeper meaning of photos taken on railway tracks.
The photo is not so much about the theme of it, but the component behind it - they play
with danger."
He also added that some people taking selfies are driven by the desire to take the best
in the world, and as a result are becoming more and more extreme.
Please kids, the crazy selfies really aren’t worth it!
9: Amusement Park Disaster A boy is dead after the worst amusement park
ride ever!
The accident happened at Adventureland Park in Iowa, on a ride called the Raging River.
On the day of, the river was raging alright.
A boat on the ride overturned with six passengers on it in such a dramatic crash that three
of the passengers had to be rushed to hospital in near-death condition while an 11-year-old
boy named Michael Jaramillo was pronounced dead on sight from the injuries he sustained.
It must be embarrassing to take your kids to an amusement park only to have one of them
die when your boat flips over.
According to the park themselves, the ride had been inspected the day before and was
found to be in perfect working condition.
Nobody knows why the accident occurred, but it wasn't even the first fatality at the park.
A park employee had died just a little while earlier on the exact same ride, only he’d
been helping guests get out of the rafts at the end when he somehow tripped and fell onto
the conveyor belt, cracking open his skull and dying four days later from a major brain
injury.
We think it’s time to shut this ride down!
8: Dead in a Dinosaur A 39 year old man that had been missing has
recently been found dead inside the statue of a dinosaur in Spain.
Prepare to be wowed, because this has got to be the dumbest way anyone has ever died.
Out of respect for the family, the man has not been named.
But the authorities have still given out most of the juicy details about his bizarre death.
Here's what happened.
The guy dropped his phone inside the hollow leg of a huge stegosaurus statue in Barcelona.
He was most likely climbing on the statue, or maybe his phone slipped under the dino’s
foot – we’re a little fuzzy on the exact details.
But the guy, who was by himself obviously, wanted his phone back, so he wriggled his
way inside of the hollow statue.
But it was easier getting in than out.
Not only could he not reach his cell phone to call for help, but he couldn't get himself
out of the leg.
He ended up suffocating and dying inside the stegosaurus.
He was only discovered later because a father and son were walking by and happened to smell
the overpowering stench of a decaying body.
Firefighters had to cut the statue open to remove the smelly body, and the statue has
since been removed from its place outside the Cubic Building in Barcelona.
That’s why they have phone insurance right?
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7: Eaten Alive by a Crocodile While taking an exotic river trip in India,
a tourist from Britain found himself in quite the pickle.
He was kidnapped by a hungry crocodile!
The tourist’s name was Ian Turton, and he was taking a river trip near Bangalore when
the wild attack took place.
The 497-mile(800km) long Cauvery River runs across three of the southern Indian states.
Ian was with a traveling companion and friend, a man named Michael Easton.
They were on the Cauvery River in an inflatable dinghy.
As you can probably imagine, an inflatable dinghy is not the best thing to be cruising
down the river in, especially when there are crocodiles around.
The men went missing somewhere along the river.
Rescuers found the half-eaten body of Ian Turton, who appeared to have tried to escape
the crocodile and was literally ripped in half.
Michael Easton’s body wasn't found, but the inflatable dinghy was discovered with
puncture marks made by crocodile teeth.
Michael is still missing and assumed dead and eaten.
6: Stuck in a Cave People just keep getting stuck in weird places.
When will they learn?
If it looks too small for you, it probably is.
If it looks too dangerous, it probably is!
In Utah, a medical student and an experienced caver, named John Jones, 26 years old, got
trapped upside-down in the famous Nutty Putty Cave for over 28 hours.
This is a popular spelunking site roughly 80 miles(129km) from Salt Lake City.
John was actually the first person to die inside the cave, according to the County Sheriff's
Office.
But just how exactly did John Jones get stuck in the cave?
Well, he wasn’t exactly a small guy, he was a pretty big guy, about 6 feet(1.8m) and
almost 200 pounds(91kg).
He got jammed in a very weird position with his head bent at an angle below his feet.
He tried to stick himself somewhere his big body clearly didn't fit.
After a desperate rescue attempt, things were looking pretty grim.
There was nothing anyone could do except literally watch and speak with John as he slowly died
with the blood rushing to his brain, and all because he thought it would be fun to crawl
upside-down through a cave.
Nutty Putty is now closed to the public and there has been no news of it reopening.
5: Death by Peeing Contest A woman died a few years ago during a peeing
contest.
Yes - a peeing contest.
At the time, it seemed like a good idea.
A radio station held the contest, calling it “Hold Your Wee for a Wii.”
Whoever could hold their pee the longest was going to win a free Nintendo Wii system.
That was a $250 value!
The rules of the contest were that the contestants had to drink as much water as possible without
peeing.
The last person standing who hadn't peed and who drank the most water would win.
Well, it turned out to be a pretty terrible idea.
Jennifer Strange was 28 years old when she entered the competition.
Her kids loved video games and she wanted to win the prize for them, but she puked,
was disqualified, and went back home.
I guess during the contest Jennifer was complaining of stomach pains, and the host chuckled and
said “Is anyone dying in there?”
6 hours later she dropped dead in her home.
Apparently, she had suffered water intoxication.
This is almost like alcohol intoxication but way worse.
It happens when too much water enters the blood and dilutes the electrolytes and sodium,
resulting in a shutdown of brain function and immediate death.
After the incident, the radio station was ordered to pay over $16 million in damages
to the family.
The radio station could also lose its licence altogether.
Two media watchdog groups are challenging the license renewal of the station too.
They were seen as liable for the young mother’s strange demise.
4: Too Funny for Life A Greek philosopher was so funny that he died
laughing at his own joke.
The philosopher, named Chrysippus, was 73 years old at the time of death.
He was born in ancient Turkey and moved to Athens to become a scholar.
He lived a long and prosperous life before making a joke so funny that he literally laughed
himself into the grave.
Are you ready for the joke?
Here's what happened.
The philosopher saw a donkey eating his figs while at a feast.
The philosopher said, “Now give the donkey a pure wine to wash down the figs!”
I’m not really sure why that’s so funny, but it was so hilarious to him that he laughed
and laughed and laughed.
He laughed so hard that he hit the floor and began to shake and foam at the mouth.
By the time people rushed to his aid, he was already dead.
This may or may not have actually happened.
There are historical records of the event but nobody knows for sure what happened back
in 200 BC, over 2000 years ago.
What we do know is that death by laughter is a real thing.
Laughing too hard can cause a heart attack, loss of consciousness, or even unexpected
asphyxiation!
Not so funny now huh!
3: Death by Orange Peel Bobby Leach was born in 1858 and was the ultimate
daredevil.
He was the second person to ever go over Niagara Falls inside of a barrel in 1911.
But no, this wasn't the dumb thing that killed him.
He did spend six months in the hospital recovering from injuries, including broken kneecaps and
a fractured jaw, but he lived all the way into old age.
He returned to Niagara Falls ten years after his fateful barrel plunge and tried to swim
through the whirlpool rapids at the bottom.
He failed to make it all the way through…
However, this didn't kill him either.
What killed Bobby Leach was an ordinary orange peel.
After a lifetime of daredevil stunts, Bobby was in New Zealand on a publicity tour when
he stepped on an orange peel, slipped and fell on his back, and injured his leg.
The injury became extremely infected, it got gangrenous, and doctors had to cut the whole
leg off.
Ouch!
Two short months later, Bobby died from complications.
Everyone was pretty shocked to say the least.
After all those harrowing stunts, it was a slippery orange peel that finally did him
in.
2: Impaled by Reusable Straw A woman in England has been killed by a reusable
metal straw.
Yes, as ridiculous as that sounds, it's 100% true.
Her name was Elena Struthers-Gardner, she was 60 years old, and she was walking with
an ordinary drinking glass which contained a short stainless-steel metal drinking straw.
It's important to note that Elena suffered from scoliosis, meaning her spine was curved
unnaturally, and this made her clumsy and very prone to falling.
Well, she fell while carrying the glass, and when she hit the ground, the metal straw impaled
her through the eyeball.
She must have landed in such a way that the straw hit the ground and became rigid, turning
it into a deadly spike.
It stuck through her eye and into her brain, causing an injury that proved immediately
fatal.
She didn't even know what happened.
It was a complete freak accident!
The straw went through her eye, into her brain, and she was dead in a second.
What's really ironic about this story is that plastic straws have been outlawed in most
countries because of their danger to the environment and a lot of people are replacing them with
reusable metal ones.
But now, it seems the metal straws are a hazard to people… you know, since they can impale
your brain.. maybe we should get rid of straws all together?
What do you think?
1: Fallen in a Vat of Soup In Iraq, a chef cooked himself to death.
Yup.
It is a little ironic.
The incident happened while the man was preparing for a large wedding feast.
He had a giant vat filled with chicken soup.
He was standing over the soup, stirring it with his ladle, and he didn't have a care
in the world, he’s a chef after all, cooking is his whole life!
But then he slipped, fell into his very own soup, and cooked himself all the way to death.
Of course, he didn't die immediately.
He was rescued from the vat by a terrified wedding guest.
But he wouldn't survive for long.
70% of his body was covered in third-degree burns.
He may as well have been trapped inside a burning building.
After five days of suffering in the hospital, the chef succumbed to his injuries and passed
away quietly.
He left behind three children, one of them being a 6-month-old baby.
As for whether the wedding guests still ate the soup, we can only hope they didn’t..
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