Embarrassingly Dumb Ways People Died - Darwin Awards Winners [Part 15]

well here we are again how many episodes has it been now 10 12. wait 15. seriously 15 whole videos dedicated to people who have protected our gene pool by removing themselves from it in the most idiotic ways possible and there's still no end in sight wow I guess human stupidity really doesn't know any bounds with that let's take a look at even more Darwin Award winners and the ridiculous ways they achieved their prize Florida man down back in June 2022 over in Largo Florida a couple of people we

re enjoying a round of frisbee golf in a local park what you don't know the time-honored game of frisbee golf as the name suggests it's like golf but instead of a bulb you have a Frisbee and instead of holes you have these basket things a more weirdly American sport has never existed and I've been to a hot dog eating contest anyways the game was progressing pretty normally when someone accidentally flung their frisbee off course into a nearby lake now Florida is famously home to some 1.25 millio

n alligators and because of this almost everybody of fresh water across the state has signs warning people not to step foot in the water lest they fancy becoming an alligator's snack despite this a gentleman who will call Florida man decided in his infinite wisdom to wait right on in and grab the disc Gators be damned this was not his first time in the waters though he'd repeatedly waded into this Lake in the past to fetch lost Frisbees and resell them back to their owners despite being warned n

ot to do so multiple times but this would be the last time he got to pull this Ploy because before he could find the Frisbee an alligator found him well all I can say is if you play stupid games like fetching frisbees from alligator infested waters you win stupid prizes like being eaten by alligators Superior idiot energy back in August 2021 a gentleman from Southampton in the UK decided he wanted to try out paddle boarding for the first time he'd carefully researched all the equipment he needed

bought a few boards and paddles for himself and his family and then headed to a beach in Hampshire he'd specifically chosen this beach because he knew the waters would be calmer giving him a better chance to get to grips with the board all seems like a very sensible logical way to go about things doesn't it that is until you learned that this guy couldn't swim also he hadn't bothered to put on a life jacket and then to add the cherry on top of this idiot Sunday he'd paddled more than half a mil

e out into Open Water where when he tried to turn the board around he suddenly fell off unable to get a grip on the board his inability to swim and the lack of a body affixed floatation device ended up causing his demise to make matters worse his wife claimed that the lack of coast guards on the beach was the main reason he did to survive while that may be a part of it I'm pretty sure a fatal lack of comments since was more to blame here foreign stuff I love me a good barbecue the only part I do

n't enjoy is waiting for the coals to be hot enough to cook on yeah I know it only takes like 15 minutes to light them up and get them scorching hot but this little fatty wants his Burger now I want it now and it turns out I'm not the only impatient one back in July 2022 a man from Earth stock Germany was driving along when all of a sudden he lost Consciousness his car came to a stop when it hit the side of a house and the local fire brigade was called they assumed this guy had fallen asleep at

the wheel and caused the accident but when they got there the unmistakable smell of charcoal filled their noses and when they opened the back doors of the car out fell several small barbecue grills with glowing coals still in them after extinguishing the coals the firefighters found beer speakers beer benches and Crockery inside it turned out the idiot driving was a cook who supposedly gave barbecue seminars apparently in a rush to get from one appointment to the next he hadn't bothered to extin

guish the still glowing coals in the kettle grills which he loaded into the back of his car now when they're burning Kohl's released a colorless and odorless toxic gas called carbon monoxide even when they're not smoking which is why having a cold barbecue in an enclosed space is always a bad idea after a while this guy's car had filled up with the toxic gas causing him to pass out and crash clearly his barbecue course didn't cover the basics of barbecue safety amateur caffeine in the big buff w

orld of gem Bros taking a pre-workout supplement is currently All the Rage a single serving contains everything you need to boost your energy levels and get your buzz on including vitamins carbohydrates and around 175 milligrams of the stimulant caffeine about the same amount you'd find in four cups of coffee now that's liquid motivation however these supplements can be expensive so some people resort to just buying caffeine powder and making their own liquid get up and go juice at least that's

what one man in the UK tried to do back in 2022 he'd bought some caffeine powder to add to his homemade pre-workout drink and because it hadn't come with a measuring cup or scoop he decided to use some basic kitchen scales to measure out 300 milligrams of the stuff that's about six and a half very strong coffees definitely not advised though not necessarily a fatal dose but uh the skills he was using weren't in milligrams they were Rams the lowest weight he could measure on them was more than si

x times the maximum recommended dose and it's believed without realizing the metrics were wrong he measured out close to 300 grams more than 200 coffees worth of caffeine and consumed it within minutes he was on the floor in the grips of a severe caffeine overdose one he didn't survive now the caffeine levels in the blood of a person who drunk one cup of coffee would be two to four milligrams per liter of blood a postmortem revealed that this guy's caffeine levels were 392 milligrams per liter s

o this one goes out to all the gym lovers out there double triple quadruple check your supplement metrics or be like me and stick to having a pre-workout coffee on the couch and then staying there much safer poor life Choo-Choo choices it's not just consuming self-made workout energy drinks that'll learn you a Darwin Award though advertising them can result in an equally dubbed demise if this next entrant is anything to go by back in January 2015 a male fitness model in Burbank California decide

d he wanted to shoot a promotional video for an energy drink company he'd co-founded but instead of shooting something like a big Burly guy in a jam lifting weights with one hand and chugging his energy drink with another our man wanted something different he wanted to really train no sorry I read that wrong he wanted real trains he planned to make it look like drinking this drink would give you the power to outrace a literal train the only problem is that a shoot like this is expensive and requ

ires a lot of paperwork but going for a more Brawn over brain approach our man figured he and his team could just trespass onto a restricted area of the Metrolink tracks and shoot the commercial hassle free his plan was to run on a set of tracks that were parallel to the trains coming up behind him so shot from the side it would only look like he was running ahead of the train but here's the kicker this particular section of Railway was on a blind Bend so until the train was around the corner th

ere was no way of knowing which set of tracks it would be using nevertheless our model man shouted action and started running with the train quickly catching up behind him despite the blaring sound of the Train's Horner man just kept running in a straight line until the train ran over him would this be a bad time to mention that semi-realistic CGI effects are pretty cheap these days like I know a guy who edit you into a train chasing for like 20 bucks no sorry I was too busy over here flexing my

brain not my muscles protein powder problems what another genbro workout supplement related story Don't Mind If I Do back in February 2022 early in the morning a young man was driving along a road on the outskirts of San Diego without warning he veered off to the side of the road hitting a parked vehicle and causing a six car pile-up okay at this point I want you to take a guess at why he veered off the road was he looking at his phone had he fallen asleep was he attempting to open a packet of

protein powder take out a scoop and pour it into a cup of water he had in his lap while mixing it with a knife well if you guessed that last one give yourself a cookie when Rescuers arrived at the scene they opened the guy's door to find protein powder all over the vehicle it coated the seats the dash the airbag that had deployed after he crashed and the knife which as he'd been distractedly using it to mix the protein drink in his lap had been propelled back by the airbag and into his body fata

lly luckily no one else was injured okay several takeaways from this story one don't mix your protein powder while you drive two don't hold a knife while you drive and three always take your workout supplements with a liberal dose of Common Sense Tick Tock trouble a lot of good things have come from the video sharing app Tick Tock such as fun dances and wholesome viral stars but it's also provided the Catalyst for a lot of incredibly dumb Trends just for likes and Views often the more extreme th

ese are the more views they receive but they can be so pointlessly dangerous many of them have been banned from the platform but back in November 2022 one wannabe Tic Tac Creator went viral for all the wrong reasons deciding you needed to add a little Edge to his next Tick-Tock dance a man from Texas and All His Infinite Wisdom decided to get up on top of an 18-wheeler and then began to record himself dancing while the truck was moving the driver of the truck had no idea and so he continued on h

is round as per usual this included driving across Houston's us-59 Eastex Freeway a route with several overpasses other drivers soon noticed The Tick-Tock tear watching as he ducked down to avoid being hit by some of the overpasses but he was too focused on his dance moves and didn't spot one coming up at speed he was probably knocked off the top of the truck and into moving traffic which obviously he didn't survive I want to say this was an accident but part of me wonders if he started the vide

o light Darwin Award achievement check Lord have mercy on this idiot there are a lot of people out there who claim to be The Reincarnation of the big JC Jesus Christ but none have ever definitively proved that they are which is what One Pastor from Zambia was about to change back in 2021 this guy promised to prove to his congregation that he was The Reincarnation of the Son of God by recreating one of Jesus's famous Heavenly abilities you assume he'd choose something with minimal risk like turni

ng water into wine or walking on water no of course not he demanded his congregation bury him alive and then dig him up three days later mimicking JC's famous Resurrection so as instructed the church members dug him a grave tied his hands together and buried him he remained there as the good book said for three days and when he was exhumed on the third day something unbelievable happened he was alive he'd done it he'd really done it he is risen he had obviously didn't do this the pastor did not

in fact survive three days buried and six feet of Earth with no air not exactly a surprise and was very much stuck in the pre-resurrection stage his congregation members were arrested with several still on the run for their hand in this prophetical failing if only he'd stuck to not turning water into wine copter chaos when it comes to Big dangerous machines with the power to tear people to shreds very few people immediately think of helicopters well if at least one more of them had then they mig

ht still be with us back in July 2022 news outlets all over the world began reporting on a story from Athens Greece where a tourist was struck down by a helicopter rotor after getting too close to the blades wow trying to take a selfie with the vehicle the news outlets quickly ran with The Sensational story but it turned out that they were wrong about one key thing and the real story was far more baffling the tourist in question had been running as part of a group on the helicopter and after it

landed had disembarked with the other sin was chaperone to a nearby Lounge safely however it was at this point the tourists who appeared to be calling someone on his phone left the lounge and made a sudden beeline back to the helicopter without telling anyone anything as he approached the still running vehicle ground staff suddenly clocked him shouting for him to stop but over the noise of the helicopter he couldn't hear them nor could he see how fast the rear rotor was spinning the pilot who wa

s wearing headphones only heard the ground crew shouting right as the tourists made the unthinkable decision to duck under the tail section of the aircraft but misjudged how close he was to the whirring blades and was fatally caught by the tail rotor so it wasn't down to a seriously stupid selfie but what the heck possessed him to go back to the helicopter let alone duck under the tail and get that close to the blades maybe he'd forgotten something on the helicopter maybe he wanted to see the he

licopter from the other side maybe I don't know I'm out of ideas what do you think he was doing let me know down in the comments below gee whiz manual labor is no easy profession it's a lot of long hours where you're constantly on your feet often at the mercy of the elements it ain't for the faint-hearted or the smooth brain considering how many dangers you can find on an active site which is why this next guy's employment in the field shorted out shall we say back in 2020 in Dara Doon India a l

abor for the uttarakhan power Corporation decided to take a leak because he was on the job he figured he shouldn't go far and so found a pole to relieve himself next to but this guy must have forgotten where he was and that he was working for a power company because he chose a pole that was right next to an electrical box as soon as he let the stream rip onto the Box a fatal bolt of electricity surged of it and through his body frying him instantly well whether you work for a power company or no

t I think we can all agree that we're going to be checking where we whiz before we whiz from now on [Music] falling on Hard Times when you're doing something as dangerous as canyoneering the activity of exploring canyons and California is aptly named Death Valley having the red equipment isn't just advised it's crucial otherwise you might end up like this next guy back in December 2022 having planned a solo canyoneering trip our man went by himself to repel down one of death Valley's many Canyon

s when he suddenly realized his rope was too short instead of admitting to feed and heading out of the park to find somewhere that might sell him a longer rope he had a big brain moment he could use a piece of webbing to lengthen his rope and make it down to the bottom now webbing is a sort of strap often used to secure things like backpacks it's not designed to be used as climbing equipment nonetheless he extended the makeshift rope and happy with it began his descent however when he reached th

e knot where the Rope met the webbing he had to briefly disconnect his repel device in order to get over it and it was here while he wasn't secured to the wall or the Rope thanks to his own hair brain design that he suddenly fell 30 feet to his demise at least now we all know how not to go canyoneering get it not like like the naughty uh yeah the dad jokes aren't going to get any better they're the most stable part of my personality deal with it pour one out alcohol has a few properties that it'

s famous for for one it's a depressant meaning it inhibits or depresses the response of the central nervous system which is why you slur your speech and can't walk straight when you've had one too many two at room temperature it's liquid in form and three it's highly flammable now that last one is particularly important because people don't seem to understand just how dangerous that makes it near an open flame if not handled correctly for example back in July 2022 a man from Naples Italy was hav

ing a barbecue when he decided to add a little fuel to the fire did he use fire lights maybe a little extra paper or wood nope this guy decided to bore alcohol on the Flames here's a little science lesson for you kids when a high enough proof alcohol in a stream meets a flame it doesn't magically make the source of the fire any hotter it sets the stream of alcohol on fire in an instant fire had traveled up the stream of alcohol to the bottle it was being poured from and the whole thing blew up i

n his face the injuries he sustained were so severe he didn't survive but luckily I like my Tales of fatal idiocy well done the Jagermeister Jagermeister is an herbal liqueur which thanks to the 56 herbs and spices that go into making it give it something of an acquired taste and by that I mean I only like it when it's mixed with a Red Bull I'm just classy like that still at 35 alcohol by volume it's pretty potent regardless well over in a liquor parlor in South Africa they decided to put the dr

inks potency to the test they set up a drinking competition offering a prize of 200 Rand a little over 11 to anyone who could drink an entire 24 ounce bottle of the stuff it's unclear whether they thought anyone would actually be dumb enough to attempt a challenge or whether they assumed it just couldn't be done but several men stood up to the plate and not only did the winner down every last drop he also did so in less than two minutes he was awarded his 200 Rand prize when all of a sudden he c

ollapsed on the floor but he wasn't just drunk or asleep he was gone yeah here's something I assumed I did need to explain alcohol isn't good for you in massive quantities it's a toxin which can build up in the blood and literally poison you in general your body can process about one unit of alcohol per hour after one drink your blood will have an alcohol content of roughly .04 percent after six drinks that'd be around Point fourteen percent at this point vomiting is not uncommon after 15 drinks

with a blood alcohol level of 0.3 percent unconsciousness is inevitable but after consuming an entire bottle of Jagermeister in just two minutes our man's blood alcohol content would have shot up from zero percent to around Point forty four percent a fatal dose oh man I can almost hear the Frat Boys saying he could have walked it off if only he'd had a couple of Red Bulls to chase it with [Music] honorable mentions okay so there have been some pretty solid attempts to join the prestigious list

of Darwin Award winners over the years but the idiots in question have tragically survived however I'm feeling generous so to make sure they don't feel left out here are a couple of honorable mentions to those who almost made the list with some certifiably moronic Life Choices to start we head over to Russia where back in 2020 an influencer decided to make their birthday a memorable one by inviting some of their friends over to a pool complex they'd hired out they spent a little time in the saun

a and to ensure the water was extra cold for their posts on a swam the influencer had ordered 55 pounds of dry ice which they then dumped into the pool okay Pop Quiz do you guys know what dry ice actually is no well neither did the influencer all they knew was that it was very cold and when it met water It produced a cool steam show effect which would look great on their socials but here's the thing dry ice is the solid form of carbon dioxide which only stays solid at a temperature of negative 1

09.2 degrees Fahrenheit above this and without the right pressure conditions it transitions straight into gas without an immediate liquid stage so dumping that much in a pool which was not a well ventilated space released a lot of carbon dioxide I guess humans famously cannot breathe several guests dived in and immediately began to choke the influencer themselves and a few others managed to get out just in time but three gets suffocated including the influencer's own husband well that's a birthd

ay though certainly never forget although that's not the dumbest thing someone's done around a body of water back in July 2022 the chief minister of a North Indian State visited the holy Columbine rivulet marking 22 years of its cleansing despite its historical significance the rivulet had once been a sewer drain but more than 20 years of community Rejuvenation brought the rivulet back to life on the heels of a clean water our campaign in the state the chief minister was so Keen to prove to ever

yone at this event that the Columbine was both clean and safe he grabbed himself a glass of its water and drank it down I really hope I don't need to tell you but just because fresh water looks clean doesn't mean it's safe to drink waterborne infections like E coli parasites and raw sewage can contaminate even the freshest looking water sources which this chief minister found out quickly the next day multiple media Outlets reported that he was airlifted to a hospital with severe stomach cramps h

e attempted to deny it claiming it was a routine checkup though I'm not sure how many people need an emergency airlift for a simple checkup hmm something smells off though that might just be the calibine laughs ride or die now I don't usually have favorites but this next Darwin Award is just oh it's just lacking so many brain cells it's unbeatable in my opinion back in 2015 a gentleman and his friend were visiting Cedar Point Amusement Park in Sandusky Ohio they decided to get their adrenaline f

ix on the Raptor a steel inverted roller coaster which whips Riders around at a top speed of 57 miles per hour as they were riding our man in question realized his phone had fallen out of his pocket once the ride was over he peered over into the Restricted Section and saw his phone lying near The Coasters tracks completely ignoring the big do not enter signs the fence is constructed to keep people out and the fact he knew the red was currently in operation having literally just been on it our ma

n hopped a fence and reached for his phone to literally no one's surprise he didn't even bother to check if another cart was coming and so as you've probably guessed he was struck by an oncoming cart yep that's got to your Darwin Award if ever there was one which of these winners did you think removed themselves in the most spectacular way and would you be up for a part 16 EG knows there's still plenty of Award winners out there just waiting to have their stupidity animated let me know down in t

he comments below and thanks for watching thank you [Music]