My favourite tale is Carlos the Hijacker. Carlos hijacked a plane with his "homemade gun", robbed the passengers of all their valuables, and demanded the pilot drop to 1000ft where he was to jump out of the plane with his "homemade parachute". It gets better. As he open the door, one of the hostesses grabbed him to which he produced a "homemade hand grenade". in panic, the hostess pushed him out of the plane and Carlos pulled out the pin and threw it back into the plane (the pin, not the hand grenade). Boom Boom Carlos😂😂
Years ago, when these Darwin Awards first came to my attention, there was one about a guy who tried to rob a bank using a handgun. He got irate and panicked at some point and fired his weapon, which didn't go off. So as he looked down the barrel to see why it hadn't fired, he pressed the trigger whereupon it worked!
Best one I heard bloke tried to sail into the sky on a chair with helium balloons attached. Got everything right had his BB gun next to him leaning Inthe chair, cut the rope. Guess what not attached BB gun to dpchaor. Got very high but doesn't count as froze or suffocated
We use to read these at work all the time a few years back, One was about a group of men playing Russian Roulette by stamping on an Antitank mine, They thought it wouldn't go off because the lack of weight, They were wrong. Another was a group of men in a light Airplane flying past another plane when they decided to moon the people in the other plane, The pilot did as well and they lost control and were later found in the wreckage with the trousers and pants still around their ankles.
My favorite Darwin Award is the guy in the US who decided to commit an armed robbery. Of a crowded gun shop. In a city where conceal-carry was permitted. While a police car was parked outside. While a uniformed police officer was inside talking to the gun shop manager.
Best one i heard was a guy invited to the wedding of his ex. Consumed by jealousy he planned to ruin the reception by spiking the brides drink with high strength laxatives. His plan seemed to go well until after he gave the bride a drink and then drank his own.... he suddenly realised he'd drunk the wrong one. Running through the hotel looking for a toilet he found himself running through the kitchen and out the back door. By this time he was so desperate he dropped trousers and hopped up onto the nearest bin... he finished, and then tried to get up, only to find he was stuck. Rocking the bin to tip it over hoping this would help, he flung himself sideways only to find himself rolling down the hillside (breaking several bones in the process) and off a 30 foot drop onto the road below and the path of an oncoming truck.
I was given a copy of the first Darwin Awards book for my birthday back in the early 1980s by a couple of girls I worked with at the BBC. They thought it would appeal to my warped sense of humour.
I read one Darwin Award once where two students broke into a library, and found a chute. Thinking it was a laundry chute (what in a library ?), one slid down it, falling straight into a trash compactor. His weight activated the machine, and he was sliced into two, by the compactor ram, before being squashed with the trash.
@@dsmyify If trying to stand up, caused him to be sliced by the ram, as his upper body protruded above the compactor ram, it might have been safer to lay down, and be pushed whole inside the container. Although, even if he survived that (because the container was, say empty); I am not sure how he could get out. It could have been a dark fantasy.
When I was a truck-driver I saw this "after-math" in Provo, Utah. Semi-trailer loaded with a huge reel of copper wire (worth MONEY to thieves!) so two Darwin Award candidates pull-up with a 2 1/2 ton truck (it's an 30,000 Lb reel of wire!!!) in the dark of night and decide to cut the chains holding the reel in place. Good idea, EXCEPT the trailer is on a very slight incline...Dawn breaks on this seance-the reel of wire has rolled off the semi-trailer onto their truck, smashing it FLAT into the ground, there are two red STREAKS on the trailer deck and two ARMS and two LEGS on the ground on either side of the trailer (16 feet apart) they supposed once belonged to the thieves...the truck driver, the crane operator, three deputies, the Provo television crew are all over to the side almost rolling on the ground LAUGHING!!! When I pull into the truck stop, Provo Fire Dept is hooking up hoses to wash them off! Go back 35+ years and you'll find this one, it REALLY happened!
Years ago, in South Africa, there was a story in the local weekly newspaper about a man who had accidentally shot himself dead whilst playing Russian Roulette. The following week there was another story about a man who had accidentally shot himself dead whilst demonstrating, to his family, how the first man had managed to shoot himself!
My favourite was the man who wanted to try bungee jumping, so he bought lots of short bungee cords and hooked them together. Police found his body at the bottom of the ravine, where he had died because the multiple cords created one long cord which was actually longer than the jump!
The irony was that a bungee expert said that despite being hundreds of short bungees tied together it actually would have worked if only he had got the length right
Hunter shot a deer, which was standing on a cliff edge directly above him. Deer collapsed, fell off, and landed on the hunter, killing him outright. Instant Karma.
I remember reading the news about the guy going to the Sentinel Island that is home to a tribe that is believed to be 60k years in isolation, apart from a short period of British intervention. The last footage of them (that I know of) was when a helicopter flew low overhead in the early days of Covid and they responded by throwing spears at it...!
Actually a quite watchable film made in 2006 starring Winona Ryder and Joseph Fiennes based on all the most dramatic Darwin awards. The stars play insurance assessors who visit the Darwin sites to investigate claims
Six Feet Under had some great stories. I remember the episode where a truck with inflatable sex dolls was involved in an accident and the dolls floated away. A female driver thought it was 'the rapture ' and died in a car crash.
Story number 8, this may sound ridiculous, but he was actually riding the seaway along the edge of the river on a high footpath. He saw some ramblers walking towards him so he stopped and backed up to let them pass and went to far and ended up falling off a very high ledge then went into the river. This man was the inventor of the hesco bastion defence walls that were built in Afghanistan for the forces, so the camp " Camp Bastion" was named after his product.
Yes I read this too. Apparently there was a bump on the ground as he backed up which caused him to lean over, thus accelerating the Segway over the edge.
Amanda - this is perhaps your best reaction video I've seen. Please keep doing them - on any topic - and share a lot of your feelings and thoughts straight up, like you did here.
I heard the story of the dreamy-eyed missionary who thought that the Sentinelese were just pining to learn about Jesus and would be forever grateful that he brought them the Bible. I nearly pissed myself when I heard how grateful the natives were. Absolutely marvelous!
Here's another one. It's the story of a cameraman that filmed parachute jumps. One day he was having trouble with his camera and he needed to fix it because there was a big jump that day, multiple jumpers. He tried and tried to fix it but no joy, and he was panicking. The jumpers where boarding the plane so the cameraman grabbed his camera, tools and parachute and got on the plane. While the plane climbed the camera man worked away on the camera and just as they reached the jump zone and we're ready to go the camera worked. So, the camera man, with the camera rolling, jumped with the group. Unfortunately, he left his parachute in the plane. He had been too busy with the camera that he forgot to put his parachute on.
The funniest I read was about a guy who attached a jato ( jet assisted take off engine) to his chevy then went out into the arazona area and set it off as the story goes the driver soon to be pilot reached incredible speeds before crash landing in the mountains ⛰
My favourite is the story of guy who bought a new, very big RV with all the mod cons, including cruise control. He drove it off the lot and when he hit the freeway decided to hit the cruise control then go in the back for a quick nap.
The JATO assisted car first brought my attention to The Darwin Awards, many years ago. Turned out to be an urban legend, but it really put the Awards on the map.
Hi Amanda, I read this one in an old darwin awards book. So this guy in Nebraska I think, some time around December bought a new 4x4 truck and went to the local bar to show off to all his friends, Several rounds later they all decided to go duck hunting, him, 3 friends and his dog. They arrived at the lake to shoot ducks only to now realise its winter and no ducks on the lake because its frozen over. So mr smart alec gets out a stick of dynamite, lights it, and throws it out onto the lake so the ducks can land there. The dog (remember him?) sees the stick chases off and brings it back, the guys are all yelling at the dog to drop it, so next step shoot at the dog. The dog gets the right hump, he runs over to the truck and hides under it. Truck goes boom. The truck is being purchased on credit and no insurance company would believe that story so the guy had one dead dog, one dead car and a whacking big credit bill ... Is it true? Dunno but makes a good story
But how is this a Darwin award? Unless he died or lost his ability to procreate, he would not be eligible for one. Don't get me wrong, it's a marvelous story about human stupidity, but not really something fit for a Darwin award. Maybe he was in the runner-up category?
@@YouHaventSeenMeRight As I said in the opening sentence, it's in an old Darwin's Award book. As for what you think would qualify for a Darwin's Award .. the dog blew itself up!! The mutt won the award!! The moron owner probably got a third place for drunken stupidity, and because he also submitted the story that just makes it worse, was it you?
Gotta love a Darwin! Great choice Amanda😂👍 One of my faves is the tale of the guy who bought a USAF surplus Jet Assisted Take Off (JATO) rocket (they were, as the name suggests, mounted on aircraft to either get off the ground with a heavier than usual payload or a shorter take off run). Anyway,our hero then attached said rocket to his Chevrolet Impala whereupon he drove out to a long stretch of road in the desert and fired that bad boy up. Now, the thing about these rockets is that once they ignite, they cannot be switched off in any way so as he approached a solid rock face at 150 plus mph, his brakes weren't quite up to the job and he smashed into the rock. One of the attending Police Officers was apparently heard to remark that the Impala ended up 'about thirty feet wide and six inches long'....😂
There was once a Greek King who was presented with a new machine to execute his enemies. It was called the Brazen Bull. The King asked the inventor to show how it worked. The inventor told the King how the bull was made from metal and, while getting into the bull, the inventor told of how the bull could be closed and locked and a fire started under it resulting in the person inside being roasted alive. The King closed the bull and locked the inventor inside and ordered a fire to be lit. The screams of the inventor, as he cooked to death, sounded exactly like that of a bull.
Darwin awards are the funniest thing! My dad has a book about them, and I'm sure there was one about a couple who decided to knock boots on a railway track. The earth did move for them, but not in the way they wanted! ☠️😂
I had workmate whose brother robbed a post office. His get away vehicle was the first bus that he was able to jump on too. ( It was in London on the old open backed route master bus ). The bus drove to the end of the road and drove around a roundabout and headed back towards the direction of the post office. ( there was a left turn before the post office ). Unfortunately for him, the local plod had arrived on scene and the bus was pointed out by a witness and was promptly stopped. He was nicked.......What a helmet!
The Darwin Awards are an amazing collection of stories. The three I heard is a lawyer who was showing off how tough a window in a skyscraper was by running at it and barging it, when it shattered, the story of a man pleasuring himself on a machine belt who got caught and someone who attached a jet engine to a standard car and drove it into the side of a mountain.
Darwin Burglar Award Group of would be home invaders targeted a house where the owner had a collection of military grade combat firearms. Gang was warned he had a combat rifle pointed at the front door and this was their final warning to leave. They ignored the warning and tried to kick in the door, so the owner opened up on them. They scattered like roaches when the kitchen light was switched on. The award went to a guy that tripped and fell and the getaway car took off without him. The Darwin part is this guy thought it was a good idea to wear active LED equipped sneakers that glow. So each time he took a step, the LEDs on the shoes would blink and were visible from an altitude of 30 thousand feet. From the security footage, you could see someone with illuminated feet running by the camera. This was followed by someone holding a combat rifle running by the camera chasing him. All the homeowner and the police needed to do was follow the brightly lit up shoes. These guys were lucky that the owner had really bad aim because nobody was hit.
Apparently Einstein said something like "only two things are infinite. The universe and human stupidity. And i am not to sure about the Universe". This video proves it
The JATO rocket is my personal favourite. Sadly it is an urban myth, but didnt taken away from how side splittingly funny and well written the story was.
My favourite is the tale of the zoo keeper who gave a constipated elephant an enema using a hose connected to the water mains. Sadly it worked too well, the elephant ejected faeces hitting the keeper in the face, the keeper fell backwards hitting his head on a stone and knocking himself out, where he died from suffocation.
jimi heselden was a very decent, honest and charitable man. He did not profit from war but rather invented a product that actually saved lives by protecting our troops from enemy fire. He gave much to charity and died whilst riding a Segway, on his property - swerving to miss a jogger who was jogging across his land. He allowed people to enjoy his land. He invented a product that protected our troops. He died, swerving to avoid a jogger who ran out in front of him. The last time I saw Jimi was a month or so before he died, at my own aunty’s funeral. An ex-coal miner, he was a caring gentle giant who gave away much of his fortune. The original video providing the basis for this commentary was filth.
Guy pissed, New Year’s Eve, stripped of, jumped off the rugby club roof, as the fireworks went off, slid down the flagpole, cleats removed his bollocks, award granted 😩
2 separate Bungie Jumpers making their own ropes. One made it out of rope and took his own ankles off. The second made a stretchy one and measured the distance to the ground precisely. Upon jumping the rope stretched. Something he hadn't calculated for. Both went splat. The Darwin Awards website is quite the read.
Hi Amanda. I hadnt heard of the Darwin awards but that was very interesting, great seeing justice getting done, quite amusing some of them.Hope you and family staying safe and cool in these extreme conditions Thanks Amanda xx
I have never heard of the awards either! How can some people be so stupidly funny? At least l have had a laugh,which is hard going when we have so much negative around us !!
There's the story of a man who lived in the upper floor of a sky scraper. He was bragging to his friends about the windows of his apartment and how unbreakable they were. He decided to demonstrate just how good the windows where and he ran full speed at one. When he hit the window, sure enough, it didn't break. However, the window frame did break and the guy fell to his death.
I think this is because intellegence wise most women tend to cluster in middle on the bell curve. While men have more flat bell curve, meaning there are more genius but also more idiots.
The Darwin Awards are funny in a gallows humour sort of way and, maybe, sometimes with a touch of schadenfreude. What always strikes me though is that I have done so many reckless and stupid things in my life, particularly as a young man. I’m sure that many others have been similarly un-evolved. Just remembering some of these stunts sends a chemical shiver through my body. Despite a number of injuries, I survived and managed to pass on my genes, twice. Not necessarily a victory for natural selection since my son seems to be emulating his father.
This shower of shit that is the awards is complete bollocks! It assumes that stupidity is genetic which isn't necessarily true. It is also unforgivably callus to the value of human life. People forget, humans only got to where they are now because they learned that being empathic and co-operating with each other was a massive advantage in helping them to survive.
I remember a couple of thieves breaking in to an disused glass factory in Bradford to strip copper wire from it without realising everything was still "live". One was killed instantly and the other has no means of scratching his burnt arse now! I would suggest a Darwin Award but there's no way either of them could pick it up!
My favourite Darwin was a couple having sex up a mountain somewhere in the USA. The man on top got struck by lightning. The heat melted both people’s clothing together. Then a bear turned up and started eating genitals.
The Darwin award is usually for stupid ideas that resulted in death "removal" of the reproductive "gear", was there a lighting storm predicted or why would you think them stupid for just seeking a plac with no one around? High up in the mountains lightning can strike you even at bright daylight if you are unlucky, has nothing to do with stupidity in my book. Compare that with the two guys who went "ice fishing" with their dog and parked their truck on a frozen lake. Then tried to make the fishing hole with a stick of explosives. So one lights the fuse and throws the stick away, ecpecting it to make alittle hole in the ice. But what does a good dog do? So the other, seeing that the dog tried to bring back the stick, took a shotgun out of the truck and started shooting at the dog as he decided that he didn't want to die. Doggie was seemingly good at evading the shots and made it beneath the truck close to them, when the explosives detonated... Needless to say that neither the two sinking idiots, nor their truck survived the ice water.
My favourite was the guy who was angry because the coke vending machine did not dispense his drink so he repeatedly kicked the machine which promptly fell on him and killed him
A story I heard whilst serving in N Ireland, was of a couple of blokes walk into a pub and order everyone to get behind the bar as they had a bomb. They set the bomb on a table and tell everybody that it had an 'anti-handling' device - then proved it by picking the bomb up! They were the only causalities...
From my house I can see a TV broadcasting tower … Someone put a dining room chair 🪑 on top of the tower … The local newspaper recommended that the tower climber visit his Doctor as he is probably sterile now …..
Amanda's becoming more British every day, only a Brit would refer to it as a willie! Btw, I think my local library ought to hand out the Darwin awards, as it's housed in the former school where Darwin was educated.
In 2020 - Flat-earther "Mad" Mike Hughes died after attempting to launch himself to 5,000 feet with a homemade rocket to prove the Earth is flat. Not only did he not reach a sufficient height to prove anything, he also found that gravity exists.
From what I've heard that is possibly debatable. Some say he actually knew perfectly well the earth is round and didn't believe it was flat. But he kept up the charade as he loved the attention he was getting and it gave him the opportunity to collect donations to fund his space rocket dreams. Sadly we will never know, as he obviously took that secret to his grave.
My first thought of the #10 was "the robbed guy must have been really happy that he didn't pursue the robber and followed him." And the Newyears bomb reminds me of another Darwin award where terrorists built a bomb with a timer, but got the Daylight saving time shift wrong, so they set the timer for the next day but the DST change was during the night. The bomb detonated while they were transporting it to the supposed target. Only killed them.
one guy back in the 90's won it because he tried to commit suicide, so to make sure he took poison, hung himself from a tree over a cliff and set himself on fire. the fire burned through the rope, he fell into the water below which put out the fire and made him vomit up the poison. he washed up to shore and was picked up by an ambulance, then died when the ambulance crashed into a tree. talk about irony.
One of my favorites is, technically, not a Darwin as the individual survived and didn't even end his membership in the gene pool with a gunshot circumcision. It involves a guy who always wanted to learn to fly but, due to very poor eyesight, couldn't pass the physical. One day he had an idea and went to a military surplus store to buy several moderately sized weather balloons and a tank of helium. taking them home et attached them to a patio lounge and anchored the lounge to the ground with a rope. he then put together some supplies, a cooler with beer and sandwiches and a pellet rifle to pop a couple of balloons when he wanted to come down. After strapping in he cut the anchor rope expecting to rise slowly to a couple of hundred feet. He was surprised when he rose very quickly and didn't level out til around 12,000 feet. By this time he was too frightened to try popping any of the balloons so he floated around for several hours. I forgot to mention he was living in Los Angeles and the winds carried him into the landing pattern for the LA airport. The first time he was noticed was when an airline pilot called the tower and told them he was at 10,000 feet and had just passed some guy in a lawn chair with a gun! The tower ordered the pilot to immediately land and report for a drug and alcohol test. However after several more pilot reports someone finally decided to check this out and a Coast Guard helicopter was sent out. By this time the guy realized there was a leak in a balloon and he was slowly coming down. Unfortunately the winds had blown him out over the ocean. After an hour of the chopper trying to get a cable to him vs the rotor wash pushing the balloons away they finally hocked him up and pulled him back to land where he was promptly arrested for violating a number of federal air traffic laws, but he was alive!
My favourite Darwin award when to a man who wanted to go bungee jumping off a bridge but he only had a tow rope, he therefore jumped off the bridge, took off both his feet and then pungled to his death. One less idiot.🤣
I asked in church as a young man what happened to people untouched by Christianity? I was told they can't be held accountable if they are ignorant of its existence. So, my follow-up was then why spread the word if it's knowledge to an unbeliever could condemn them to an eternity of darkness if not embraced. They seemed to think their duty as Christians superseded any fallout. Religions in general seem to have a superiority & arrogance attached to them that requires them to save you even if you don't need saving.
Here's one I heard about many years ago. A group of teenagers dialled 999 to report finding a body in a derelict building. The two constables that responded found the naked body of a young man. His only attire was an old WW2 gas mask, complete with the air filter. He had secured a length of hose to the filter with duct tape, making an air-tight seal. The other end of the hose had been pushed up his rectum. There was nothing to suggest that anyone else had been involved, so it seemed that he had done this to himself. What he was trying to achieve was never established, all he did manage to do was to suffocate himself. Apparently the officers who had to notify his family found explaining the circumstances of his death rather difficult.
Haven't watched one of your vids in quite a while so I really noticed how much your accent has changed. You're sounding more like a Brit these days, with those shortened and rounder vowels. 😃😃
To me reading the Darwin Award books, now several volumes are outstanding. Now I can not go word for word the item as in the book volume, but the overall following covers the story essence in my words. One special one I keep remembering dealt with a worker employed to supervise the control console guages at a microwave power link in Northern USA part of a long distance power network. Parts of which due to terrain made normal cabled link too hard/costly to install and maintain so replacing moving the power from cables on high pylons to transmitting high power microwave energy. Now only a few such transmitter to receiver stations are needed only for particular hard access locations. The energy is many ways like the microwaves operating in microwave ovens. Here the power spread areawise at energy levels that normally would cause no real harm even to passing through by birds. The job by the operator on duty being to take some rather basic control actions on certain events indicating system deviations from optimum when the readouts varied outside specific boundaries, to keep the system to peak performance, or take actions for serious events on the network. . This operator was mainly on over night duty. The control room was at one end of a large extended room and the work space for operators was reasonably arranged, and safe, with needed shielding to protect against accidental high power microwave exposure, though the energy density was so low itself at normal operation, even exposure would hardly be an issue short term. Though long term repeated exposure is inadvisable. The guy had done this job for years through summers and winters. One time the entire power systems suffered a major drop out. Problem seemed at this or nearby location. Nobody at this energy link station was answering phone calls. An alternative person was sent out to check why the station failed to answer and appeared to be way off performance. On reaching the operating centre hours later being a bit remote difficult location, it was discovered that the operator was dead, seated at the far end of the operation room, way across from the controls and guages. That area was painted in yellow-black stripped surfaces as a exclusion area, no access allowed space while in operation. So how was this dead operator seated there.? On following investigation it was revealed this operator had discovered, and some other also adopted the same, that in that stripped area, the room felt a lot warmer, and comfortable than the console end with only some electric fan heater or such, so on cold nights and specially in winter, the operators often chose to sit there, still able to monitor the guages, and respond to needed controls at the then far end, if such were demanded in plenty of time. Nobody would be wiser as there was little reaction delay caused. Well on the night in question there had been a massive sudden power surge, source not clearly identified, maybe lightening strike, flash over due to insulator moisture and/or dirt, or even surge on cabled parts of the power network.. In any case this surge raised the microwave energy level to way over the power density of cooking in a microwave oven. That painted area was a safety warning that that area was exposed to significant microwave field thus not to be entered while operating. The operator was in consequence flash cooked by the massive power surge, dying instantly or close to instantly paralysed by sudden heat forming in bodily fluids. DEATH BY MICROWAVE COOKING. Certainly these persons were risking long term body damage from high power Radio Frequency exposure, but clearly chose to forget training details. And they were so comfortably warm there.
from 1996Polish farmer Krystof Azninski, who staked a strong claim to being Europe's most macho man by cutting off his own head in 1995. Azninski, 30, had been drinking with friends when it was suggested they strip naked and play some "men's games". Initially they hit each other over the head with frozen turnips, but then one man upped the ante by seizing a chainsaw and cutting off the end of his foot. Not to be outdone, Azninski grabbed the saw and, shouting "Watch this then," he swung at his own head and chopped it off.
A few years ago, a family was celebrading the 4th of July with fireworks. One young man (alcohol might have been involved (okay, he was wikked drunk)) thought it would be a good idea to launch a 6inch star shell, by holding the launch tube on top of his head. It turned out about how you'd expect. One interviewee said 'he wasn't stupid'... I think Darwin might argue that point.
With regard to the Men getting the most Darwin awards, the answer boils down to psychology and biology. Due to men competing more physically, they often engage in one-upmanship for the purpose of bonding or as a pecking order thing. Since it's both physical and dangerous you have the elements for things to go wrong. Another factor is that Men are far more likely to take any sort of risk. It's a double edged sword, in that some risks lead to great rewards, but others will be fatal. A guy who can do free-running across roof tops for example is very likely to get injured or die, yet, for some it is a career that pays out. Another example is foraging.Men would take the risk when eating a new food, which could mean a boon for the tribe if it proved edible....or could prove fatal. Finally, most explorers were men for the same reason.To go to unknown territory is dangerous but if you survive there is a lot of value out there. The final thing is intelligence in relation to the genders. The bell curve for men on intelligence shows that at the ends of both sides, we have more dumb people than women but we also have more at the highest end in terms of being a genius. So essentially we have a lot of dumb guys as a proportion of the human race. As a result a small percentage of a huge number means there is plenty of idiots out there to watch and laugh at.
A man in Poland taught his dog to fetch using a fake grenade. One day while walking the dog he got into an argument with another man backed up and pulled out a live grenade, pulled the pin and threw it at the other man’s feet. The poor dog fetched it and brought it back….
Probably the absolute classic Darwin Award is the one won by "Lawn Chair Larry!" Although, TBH, my favourites are the 'near misses,' such as the felchers. I cried laughing at that one (though I did feel sorry for the Gerbil!). :)
Are ya doing a reaction video especially for women's Euro football 2022. History being made, will be down in Football History forever. And the highest attendance aswell for women's football is truly amazing, so so proud of them played superb over the entire tournament.
I laughed so hard at the hot dog man I had to pause it then when I restarted listening to your reaction started me off all over again! Your so funny 😂 😂🤣
Hi Amanda ive not heard of these before some of these people learned the hardway or very painful way these were very interesting some people do very strange things
Not sure if this story is true, but when I was 3ish, my parents claim a neighbor boy who was like 16, climbed up a high voltage electric tower on our property and fell on the wire killing him, then hit the wire below shocking him back, then he fell the 100ish feet to the ground and died later in the hospital from the fall. The story may have just been a way to keep us (brothers and sisters) away from the tower, if so it worked.
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My favourite tale is Carlos the Hijacker. Carlos hijacked a plane with his "homemade gun", robbed the passengers of all their valuables, and demanded the pilot drop to 1000ft where he was to jump out of the plane with his "homemade parachute". It gets better. As he open the door, one of the hostesses grabbed him to which he produced a "homemade hand grenade". in panic, the hostess pushed him out of the plane and Carlos pulled out the pin and threw it back into the plane (the pin, not the hand grenade). Boom Boom Carlos😂😂
Oh no 🤣🤣🤣
Sounds a bit like a Bob Mortimer-type story. 😂
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Years ago, when these Darwin Awards first came to my attention, there was one about a guy who tried to rob a bank using a handgun. He got irate and panicked at some point and fired his weapon, which didn't go off. So as he looked down the barrel to see why it hadn't fired, he pressed the trigger whereupon it worked!
Best one I heard bloke tried to sail into the sky on a chair with helium balloons attached. Got everything right had his BB gun next to him leaning Inthe chair, cut the rope. Guess what not attached BB gun to dpchaor. Got very high but doesn't count as froze or suffocated
We use to read these at work all the time a few years back, One was about a group of men playing Russian Roulette by stamping on an Antitank mine, They thought it wouldn't go off because the lack of weight, They were wrong.
Another was a group of men in a light Airplane flying past another plane when they decided to moon the people in the other plane, The pilot did as well and they lost control and were later found in the wreckage with the trousers and pants still around their ankles.
My favorite Darwin Award is the guy in the US who decided to commit an armed robbery. Of a crowded gun shop. In a city where conceal-carry was permitted. While a police car was parked outside. While a uniformed police officer was inside talking to the gun shop manager.
Best one i heard was a guy invited to the wedding of his ex. Consumed by jealousy he planned to ruin the reception by spiking the brides drink with high strength laxatives.
His plan seemed to go well until after he gave the bride a drink and then drank his own.... he suddenly realised he'd drunk the wrong one. Running through the hotel looking for a toilet he found himself running through the kitchen and out the back door. By this time he was so desperate he dropped trousers and hopped up onto the nearest bin... he finished, and then tried to get up, only to find he was stuck. Rocking the bin to tip it over hoping this would help, he flung himself sideways only to find himself rolling down the hillside (breaking several bones in the process) and off a 30 foot drop onto the road below and the path of an oncoming truck.
This I love.
I was given a copy of the first Darwin Awards book for my birthday back in the early 1980s by a couple of girls I worked with at the BBC. They thought it would appeal to my warped sense of humour.
I read one Darwin Award once where two students broke into a library, and found a chute. Thinking it was a laundry chute (what in a library ?), one slid down it, falling straight into a trash compactor. His weight activated the machine, and he was sliced into two, by the compactor ram, before being squashed with the trash.
Nasty way to go. But if you got to go, you got to go.
@@dsmyify If trying to stand up, caused him to be sliced by the ram, as his upper body protruded above the compactor ram, it might have been safer to lay down, and be pushed whole inside the container. Although, even if he survived that (because the container was, say empty); I am not sure how he could get out. It could have been a dark fantasy.
When I was a truck-driver I saw this "after-math" in Provo, Utah. Semi-trailer loaded with a huge reel of copper wire (worth MONEY to thieves!) so two Darwin Award candidates pull-up with a 2 1/2 ton truck (it's an 30,000 Lb reel of wire!!!) in the dark of night and decide to cut the chains holding the reel in place. Good idea, EXCEPT the trailer is on a very slight incline...Dawn breaks on this seance-the reel of wire has rolled off the semi-trailer onto their truck, smashing it FLAT into the ground, there are two red STREAKS on the trailer deck and two ARMS and two LEGS on the ground on either side of the trailer (16 feet apart) they supposed once belonged to the thieves...the truck driver, the crane operator, three deputies, the Provo television crew are all over to the side almost rolling on the ground LAUGHING!!! When I pull into the truck stop, Provo Fire Dept is hooking up hoses to wash them off! Go back 35+ years and you'll find this one, it REALLY happened!
Years ago, in South Africa, there was a story in the local weekly newspaper about a man who had accidentally shot himself dead whilst playing Russian Roulette. The following week there was another story about a man who had accidentally shot himself dead whilst demonstrating, to his family, how the first man had managed to shoot himself!
My favourite was the man who wanted to try bungee jumping, so he bought lots of short bungee cords and hooked them together.
Police found his body at the bottom of the ravine, where he had died because the multiple cords created one long cord which was actually longer than the jump!
The irony was that a bungee expert said that despite being hundreds of short bungees tied together it actually would have worked if only he had got the length right
Wasn't there the case of a man who used rope instead of bungee, tore his leg off and died ?
@@raymondscott6720 I think it was electrical cable.
Hunter shot a deer, which was standing on a cliff edge directly above him. Deer collapsed, fell off, and landed on the hunter, killing him outright. Instant Karma.
Never knew i needed to hear an American say willy has just made my day.
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I remember reading the news about the guy going to the Sentinel Island that is home to a tribe that is believed to be 60k years in isolation, apart from a short period of British intervention. The last footage of them (that I know of) was when a helicopter flew low overhead in the early days of Covid and they responded by throwing spears at it...!
That was #9.
Actually a quite watchable film made in 2006 starring Winona Ryder and Joseph Fiennes based on all the most dramatic Darwin awards. The stars play insurance assessors who visit the Darwin sites to investigate claims
I’ll have to check that out 👍🏻
I believe the show "Six Feet Under" also featured some of them, too.
It always incuded some odd ways to go for people.
Six Feet Under had some great stories. I remember the episode where a truck with inflatable sex dolls was involved in an accident and the dolls floated away. A female driver thought it was 'the rapture ' and died in a car crash.
Regarding the thief who fell into the tiger enclosure - maybe that's where the tiger got the dosh for his pint , Rip Sean .
Story number 8, this may sound ridiculous, but he was actually riding the seaway along the edge of the river on a high footpath. He saw some ramblers walking towards him so he stopped and backed up to let them pass and went to far and ended up falling off a very high ledge then went into the river.
This man was the inventor of the hesco bastion defence walls that were built in Afghanistan for the forces, so the camp " Camp Bastion" was named after his product.
Yes I read this too. Apparently there was a bump on the ground as he backed up which caused him to lean over, thus accelerating the Segway over the edge.
Amanda - this is perhaps your best reaction video I've seen. Please keep doing them - on any topic - and share a lot of your feelings and thoughts straight up, like you did here.
Thank you so much! 😊
That’s so kind 👍🏻
@@LADYRAEUK Remember: We watch your reaction videosto see you and hear from you!
That guy has a wonderful narrating voice
What a brilliant way to end my working week. Laughing still at this. Love your reaction videos Amanda.
I’m so glad! Have a great weekend 😊
I heard the story of the dreamy-eyed missionary who thought that the Sentinelese were just pining to learn about Jesus and would be forever grateful that he brought them the Bible. I nearly pissed myself when I heard how grateful the natives were. Absolutely marvelous!
Think how useful his death was to the world IQ levels.
Here's another one. It's the story of a cameraman that filmed parachute jumps. One day he was having trouble with his camera and he needed to fix it because there was a big jump that day, multiple jumpers. He tried and tried to fix it but no joy, and he was panicking. The jumpers where boarding the plane so the cameraman grabbed his camera, tools and parachute and got on the plane. While the plane climbed the camera man worked away on the camera and just as they reached the jump zone and we're ready to go the camera worked. So, the camera man, with the camera rolling, jumped with the group. Unfortunately, he left his parachute in the plane. He had been too busy with the camera that he forgot to put his parachute on.
The funniest I read was about a guy who attached a jato ( jet assisted take off engine) to his chevy then went out into the arazona area and set it off as the story goes the driver soon to be pilot reached incredible speeds before crash landing in the mountains ⛰
Urban legend, never happened
My favourite is the story of guy who bought a new, very big RV with all the mod cons, including cruise control. He drove it off the lot and when he hit the freeway decided to hit the cruise control then go in the back for a quick nap.
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The JATO assisted car first brought my attention to The Darwin Awards, many years ago. Turned out to be an urban legend, but it really put the Awards on the map.
I remember that story, was the first time i heard of the Awards too.
Hi Amanda, I read this one in an old darwin awards book.
So this guy in Nebraska I think, some time around December bought a new 4x4 truck and went to the local bar to show off to all his friends, Several rounds later they all decided to go duck hunting, him, 3 friends and his dog. They arrived at the lake to shoot ducks only to now realise its winter and no ducks on the lake because its frozen over. So mr smart alec gets out a stick of dynamite, lights it, and throws it out onto the lake so the ducks can land there. The dog (remember him?) sees the stick chases off and brings it back, the guys are all yelling at the dog to drop it, so next step shoot at the dog. The dog gets the right hump, he runs over to the truck and hides under it. Truck goes boom. The truck is being purchased on credit and no insurance company would believe that story so the guy had one dead dog, one dead car and a whacking big credit bill ... Is it true? Dunno but makes a good story
But how is this a Darwin award? Unless he died or lost his ability to procreate, he would not be eligible for one. Don't get me wrong, it's a marvelous story about human stupidity, but not really something fit for a Darwin award. Maybe he was in the runner-up category?
@@YouHaventSeenMeRight As I said in the opening sentence, it's in an old Darwin's Award book. As for what you think would qualify for a Darwin's Award .. the dog blew itself up!! The mutt won the award!! The moron owner probably got a third place for drunken stupidity, and because he also submitted the story that just makes it worse, was it you?
Sounds like the old story by Henry Lawson: The Loaded Dog. I bet it is on the internet somewhere. Well known to many Australians.
Gotta love a Darwin! Great choice Amanda😂👍
One of my faves is the tale of the guy who bought a USAF surplus Jet Assisted Take Off (JATO) rocket (they were, as the name suggests, mounted on aircraft to either get off the ground with a heavier than usual payload or a shorter take off run).
Anyway,our hero then attached said rocket to his Chevrolet Impala whereupon he drove out to a long stretch of road in the desert and fired that bad boy up.
Now, the thing about these rockets is that once they ignite, they cannot be switched off in any way so as he approached a solid rock face at 150 plus mph, his brakes weren't quite up to the job and he smashed into the rock.
One of the attending Police Officers was apparently heard to remark that the Impala ended up 'about thirty feet wide and six inches long'....😂
Was it made by Acme?
@@alangknowles it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest.....😂👍
But the worst people tend to have the most kids, which greatly outweighs incidents like this.
Fair lol
There was once a Greek King who was presented with a new machine to execute his enemies. It was called the Brazen Bull. The King asked the inventor to show how it worked. The inventor told the King how the bull was made from metal and, while getting into the bull, the inventor told of how the bull could be closed and locked and a fire started under it resulting in the person inside being roasted alive. The King closed the bull and locked the inventor inside and ordered a fire to be lit. The screams of the inventor, as he cooked to death, sounded exactly like that of a bull.
Darwin awards are the funniest thing!
My dad has a book about them, and I'm sure there was one about a couple who decided to knock boots on a railway track. The earth did move for them, but not in the way they wanted! ☠️😂
Oh no! Lol
Funniest thing IF you have a dark sense of humor. Many people don't.
I had workmate whose brother robbed a post office. His get away vehicle was the first bus that he was able to jump on too. ( It was in London on the old open backed route master bus ). The bus drove to the end of the road and drove around a roundabout and headed back towards the direction of the post office. ( there was a left turn before the post office ).
Unfortunately for him, the local plod had arrived on scene and the bus was pointed out by a witness and was promptly stopped. He was nicked.......What a helmet!
The Darwin Awards are an amazing collection of stories. The three I heard is a lawyer who was showing off how tough a window in a skyscraper was by running at it and barging it, when it shattered, the story of a man pleasuring himself on a machine belt who got caught and someone who attached a jet engine to a standard car and drove it into the side of a mountain.
Darwin Burglar Award
Group of would be home invaders targeted a house where the owner had a collection of military grade combat firearms. Gang was warned he had a combat rifle pointed at the front door and this was their final warning to leave. They ignored the warning and tried to kick in the door, so the owner opened up on them. They scattered like roaches when the kitchen light was switched on. The award went to a guy that tripped and fell and the getaway car took off without him. The Darwin part is this guy thought it was a good idea to wear active LED equipped sneakers that glow. So each time he took a step, the LEDs on the shoes would blink and were visible from an altitude of 30 thousand feet. From the security footage, you could see someone with illuminated feet running by the camera. This was followed by someone holding a combat rifle running by the camera chasing him. All the homeowner and the police needed to do was follow the brightly lit up shoes. These guys were lucky that the owner had really bad aim because nobody was hit.
The first one with the tiger should surely have the moral Look Before You Leap lol x
Apparently Einstein said something like "only two things are infinite. The universe and human stupidity. And i am not to sure about the Universe". This video proves it
The JATO rocket is my personal favourite. Sadly it is an urban myth, but didnt taken away from how side splittingly funny and well written the story was.
One of my favorites! Unfortunately it turned out to be an urban legend. Too bad as I fell down laughing the first time I heard it.
My favourite is the tale of the zoo keeper who gave a constipated elephant an enema using a hose connected to the water mains. Sadly it worked too well, the elephant ejected faeces hitting the keeper in the face, the keeper fell backwards hitting his head on a stone and knocking himself out, where he died from suffocation.
jimi heselden was a very decent, honest and charitable man. He did not profit from war but rather invented a product that actually saved lives by protecting our troops from enemy fire. He gave much to charity and died whilst riding a Segway, on his property - swerving to miss a jogger who was jogging across his land. He allowed people to enjoy his land. He invented a product that protected our troops. He died, swerving to avoid a jogger who ran out in front of him. The last time I saw Jimi was a month or so before he died, at my own aunty’s funeral. An ex-coal miner, he was a caring gentle giant who gave away much of his fortune. The original video providing the basis for this commentary was filth.
Guy pissed, New Year’s Eve, stripped of, jumped off the rugby club roof, as the fireworks went off, slid down the flagpole, cleats removed his bollocks, award granted 😩
Ohhh that’s bad. The double pin thing you do a figure 8 around with the rope I’m guessing. Ouch 😰
2 separate Bungie Jumpers making their own ropes. One made it out of rope and took his own ankles off. The second made a stretchy one and measured the distance to the ground precisely. Upon jumping the rope stretched. Something he hadn't calculated for. Both went splat.
The Darwin Awards website is quite the read.
Hi Amanda. I hadnt heard of the Darwin awards but that was very interesting, great seeing justice getting done, quite amusing some of them.Hope you and family staying safe and cool in these extreme conditions Thanks Amanda xx
We are, hope you are as well 😊
I have never heard of the awards either! How can some people be so stupidly funny? At least l have had a laugh,which is hard going when we have so much negative around us !!
There's the story of a man who lived in the upper floor of a sky scraper. He was bragging to his friends about the windows of his apartment and how unbreakable they were. He decided to demonstrate just how good the windows where and he ran full speed at one. When he hit the window, sure enough, it didn't break. However, the window frame did break and the guy fell to his death.
That was a real estate lawyer, it happened in Toronto, Canada
I'm guessing even the most ardent feminist wouldn't want equality in THIS category!! 😂😂😂
I think this is because intellegence wise most women tend to cluster in middle on the bell curve. While men have more flat bell curve, meaning there are more genius but also more idiots.
I love your laughter 😁 great sense of humour. Keep up your good work.
Thank you 😊
That bomb in Moscow Airport was at Domodedevo. Oddly enough I had walked through that very area of the explosions days earlier!!
Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.
Did I hear a snorkel during a laugh or giggle? Too Cute.
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Amanda, the Darwin Awards are what we normally refer to as the Too Stupid To Stay Alive awards! They take themselves out of the gene pool.
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The Darwin Awards are funny in a gallows humour sort of way and, maybe, sometimes with a touch of schadenfreude. What always strikes me though is that I have done so many reckless and stupid things in my life, particularly as a young man. I’m sure that many others have been similarly un-evolved. Just remembering some of these stunts sends a chemical shiver through my body.
Despite a number of injuries, I survived and managed to pass on my genes, twice. Not necessarily a victory for natural selection since my son seems to be emulating his father.
This shower of shit that is the awards is complete bollocks! It assumes that stupidity is genetic which isn't necessarily true. It is also unforgivably callus to the value of human life. People forget, humans only got to where they are now because they learned that being empathic and co-operating with each other was a massive advantage in helping them to survive.
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I remember a couple of thieves breaking in to an disused glass factory in Bradford to strip copper wire from it without realising everything was still "live". One was killed instantly and the other has no means of scratching his burnt arse now! I would suggest a Darwin Award but there's no way either of them could pick it up!
I've seen plenty this year so far that deserve this award.
My favourite Darwin was a couple having sex up a mountain somewhere in the USA. The man on top got struck by lightning. The heat melted both people’s clothing together. Then a bear turned up and started eating genitals.
The Darwin award is usually for stupid ideas that resulted in death "removal" of the reproductive "gear", was there a lighting storm predicted or why would you think them stupid for just seeking a plac with no one around?
High up in the mountains lightning can strike you even at bright daylight if you are unlucky, has nothing to do with stupidity in my book.
Compare that with the two guys who went "ice fishing" with their dog and parked their truck on a frozen lake. Then tried to make the fishing hole with a stick of explosives. So one lights the fuse and throws the stick away, ecpecting it to make alittle hole in the ice. But what does a good dog do?
So the other, seeing that the dog tried to bring back the stick, took a shotgun out of the truck and started shooting at the dog as he decided that he didn't want to die. Doggie was seemingly good at evading the shots and made it beneath the truck close to them, when the explosives detonated... Needless to say that neither the two sinking idiots, nor their truck survived the ice water.
The determination of people of the world's two largest religions to convert everyone is ridiculous. They'll go into warzones to try to do so.
The biggest religion on earth is football. Religion is a divider of people and that’s the biggest divider
The wrath of the righteous
My favourite was the guy who was angry because the coke vending machine did not dispense his drink so he repeatedly kicked the machine which promptly fell on him and killed him
All that, Just for the Taste of it.
No sympathy for the missionary.
He didn't care that he could have wiped out the entire tribe with a cold virus or other common infection.
A story I heard whilst serving in N Ireland, was of a couple of blokes walk into a pub and order everyone to get behind the bar as they had a bomb. They set the bomb on a table and tell everybody that it had an 'anti-handling' device - then proved it by picking the bomb up! They were the only causalities...
They actually made a movie about some of the funniest ones.
From my house I can see a TV broadcasting tower … Someone put a dining room chair 🪑 on top of the tower … The local newspaper recommended that the tower climber visit his Doctor as he is probably sterile now …..
There was one where a couple of geniuses try to play Russian roulette with an automatic pistol. Can’t remember the country they were from though.
Lol
That sounds smart lol
Amanda's becoming more British every day, only a Brit would refer to it as a willie! Btw, I think my local library ought to hand out the Darwin awards, as it's housed in the former school where Darwin was educated.
Really Amanda, really? “Shoot off”. Love the giggle and the little snort.
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In 2020 - Flat-earther "Mad" Mike Hughes died after attempting to launch himself to 5,000 feet with a homemade rocket to prove the Earth is flat. Not only did he not reach a sufficient height to prove anything, he also found that gravity exists.
From what I've heard that is possibly debatable. Some say he actually knew perfectly well the earth is round and didn't believe it was flat. But he kept up the charade as he loved the attention he was getting and it gave him the opportunity to collect donations to fund his space rocket dreams. Sadly we will never know, as he obviously took that secret to his grave.
AH! It's been many years since I visited the Darwin Awards. My favourite is and has always been, the doofus in the wheelchair ramming the lift.
My first thought of the #10 was "the robbed guy must have been really happy that he didn't pursue the robber and followed him."
And the Newyears bomb reminds me of another Darwin award where terrorists built a bomb with a timer, but got the Daylight saving time shift wrong, so they set the timer for the next day but the DST change was during the night. The bomb detonated while they were transporting it to the supposed target. Only killed them.
one guy back in the 90's won it because he tried to commit suicide, so to make sure he took poison, hung himself from a tree over a cliff and set himself on fire. the fire burned through the rope, he fell into the water below which put out the fire and made him vomit up the poison. he washed up to shore and was picked up by an ambulance, then died when the ambulance crashed into a tree. talk about irony.
We men just take more risks. Especially when we are all together.
One of my favorites is, technically, not a Darwin as the individual survived and didn't even end his membership in the gene pool with a gunshot circumcision. It involves a guy who always wanted to learn to fly but, due to very poor eyesight, couldn't pass the physical. One day he had an idea and went to a military surplus store to buy several moderately sized weather balloons and a tank of helium. taking them home et attached them to a patio lounge and anchored the lounge to the ground with a rope. he then put together some supplies, a cooler with beer and sandwiches and a pellet rifle to pop a couple of balloons when he wanted to come down. After strapping in he cut the anchor rope expecting to rise slowly to a couple of hundred feet. He was surprised when he rose very quickly and didn't level out til around 12,000 feet. By this time he was too frightened to try popping any of the balloons so he floated around for several hours. I forgot to mention he was living in Los Angeles and the winds carried him into the landing pattern for the LA airport. The first time he was noticed was when an airline pilot called the tower and told them he was at 10,000 feet and had just passed some guy in a lawn chair with a gun! The tower ordered the pilot to immediately land and report for a drug and alcohol test. However after several more pilot reports someone finally decided to check this out and a Coast Guard helicopter was sent out. By this time the guy realized there was a leak in a balloon and he was slowly coming down. Unfortunately the winds had blown him out over the ocean. After an hour of the chopper trying to get a cable to him vs the rotor wash pushing the balloons away they finally hocked him up and pulled him back to land where he was promptly arrested for violating a number of federal air traffic laws, but he was alive!
My favourite Darwin award when to a man who wanted to go bungee jumping off a bridge but he only had a tow rope, he therefore jumped off the bridge, took off both his feet and then pungled to his death. One less idiot.🤣
That sounds awful lol
Amanda you need to start to read audiobooks on air... you have so beautiful voice 😊
Thank you
As the saying goes " what a stupid idea, someone could get hurt.. I'm in.."
Willy! You said the best word in the world. Willy!! 😆😆😆😆
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The River Leeds? The River Aire flows through the city, and has plenty of attractions right on the wharf sides.
I asked in church as a young man what happened to people untouched by Christianity? I was told they can't be held accountable if they are ignorant of its existence. So, my follow-up was then why spread the word if it's knowledge to an unbeliever could condemn them to an eternity of darkness if not embraced. They seemed to think their duty as Christians superseded any fallout. Religions in general seem to have a superiority & arrogance attached to them that requires them to save you even if you don't need saving.
the word Willy now means you really are British lol
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The hot dog story! I mean! I shouldn't smirk.
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Some of them are bonkers and some actually really funny especially the one where the guy shot himself in the gentlemans sausage 🤣
Lol I know 🤣🤣🤣
I love this Amanda, so so funny 😂
:) itsgreat isnt it?
Here's one I heard about many years ago. A group of teenagers dialled 999 to report finding a body in a derelict building. The two constables that responded found the naked body of a young man. His only attire was an old WW2 gas mask, complete with the air filter. He had secured a length of hose to the filter with duct tape, making an air-tight seal. The other end of the hose had been pushed up his rectum. There was nothing to suggest that anyone else had been involved, so it seemed that he had done this to himself. What he was trying to achieve was never established, all he did manage to do was to suffocate himself. Apparently the officers who had to notify his family found explaining the circumstances of his death rather difficult.
What ab awkward thing to explain..
Poor police lol
About #8, he was on a trail and people were coming towards him, he went to one side, to let them pass. Lost his balance, and fell off the cliff.
We demand parity with men in the Darwin Awards said no woman ever, lol.
Haven't watched one of your vids in quite a while so I really noticed how much your accent has changed. You're sounding more like a Brit these days, with those shortened and rounder vowels. 😃😃
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To me reading the Darwin Award books, now several volumes are outstanding.
Now I can not go word for word the item as in the book volume, but the overall following covers the story essence in my words.
One special one I keep remembering dealt with a worker employed to supervise the control console guages at a microwave power link in Northern USA part of a long distance power network. Parts of which due to terrain made normal cabled link too hard/costly to install and maintain so replacing moving the power from cables on high pylons to transmitting high power microwave energy. Now only a few such transmitter to receiver stations are needed only for particular hard access locations. The energy is many ways like the microwaves operating in microwave ovens. Here the power spread areawise at energy levels that normally would cause no real harm even to passing through by birds.
The job by the operator on duty being to take some rather basic control actions on certain events indicating system deviations from optimum when the readouts varied outside specific boundaries, to keep the system to peak performance, or take actions for serious events on the network.
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This operator was mainly on over night duty. The control room was at one end of a large extended room and the work space for operators was reasonably arranged, and safe, with needed shielding to protect against accidental high power microwave exposure, though the energy density was so low itself at normal operation, even exposure would hardly be an issue short term. Though long term repeated exposure is inadvisable.
The guy had done this job for years through summers and winters.
One time the entire power systems suffered a major drop out. Problem seemed at this or nearby location. Nobody at this energy link station was answering phone calls. An alternative person was sent out to check why the station failed to answer and appeared to be way off performance.
On reaching the operating centre hours later being a bit remote difficult location, it was discovered that the operator was dead, seated at the far end of the operation room, way across from the controls and guages. That area was painted in yellow-black stripped surfaces as a exclusion area, no access allowed space while in operation. So how was this dead operator seated there.?
On following investigation it was revealed this operator had discovered, and some other also adopted the same, that in that stripped area, the room felt a lot warmer, and comfortable than the console end with only some electric fan heater or such, so on cold nights and specially in winter, the operators often chose to sit there, still able to monitor the guages, and respond to needed controls at the then far end, if such were demanded in plenty of time. Nobody would be wiser as there was little reaction delay caused.
Well on the night in question there had been a massive sudden power surge, source not clearly identified, maybe lightening strike, flash over due to insulator moisture and/or dirt, or even surge on cabled parts of the power network.. In any case this surge raised the microwave energy level to way over the power density of cooking in a microwave oven. That painted area was a safety warning that that area was exposed to significant microwave field thus not to be entered while operating. The operator was in consequence flash cooked by the massive power surge, dying instantly or close to instantly paralysed by sudden heat forming in bodily fluids.
DEATH BY MICROWAVE COOKING.
Certainly these persons were risking long term body damage from high power Radio Frequency exposure, but clearly chose to forget training details. And they were so comfortably warm there.
Darwin Awards !!😆 Thanks for the video !
from 1996Polish farmer Krystof Azninski, who staked a strong claim to being Europe's most macho man by cutting off his own head in 1995. Azninski, 30, had been drinking with friends when it was suggested they strip naked and play some "men's games". Initially they hit each other over the head with frozen turnips, but then one man upped the ante by seizing a chainsaw and cutting off the end of his foot. Not to be outdone, Azninski grabbed the saw and, shouting "Watch this then," he swung at his own head and chopped it off.
A few years ago, a family was celebrading the 4th of July with fireworks. One young man (alcohol might have been involved (okay, he was wikked drunk)) thought it would be a good idea to launch a 6inch star shell, by holding the launch tube on top of his head. It turned out about how you'd expect. One interviewee said 'he wasn't stupid'... I think Darwin might argue that point.
His parents were probably devout Christians, so they thought it was God's will. 🙄🤦♂️
With regard to the Men getting the most Darwin awards, the answer boils down to psychology and biology.
Due to men competing more physically, they often engage in one-upmanship for the purpose of bonding or as a pecking order thing.
Since it's both physical and dangerous you have the elements for things to go wrong.
Another factor is that Men are far more likely to take any sort of risk.
It's a double edged sword, in that some risks lead to great rewards, but others will be fatal.
A guy who can do free-running across roof tops for example is very likely to get injured or die, yet, for some it is a career that pays out.
Another example is foraging.Men would take the risk when eating a new food, which could mean a boon for the tribe if it proved edible....or could prove fatal.
Finally, most explorers were men for the same reason.To go to unknown territory is dangerous but if you survive there is a lot of value out there.
The final thing is intelligence in relation to the genders.
The bell curve for men on intelligence shows that at the ends of both sides, we have more dumb people than women but we also have more at the highest end in terms of being a genius.
So essentially we have a lot of dumb guys as a proportion of the human race.
As a result a small percentage of a huge number means there is plenty of idiots out there to watch and laugh at.
A man in Poland taught his dog to fetch using a fake grenade. One day while walking the dog he got into an argument with another man backed up and pulled out a live grenade, pulled the pin and threw it at the other man’s feet. The poor dog fetched it and brought it back….
Probably the absolute classic Darwin Award is the one won by "Lawn Chair Larry!" Although, TBH, my favourites are the 'near misses,' such as the felchers. I cried laughing at that one (though I did feel sorry for the Gerbil!). :)
Are ya doing a reaction video especially for women's Euro football 2022. History being made, will be down in Football History forever. And the highest attendance aswell for women's football is truly amazing, so so proud of them played superb over the entire tournament.
Most ridiculous one was the guy who played Russian roulette with an automatic pistol...
I laughed so hard at the hot dog man I had to pause it then when I restarted listening to your reaction started me off all over again! Your so funny 😂 😂🤣
He is hilarious, his rapping is brilliant!
Hot dog chappie, ain't shooting off anymore. But he made his last one memorable.
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FYI - "Survival of the fittest" was not Darwin's phrase. Thomas Huxley coined this.
My favourite story is the one about “exploding cow farts from methane gas emissions”. Read the book for details.
Hi Amanda ive not heard of these before some of these people learned the hardway or very painful way these were very interesting some people do very strange things
They really do lol
Not sure if this story is true, but when I was 3ish, my parents claim a neighbor boy who was like 16, climbed up a high voltage electric tower on our property and fell on the wire killing him, then hit the wire below shocking him back, then he fell the 100ish feet to the ground and died later in the hospital from the fall. The story may have just been a way to keep us (brothers and sisters) away from the tower, if so it worked.
Very surprised to see North Sentinel islands featured. One of the very few peoples living out of contact with the modern world.
The "Worst" Darwin Award is one in which the perpetrator survived.
"Hey ya'all, watch this!"