A manager where I work almost pulled the same Darwin award. He was using the bathroom when his concealed hand gun somehow discharged busting the toilet.
This reminds me, has anyone seen that homemade bungee cord ritual certain tribes do made out of vines and they build a tower out of wood to jump from. Also It's not a stretchy bungee. It's gnarly
Imagine being a student visiting a law firm to try and secure an internship and then your host starts repeatedly throwing himself at a 24th-storey windows until he finally goes through it. It's horrifying in such a weirdly surreal way, I feel really sorry for anyone who witnessed it.
I can understand pet snakes in general but who the hell has a PET COBRA?? Kind of a shame the friend didn't drive him to the hospital instead of the pub, although I'm pretty sure even the hospital could have done nothing as from the sounds of him, he'd have rejected their ministrations anyway. You know, because he's a MAN and can handle it. 🙄
Same Reason People own Weapons, Mashines, Animals they shouldn't be near. To feel 'safe', powerfull and superior.🤮 There's Reason behind learning how to care, handle and keep Things with Reason, for there designed Purpose, conservation and or Education. There are safe Hands keeping Hots, Permitted, with Protocolls for Escape Prevention and Emergencys. Wich having fast Access to Antivenom, for any Species possible you handle, is Part of. When freehandling your King gone wrong, in Example. Some are crazy. Animals that lethal shouldn't be bread/kept as 'Pets'. Right Care for them often isn't easy either. Most don't receive that.
In the Zulu language, there is a distinct difference between "Goodbye, travel safely" and "Faster, it's gaining on you!" It helps to understand this difference.
You know that second guy, didn't have a plan for if his makeshift bungies had worked, he'd be dangling there still, trying to figure out how he was gonna get down.
Sue the manufacturer. Shouldn’t call them bungee cords if you can’t bungee jump with them. False advertising. And I know a lawyer in Toronto that I can recom…, uh, never mind.
Having the bungee rope longer than the drop was just a precautionary measure. If it had been shorter it might have snapped from the jolt that Mr. Barcia's weight would have put on it. Instead it was completely fine after the jump thanks to Mr. Barcia´s incredible foresight.
A local news reporter was doing a feature on bungee jumping, interviewing some of the participants. One of them was a blind man, and the news reporter asked "without sight, how do you know when you're at the bottom of the drop?" To which the blind man replied "oh it's easy, the leash goes slack"
If they had known about the bridge, there would have been more than enough space if they had layed down. 48 cm is plenty - 20 cm is enough for me. (My "thickness" is 17 cm)
@@NidusFormicarum isn't that cutting it a bit to close tho? What if their thickness is 19.5cm? I wulden't try if not willing to end up on a darwin award video.
@@nilslindstrom8087 Yes, 48 cm and I could do it, but still...I have to make sure nothing is beyond its edges. 20 cm, of course not - way too dangerous. I'm just saying that in theory I should survive that.
@@Julia-lk8jn I have never heard that as an argument for men being oppressed , like oppressed by what exactly? Mens higher salary as compensation for the shorter life span I have heard of but thats the closest one.
Yeah, I knew a man who did something not too dissimilar. It was at a 'staged situation' security practice for his workplace, where you're meant to run into a dark room, see cutouts of perpetrators and innocents (much like The film Men In Black 1), draw your gun, and shoot the appropriate targets. He was so nervous about doing this right, he fired the gun before remembering to point it at the target, and shot through his buttocks. He was fired... like his gun. We worked for a place where you couldn't make those sorts of mistakes.
Look up the rate of accidents amongst BASE jumpers and wingsuit daredevils. Both activities are basically just daring the universe to slam you repeatedly into a rock face (and the ground of course, eventually).
@@sixstringedthingYeah. Base jumping is way, way more dangerous then bungy jump. You cant even compare them. Base jumpers dont have that extra parachute that all other parachuters have. So if their gear messes up and dont work the way it suppose to do they die. There is no second chance.
I'm Proud to say that like almost everything, bungee jumping is a British invention. The world's first bungee jump occured on April Fool's day 1979 from the Clifton suspension bridge in Bristol performed by David Kirke and then Simon Keeling whilst dressed in a top hat, tails and with a glass of champagne. Both were members of the Dangerous Sports Club. I grew up a few miles away from Clifton and I remember it was shown on the local news. One of the clubs most famous members was Graham Chapman of Monty Python fame. Other activities included base jumping at the start of the sport, hang gliding, flying microlights, zorbing and surrealist skiing where they skied down hill with things like pianos and a louis XIV dining set. N.B. Lots of people jump off the Clifton suspension bridge as it's a famous suicide spot. Unfortunately they often forget that the Bristol Channel has the second highest tidal range in the world so it's important to check the tide. What often happens is they land in thick mud, perhaps breaking a few bones but still very much alive. Often they have second thoughts at his point. Then they realise they're stuck. And the tide is coming back in... Sometimes rescuers get to them first. Other times...
"With a keen eye for safety, he added duct tape." I'm positive he was not alone, that's the kind of risk you take with froends. He went first and splat and his buddies headed out.
Usually, I don't like videos with commentary however your witty comments and wonderful accent made this very enjoyable. More proof that stupid is forever.
I met a Canadian woman who was working in that building at the time. She said wind suddenly rushed into the building and blew all their paperwork off the desk and they didn't know what was going on. You just know that man's last thought as he was falling was that he regrets shoulder-barging a skyscraper window on purpose.
The one at 8:12 was famous here. I've done engineering consulting work in those towers. There was also a tragic regular accident in 2007 if memory serves when an Otis mechanic (Andrew ?) working to free people in a stuck elevator fell from the 47th floor and landed on the next elevator so there were 2 elevators stuck at tea time with people in them in one of those black towers with a dead mechanic on top of one of them. This caused a huge push for car top railings to be retrofitted on all elevators. Those black towers Owner was a huge client of ours, we all had to go to T.O. for 3 days fall arrest training, issue harnesses (the industry doesn't use them) and earn a fall arrest certificate.
Imagine going through years of life only to die doing something like this. Thereby rendering almost everything you have done upto that point (unless it was helping others) totally pointless. Geeesh.
I went to summer camp at Lake Accotink not long after the I’ll-fated bunjee jump. One of our counselors took us over to the trestle and showed us a stain, alleging that’s where the man hit the ground. Pretty sure it was just an oil slick but even as a child, I was dumbfounded by this story.
Love the last one. These Awards are all great and it is a fair way of removing the stupid from our society. That being said, these days much more work is required. I look forward to many more of your videos. Thank You !
Even without the subject of the video: "mischievous entertainer" sounds horribly like a euphemism for at best an eternal man-child and at worst an out-right bully. Ah well, peace be to your ashes.
"Survival of the fittest" was not uttered by Darwin. The phrase was coined by a journalist at the time and caught on because is appears to sum up the Theory of Evolution. But in fact it doesn't even begin to capture the interplay of forces that results in, over time, a lot of time, the progression of changes that we call evolution. Not only did Darwin not utter the phrase but he wouldn't have. Because it's not accurate.
The Waipara incident was doubly notable. They spent the whole trip sat atop the wagon, exposed to the elements and wind due to train speed. Had they instead sat on the flat end of a wagon they would have been sheltered from the draughts as well as travelling free, and being easier to dismount from!
More people should watch your videos. So often young people have no idea that people actually died while doing things they want to do with their friends…. Like jumping off a bridge! Thank you for these videos.
That last one reminds me of a Darwin award winner where he was working with a machine that featured a large driven belt (like a larger version of a fan belt in a car). This guy, feeling a bit frisky, decided it was a great idea to pleasue himself using this moving belt. No sooner had he whipped it out and placed into the machine, the machine yanked it off harder than expected and ripped off his junk.
Oh and there was a video going around SE Asia of a guy who was drunk and picked up a King Cobra. He plays around with it in front of the camera and it bites him about 3 times. Each time it bit him he smiled and "told off" the snake by giving it a tap on its head. Then the footage cuts to him in the hospital later, where he is struggling to keep conscious. He died later.
You forgot the rest of the tale... It was a belt drive for a VERY large machine. He did this regularly. Pretty much every lunch break. The time in question he managed to deglove his left testicle, which was never found. He then proceeded to STAPLE the skin shut around his remaining testicle. He finished the work day, went back for 2 more days and then the pain and swelling was so bad he went to the hospital. There the doctor found 8 rusty staples and a huge mess of infection. Dr. William A. Morton, urologist, of West Chester, Pa. was the doctor in question.
Anyone who believes that humans are generally smarter and more civilised than animals should investigate the litany of nasty injuries caused by people stinking their junk into a wide variety of places where your junk really shouldn't go. Or the other way around, inserting a wide variety of objects where such objects really shouldn't go. It is highly inadvisable to be eating your lunch while learning about such incidents.
@@sixstringedthingMy friend is a medical professor and has been called upon to deal with a number of cases where people have inserted things they shouldn't into places they didn't belong. Long ago, a woman turned up in Casualty, with a light bulb stuck up her - ahem. It wasn't just that this light bulb had got stuck up there, and amazingly it hadn't broken. The issue was, it was still attached to the rest of the lamp stand, which she'd 'inserted' when still plugged into the mains - and then switched it on. This wasn't one of those modern lightbulbs. This was one of those old fashioned 60 watt jobs, and it had cooked her internal skin onto the surface of the bulb. ....Frying tonight!
Survival of the fittest isn't intended to mean what most people assume. It means survival of the ones that fit their environment, or are best adapted to the environment.
I must admit, I would be curious to have seen the facial expressions of the attending witnesses after the attorney flew out of the window opening. Wha wha WHAT!
Whilst I can't be certain, I thought that I read in another report about this incident, that he was in the habit of picking the same window to throw himself against, rather than random ones. The report said that his continued impacts with this window, gradually bent the frame outwards, until it could no longer retain the glass and popped out - as did he.
If Gary is that law firms best and brightest, I think I see why they went out of business. Also the first rule of handling any handgun is don’t point it at anyone, second rule is ALWAYS use a holster. The holster protects the trigger from unintentional activation.
@@pollypockets508 really? Throwing yourself full speed against a window on the 25th floor window seems like bravado huh? If Gary were still around I think you would be a better client than I would… He totally deserves his Darwin Award!
_Don't pack a pink pistol next to your pink gun._ From Full Metal Jacket: "This is my rifle, this is my gun, this is for fighting and this is for fun."
@@daystar4058 What agenda? Have you trouble with people who tell the truth? (As opposed to the Bible book of fables and myths ...full of B/S from start to finish.)
Usually, they would have the venom sacs removed. I don't know why this person had a still venomous snake as a pet. I am guessing he will also be a Darwin award winner.
My guess is that bungee boy had friends with him that night that left him when the pavement got in the way of his successful jump. Not wanting to be part of anybody’s death took off and left him hangin….uhhh…left him laying there.
I got through the 1970's without warning labels or safety procedures, and was left to play in the woods until it was dark. However, when aged about 11, I very nearly became a Darwin Winner on a holiday break. For some incredibly silly reason, after discovering that the beach dropped away at a very shallow rate into the sea - I decided to see how far I could wade out. It was going well, I could look back and barely see my parents sunbathing any more. But when I was neck deep in water, I took a step forward and discovered that the floor suddenly wasn't there any more. I switched round, my toes trying to scrabble for purchase on the sandy floor, but it was just giving way and I could feel the current starting to drag me backwards. Then there was this almighty thump against my back, propelling me back to safety, my feet firmly on sand again. I looked round, and out of the water, right in front of my face, there emerged the head of a monster (so I thought at the time). Scared witless, I screamed and powered my way back to shore. I didn't tell my parents (they would have killed me, finishing what Darwin's law started), but I did tell the local shopkeeper, who said it must have been a seal which struck me, telling me if I get up early next morning, there would be seals along the shore before the humans get up. And so they were, likely including my little lifeguard. ...Oh, and I might as well admit this while I'm about it. I can't swim. So yeah, really stupid idea, wading out to sea. We all have our moments of complete lunacy.
HA. I just picked up a couple of extension cords and work lights. Ext cords had separate 3 labels plus the model number tag, and the worklights had 2. Dear lord!
I don’t know that I would go on record saying that a man who ran at full speed into a window 23 floors up and fell out of the building was of the best and brightest of the organization. What’s that really saying about the rest of them🤦🏻♂️
Great group of stories-I especially enjoyed the first one! In the US, freight trains often carry containers double stacked, and if someone were to ride on top of those, the same thing could easily happen. Some people really do take stupid chances and make bad choices. I’ve seen some close calls in my 4 years of filming trains, including two teenage boys almost getting pulverized on a train trestle by a fast moving freight train.
Gary throwing himself at a 24th floor 'Canadian' window... You know there was some nice girls there and he was feeling it. Wonder if Gary had a heart attack before he hit the ground? That would have been a long 3-4 seconds straight down.
The ""Splat Calculator") - Google it for a link - says the 102 meter free-fall reaches a velocity of 161 km/h by the time the object hits the ground 4.56 seconds later. Congratulations for a reasonable guess!
My dad actually worked at the printing company with the guy who owned the cobra, Roger Croteau (better known as Snake Man), and the story happened just like this. My dad wasn't at the bar , but he said when Wayne Roth after he felt ill in the bar he went out to sit in the car to cool off (this was in January) because he felt really hot. When the guys at the bar went to his car to check on him, he was dead. I know people aren't going to believe this and l really don't care. I have better things to do than post things that aren't true online.
That last story is the specially funny to me because I live in Chandler Arizona, but I don’t recall that being reported on the news, but I’m sure it was so I gotta look it up
When Jay Leno was host of "The Tonight Show" one of his opening monologues referred to a newspaper article. According to the article, a "bad boy" was at a party and wanted to show off his sawed-off shotgun. He pulled it out of the front of his pants but it went off before clearing the waistband. The article had good news: he was unharmed! Leno asked, "which is worse: firing a shotgun down the front of your pants or not hitting anything?"
The Inland Revenue has offices in Edinburgh which are known as Suicide Towers. The access to the roof is permanently locked except for the key holders who both must use separate keys to open the access door.
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A manager where I work almost pulled the same Darwin award. He was using the bathroom when his concealed hand gun somehow discharged busting the toilet.
Lucky the toilet didn’t shoot back 😳 I’m guessing it was America after all
Why would anyone need a concealed gun?
@@uncled39 Well, you can't commit spontaneous armed robberies without one of course!
@@uncled39 To feel manly.
but you can protect yourself from being robbed.
Homemade and bungy should never ever be in the same sentence
No matter who produced the bungee, it still needs to be properly rigged.
True. Also works well with the thought measure twice, cut once. This guy forgot about the measurements idea
This reminds me, has anyone seen that homemade bungee cord ritual certain tribes do made out of vines and they build a tower out of wood to jump from. Also It's not a stretchy bungee. It's gnarly
@benmcreynolds8581 yeah that is what Bungee originated from!
But it had duct tape. That should have ensured its success 🤣
Jumping from the 24th floor, he failed to see the gravity of the situation.
Good one!
He didn't throw himself off the 24th floor. The glass window popped out when his body hit it.
That's funny on many levels.
Well that joke fell flat.
As did he.😄
That was transparently a bad idea.
“Garry was one of the best and brightest…” Says a lot for the firm.
And the firm closed 3 years later 😂😂 I wonder why
That's why they closed shortly thereafter.
Education and intelligence are distinct concepts, as well.
He was their fall guy.
I'm sure he was a good lawyer, just a complete moron of a construction engineer.
Imagine being a student visiting a law firm to try and secure an internship and then your host starts repeatedly throwing himself at a 24th-storey windows until he finally goes through it. It's horrifying in such a weirdly surreal way, I feel really sorry for anyone who witnessed it.
He was right the glass didn't break though
Just open the window and save a repair bill
It was very sad news ...but at least there was a job vacancy at the end of the day, a window of opportunity (no pun intended)
@@SirFluffyFluffton A paneful joke.
@@jguenther3049A door closes, a window opens!
I can understand pet snakes in general but who the hell has a PET COBRA??
Kind of a shame the friend didn't drive him to the hospital instead of the pub, although I'm pretty sure even the hospital could have done nothing as from the sounds of him, he'd have rejected their ministrations anyway. You know, because he's a MAN and can handle it. 🙄
Same Reason People own Weapons, Mashines, Animals they shouldn't be near. To feel 'safe', powerfull and superior.🤮
There's Reason behind learning how to care, handle and keep Things with Reason, for there designed Purpose, conservation and or Education.
There are safe Hands keeping Hots, Permitted, with Protocolls for Escape Prevention and Emergencys. Wich having fast Access to Antivenom, for any Species possible you handle, is Part of. When freehandling your King gone wrong, in Example.
Some are crazy.
Animals that lethal shouldn't be bread/kept as 'Pets'. Right Care for them often isn't easy either.
Most don't receive that.
Was he maybe selling the venom?
Tryna build up immunity
“I am a man” did it.
He was really bright and clever at school, but he failed physics.
I thought the silver lining to the story was going to be that the pane of glass survived.😅
Physics is more present in our daily lives than many of us can suppose.
in all instances not a physics major.
The 24 floor fall did not hurt him, however the sudden and abrupt stop at the bottom was lethal.
Can't argue with that sir.
@@CuriosityVaultChanneldefinitely not the successful way to retire from work. 😮
Retire from living as well.
He "lost on appeal".
@@jagmo He failed to see the gravity of the situation.
He didn’t die, but was “Removed from the gene pool anyway.” 😂
Don't need to die to win one of these awards. Just be unable to have any kids...
@@viix3815 Yes, but it's hard to compete vs those who died trying. It took him some serious balls.
@@viix3815 I guess the Darwin Award is one of them stupid prizes one can win if acting stupid...
In the Zulu language, there is a distinct difference between "Goodbye, travel safely" and "Faster, it's gaining on you!" It helps to understand this difference.
You know that second guy, didn't have a plan for if his makeshift bungies had worked, he'd be dangling there still, trying to figure out how he was gonna get down.
That's probably why he wanted his bungie to reach the ground. He wasn't stupid. 🤣
@@KenFullman 😂👍🏻
I wonder if his calculations included his height.
Height and weight
Sue the manufacturer. Shouldn’t call them bungee cords if you can’t bungee jump with them. False advertising.
And I know a lawyer in Toronto that I can recom…, uh, never mind.
I have subscribed partly because of the content, but mostly because of the drole, laconic delivery which makes the whole video so much more enjoyable!
@blackrabbit212 "Wayne's attempt at redefining masculinity met with...failure." :)
his accent is difficult to underrstand though
Yes.
jesus xist, people have died and you're talking about the video being enjoyable Omg. I think it's a mere curiosity, not somthing to be enjoyed.
@@ThomasJr FYI, people die. You, me, everyone. Relax.
Having the bungee rope longer than the drop was just a precautionary measure. If it had been shorter it might have snapped from the jolt that Mr. Barcia's weight would have put on it. Instead it was completely fine after the jump thanks to Mr. Barcia´s incredible foresight.
🤣
well if he made to short he had no way down
A local news reporter was doing a feature on bungee jumping, interviewing some of the participants. One of them was a blind man, and the news reporter asked "without sight, how do you know when you're at the bottom of the drop?" To which the blind man replied "oh it's easy, the leash goes slack"
5:06 “However, with such meticulous precautions ….. “ That sarcasm is the best thing about these videos 😂😂😂
Yes the matter of fact delivery.
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Those poor NZ guys, they could have jumped on a flat bed carriage and survived ! An ounce of thought
Or...they could have bought a bus ticket
If they had known about the bridge, there would have been more than enough space if they had layed down. 48 cm is plenty - 20 cm is enough for me. (My "thickness" is 17 cm)
@@NidusFormicarum isn't that cutting it a bit to close tho? What if their thickness is 19.5cm?
I wulden't try if not willing to end up on a darwin award video.
@@nilslindstrom8087 Yes, 48 cm and I could do it, but still...I have to make sure nothing is beyond its edges. 20 cm, of course not - way too dangerous. I'm just saying that in theory I should survive that.
@@NidusFormicarum I totaly misread! Mybad! 🙈
“I’m a man. I can handle it”. Gawd. 🤦🏼♀️
Hilariously, I still now and then see the argument that men having on average shorter life spans is
because they are being oppressed.
famous last words
@@tharding2870If your full name is Tonya Harding, then you know that a 2-by-4 to a man’s knees will do the trick as well.
I would consider driving to the hospital instead of the bar
@@Julia-lk8jn I have never heard that as an argument for men being oppressed , like oppressed by what exactly? Mens higher salary as compensation for the shorter life span I have heard of but thats the closest one.
Good to hear that kiwi accent instead of AI voices. I laughed most of the way through this. Thanks from Oz.
Cheers. Glad you liked it 😎
No Mensa members were lost in this video.
Intelligence ain't the same as Wisdom, as my D&D group said, just before the wizard set off a Fireball in a 10x10 room.
You wouldn't *believe* how many stupid geniuses there are. 😂
So true
But lots of Mensos
No matter how you word it, intelligence does not always play out in the real world..
Titles and awards are for egos... Except for this one🤣🤣🤣
Stupidity never goes out of style 🤣🤣
The ending of the last story made me laugh so hard! 😂
I was under pressure to match the dry humor of my first Darwin Awards video 😎
" ... and cross their legs in solidarity." 😆
@@CuriosityVaultChannel You start off with an outdated explanation of evolution which fails!
Yeah, I knew a man who did something not too dissimilar. It was at a 'staged situation' security practice for his workplace, where you're meant to run into a dark room, see cutouts of perpetrators and innocents (much like The film Men In Black 1), draw your gun, and shoot the appropriate targets.
He was so nervous about doing this right, he fired the gun before remembering to point it at the target, and shot through his buttocks.
He was fired... like his gun.
We worked for a place where you couldn't make those sorts of mistakes.
@@danquaylesitsspeltpotatoe8307gawd, don't be so picky.
Bungee jumping has to be one of the most, if not the most idiotic thing a human can do.
Cave divers : "hold my beer"
Look up the rate of accidents amongst BASE jumpers and wingsuit daredevils. Both activities are basically just daring the universe to slam you repeatedly into a rock face (and the ground of course, eventually).
@@sixstringedthingYeah. Base jumping is way, way more dangerous then bungy jump. You cant even compare them.
Base jumpers dont have that extra parachute that all other parachuters have.
So if their gear messes up and dont work the way it suppose to do they die.
There is no second chance.
Climbing Mt. Everest ranks up there as quite stupid. And cave diving. Drinking alcoholic drinks till you pass out...(You may never wake up)
I'm Proud to say that like almost everything, bungee jumping is a British invention.
The world's first bungee jump occured on April Fool's day 1979 from the Clifton suspension bridge in Bristol performed by David Kirke and then Simon Keeling whilst dressed in a top hat, tails and with a glass of champagne. Both were members of the Dangerous Sports Club.
I grew up a few miles away from Clifton and I remember it was shown on the local news.
One of the clubs most famous members was Graham Chapman of Monty Python fame.
Other activities included base jumping at the start of the sport, hang gliding, flying microlights, zorbing and surrealist skiing where they skied down hill with things like pianos and a louis XIV dining set.
N.B. Lots of people jump off the Clifton suspension bridge as it's a famous suicide spot.
Unfortunately they often forget that the Bristol Channel has the second highest tidal range in the world so it's important to check the tide. What often happens is they land in thick mud, perhaps breaking a few bones but still very much alive. Often they have second thoughts at his point. Then they realise they're stuck. And the tide is coming back in...
Sometimes rescuers get to them first. Other times...
Now in my 50s looking back on my life I'm astonished to have not achieved the Darwin award.
There's still time, eh?
@@stringlarson1247 Technically not if he already reproduced.
I love your delivery sir it is so dry its like a good martini (:
Your dry humor, inflection, verbal pace, and sarcastically clever choice of words compelled me to subscribe.😂
@@bobasawrus 🥰 Welcome
@@CuriosityVaultChannel *The Guy Fought the Kangaroo cuz he HAD TO!!!!!*
"I'm man, I can handle it."
"I'm a snake, we've been here longer than man."
"With a keen eye for safety, he added duct tape." I'm positive he was not alone, that's the kind of risk you take with froends. He went first and splat and his buddies headed out.
I like the humourous spin you put on these stories.
I'll never understand why people who try jumping stunts don't try them with a dummy weight first. "Ooooh, that won't work."
Dumb ideas never include safety and wisdom.
@@shineandre Say, rabbit... You're right! - Yosemite Sam
@@shineandre By the very definition.
Usually, I don't like videos with commentary however your witty comments and wonderful accent made this very enjoyable. More proof that stupid is forever.
Glad you enjoyed it, haha glad you like the kiwi accent, it often takes a beating in the comments 🤣
I keep thinking of the Monty Python skit: Did you see that? A man fell past this window!
Lawyers who jump out of high storey windows, warms your heart.
If only all lawyers would follow such a fine examplar.
I'm a lawyer and that hurts. Of course I could name a few other lawyers... .
I grew up about a mile from the Accotink bridge and remember reading about that bungy stunt at the time.
I met a Canadian woman who was working in that building at the time. She said wind suddenly rushed into the building and blew all their paperwork off the desk and they didn't know what was going on. You just know that man's last thought as he was falling was that he regrets shoulder-barging a skyscraper window on purpose.
@crowbar357 OMG
"He was so smart in school." Poor grandmother still didn't know that rote memorization and book smarts are not the same as street smarts.
My thoughts exactly.
smart and foolish can coexist.
“Street smarts”…the favorite term of morons.
"Rote memorization" 🤡
@@draculastraphouse7863Lmfao Hahaha 🤣
The one at 8:12 was famous here. I've done engineering consulting work in those towers. There was also a tragic regular accident in 2007 if memory serves when an Otis mechanic (Andrew ?) working to free people in a stuck elevator fell from the 47th floor and landed on the next elevator so there were 2 elevators stuck at tea time with people in them in one of those black towers with a dead mechanic on top of one of them. This caused a huge push for car top railings to be retrofitted on all elevators. Those black towers Owner was a huge client of ours, we all had to go to T.O. for 3 days fall arrest training, issue harnesses (the industry doesn't use them) and earn a fall arrest certificate.
Lawyer says to interns: "Here is what you do in case of a fire on the 24th floor. Repeat until successful"
Imagine going through years of life only to die doing something like this. Thereby rendering almost everything you have done upto that point (unless it was helping others) totally pointless. Geeesh.
Couldn't you say that about anybody dying, and regardless of how they die?
"Although he didn't die, he was most likely removed from the gene pool anyway." SMH
“My name is Roger. Roger the Handler. I arrange, design, and handle Cobras.”
"Oh, noooooo! The window popped oot!"
I love this narrator’s calm, dry approach.
I really don't think that the Bungie jumper was alone when he died.
Nobody does stuff like that on their own.
Good point. Somebody is having bad dreams.
I enjoy your videos! The writing is very concise And your charm shines through the reading. Thank you
Aww thanks nice to hear 🤗
I went to summer camp at Lake Accotink not long after the I’ll-fated bunjee jump. One of our counselors took us over to the trestle and showed us a stain, alleging that’s where the man hit the ground. Pretty sure it was just an oil slick but even as a child, I was dumbfounded by this story.
Love the last one. These Awards are all great and it is a fair way of removing the stupid from our society. That being said, these days much more work is required. I look forward to many more of your videos. Thank You !
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Even without the subject of the video: "mischievous entertainer" sounds horribly like a euphemism for at best an eternal man-child and at worst an out-right bully. Ah well, peace be to your ashes.
"Survival of the fittest" was not uttered by Darwin. The phrase was coined by a journalist at the time and caught on because is appears to sum up the Theory of Evolution. But in fact it doesn't even begin to capture the interplay of forces that results in, over time, a lot of time, the progression of changes that we call evolution. Not only did Darwin not utter the phrase but he wouldn't have. Because it's not accurate.
but did the "unbreakable" glass break when it hit the ground 24 stories down? if not, hes right, thats some really amazing glass... hahaha
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The Waipara incident was doubly notable. They spent the whole trip sat atop the wagon, exposed to the elements and wind due to train speed. Had they instead sat on the flat end of a wagon they would have been sheltered from the draughts as well as travelling free, and being easier to dismount from!
A lot of people train hop but they don't sit on top of a car
More people should watch your videos. So often young people have no idea that people actually died while doing things they want to do with their friends…. Like jumping off a bridge! Thank you for these videos.
Not a good look for them if that’s their best land brightest
That last one reminds me of a Darwin award winner where he was working with a machine that featured a large driven belt (like a larger version of a fan belt in a car).
This guy, feeling a bit frisky, decided it was a great idea to pleasue himself using this moving belt. No sooner had he whipped it out and placed into the machine, the machine yanked it off harder than expected and ripped off his junk.
Oh and there was a video going around SE Asia of a guy who was drunk and picked up a King Cobra. He plays around with it in front of the camera and it bites him about 3 times. Each time it bit him he smiled and "told off" the snake by giving it a tap on its head.
Then the footage cuts to him in the hospital later, where he is struggling to keep conscious. He died later.
You forgot the rest of the tale... It was a belt drive for a VERY large machine. He did this regularly. Pretty much every lunch break. The time in question he managed to deglove his left testicle, which was never found. He then proceeded to STAPLE the skin shut around his remaining testicle. He finished the work day, went back for 2 more days and then the pain and swelling was so bad he went to the hospital. There the doctor found 8 rusty staples and a huge mess of infection.
Dr. William A. Morton, urologist, of West Chester, Pa. was the doctor in question.
Anyone who believes that humans are generally smarter and more civilised than animals should investigate the litany of nasty injuries caused by people stinking their junk into a wide variety of places where your junk really shouldn't go. Or the other way around, inserting a wide variety of objects where such objects really shouldn't go. It is highly inadvisable to be eating your lunch while learning about such incidents.
Oh my god. I'm cringing, and I don't have junk like that.
@@sixstringedthingMy friend is a medical professor and has been called upon to deal with a number of cases where people have inserted things they shouldn't into places they didn't belong.
Long ago, a woman turned up in Casualty, with a light bulb stuck up her - ahem.
It wasn't just that this light bulb had got stuck up there, and amazingly it hadn't broken. The issue was, it was still attached to the rest of the lamp stand, which she'd 'inserted' when still plugged into the mains - and then switched it on.
This wasn't one of those modern lightbulbs.
This was one of those old fashioned 60 watt jobs, and it had cooked her internal skin onto the surface of the bulb.
....Frying tonight!
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How is the guy who fought the ‘roo’ a Darwin Award candidate? It was attacking his dog and he successfully stopped it.
Seconds later, the roo jumped him and used its rear claws to gut him.
You too could be a Darwin Award winner it seems.
Survival of the fittest isn't intended to mean what most people assume. It means survival of the ones that fit their environment, or are best adapted to the environment.
I must admit, I would be curious to have seen the facial expressions of the attending witnesses after the attorney flew out of the window opening. Wha wha WHAT!
In the Gary Hoy case, he might have been a brilliant lawyer but scored negatively on common sense! 😂
It is often the case with what are termed 'brilliant academic minds'......they are disadvantaged by having little common sense.
Whilst I can't be certain, I thought that I read in another report about this incident, that he was in the habit of picking the same window to throw himself against, rather than random ones. The report said that his continued impacts with this window, gradually bent the frame outwards, until it could no longer retain the glass and popped out - as did he.
@@jcorbett9620 Well the lawyer's party trick fell through.
If Gary is that law firms best and brightest, I think I see why they went out of business.
Also the first rule of handling any handgun is don’t point it at anyone, second rule is ALWAYS use a holster. The holster protects the trigger from unintentional activation.
Gary seems more like bravado than stupidity.
To my knowledge, the first rule is: Every gun is loaded, unless you just checked and saw that it isn't.
@@Julia-lk8jn so, you’d point an unloaded gun at someone?
@@pollypockets508 really? Throwing yourself full speed against a window on the 25th floor window seems like bravado huh? If Gary were still around I think you would be a better client than I would… He totally deserves his Darwin Award!
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Accurate and entertaining commentary. Thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it 😎
Forrest Gump: "Stupid is as stupid does."
Don't pack a pink pistol next to your pink gun.
_Don't pack a pink pistol next to your pink gun._
From Full Metal Jacket: "This is my rifle, this is my gun, this is for fighting and this is for fun."
“Had no children” is the key phrase!
Darwin never said "survival of the fittest." That phrase came from a non-scientist.
Seriously!? I didn't know that. The scientific community never told anyone that fact since they have an agenda. Thanks!
I think what was meant is a reference to adaptation to conditions. Fitness isn't defined before the conditions change.
@@daystar4058 Yeah, "the Scientific Community" are like the illuminati...
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It's a summary of what was meant: The survival of those most suited to survive in a given ecosystem.
@@daystar4058 What agenda? Have you trouble with people who tell the truth?
(As opposed to the Bible book of fables and myths ...full of B/S from start to finish.)
I think it's a little crazy to have a cobra as a pet. Not absolving the Darwin award winner, but still... What kind of person keeps a cobra as a pet?
Usually, they would have the venom sacs removed. I don't know why this person had a still venomous snake as a pet. I am guessing he will also be a Darwin award winner.
The Darwin Award winner ‘was one of the best and brightest of the two hundred men association… ‘ oh dear.
My guess is that bungee boy had friends with him that night that left him when the pavement got in the way of his successful jump.
Not wanting to be part of anybody’s death took off and left him hangin….uhhh…left him laying there.
notice how it’s always dudes who are diy bungee jumping or setting off fireworks in their mouths. 😂
At the same time? Yikes!
I am pretty sure I have worked in the vineyard in the first story lol
We should take the warning labels off of everything and let nature take its course, and natural selection will prevail🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
I got through the 1970's without warning labels or safety procedures, and was left to play in the woods until it was dark.
However, when aged about 11, I very nearly became a Darwin Winner on a holiday break.
For some incredibly silly reason, after discovering that the beach dropped away at a very shallow rate into the sea - I decided to see how far I could wade out.
It was going well, I could look back and barely see my parents sunbathing any more. But when I was neck deep in water, I took a step forward and discovered that the floor suddenly wasn't there any more.
I switched round, my toes trying to scrabble for purchase on the sandy floor, but it was just giving way and I could feel the current starting to drag me backwards.
Then there was this almighty thump against my back, propelling me back to safety, my feet firmly on sand again. I looked round, and out of the water, right in front of my face, there emerged the head of a monster (so I thought at the time).
Scared witless, I screamed and powered my way back to shore. I didn't tell my parents (they would have killed me, finishing what Darwin's law started), but I did tell the local shopkeeper, who said it must have been a seal which struck me, telling me if I get up early next morning, there would be seals along the shore before the humans get up.
And so they were, likely including my little lifeguard.
...Oh, and I might as well admit this while I'm about it. I can't swim. So yeah, really stupid idea, wading out to sea. We all have our moments of complete lunacy.
Cue hilarity from Nuclear Power workers . . . ☢️
@@Debbie-henri good story. Glad you survived, even better, saved by a (navy) seal. No seriously, we do do stupid things when we are young.
HA. I just picked up a couple of extension cords and work lights. Ext cords had separate 3 labels plus the model number tag, and the worklights had 2. Dear lord!
@@Debbie-henri tht story deserves more likes
Plot twist: the bungee jumper was actually pushed by his killer, who tied a fake bungee rope to him to make it look like an accident
I hopped trains often when I was a kid. Never did I consider riding ON TOP!
I don’t know that I would go on record saying that a man who ran at full speed into a window 23 floors up and fell out of the building was of the best and brightest of the organization. What’s that really saying about the rest of them🤦🏻♂️
Great group of stories-I especially enjoyed the first one! In the US, freight trains often carry containers double stacked, and if someone were to ride on top of those, the same thing could easily happen. Some people really do take stupid chances and make bad choices. I’ve seen some close calls in my 4 years of filming trains, including two teenage boys almost getting pulverized on a train trestle by a fast moving freight train.
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His girldriend putting pressure on his wound could cause it to really start bleeding.
Some insane stories haha
Gary throwing himself at a 24th floor 'Canadian' window... You know there was some nice girls there and he was feeling it. Wonder if Gary had a heart attack before he hit the ground? That would have been a long 3-4 seconds straight down.
He would've just gone splat.
The ""Splat Calculator") - Google it for a link - says the 102 meter free-fall reaches a velocity of 161 km/h by the time the object hits the ground 4.56 seconds later. Congratulations for a reasonable guess!
My dad actually worked at the printing company with the guy who owned the cobra, Roger Croteau (better known as Snake Man), and the story happened just like this. My dad wasn't at the bar , but he said when Wayne Roth after he felt ill in the bar he went out to sit in the car to cool off (this was in January) because he felt really hot. When the guys at the bar went to his car to check on him, he was dead.
I know people aren't going to believe this and l really don't care. I have better things to do than post things that aren't true online.
I will go to my grave, not in _this_ particular fashion, never understanding the desire to homemade bungy.
Darwin didn’t say “Survival of the Fittest”. A journalist said that in an article he wrote about Darwin’s theory of natural selection.
The journalist was explaining to simple people what Darwin meant. That's all.
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😂😂😂 Ohhh dreary me...😂😂😂 I'm lost for words..hahaha
And the world is a better place. a big Thank You to all of the winners.
When "dim idea's" and "life hacks" don't work out together. 5:55 Did he cheat in school?
I can’t don’t…😵💫how did that ducktape not work!? He’s keen eye for safety was right on 😂
"The Handyman's Helper" - Red Green
I am glad to see a Canadian is smart enough to get an award.😮
The last one didn't die but still got the Darwin award because he took himself out the Gene pool!! Brilliant comment😂😂
That last story is the specially funny to me because I live in Chandler Arizona, but I don’t recall that being reported on the news, but I’m sure it was so I gotta look it up
a keen eye for safety 🤣🤣🤣 duct tape 😂 that’s funny kiwi!
The one with the woman taking the selfie is the strangest.
Honorary Darwin award for removing oneself from the gene pool, and living to tell about it. Priceless.
When Jay Leno was host of "The Tonight Show" one of his opening monologues referred to a newspaper article. According to the article, a "bad boy" was at a party and wanted to show off his sawed-off shotgun. He pulled it out of the front of his pants but it went off before clearing the waistband. The article had good news: he was unharmed! Leno asked, "which is worse: firing a shotgun down the front of your pants or not hitting anything?"
Hold my beer and watch this.
Love this series🎉
Great, glad to hear it 😎😎
Extremely informative. Live long and prosper.🖖😇
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The Inland Revenue has offices in Edinburgh which are known as Suicide Towers. The access to the roof is permanently locked except for the key holders who both must use separate keys to open the access door.
The University of California, Santa Barbara has a carillon tower, now kept blocked for the same reason.
"...with a keen eye for safety, added duct tape for reinforcement. 🤣🤣🤣
*You are a Mean Man!!!!*
Enjoying binge-watching your videos!
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As sad (dumb) as these cases are, the narration is superb 😂
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4:36 "Eric Barcia's cause of death was major trauma." (aka concrete poisoning)
The best and brightest of the two hundred lawyers in his firm. No one they went out of business just 3 years later
I can imagine the other two hundred lawyers lining up at the missing window space , jumping out one by one to try to work out what he did wrong.