Darwin Awards: TikTok Edition
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I honestly belive the chinese or and the russians created tik tok to have a digital war with America, and they are winning.
I mean honestly do we in europe habe friends in Europe that are doing these dumb ass challanges that will get you killed?
You know fentanil is the same thing. Its in usa and starting to go in uk and germany but there is non in Portugal.
Wow! he thinks he is old. lol
Try being on your early 40's
What about the tiktok'r in Murica that bought a knife and tried to rob someone in the parking lot of the same store but the victim to be was packing heat and killed in the kid lol
More importantly, it will often get you shot.
@@chickenwings6172: Try being in your Sixties. . . .
As a member of a gaggle of little kids in the 60's; when my grandma told us to "go play in the freeway," after being annoying, we would only giggle and exit the house: And NOT play in the freeway!
I grew up in the 60s and 70s too. I really did play on the freeway- the 60 freeway through East L.A. went through right across the street from our house. When we played on it, it wasn’t open to traffic though.
The first great tragedy I experienced in life when I was around 5, was at a business next door to one of my dad's businesses. It was a large paper company that printed out receipt like stuff (I know because my sister and I would raid their trash can and get some of the stuff to play with). One day we were there and suddenly sirens from all over started showing up there ... cops, EMT's, fire department ... my dad finally, after some time, went over to see what was going on ... he came back and went into his office and called my mother ... he said a guy had taken the pressure end of a commercial air compressor and shoved it up another guys bum, as a joke, and let loose ... I don't think my dad knew I was listening, but I will never forget what he said next ... he said that the guy's intestines blew right out of his mouth ... my dad came out of his office and saw me ... he asked me if I heard that, and I said yes, and then he said, "Learn from it" and walked away ... we always had machinery and compressors and what have you ... I am 61 now, and still remember that every time I use an air compressor 😇
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@@Concetta20 🤣😂
Sweet. Baby. Jesus. 😨😵🪦
Holy shit dude, that's absolutely terrible! I've always known pressurized ANYTHING was super dangerous.
this is gruesome. and not uncommon, i've read such a story on the Darwin Award official website. that one happened in Hungary or Poland, a decade ago or so. i've had a colonoscopie. the operator inject air very cautiously via the rectum, so as the camera can progress and inspect the mucous membrane of the colon. this is VERY uncomfortable, you get cramps, as the colon struggles and wants to evacuate the air. nobody should force air to enter that exit point just for fun.
The capacity for human idiocy knows no bounds.
Simon keeps using this word "think." That's the issue, they're not thinking, at all.
There's a limit to intelligence. There is no limit to stupidity.
My dad always said you cant argue or reason with stupid, so don't even try son. I thought was sort of a silly thing , but now later in life, I definitely see the wisdom in his words.
As a German industrial worker, we got regular work safety instuructions. One of the repeated points, featured every time, is the "Don´t fuck around with the air lines, especially around you bottoms." lecture. It´s seemingly common enough to need such a section.
Germans be kinky. 😅
I work with tech and pyro. There are safety sections in pyro handling class that are named after people 😂
I also make sure to tell trainees, "don't climb into the CNC machines" and "don't drink the coolant".
You'd think- NOPE. You have to say it.
I've heard the don't fuck with air lines breif.
"This warning is here because APPARENTLY some people need it!"
My all time favorite is Miss "Selfie with Grizzly Bear" and her discovery that SOME grizzly bears have strong opinions about flash photography.
People are smart enough to think there geniuses about guns because they removed the magazine. But they didn't clear the one in the chamber.
I firmly believe some version of "Hey, y'all watch this!" has existed in every society since the beginning of time
Same with, "Hold my beer."
Which means there must've been people saying the equivalent of, "if you think that's a good idea go ahead, but im out." For that same time.
@@FairbrookWingates
"Ug want show Og trick! Og hold funny water and watch Ug!"
ah, that perhaps explained why that happened (and he did shoot himself indeed by accident). I wouldn't have known either. But living in Finland I don't feel I need a gun, and if I had one, I wouldn't point it to my head...
Hold my beer was first uttered one hour after the invention of beer.
In America that horseplay rule would be "Death by Misadventure".
I'm not an English speaker but is the vocabulary right? Calling it a mis-adventure. As in people doing an adventure and making a huge mistake. So in western concept adventure can be anything?
@kos2919 yeah, pretty much
Death by misadventure in the UK too.
And someone would probably sue for it anyways.
Most times I saw "death by misadventure" was when a musician choked on their own vomit.
As an Aussie, it still surprises me when I hear people can't swim. It makes sense, of course, people live in landlocked countries or not near the sea, but it just seems so foreign to me. I'm sure hearing me say I've only seen snow once and start shivering at 21C (69.8F) and below sounds just as foreign to other peeps
Even if in a landlocked country, people should learn to swim anyway if at all possible. It amazes me the number of people who don't learn in my area where we have lots of rivers, lakes and ponds.
I'm a ten pound pom. The first thing we did was go to the beach then watch Jaws at the drive-in
To be fair, even landlocked countries have huge lakes and bodies of water, which I suppose strengthens your point if anything. Every kid should learn to swim I agree it's the easiest skill to learn that could save your life or others.
As a fellow Aussie, sitting in my room with a thick coat on...
It's always these people being pulled from the surf on Bondi rescue.
Also, another Aussie here. Went swimming yesterday at the beach in Sydney. 10 degrees ambient. Absolutely freezing but fun. 🤣🤣
Wow. Not a single one from Florida. Didn't think it was possible.
The Florida entries must be so out there that they just didn't sound realistic :P
One day out of the blue it just suddenly hit me...
Half the population of Florida is Florida Mans.
The other half is Florida Womans
And by "it" I mean their station wagon.
We Florida people don't get up to much that doesn't go for other places...
Then again, maybe the type of person we see in this video would use the "Florida man" trope as part of their content, and therefore do more extreme activities.
It's like the free square in bingo...
He's probably saving them for Florida man videos.
Sheik Ali was the last to go in. He was peer pressured by his friends and was embarrassed to admit he couldn't swim. When they all got out of the water his friend looked at his phone looking at all the pics that were taken and noticed something in the back, and went looking for him everywhere, and that's when he realized Ali never made it out. His friend suffers from survivors guilt to this day.
Was this featured on Mr. Ballen? The story seems familiar.
@@RandomFandomDragonyes it was
Aaah, yes, this would definitely make sense. I saw something similar happen in boot camp - no fatalities! - but a lot of males who couldn’t show weakness or be seen as a coward in front of the other male and female recruits jumped into the pool as required but sank like rocks or splashed around trying to stay above water. (There were pool safety people all over the place.) All of us were told beforehand that if we couldn’t swim or were possibly a weak swimmer to stand off to the side, that there is nothing wrong with not being able to and no one would be in trouble, that they’d have to take remedial swimming classes. Several females and a few males stood aside. Those males were also put in remedial swim classes. I should add there were a couple of females who did the same thing, and then there were a handful of each who got up on the platform and couldn’t jump, so they, too, were added to the classes. Years later, I asked the pool safety people how often do they see recruits take the plunge but can’t swim. They said “all the time.”
It is required that we all could float and swim from one end of the pool to the other to pass and to graduate from US Navy boot camp.
@@RandomFandomDragon Yes it was
@@Bozbaby103Yeah, that's one big silver lining of not being a guy, I can't imagine how exhausting it would be to never be allowed to not know something
1:50 - Mid roll ads
3:20 - Back to the video
4:30 - Chapter 1 - Rylo huncho
6:55 - Chapter 2 - Sheikh ali
10:15 - Chapter 3 - Indian man known as "vikas"
12:25 - Chapter 4 - Unnamed indian factory worker
15:15 - Chapter 5 - Indonesian teenager
Thanks! I'm not going to use these, but I appreciate that you did it.
Not all heroes wear capes 🥲
The DARWIN AWARDS:
their motto should be
"HEY YOU OUT OF
OF TH E GENE POOL
THIS IS THE GENE POOL. NOTICE THERES NO “U” IN IT.
@@MegCazalet I'm stealing this
Only if we get to were shirts that say "Gene pool life guard"
@s56505 Of course you do. 🤗🙃
@@pyrouscomments be my guest.... help spread the word 🤗🙃
I just got a crazy idea for a new viral challenge. I call it the Simon Whistler challenge. What you do is shave your head, super glue it to your face, and then record yourself reading random facts.
Can you make up those 'facts'? The more outrageous the better.
@@alanhilder1883 No, but you can pay a blind guy from another country to find the facts for you.
@@alanhilder1883 Of course not, don't be ridiculous.
Your writer makes them up for you. Way more efficient that way.
@@BaronVonQuiply But that will need me to start digging a basement before I can start...
*in a British accent. (I don’t know the exact one.)
“Oxygen thief.” I’m stealing that❤
The oxygen?
Having already meticulously scrubbed all videos of myself from the interwebs, I'm pretty sure I have whatever the opposite of the Must Be Viewed Addiction is.
Same, at least as far as I'm aware.
Being addicted to being watched sounds so foreign to me. Constantly being viewed would be my own personal hell.
I have that too. I call it "anti-social media." We also have a club but no meetings. We're not hypocrites. 😂
Oh my god the " I can see the future" dbza reference caught me so off guard I nearly dropped my drink laughing lol
My husband drives large trucks for a living and accidentally killing someone is his *biggest* fear. He is an extremely careful driver but you can't control other people's reckless actions. He is currently driving a concrete truck and a few months ago another driver was involved in an accident that lead to someone's death. The driver was driving normally, doing his job, and someone ran a stop sign and drove directly into the side of his moving truck. Concrete trucks are LARGE and the person in the other vehicle died instantly. My husband had driven through that same intersection less than 10 minutes before the accident.
My dad was a truck driver when I was a kid. He used to get Safe Drivers award every year. Had an impeccable record. One night a few days before Christmas he was driving when a young lady in VW beetle crossed over into his lane crashing into the front of his truck. He said it happened so fast. Apparently she was heading home from college for Christmas and fell asleep behind the wheel. My dad was absolutely devastated and it haunted him until his death. He was killed by a drunk driver when walking home about two weeks before Christmas. I have an irrational fear of car accidents now.
Simon "the bridge from Langstone Harbour to Hayling Island" me oh cool this must be a Dave script, Simon "Dave nobody knows where you're talking about" "I DO :("
My step grandmother - who was born in the 1940s in central Europe in a rural area - used to tell me storys about how she and her friends used to lay vertically on the train tracks and wait as long as they can for the train to come until they jumped away. To whomever the train came closest to won. Apparently some got of the tracks merely seconds before the train would kill them. They did this for shit's and giggles and as a test of courage when they were in elementary school untill the closest adults chased them away.
Somehow no one died
Right? Kids have always been stupid. I hate this narrative that “kids these days” are somehow worse.
Kinda cool how kids around the world come up with the same bad ideas everywhere. That kind of thing was common in the US as well.
@@toomanyopinions8353they are just as stupid. Just modern day stupid.
We would play on the train tracks near Copenhagen when I was a kid - put coins and twigs on the track and put our ear to the track, to listen for the train, like in the movies. Good times😄
Where I live, we just had a case of teens throwing rocks at cars from a bridge. They did cause a death and they were convicted of manslaughter as adults
As a young paramedic my team and I got called to an electric transformer station. A worker there had ignored procedures and managed to have 350.000 Volts go from one hand to the other. He was flung about 10 meters, then ran another 200. But he was very much alive when we dropped him off at the hospital.
For the first guy, he might have used blanks believing them to be harmless. They are far from at point blank range like if you shooting yourself.
Or he might be an true Darwin award winner playing with an loaded gun.
Or people are being stupid and forgetting that showing off before k*lling yourself is known form of s*ic*de. As someone who’s been suicidal I don’t for the life of me understand it, but there are people who have like a “go out with a bang” mindset. (Not a pun) Live streams on social media where someone is showing off and end it by k*lling themself have been a thing since social media platforms where you can livestream have been a thing. I remember they weren’t uncommon back when Facebook lives were popping off in the early 2010s.
I think Simon’s right. I think it sounds intentional. These news articles are naive.
They can be deadly up to 6 feet
Heard this quote awhiles ago, and liked it for its truthfulness -
"It's not that there are too many idiots in the world, but that lightning is unfairly distributed."
Bonus points to the editor for using a jordan hewlett snip. 😂
And people have always been stupid. We just have ways to document the stupid now
1 minute in and i see Jordan.
Happytime.
I always love Jordan dancing.
I am always grateful that my most embarrassing moments are only in the memories of people who probably don't think about me that much instead of all over the internet.
Yes!
I didn’t know his name, but dang, I see that dude constantly😂.. take my 👍🏼
No, people are definitely getting dumber.
Sheikh Ali's story could have been mine. I once jumped into deep water on a dare despite being unable to swim. Fortunately I was pulled out. Of course, I was nine years old at the time.
That's how I learned to swim. My grandma was very old fashioned. Her way of teaching all us grand kids to swim was the same way she learned as a kid. She threw us into the deep end of the pool and told us to swim or die. We all learned to swim real quick. I didn't swim "right" for years though. It was more of a doggy paddle lol. I didn't learn to swim the right way until I was a teenager.
There were studies of monkeys.
Taking turns grabbing the tails of Caiman.
The Monkees were bored and they would take turns to see who can hold on to the tell the longest.
The first part. He probably took out the magazine but didn't clear the breach.
Having learned the basics of gun safety, I genuinely don't understand how anyone can pick up a gun and not clear it properly. I've forgotten to put my car in park, but if I saw a dozen people clear a gun before it was handed to me, I would still clear it the second it was handed to me.
@@mwolkovei know someone who refused to even listen to others about clearing his gun properly. Dumbass shot himself in the foot 😂 fucked around and found out. And that's why i always drill safe handling of firearms into people, even if all they get to hold are airsoft guns so weak german law allows them to be full auto (
@@mwolkove Looks like he was American. There's no requirement to do even a basic safety course before buying a gun there, as far as I am aware. And they'd probably riot if anyone suggested mandating even something as basic as needing to show that you understand how the safety works before getting to buy a gun.
Having said that, I suspect no amount of training can save someone who'll wave a gun around "to be cool" from themselves.
@mascot4950 I live in the states. The only thing standing between an American and a gun is the credit transaction being approved.
That's how Bruce Lee's son Brandon was killed. Onset for the movie the Crow, the prop gun was a functioning gun with blanks inserted but the barrel had a lead tip from an actual bullet stuck inside that no one had checked (evidently). And the prop director for the film had already gone home for the day but the cast & crew continued filming. And since blanks actually have projectiles, the force of the blank shot ejected the bullet nose like a regular gunshot anyway & shot him mortally, severing an artery of his. Contemporaries called it a freak accident, but to me it sounds like negligence, executive oversight, & lack of gun safety that all rolled up into a "freak accident"
I actually knew a driver that had somebody commit suicide by his truck. He said they watched him coming up from the curb and waited till the last second before stepping out.
Theres also a short documentary i saw years ago, interviewing train engineers about how often it happens to them.
Yeah, I've dealt with suicidal thoughts for a long time, but I could never do that sort of thing, just because of how much it would fuck that random person up
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@@WhiteWolf-lm7gj Same, it had gotten to the point where the manner in which I would discovered was what kept me from going through, I just don't have the heart to do that to someone.
The Cell drop absolutely KILLED me, lol.
"I can see the future!" I don't know if it's DBZA or the placement, or what, but I hit my head of my desk laughing. Worth it.
That could have been ironic, headline "Died whilst watching a Darwin Award video" 😂😂😂
It's both, lol.
That was the perfect place for that clip.
I was taking a drink and ALMOST spit it all out over my keyboard. that was hilarious!
I started laughing so hard when that popped up.
It's so unexpected, but perfect!
As Alec Baldwin so aptly demonstrated, a "prop" gun or a "replica" gun is a real gun, and should always be treated as such.
Young people are smarter than they’ve ever been. That does mean they’re also better at being dumb than they’ve ever been, too.
No, they are not smarter than they've ever been.
They just have instant access to vast quantities of (mostly inaccurate) information, so they can appear clever to their friends.
@@AnotherPointOfView944 well theres still living people who grew up thinking that white skin made you smarter so yeah i think the average person is getting smarter
@@AnotherPointOfView944 How old are you?
@AnotherPointOfView944 exactly. And knowing some random facts they've read about Chile or penguins or the history of the steam engine doesn't make them smart. Being able to recognize reality and apply common sense does and there is an almost unbelievable lack of that going on in the modern Era. The number of people who can't make simple connections with common knowledge and real life scenarios is just depressing.
@@mommy2libras "Youth is more liable to error than old age; for it is more eager to be convinced." - Aristotle, Rhetoric Book 1.
"The youth of today are arrogant and reckless,
Their words are empty, their hearts are foolish,
Their plans are shallow, their wisdom is fleeting." - The Epic of GIlgamesh, Tablet 2.
Your assumptions about the youth of today are the most banal and repeated historical takes in recorded human history. Arrogant idiots in every generation think and say what you did just now.
My parents, truck drivers as am I, worked with a guy that watched a convertible full of drunk teens drive straight under his trailer, instantly decapitating them all. When emergency workers arrived, they found the guy frozen in place, clutch and brake pedals to the floor, hands locked to the steering wheel. They had to cut the wheel off to get him out of the truck. His brain instantly broke and he was institutionalized for the rest of his life.
When I first started driving truck, the owner's son, who ran the shop, would run short loads during busy times. When he was a kid, he was with his dad. His dad fell asleep behind the wheel while exceeding the speed limit greatly while he was in the sleeper. The truck hit a bridge and he was ejected through the windshield, coming within inches of going head first into concrete pillar, before the truck rolled over trapping his father. Both were seriously injured and almost died. Neither one ever exceeded 55 mph after that. Because they drove so slow, they stayed off the interstate as much possible, because it's just as dangerous to drive slow on fast roads as speeding. The kids at one of the local high schools had this "game" where they'd blow through the stop sign on a crossroad and try to pass as close as possible to the back of a passing semi. That day, they weren't expecting a truck doing exactly 55 and hit the trailer wheels at an estimated 65 mph. It knocked the wheels right out from under the trailer and the trailer dropped down onto the car. Luckily for them the load was relatively light and didn't completely crush the car. All four of them were seriously injured, but survived. His mom and sister took another semi out as the load needed to be transferred and his sister drove the tractor and him back. As far as I know, he still hasn't driven truck, and that was 21 years ago. So, his father's choice to push too hard almost cost them their lives, and the lives of four idiot teens almost 20 years later.
When watching these Darwin Awards videos reminds you why warning labels exists on products because all them lack common sense
I just want to say the editing in this episode was delightful 'I can see the future!' was so well timed I spilled my tea XD
"Hayling Island to Langstone Harbour - No idea where that is Dave"
Me: I KNOW EXACTLY WHERE THAT IS AND I'VE BEEN THERE MANY TIMES!!
^ Living in Portsmouth, I fully agree. I too have been there many times. :)
So this comment before I hear the story, super hyped now for the context
I thought you kept Dave in your basement and paid him in scraps of food? 😂😂😂 Do you not remember the chicken challenges teenagers used to play on the motorways and duel carriageways in the UK when we were kids? Hundreds died through that too, but back then we didn't have social media and national news never really covered it
Poor Dave is kept chained in the basement and fed scraps of food by the evil overlord Simon. Love them both😂
the what that who used to play where and where???
@@projectjupiter5523 perhaps you’re too young to remember but when I was growing up playing chicken was a big thing. Regardless what you were in, car, boat or just your hopefully fit body two people would come at each other and the first one to swerve was chicken. Perfect setup for Darwin Awards.
I'm glad you mentioned getting out of a rip current. It's so scary seeing the land that far but you HAVE to stay calm....float on your back and control your breathing and swim out of the current slowly. It's hard to know if you're near the end of one or in the middle, but if you keep going just about parallel to land you will get out of it. The panic is what does a lot of people in. Learn to spot rip tides and if you see more than one just find a better spot to swim.
Although you can take them deliberately as a quick transit away from all the people/past the breakers lol
Regarding the last story, a random drunkard decided it would be smart to run across the highway wearing all black one night … right in front of my uncle when he was only 20. My uncle’s personality apparently completely changed.
You know the “dead or alive, who would you like to have beers with?” Question?
My answer is FIRMLY Dave and Simon.
They’d probably do that if you paid enough money lol
Yah won’t get a word in but you’ll have a great time
Painting a toy to look like an actual firearm is a federal felony in the USA
What other kind of felony are there?
@@Darksh0t009state felony
That's just silly.
I read toy as boy the first few times and was SO confused 💀
That can not possibly be true.
Maybe in California, certainly not federally. There are plenty of training instruments on the market used by both civilians both and law enforcement that function like and precisely resemble many models of their pewy counterparts.
As someone with an advanced degree in history. Whenever I read something, I sometimes just ponder and wonder how humanity has survived.
Well for a long time our population was pretty low until modern medicine.🤭
@@rustyhowe3907 and warning labels
You don’t need an ‘advanced degree’ for that. I’m surprised you didn’t include a screen shot of your supposed degree
@@debbylou5729 no need to be rude.
@@benjie128 why not? No need to be crass
'Times change, People don't.' People have Always been Stupid - but now we have the interwebs...
State laws vary but the only federal law about the coloration of fake guns is that the blaze orange tip is required for transport across state lines. I’m an avid airsofter and in Virginia, you can legally remove the orange tip. Many of these guns are very realistic looking.
That industrial air line one 😱 I literally had to pause it for a second, I could help but imagine it and how the hell did he even live for 15 days after that! The human body can take a lot but that's insane. I can't wait for that scam video tho! I'll be waiting to see how long it takes to release 😂
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there are apparently people that do this, intentionally. inflating their own stomach (i think). basically allowing anyone to look pregnant. i assume that they dont use a powered air compressor, but as you said "The human body can take a lot". i believe someone i used to know a couple years ago had this done by her boyfriend, or something like it.
If he destroyed the part after his stomach, they could have him on survival machines. Still, there is no need for fame if it comes at the price of your life. You won't be profiting off it. And if it fails non-fatally you might need intensive care you can't afford. If it doesn't fail you don't get famous. So every way leads to a bad outcome. Every short cut to fame is a dead end.
One point here, there is NO such thing as a Gun accident. That first story is Gross negligence, kid was stupid and playing tough guy without much training. Not an accident but a HUGE lack of respect for the tool he was waving around and being stupid with.
You're entirely right. Accidents are when you're shooting roman candles you hold with your buttcheeks and you get sprayed with sparks - not when you stay strapped AND get clapped
accident: "when your actions do not have the intended consequences" there is such thing as accidents. having shit for brains, and also causing/having an accident arent mutually exclusive. hell, trained soldiers occasionally have an ND, proffecional racecar drivers get in crashes. training or a lackthier of doesn't nullify what an accident was. calling what happened an accident conveys that it wasn't an intentional suicide.
@@alexplayslife7782 Negligent Discharge... exactly correct, NOT an accidental discharge. A round in the chamber means it CAN go bang bang! No round in the chamber, NO bang bang.
Negligence, pure and simple. Not an accident, just stupid...
@@dsxa918 Are you a child? I need to know because that is incredibly stupid. So tell all of us that you are an itty bitty kiddy so we can understand why you sound like a doofus.
@@alexplayslife7782 You're right, I saw a dude on youtube get an accidental ricochet straight to the ear, accidents happen no matter what.
But that obviously wasn't the case for the dude in the video.
One reason that dashcams became common, the "victim" would jump out in front of a moving vehicle and then sue the driver for dangerous driving. When the video shows that the driver was sensible and the "victim" was a scam artist, it tends to backfire, though the driver will now have years and years of problems.
Re: Safety Videos. When I took drivers ed in HS (in the '70s) they showed us "Faces of Death".
Damn! Maybe your drivers ed teacher just wanted to see that movie, or had seen and thought his students would enjoy it. In 1982 we got Red Asphalt which was traumatic enough for 15 1/2 year old me.
@@robertgibbs6154 It was the Scared Straight for driving.
What about "Hamburger Highway"?
pretty sure spray painting a water gun to look like a real gun is a criminal offence in the UK so maybe dont do that.
That's just silly.
@@TheHardys01I agree. Keeping people from spray-painting a toy gun to make it look real, thus facilitating crimes like robbery, is totally out of bounds.
It sure is a crime, shit isn't it
I’m pretty sure it’s a crime here in the US too
@@barneynedward it is.
New brain blaze episode? Let’s fuckin’ goooo
I can't go anywhere. There is a new Brain Blaze episode. ...and I want to watch it... so... I'm just going to stay here. Enjoy your trip though.
Young men handing their lives back. Grim reaper didn't even have to work for them....
And women say THEY have it hard...
Are you trying to depress us today. This, the Crusades and the origin of the chainsaw? You're now Morbid Boi
This video is incredibly graphic without even showing a single frame of actual footage... what the hell was that horseplay cutout?! I died laughing.
Painting a toy to look like a firearm is a felony. But painting a firearm to look like a toy is next level.😮😂
How could you leave out the mount Fuji story? Oh ok that was not tiktok. An IRL streamer decided to climb mount Fuji in Japan on stream. He had those hiking sticks but no other equipment and the top of the mountain is snow-covered and comes without handrails. He almost made it to the top and almost slipped or started slipping two times. So the stream went crazy with people warning him of the danger. Third time, he could not stop, went slipping faster and faster and struggled to hold on to anything and then the stream cut out. With Fuji, its not one specific drop that killsyou, you just tumble down at increasing speeds and sharp rocks make it so that you will not survive. The video is still on youtube. He got warned by hundreds of viewers and two times by the almost-slips by the mountain itself. Soo many warnings, and he totallywould have pulled it off with spiked climbing shoes and an ice pick. He simply had no way of stopping and an ice pick would have done the trick.
I don't want to say, "NO SHIT!!!" When it comes to a 6,000psi air pipe, well, there...!!!???
That last story reminds me of a man I met years ago. He was a railway engineer and a woman in a van pulled in front of the train with her kids inside. He was never the same after that.
Half? Your optimism is legend.
Fuck yes, my Saturday NEEDED this 🎉
Oh, THAT explains the warning label on the air compressor!
Some odd part of me can't help but picture Simon's wife being startled by his hilarious outbursts and accidentally flinging the contents of a charcuterie board all over while his kids laugh.
That Cell edit! Oh god!
I'm addicted to the NSFW/NSFL Darwin Awards subreddit. Especially all the train videos.
And today we learned that surfshark is down as a sponsor:
In fairness we were morbid enough to watch this so we need a VPN
It’s so cute that Simon is borrowing a sippy cup from the kids.
People are definitely getting more stupid. Also we have more chances for narcissists (I *think* I spelled that right) to "become famous" so people do more stupid stuff.
Also, it's MY lawn. I'm older than you! *waves cane*
Narcissists like Chille DeCastro [waves cane back] 😂
No, just more ability and incentive to use it. Ability in more access to technology and further travel, incentive in whatever ego boost they get from the online crowds who watch the content made from their stupidity.
There have always been people as stupid as those in this video, and there will probably always be as long as people exist.
Yea!!! New brainblaze! LOVE YOU DAVE❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Imagine just running away and leaving your friend for dead, especially when it’s absolutely possible to revive someone from electrocution (though probably not in this case, but at least there would have been a chance). 12:02
Fkn cried laughing at the "you're exploiting Jeffrey but also AHH"
He was playing with the gun & lost his grip for a second & when he tried to regain it, he pressed the trigger enough to fire it.
No sympathy
Andnthat is why we don't play with guns
Still playing with a gun. Even an uneducated person who knew enough about guns to think about how "cool" having one is would know not to do that, and he probably had a normal amount of education.
“He got too close to the 25k volt DC power line, and approximately 25k of those volts were transferred directly to him.”
Lmfao I love your writers.
Simon, I grew up thru the 90's going cliff jumping multi times every summer. Such a great time.
Omg that last one! Almost the same thing happened to my mom before i was born. A guy on a motorcycle ran a red light, and she hit and killed him. It was entirely not her fault, but it still affects her over 40 years later.
I definitely was the stupid friend, but I was 100% aware of it.
I was in no way prepared for the "I can see the future" cut and it almost broke me.
Simons reactions in this are hilarious as tragic as these stories are.
"There’s one born every minute."
That's not the real problem. The real problem is that only 2 die a fu##ing fortnight.
Like grandma used to say: "Some people don't have the sense that God gave McGinty's goat."
I actually just saw a video recently of two fellas working in a factory in India. It starts with the older foreman using the air hose to tussle dudes hair and spray his face and what not. The younger guy turns around for a sec and the foreman blows air into a hole in the pants of the younger gentleman. The younger fella collapses almost immediately, turns out that the older guy had blown out a bunch of things somehow. They said when they tried to help in the hospital they were hampered by the fact that fecal matter was blown all over his organ. He did indeed die, but I never caught the place, just the video.
That rip current story gave me the heebie-jeebies. I live on the Pacific coast, and the undertow is crazy strong here thanks to barely any continental shelf. Every year, a lot of people get swept out and drown.
Remember kids: rip currents kill, not sharks!
True story. I managed a bar called The Castle Barge, (It's a converted grain barge on the river Trent, Newark) on a warm August (I think) Sunday night, a drunk guy proposed to his gf, she said 'if you swim across the river, I'll marry you......' You can guess what's coming.
When I got to work the following day at lunchtime, his body was being pulled out in a body bag on a stretcher opposite the pub.
A former Cricketer didn't technically commit suicide in the carpark outside, but when ending a shift at 2pm, empty bar, he came running down the stairs asking for an ambulance , ran out to see him vomiting what looked like coca cola. It was Paraquat. He died days later in QMC. It's one of the worst things I've ever seen.
I might be morbid but this video made me laugh more than most of your videos. 😂😂😂
Something like the last story happened to my dad back in the 80's. He was a truck driver, and one day a car swerved out in front of him and crashed into his truck so badly that it nearly tore the car in half, and wrote the truck off. Turns out the guy was drunk and was trying to end things, and my dad just happened to be the unwilling participant. My mom said that she saw the truck after the crash, and that my dad was lucky to have survived as it was a cab-over. It definitely took a toll on him though
Train drivers have been dealing with this almost since their have been trains. Some deal with it - some can never work again. It almost makes suicide booths look like a good idea.
There is a video online of a guy 'pranking' an employee with an air compressor in a similar manner, unaliving him.
I used to run an industrial pressure washer that could hit 6000 psi. Accidentally hit my foot while using the oscillating head (it spins and sprays a cone shape instead of 'flat blade'). Luckily i had boots on, but it damn near broke my foot. Not the same as air at 6000 psi, but moral of the story is dont stick the business end of any industrial pressure equipment near your body.
30 years ago when I was young and stupid and in my 20s, my friends and I jumped off a railroad bridge in California into a raging river of snow melt from the Sierra Nevada mountains in the middle of the summer. The first thing that happens is going from 100°F to the ice water takes your breath away. Then the raging river was so fast that just trying to swim to the Bank my sandals got sucked off and I never saw them again 😂 Once I finally made it to the bank of the river. I was so exhausted. I had to be dragged out of the river by two guys who just happened to be sitting there watching the stupidity. 😂
Gold medal for “oxygen thieves”!
God those TFS memes are fantastic
The indian air compressor one is real but happened differently and theres video of it. It was an employee that had walked up to his supervisor to ask him something and as he was walking away, the supervisor decided to mess with him... you can figure the rest of that part out. The supervisor skipped town and was later arrested. The employee did indeed die in hospital. So not a darwin award since the employee neither did it to himself nor planned on compressed air going into his arse.
13:55 So... fun fact: balloon animals used to be made out of inflated cat intestines.... Usually they are removed first before inflation.
British PSAs have nothing on Canadian ones. The “Canadian House Hippo” PSA is probably the easiest way to cause emotional damage to a little Kid.
While the *WarAmps* PSA’s were another level up, and also used catastrophic injuries suffered by 2-8yr old kids as their teaching tool.
My friend who literally lived in a US-Canadian Border town would always send us copies of their PSAs. Plus some of the British ones they also used (the car flipping into a groups of Grade 3 kids was horrifying)
Lots of DBZA memes in this one, very good.
I had my own Darwin Moment. When I was 7 or 8 I decided that it was a good idea to climb on top of a glass green house. You can guess what happened. I fell through the glass. When I came to in the hospital I found that I had a scar on my neck (15cm) and upper thigh (20cm). Almost 250 stitches in total. That cured me of doing stupid stunts... And being called Scarface thoughtout school reminded me of that day....
5:04 *Did you know that there's prop ammunition? No, not blanks. A LASER shaped like a cartridge for the gun you already have!*
*No, not in the 40 watt range (just what you see, pal!). Laser pointer/Cat Toy power. For In-Your-House target practice.*
When I was 12 (I developed early), a 10 yr old boy tried to impress me with his “manhood”. Instead of stuffing his pants with socks, like the rest of the boys, he decided to use his Dad’s soccer ball pump to inflate himself. All it earned him was some screaming, a lot of pain and a trip to the doctor. He was fine, But the air compressor incident reminded me of this story. Thank God, he only had access to a pump!
Here in Florida we just say"Hold my beer " 😂😂😂😂😂
I've been alive so long that mother nature is actively trying to kill me.
On the playground back in the 90's/2000's, we played a game called Animal Crossing (no relation to THAT Animal Crossing). The idea was to run from one side of the swingset to the other without getting hit by the people on the swings. Amazingly, no one got injured.
As an adult, I was on a highway and saw some teens walking on the side of the road (we don't have sidewalks...). This one kid suddenly breaks from the group and dashes across the street. If I hadn't been keeping my eye on them.... If I hadn't slammed on my breaks when I did... I probably would have hit him. He just looks at my car and starts laughing and waving to his friends. If I hadn't been so shaken up, I probably would have tried to get out and slap him for pulling a stunt like that. I don't think any of them were filming. This was probably still before tik tok. Point is... I didn't even hit him and I was shaken up. I always feel bad for people who end up accidentally killing one of those idiots..
Something comes to mind. Pull of the abyss/ocean madness it's the oddity that people on ships are drawn to throw themselves in to the sea
why/how...good question psychological stress / isolation...