The 10 Most Ironic Deaths In History
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 มิ.ย. 2024
- Ironic deaths are the stuff of legend when it comes to the craziest deaths imaginable. For starters, the owner of the Segway died in a Segway accident and a Green Party candidate was killed by an SUV. Some of the most ironic deaths of recent memory have been gathered here on this ironic death list.
Ironic deaths are both easy and hard to define; unlike the Alanis Morissette song, there's a little more subtlety to calling a freaky death "ironic." Some of the most tragic deaths in history, however, were true cases of irony and life finding a way to turn death into something simultaneously funny and fascinating. These crazy deaths and stupid deaths feature stories of people who died in ways you might not expect.
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A tornado went through my Central Florida hometown in 1998. Only one person died and his name was, and I'm not joking, "Lucky."
Here for all the “where’s the other narrator?” Comments
Nope. Shush.
Agreed. That other narrator is an absolute legend.
I'm okay with having more than one narrator, but they really should have picked someone with a better reading voice. I haven't been able to finish a single video this guy narrates.
He moved to Punjab
Yup, release the hounds/whiners!
If you can't be a good example, be a cautionary tale.
Sounds like my old mantra of "I either want to die heroically or hilariously."
Like the current narrator? (Ugh I know but he’s JUST not IT Ranker. Does this dude have dirt on them? Narration industry nepo baby?
@@LindseyLouWho 😅
You had me at "let's put the fun in funeral".
Joker used that line on the Batman cartoons
Each time Gary Hoy slammed his body against that window, he probably loosened the glass a little more each time. Apparently he did it successfully for the students at the beginning of his presentation but they asked him to do it again at the end. 😢
They did a 100 days to die of his story, but on TH-cam I saw someone do a LEGO stop animation of the episode.
Gotta love the Internet 🤣
@@lXedalinl I saw it profiled on another TV show that was like a 1000 Ways to Die, only more tame. I think it was like Strange and Unexplained Deaths or something.
Jim Fix was one of the people responsible for making jogging mainstream in the United States. He started jogging to improve his health, but died of a heart attack in the middle of a jog.
Yes, but remember that Jim's father died at the age of 41. Jim's family had a history of familial hypercholesteraemia. I think I spelled it right. Also, Jim was under horrendous strain at the time of his death. He never made the changes to his diet that he should have. Moreover, the day of his death was horrendously hot. He did, in fact, cut his last run short but then he had a heart attack. Worse, he collapsed in the worst possible position, in a semi upright position on a grassy bank, whereas if he had collapsed in a flat position blood might have had a chance to get to his heart. So, dying at the age of 52 as opposed to his father's 41, one can argue that his running did in fact extend his life.
Jogging made him live longer.
I will add to the OP comment that the idea of running for exercise was not really done, or at least hardly anyone did it, before Jim Fix.
Yes! I bought his best selling book and was a distance runner for many years. Fix’s father also died at a relatively young age from heart disease
If I'm not mistaken, the phrase 'kick the bucket' refers to the bucket one stands on before hanging oneself.
Hmm, I never heard that before but it makes perfect sense.
That's a mistaken belief. The term is traced back to the mid 16th century, and refered to the type of beam or yoke (called a bucket) that livestock would be suspended from by their feet when being dispatched for the processing of meat. In their death-throes the animals would "kick the bucket." This term found broader use to mean "to stop living" (being careful with word choices so as not to be hidden) and was first recorded in a dictionary published in the mid 1700s.
@@Eidolon1andOnly I thought most gallows had trap doors anyway. 🤔
9:06 I remember this story a couple years ago where these bikers were protesting wearing helmets by riding without one. One biker got into an accident, hit his head, pronounce dead at the hospital, and the doctor said that he would have lived if he wore a helmet.
The doctor couldn't possibly have known that. My daughter is a forensic tech for a large metro coroner's office. She puts bodies back together all the time, of people who died while wearing a helmet. ALL the time.
@@danidavis7912 Sounds like those incidents would have caused death either way if she has to put "bodies back together". In this case, the doctor examined the patient's injury and could have determined that the biker would have lived if he wore a helmet.
I would die from embarrassment while falling from the 24th floor.
Something tells me embarrassment would not be your predominant emotion. If by some miracle you survived, you have plenty of time to be embarrassed later. It should take your mind off of the excruciating agony of healing. 😉
I read somewhere that he was trying to impress some very attractive female co-worker/s by doing that, nothing about college students.
I think he threw himself at the glass too many times and it finally gave way. I mean you could probably do that so many times before it gives way. He weakened it.
😂 LOL
He had like what? 5 seconds to think about it?
Or is it like Looney Tunes where he stopped in mid-air, looked at the camera, and from his back he got a sign that just said "Yikes" and plummeted to his death? Lmao 😂
Huh, this is like a weird history version of that show “1000 Ways To Die”
I dig it!
I'll never forget that one dude who won a battle and rode around with the other guys head strapped to his belt.
The motion of the horse cause the head to "bite" into his leg causing an infection and ended up killing him.
I can appreciate the improvement of the new narrator. It was new and awkward at the beginning, but now he has his spark too. Stop complaining about everything, both are good narrators.
Just found about this one in my Global History since 1500 class. Thomas Midgley Jr., the inventor of chlorofluorocarbons, who also invented Lead Gasoline, died after contracting Polio and accidentally hanging himself via his homemade Polio-rope-rig attached to his bed… this poor guy couldn’t do anything non-ironically
I would put the deaths of presidents Garfield and Kennedy. Kennedy was wearing a girdle for his bad back that whipped him backwards after the first (non-fatal) bullet instead of slumping forward and out of Oswald’s sights. Just google Garfield, it’s too long a story. Also there was a guy named Ziegler in the 1800’s who someone shot at out side his house, the bullet missed and lodged in a tree in his front yard. A year later Ziegler decided he wanted to remove the tree (which was blocking his view). Dynamite was a new invention and he used that instead of an axe. He used too much and the tree exploded so hard that the bullet dislodged and killed him
Wait.... wheres the other guy 👀
Can't even watch this channel without the right VO guy, cmon weird history!
@@PasleyAviationPhotography go back under your bridge
@@PasleyAviationPhotography Same can be said about your comment... or any comment.
He still does his regular ones, they started doing daily videos & theyve had this guy several weeks now for the extra days they picked up
Sunday Wed & Fri I thinks the original days the regular guy does the show
Love weird history!
Not to mention the Viking warlord who was killed by his enemy's head.
Ignore the haters, Michael. You're awesome.
@WeirdHistory (and to everyone else!) Thanks for the great video. Despite my guilty feelings, I love the Darwin Awards. I think one of the most ironic deaths was the inventor of the parachute. Except it wasn't that good. He was supposed to attach it to a mannequin and throw it off the Eiffel Tower, but decided to wear it himself...
You'll love the BBC Horrible Histories channel on TH-cam, especially the Stupid Deaths skits. The whole set of seasons are on DVD and given that it's extremely accurate throughout (IIRC their history advisor found something like 8 small errors in about 4,000 facts!), it's a good source of fun.
Although it's aimed at kids, I can guarantee that it's still (despite not being on TV in some years) popular with students and parents (and this grandma!) There are lots of poo jokes and the like - it's aimed at kids as I said - but there are also times when it's really serious, e.g. when talking about slavery and other genuinely horrible histories. It's not just a source of fun but of facts, even their parody songs contain a lot of historical facts. Hope you enjoy it!
Can you make a video on each civil war general?
Irony is hypocrisy with style! - Amusing as always, thanks for chuckles
“The other two passengers survived and they were wearing seatbelts. Huh.”
The delivery of that was really funny.
Is that Michael Swaim narrating?
Yes
Not even going to bother with comments today. Really get tired of the same old people with the same old complaint whenever it isn't the one narrator. Give it a frickin rest people. We're over it.
Damn. Imagine drowning at a life guard party 😂
The last history made me remember a few years back when some bikers in California were protesting against helmet laws, two of them colided at very slow speeds, probably pure distraction but one of them fell to the side hitting his head and dying instantly. I feel no pity for this kind of stupidity.
Good video
I’m sorry that this narrator had to face so much from the dedicated fans, he’s actually really good.
Wait, it’s not the guy from Top Tenz is it?
Pretty sure it's Michael Swaim. Man is a legend.
I don’t mind this guy at all. I like the other guy too. 👍
Hey, I didn't get a notification for this! It just randomly popped up in my feed 12 days later...
I loved this vid! I loved 1000 Ways to Die and collected all the Darwin Awards books so my mind was blown that TH-cam decided that this one video is the one they won't send notifications on 🤯
The narrator sounds like Michael Swain.
A+ video!
LOVE IT! Such a great topic and video, very unique and memorable!
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@@Dave-bj3pqomg Dave give it a rest man
Laughter is the best medicine❤
👉 None of us are getting out of this alive !!!
😆😅😂🤣
Duhhhhh
God, the amount of emojis made me gag. Are you like, 60 years old?
@@Mrchair905 No, I'm not LIKE 60. Are you, LIKE, a Valley Girl, you know you know you know ??? Need a barf bag ????? 😁😄😆😅😂🤣
When I saw the title I immediately thought of Jhon Balance of the band Coil getting drunk and falling off a balcony and dying 😖
I'm sure Sleazy even got a laugh about that...
@@ArcherSuh4721 lmao yes
And I was thinking of the Segwey guy
Nice to see fellow Coil fans here. Rip Jhon
@@gohawks3571 I mean that was mega ironic too lol 🤷🏼♀️
Interesting video, I didn't know you could get an award for stuff like this.
Your huge comedic genius didn't even elicit a smile. Well done. 👍
New guy is back.. 😮
THIS guy sound like one from the cracked channel about 7 years ago
It is. Michael Swaim
This guy needs to do the food channel too so that way he gets more heard. I love the new people just as much as the original
Perilaus of Athens, who was the inventor of the Brazen bull belongs here. First one to be killed by his invention. Great video
The grim reaper always gets his person
Hey, it's Michael Swaim narrating again. Cool!
+1 for the Nebraska mention. We also had a guy who died in a motorcycle accident while protesting the helmet law. You can guess where the point of impact was. PS Love you Swaim.
Though this is likely a myth the alchemist who would be the inspiration for Frankenstein would quite literally blow himself up trying to create a immortality potion, he actually would survive only to die later that night after he drank the liquid (unknown if it was the same liquid)
Like I said idk if it's historically true but is ironically funny
Assuming typo/misread, but if Niagara Falls dude broke his leg in 1916 but succumbed in 1926, either he's much tougher than we're giving him credit for, or my god what a horrible decade.
Also, wishing the best for this narrator, but not the dame of course. They did this about a year ago too, assuming a break is needed and well deserved.
These better be ironic amd not just bad luck!
I’m not gonna complain about this narrator. He’s good. But a video about ironic deaths really needs the snarky tone of the OG.
Kieper was thinking "AH, SHIT" about 1 micosecond before his face smashed into the concrete.
Dont listen to em new guy, doin just fine by my books..🤙
The seatbelt guy for sure
Where is the regular narrator?
They've been switching back and forth for months.
Crybaby.
Things change. Life happens. People take time off. Stop crying.
The moment you said John Sedgwick, I started laughing because I knew what was coming.
Where's the regular guy? I'm going to watch but won't be happy about it.
What a baby you are
I kinda liked this narrator.
Michael Swaim of Cracked fame???
Leonard Warren dying on stage at the Metropolitan Opera while singing in Verdi's Don Carlo in 1960.
its about the voice, not talent. new guy can read whatever but the iconic voice is irreplaceable.
"who guards the life guards?" doesn't make sense since the Moody was a friend of the life guard. Not actually one.
The irony is he drowned at a life guard party lol.
We love you Michael 💖!
Damn, Millhouse is narrating this. Moving on.
Deadly...deadly...deadly...deadly...tasty part!
Thanks for this! ☠ I imagine my death would get a Darwin Award, if I were famous.
The most watched death was that of the English comedian Tommy Cooper, in the middle of a major live performance watched by 12 million. A sudden heart attack felled him at the end of a jest, leaving the audience confused about events.
Yay, new presenter! ❤
7:23 My cat Lisa is named after Pamela Anderson's character of the same name on the tv series Home Improvement.
Many consider Pamela Anderson to be the face of Baywatch.
Face?
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What about the Segway CEO who died by crashing his Segway?
Getting better mr.newguy
1:22 that dude on the left looks identical to ian macolum (boched the sure name) the gun guy
Hell yeah, love me some Michael Swaim! Best presenter y'all got. (The other guys are fine)
Wait, in "Ineffective Assistance of Counsel" If he was just demonstrating and trying to prove Thomas McGehean was innocent, why was the weapon loaded in the first place (with real bullets no less)?
I thought it said ICONIC 😂
There was an anti-helmet laws campaigner who died of head injuries from a motorcycle accident, was expecting to see him here. Ron Smith and his girlfriend in 2022, and there was another famous one about 20 years ago.
There is this really pretty lifeguard 😍 at the YMCA where i swim. Ive thought about struggling so she can rescue me, then i thought naa, they'd kick me out.
yes personal freedom above all else
even common sense
The funny thing about seat belt and helmet laws is that they have nothing to do with safety. It’s all about saving money for insurance agencies. That’s it. That’s why they came to be.
Forgot the founder of Segway
1:35 (sing songy tune) I-ron-neeeeeeey!
2:19 Ooof!
3:09 You have to go into special training to cut out edible parts of a puffer fish. However, even after getting certification to cut it, there's no guarantee that all the parts, that are poisonous, have been successfully removed.
5:45 Oh, no... Don't tell me he did it as a joke...
6:07 That can send someone to therapy.
10:08 It has got to be the last one. He could still be alive today.
4:23 you may say nothing rhymes with orange....
i say IT CERTAINLY DOES NOT!
Of course I like the original guy but keep it up new dude I like you too
These deaths were ironic, indeed
9:25 NH is still a choice to wear your safety belts
It's Mr. Garrison from South Park (and/or Mr. Hat)
John Lennon had an ironic death. Was anti gun but the shot to death. That one could have made the list.
07:13 Didn't he do it at the courthouse, in front of the judge?
I think you completely butchered the Civil War lawyer's name. It's Vallandigham - the emphasis is on the "llan" syllable and there is no 'g' before the 'n' so it's "dig" not "ding.
You guys aren’t going to the timeline history anymore?
Who is the creepy girl on the right on the transitions?? It’s all I can see every time I watch one of these
Where tf did the other dude go?
lmao the first oneeeeee lol. if i was there i wouldn't know whether to freak out or laugh or both. id be stuck in emotion at that very moment of how fugging ironic it was.
second one i feel like was a memory lapse for sure. no one thinks about what kind of toilet they're sitting on ever and i mean why would you? 99.99% of toilets we use are porcelain, not metal. when do we ever use metal toilets? prison and maybe a bus station or like a pit stop toilet? even so it IS hilarious thats how he ended up dying after all.
the japanese dude who died from the puffer reminds me of the Targaryen family. they claim that dragon fire can't harm them because they're dragons and its like. naah yall just got lucky. you CAN die to fire but its just harder for it to happen to you than to others. same with this dude. he wasn't immune, he prob could just tolerate it slightly better or for slightly longer OR he's just a liar.
for the hitchhiker one...ive always wanted to see a murder case where like 2 murderers pick up another murderer or something and the whole plot is them trying to kill each other while still using each other to gain things lol. i mean you hear of serial killers picking up innocents and offing them and you also hear of serial killers hitching to off people who pick em up. why the fug have neither of them ever met?! not that i want it to happen cuz it means more murderers but it would have been an interesting crime to investigate or shet, it makes for a fun movie concept!
DUDE I REMEMBER THE LAWYER WHO RAMMED INTO THE WINDOW! I REMEMBER THAT ON THE FUGGING NEWS!!!! i was 4 lol
Anyone know why sometimes the narrator changes?
Filming a few videos so many a week is time consuming, so the original host takes a break, or the channel decided on a second host, and there are some hosts that have other jobs too.
Bathong were is the original narrator? 😢
Not a fan of this video’s narration. Whatever raise Tom is asking for, give it to him. His voice is, by now, inseparably linked to the 'Weird History' brand.
One of my favorites, eternal beach boy Jimmy Buffett of skin cancer.
Omg people in these comments blasting this poor guy. Get a life. The man is doing his job. You don’t have to hear his voice. Just put on the captions. Jesus.
Hey, where’s our boy!? 😡
We have to talk about what “irony” means?
I apologize on behalf of Nebraska.
0:38 On the film Attack of the Hollywood Clichés! (hosted by Rob Lowe), scenes of "Funerals from Far Away" was one of the examples.
9:20 The Crash Test Dummies were an awesome Public Service Announcement (PSA)!
Lorenzo Music, who voiced Garfield for the twelve animated tv specials and the cartoon, voiced Larry the Crash Test Dummy.
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Interesting video, but your new narrator isn't giving me the good vibes your old narrator did. His voice fits this channel!
The narrator in this video is a good backup!