Unbelievable facts
These are true stories that have happened to ordinary people. They all died a stupid death, which is what they are famous for.
Here are the most unique cases that can cause shock and laughter at the same time.
You can learn about other ridiculous situations in the article: Darwin Award: the most ridiculous deaths in the hand-face series
Burned alive
Gary Allen Banning saw an open can of salsa (a type of American sauce) containing liquid and suggested it was drinkable. That was a pretty odd idea. He took a sip of the liquid and, realizing that it was gasoline, accidentally spit it on his clothes.
However, this is not the only unclever idea that Gary has come to. Then, nervous, he decided to smoke a cigarette, which caused his clothes to catch fire.
When firefighters arrived, they saw a man with numerous burns. Gary Allen passed away the following day at the burn center in Chapel Hill, NC.
Fatal accident
A 40-year-old woman in Devon, England, enjoyed a beautiful day by the sea. The square where she walked is fenced along the edges to protect people from falling off 250 meters of cliff.
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The woman saw a very beautiful bird in the sky, could not resist and climbed the fence. She slipped off the fence and fell, suffering a head injury. This woman died the next day from her injury.
Improper parking
This time, the incident took place in Brazil on the country's largest highway, Via Dutra, where there is a constant flow of heavy traffic. The young couple parked at 6 a.m. on this freeway for amorous fun. But they did not drive to the side of the road or onto the grass behind the road, but simply stood on the road.
Of course, their love affair ended almost before they even started with a few trucks.
A ridiculous death due to drunkenness
In 2002, in Colorado, USA, a man decided to attend a strip show. He drank so much alcohol that he swallowed the stripper's panties, which were stuck deep in his throat. However, his foolish actions did not end there.
He took the coat hanger and shoved it down his throat, hoping to catch his panties. The man never pulled them out, but tore the esophagus. He died from blood poisoning.
The most ridiculous death due to a car
Joseph D. Joseph D. Maliborski was a New Yorker. At age 20 in 2007, he was driving his car while intoxicated. However, the young man did not drive that long. He lost control of the car and fell into a ditch, knocking down a power line.
At the same time, Joseph suffered only minor injuries. He really didn't want to go to jail, so his plan was to steal a car from a nearby farm and get his car out. He quickly stole the tractor and drove it onto the fallen electrical wires. Let's hope Joe has better luck in the next world.
Stupid death because of faith
Breatharianism is a religion that says you can live only by breathing in air and completely without food or water.
Verity Linn, 48, seemed to love this thrifty lifestyle and wanted to give it a try. Verity decided on a 21-day spiritual cleansing in the Scottish mountains, where the air is clean, fresh and healing. At first, she went without food or water for seven days.
Then the woman probably realized that she got a little excited and drank water for the next two weeks. But nature still prevailed: Verity Lynn died from hypothermia and dehydration, exacerbated by lack of food.
The stupidest death in a car accident
Debbie Mills, 99, was on her way to celebrate her 100th birthday in a wheelchair. But she wasn't able to attend her own party. On the road, an unhappy old lady was hit to death by a van that was just bringing her birthday cake.
Human stupidity at shooting ranges
At 44, Meghan Fry was shot by 14 police guns while simulating combat ranges. Exercises were underway at the police station's training ground, with suddenly appearing targets that copied people.
Meghan was at this training ground for unknown reasons. She decided to scare the training police officers by jumping out of the target and shouting “Bach!” Law enforcement officers, without hesitation, fired 67 shots, 40 of which hit the target.
A terrible death from the husband of a nuclear physicist
Helena Simms, wife of famed nuclear physicist Harold Simms, was murdered for cheating on her neighbor by her husband. The insidious scientist replaced the eye shadows used by his wife with a radioactive substance until the cheater died from a large dose of radiation.
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Remarkably, Helena suffered from radiation sickness for three months, but never saw a doctor. Before she died, she became bald, lost her eyesight, her skin had ulcers, and her earlobes fell off altogether.
Rapid accidental suicide
The Darwin Award was awarded to Ken Charles Barger in Newton, North Carolina, USA. He was woken up by a phone call at night and, sleeping, instead of the phone, Ken took a thirty-eighth caliber pistol lying next to him. He pointed the gun to his ear with a barrel and automatically pulled the trigger.
The stupidity of drowned people
Six residents of Nazlat Imara, a village in southern Egypt, won the award in 1995. They all wanted to get the chicken that fell into the well. The first was an 18-year-old young man who owned a chicken. He drowned when he went down to the well.
After that, his two brothers and sister, who could not swim, came to rescue him.
Then two peasant neighbors came to the rescue and were also drowned.
After all, all the dead “rescuers” were removed from the well. We also got the ill-fated chicken, which, to my great surprise, survived.