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Embarrassingly Dumb Ways People Died - Darwin Awards Winners (Part 15) · Be Amazed

• 0:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: It can't be.
• 0:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: Is it really that time again?
• 0:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: I have so many more people.
• 0:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: Really remove themselves from the gene pool and increasingly stupid in embarrassing ways?
• 0:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: From dim when it diving attempts to self-steaming stupidity, it's time to take a look at even more Darwin award winners.
• 0:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: What the helmet?
• 0:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: If you were at a motorbike or a bicycle, heck even a scooter, you should wear a helmet.
• 0:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: Seriously.
• 0:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: Head vs. pavement at high speeds isn't a fight that ends well for any head.
• 0:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: Don't agree with me?
• 0:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, this next award winner might help change your mind.
• 0:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: Back in 2011 New York streets were filled with roughly 550 bikers who were all protesting the state's mandatory helmet law.
• 1:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: An annual protest that occurred every year since 1977 when the law was introduced.
• 1:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: The Bikers participating claimed mandatory homad use does not result in lower fatality rates, which is a pretty interesting take if you ask me.
• 1:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: Except this year, as one writer proudly rode his bike helpless, he went to hit the brakes when his bike suddenly fished to held.
• 1:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: The writer was sent flying over the handlebars landing on the pavement,
• 1:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: Ed first.
• 1:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: A medical expert at the scene stated they had no doubt the writer would have survived the incident if only they'd been wearing a helmet.
• 1:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: Oh man, that's so perfect I might have an irony overdose.
• 1:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: Forklift forca.
• 1:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: So here's a question.
• 1:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: Let's say it's your job to change the bulb of a light in a warehouse.
• 1:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: One that's 32 feet off the floor and nowhere near a wall.
• 1:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: So, using the ladder is out.
• 1:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: How do you deal with this?
• 2:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: Do you A?
• 2:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: Let your company know you're going to need some specialist equipment to replay something that high up, like a cherry picker or B?
• 2:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: Improvise.
• 2:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: I've rarely hoped most of you said A, because B leads to Darwin awards.
• 2:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: as one man in Japan found out back in 2017.
• 2:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: Instead of asking for help, he decided to use a forklift truck to help him do the job.
• 2:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: A forklift loaded with 37 wooden pallets to reach the bulb.
• 2:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: Needless to say, this stack of unsacred wooden pallets was not the most structurally sound thing.
• 2:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: And so, what he asked is co-worker to engage the forklift and lift the unsacred stack of pallets up, it collapsed, with our man on top of it.
• 2:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: He, someone, obviously, didn't survive the fall.
• 2:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: I bet that really wasn't the light bulb moment he was hoping for.
• 2:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: Engine trouble.
• 2:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: Ah, gravity.
• 2:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: In my opinion, it's the best force of attraction between any two masses.
• 3:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: Although I'm not sure this next Darwin or winner would agree.
• 3:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: Back in 1990, if the even Sidney Australia said his sights on an old truck parked outside a glass recycling facility.
• 3:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: Ellie, engine of a truck this size is so heavy, it often requires a crane to lift it out.
• 3:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: But our thief didn't have a crane, so he decided to use gravity instead and try to get parts out of it from below.
• 3:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: He slid underneath the truck and began loosening the bolts keeping everything in place so they would drop down, which worked like a charm.
• 3:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: Unfortunately, he was still underneath when the transmission dropped out of it right onto his head.
• 3:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: Employees had the recycling plant, found him the next morning, and to really add insult injury.
• 3:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: They told the police that the beat up old trick wasn't worth anything, and they'd have given him the whole thing for free if he'd just asked, and that hurts more than a transmission to the face.
• 3:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: What's inside?
• 3:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: There's something oddly satisfying about cutting into certain objects to see what's inside.
• 4:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: So allegedly back in 2002, a German man discovered an old German World War II hand grenade.
• 4:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: He desperately wanted to know what the inside of it looked like, but instead of taking it to a professional lure, looking it up in a book, he took matters into his own hands.
• 4:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: Or technically vice?
• 4:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, he clamped this thing into a vice and then took a circular saw to it.
• 4:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: However, he saw 2D which sparked the still intact fuse and apparently detonated the grenade, showing the world what the inside of a Darwin award winner looks like instead.
• 4:36
  [SPEAKER_01]: Gun Ho!
• 4:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, this is a question to all the gun owners out there.
• 4:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: Do you ever forget that you're carrying a gun?
• 4:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: That may sound dumb, but that's exactly what at least one certifiably smart person has done in the past.
• 4:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: In Brazil, back in February 2023, a lawyer who was also a firearm fanatic, often posting picks of himself with his arsenal of weapons
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  [SPEAKER_01]: took his mother to the hospital to get an MRI scan.
• 5:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: Now MRI machines utilize major magnetic forces, their full name is literally magnetic resonance imaging.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So it's important that no one bring anything metal into the room while the machine is on.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: This isn't a lightly given instruction either.
• 5:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: MRI rooms have huge warning signs that are impossible to miss, instructing people not to
• 5:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: But somehow our man either failed to declare or forgot the handgun he had concealed in his waistband.
• 5:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: Which was obviously made of metal.
• 5:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: But once the MRI machine was booted up it was all too clear he had a gun on him because the magnetic force was so strong it triggered the gun fatally wounding the lawyer.
• 5:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: So alongside bringing a gun into the room he'd also brought it in
• 5:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: The family began to try and blame the hospital for failing to adequately warn them of the dangers of the MRI.
• 6:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: They should have pretty quickly when the hospital produced science safety protocol documents from both the lawyer and his mother.
• 6:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: Confirming they did not have any metal items on their person before entering the room.
• 6:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: So my willful ignorance or major memory labs, this lawyer is guilty of perishing in an incredibly idiotic manner.
• 6:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: I rest my case.
• 6:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: Fake out.
• 6:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: Texas is one wild state, particularly when it comes to gun laws.
• 6:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's pretty well known that anyone over the age of 21 doesn't need a license to openly carry a handgun and a holster there, and in 2021 the state had more than a million registered guns.
• 6:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: The most in any state in the US and have a million more than any other state.
• 6:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: Jeez, but that many guns floating around you gotta be real dumb to try and attempt what this next award winner did.
• 6:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: laid one night back in January 2023, this idiot walked into a Houston restaurant and pulled out a gun.
• 7:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: He was robbing the joint.
• 7:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: He grabbed the phones and cash of everyone sitting at the tables, whipping his gun around threateningly before heading for the door.
• 7:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: But as he was, an older gentleman said behind him, snuck out of his booth with his own gun, and fired at the robber, nine times.
• 7:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, excessive this was a bold move as the Robert could have turned and fired back, except he was actually brandishing a fake gun.
• 7:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: Wow.
• 7:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: You gotta be missing a lot of brain cells to think this sort of stunt would end well in Texas of all places.
• 7:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: Although I guess he's missing a lot more now, wine and dine.
• 7:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: If someone throws some food or drink out, that usually means that it's gone bad or there's something wrong with it.
• 7:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: Not always though, I once found an entire hogey on top of a dumpster.
• 7:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: It was only a little, I want to say mud on it, but it kinda added to the flavor.
• 7:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I was only sick for like two weeks afterwards.
• 8:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: Worth it.
• 8:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: Okay, looking back that was a dumb decision.
• 8:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: So I'm lucky I didn't go the way of this next award winner.
• 8:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: Back in 2004 in Georgia, the country, not the state.
• 8:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: It appeared to be a bottle of homemade wine, but I'm questioning it, are when it reached an end?
• 8:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: No, this isn't a death by trash compactor story, he fished it out.
• 8:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: Our inspector and another man then proceeded to crack the bottle open and swig it.
• 8:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: They tried one gopand, then another, but something about this wine was wrong.
• 8:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: It really did not taste good.
• 8:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: I know this for two reasons, one someone had thrown it out, and two, it was any freeze.
• 8:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: Attacks at chemical that really jams up the kidneys.
• 8:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: He lists to say both men were poisoned by the toxic chemical, one so badly he passed on.
• 8:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: Wait, what's that glistening down at the bottom of the trash compactor?
• 9:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: Why it's a Darwin award, just for you.
• 9:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: Guzzaline.
• 9:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: In North Carolina, back in 2012, investigators arrived at a scene that hadn't scratching their heads.
• 9:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: Firefighters had been called to an apartment fire, and when they arrived, they found a man inside.
• 9:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: sat on a very charred carpet, badly burned.
• 9:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: As investigators looked around the scene, they tried to figure out the source of the fire when they noticed all the signs pointed to the man on the ground and a salsa jar nearby.
• 9:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: After chatting to a few folks, they became aware that this wasn't the man's apartment, it belonged to a friend of his who was a mechanic.
• 9:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: After chatting to him, it soon became clear to investigators what it happened.
• 9:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: Their man had been chilling in his friend's apartment and noticed the sauce a jar on the table, which was full of a strong smelling yellowish liquid.
• 9:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: Thinking it was alcohol, our man had opened it and helped himself to a big lug.
• 9:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: Before realizing, it wasn't booze.
• 10:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: It was gasoline.
• 10:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: His mechanic friend kept a jar of it around to help remove grease stains from his hands.
• 10:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: After spitting it out and dribbling it all down himself, the shock of it all made him reach for a cigarette.
• 10:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: Can you see where this is going?
• 10:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, gasoline is notoriously flammable, and once he sparked up his later he accidentally set himself up blaze.
• 10:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: So, what have we learned?
• 10:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, don't go drinking mystery liquids, unless you want to end up in the next part of this series that is.
• 10:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: who wants some of this.
• 10:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: Alcohol can bring out the best in people, but more often the night it brings out the worst, which is what it did to this next winter.
• 10:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: Back in 2004, late one night in Wales, a young gentleman invited a few of his friends back to his apartment after a rowdy night on the town.
• 10:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: Drunkess skunks the party continued when our man thought it'd be really funny to pull down his trousers and present his pee pee to the world while yelling
• 11:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: into the street below.
• 11:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: Luckily, his friends grabbed him before he could fall out the window, and the next morning he admitted it had been a pretty stupid thing to do and he'd never dreamed of doing anything like that ever again.
• 11:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: Best war to that very evening, and our man is once again drunk as a skunk, pulling down his trousers and yelling who would some of the s to the world.
• 11:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: Not as friends was the answer, is none of them were close enough to him this time to grab him before he tumbled out of the three-story window, P.P.
• 11:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: first, and end of the door in a wood hall of fame.
• 11:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: To eat a goldfish.
• 11:36
  [SPEAKER_01]: Have you ever bitten off more than you can chew?
• 11:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't mean have you ever taken on more work than you can handle or anything metaphorical like that.
• 11:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean literally, have you ever bitten off a mouthful of food that turned out to be more than you could chew?
• 11:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: One guy at the back and not just any guy, I don't want a ward winner, this should be good.
• 11:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: Back in 1998, our man here from Ohio, only in Ohio.
• 12:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: Was watching his friend clean out a fish tank when he noticed one of the fish was particularly large, some five inches long.
• 12:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: His friend mentioned how this big fish had actually been eating some of his other fish, and so our man decided to give this fish a taste of its own medicine.
• 12:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: He'd swallow the fish whole.
• 12:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: He picked it up, tingled it over his mouth and then, sucked it down, or at least he tried to.
• 12:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: The fish put up a fight, lodging itself and his throat in was so slippery that when he started a choke he couldn't pull it back out.
• 12:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: Our man struggled for several minutes and while his friend tried to help by ringing the emergency services, neither our woodwinter nor the fish survived.
• 12:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, I'm sure the other fish in the tank were grateful for his sacrifice, not entirely sure this is the solution he had in mind.
• 12:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: Taking the plunge.
• 12:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: There are some people who do just about anything to achieve their adrenaline high, including one man from Norwich, UK, who back in 1998, decided he was going to jump off every bridge spanning the river Wenson.
• 13:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: pretty unique hobby there?
• 13:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: Well after completing this goal, his adrenaline edge still wasn't scratched, so he moved on to buildings overlooking the river, starting with a parking lot.
• 13:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: Onlookers were baffled at this guy's brazeness and watched as he dived off the top of the 70-foot structure head first.
• 13:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: There was just one small problem.
• 13:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: He hadn't checked the depth of the water in the section of the river below, which turned
• 13:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's safe to say that was a mistake he only got to make once.
• 13:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: Steamy buns.
• 13:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: If you're the kind of person who believes in spiritualism and magic, good for you.
• 13:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: As long as your beliefs don't hurt anyone else, do what you will, makes no difference to me.
• 13:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: However, it might be wise to check your own beliefs from time to time otherwise you might end up like this next winter.
• 14:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: Back in October 2017, a spiritual, tallyst medium in Malaysia was performing a stunt during a festival that he'd successfully done on a number of occasions.
• 14:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: Something he called a human steaming.
• 14:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: He would sit on top of a little wooden structure inside a giant pot with water in the bottom, alongside a variety of rice, sweet corn and bans.
• 14:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: A big lid was then placed over the pot and the entire thing was heated from beneath, with the boiling water steaming both the food and the medium.
• 14:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: He claimed the elaborate ritual was very good for his health, except now it definitely wasn't.
• 14:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: On this ill-fated occasion after about half an hour the lid began moving radically.
• 14:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: When his assistance took it off, the medium was unconscious and covered head to toe in second degree burns.
• 14:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: No amount of magic could bring him back.
• 14:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's unknown exactly what went wrong with many assuming he fell unconscious and collapsed against the superhot pot.
• 15:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: But honestly, if you're willing to sit in a pot full of steam which can reach temperatures of 212 degrees Fahrenheit and expect nothing to go wrong, the resulting human hot pot is all on you.
• 15:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: The Wolf of Fall Street.
• 15:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: Florida is a pretty weird place, as it is, but Tampa International Airport is where some of the weirder specimens of humanity can be found.
• 15:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: A mix of inflate booze, jet lag, and Florida makes it the perfect place to find out in award winners.
• 15:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: Like this next guy.
• 15:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: Back in 2013, a man on the seventh floor who'd had several drinks and chased them with some anxiety medication decided in his inebriated wisdom to rinse open a set of elevator doors.
• 15:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: Then, he launched himself towards the elevator cables in the shaft and in a parent attempt to slide down them, Tarzan style.
• 15:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: Except he wasn't Tarzan, and instead he launched himself headfirst down the elevator shaft.
• 15:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: This really should have been the end of it, but the embarrassed family of the man were convinced the elevator must have malfunctioned.
• 16:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: This was despite them having all seen the CCTV footage of him wrenching the doors open before throwing himself down the shaft.
• 16:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: While they found a lawsuit against the elevator company and by extension the airport itself trying to sue for damages.
• 16:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: This meant 18 months later, our award winner was Doug Beckup, only for the findings to cement the fact that he was inebriated and had used his British strength to rinse the doors open before eating himself into oblivion.
• 16:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: So, I'm not only awarding our man-a-derman award, but for trying to capitalize off it, I'm also giving his family a prestigious, dull loser award, for feeling that hard to make money off his demise.
• 16:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: Guess he wasn't the only one that got shafted?
• 16:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: Extinguished.
• 16:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: There are some things you should never stick inside other things.
• 16:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: For example, jamming the wrong key into a lock, putting eggs in the microwave or storing mayonnaise and a nice cream tub.
• 17:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: However, while I have done all of these things and lived to reap the horrible consequences of my actions, one man went on to a whole other level and never recovered from it.
• 17:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: Back in 2017, a welder working for the Enterprise with a construction repair and maintenance of highways and to Salino, Russia, noticed the size similarity between the base of a fire extinguisher in the muzzle of a decommissioned artillery-howardsor.
• 17:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: This is a weapon that follows somewhere between a cannon and a mortar so in layman's terms a very, very big gun, but he wasn't content with just putting the fire extinguisher in there.
• 17:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: Oh no.
• 17:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: Using his knowledge of welding fundamentals, he makes some calcium carbide with water, the reactive combination of which produces acetaline welding gas.
• 17:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: After it was mixed, he threw the combination down the muscle along with the fire extinguisher.
• 17:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: The explosion jettisoned the fire extinguisher out like a makeshift projectile, or at least that's what the welder thought would happen.
• 18:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: When I actually happened, was the fire extinguisher exploded, busting the muzzle, and the extinguisher into hundreds of pieces of shrapnel.
• 18:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: Most of which ended up in our welders head.
• 18:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: So, moral of this story, just because you can go in the hole, doesn't mean you should put it in the hole.
• 18:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: Good rule for life there.
• 18:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: Trust me.
• 18:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: For the Gram.
• 18:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: Every social media mavens dream is for a picture of theirs to take off online, but one selfie in particular captured back in 2017 really took off in a different way.
• 18:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: And March of that year, two young women in Mexico were excited to be at the race track in the sovereign state of Chuawa.
• 18:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: They decided to get a selfie for social media with the race track, but because it was built on flatlands, they needed some elevation to get the full track in the background.
• 18:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: They found the highest point in the area they could and then claimed it on top of a stranger's van before they began posing.
• 19:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: The crowds were cheering loudly as they took several pictures, so neither of the girls heard the engines of the upcoming plane.
• 19:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: Wait, plane?
• 19:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: Like airplane?
• 19:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yep.
• 19:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: The racetrack wasn't the only thing built on these rural flatlands, there was a small runway next to the track, too.
• 19:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: As the plane came into land, it came down to the same elevation as the girls, hitting them with the wing and sweeping them both off the van.
• 19:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'd say it was the high point of the day, but seeing as the plane was landing it was probably a low point.
• 19:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: One way ticket, if there's one thing Germany has mastered above any other country, it's their train system.
• 19:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: Not only can they get you just about anywhere in the country, they are always on time.
• 19:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: And they're also outrageously cheap.
• 19:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: Seriously, it cost as little as $20 to get a direct train from Hamburg to Munich.
• 19:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: Literally one end of the country to the other, but this wasn't enough for one German man back in 2017.
• 20:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: No, for whatever reason, he decided he had a vendetta against one of the ticket machines outside the Dortmund Shore Horse Station and said about planning to destroy it.
• 20:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: So it around 2am after indulging in a few drinks he began spraying cans of air-saw gas into the machine.
• 20:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: And clearly his sheer hatred of efficient public transported clout at his judgement.
• 20:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, maybe it was the booze.
• 20:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: Because then he ignited the gas while still stood in front of the machine.
• 20:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: The resulting explosion apparently rocked the neighborhood, but not as much as I'd rocked this guy, who was blown back and landed on his head so hard that he earned himself a Darwin award.
• 20:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, that's one way to punch your ticket, I guess?
• 20:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: Roof top rest.
• 20:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: If you're a heavy sleeper like me, you can add almost anywhere.
• 20:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: In the car?
• 20:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yep.
• 20:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: At your desk?
• 20:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: Oh yeah.
• 20:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: On the roof, uh, that sounds a little dangerous, I'll pass.
• 20:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: but not everyone has my superior danger sensing foresight.
• 21:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: Back in the year 2000 a woman and her boyfriend and South Carolina had been smoking the devil's lettuce, street greens, the old hot broccoli, if you get my drift, and decided they wanted to sleep under the stars.
• 21:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: Did they do this by camping out on the ground?
• 21:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: Nope, instead they grabbed their pillows and blankies and headed out onto the roof of the hotel they were staying in.
• 21:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: In the morning, the boyfriend was woken up night by birds-hom, but by the boots of police officers.
• 21:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: As he went to wake up his girlfriend, he realized she wasn't there.
• 21:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: In fact, some time before dawn, she had rolled over inner sleep and off the roof down onto the busy street below.
• 21:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: Hence, the police officer alarm clock.
• 21:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I guess you could say that height in the last long.
• 21:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, Jehovah.
• 21:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: If you've ever answered the door, expecting to see a pizza delivery guy only to find a couple of Jehovah's Witnesses smiling back at you, you'll know it's a unique kind of awkward.
• 21:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: This Christian Sankt is known for its outreach initiatives attempting to convert people like going door to door delivering religious material.
• 22:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: However, this approach clearly wasn't effective enough for one splinter group back in the year 2000 as they decided to display just how strong their faith was by standing in the middle of a road.
• 22:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: This dedicated display of faith took place on the inner state 55 freeway where members would preach to driver's stuck in traffic.
• 22:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: However, on this day, the traffic was clearing up pretty quickly, which one witness didn't notice in time.
• 22:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: As she was preaching the good book, she was struck, not by a revelation, but by an oncoming vehicle.
• 22:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, I'm no profit, but even I could see that one coming.
• 22:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: backseat antics.
• 22:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: There are plenty of places in the world where you can safely get for a skate.
• 22:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: And yet some people feel the need to add adrenaline to their antics by doing the deed in unorthodox places.
• 22:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: Take these next two award winners for example who, back in 2017, decided to get down and dirty in the backseat of their SUV near a lake.
• 23:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: The camp started rocking in the good time, started rolling.
• 23:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: No, literally.
• 23:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: The pair were so keen to get nasty, the driver forgot to put the transmission in a park and so, and neutral the truck rolled forward into the lake.
• 23:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: Clearly, both participants thought it must be the heavens and earth that were moving and not them, because even as the truck was submerged, neither of them thought to,
• 23:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: you know, stop.
• 23:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: I want to say that when water started pouring in they at least tried to get out, but clearly they were having a good time so I'm not assuming anything.
• 23:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: So if I used to say now they're of them gone out in time, whether they got off is a different question entirely.
• 23:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: Thanks for listening to the podcast.
• 23:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: We'll see you again next time you'll want to be amazed.