re: What was the dumbest way someone has died that you've heard about?

That’s a stupid dad. Blindly shoot when you have kids or other people that live with you.

there are so many people who died by stepping back one step too many to get photo taken at Grand canyon they should get honorable mention.

also multiple dead at Yosemite. they walk the top of falls. swept away.

variation at the beach in sf. people go onto boulders to fish. big wave. another dead fisher. every year.

I'm stunned how moms let toddlers piddle at waters edge at sf "ocean beach" as opposed to in bay, as if no extra big wave could happen. they aren't near enough to make a difference and they're talking or reading.

Gotta be that kid jumping off a boat in the middle of the night during a storm on his senior trip. sad yes but also dumb

This isn't a dumb way someone died, but it is an interesting story. This happened to the older brother of someone I graduated HS with. It was in the early 90s in the Pineville area. The guy died in a car accident as a passenger with a woman that was not his wife. They either ran a stop sign or simply didn't see the 18 wheeler coming. But they were T-boned and both killed in what was a horrific scene.

Now came the questions of the apparent affair. There was no evidence of the two ever being acquaintances. Neither family could believe this about their loved ones. There were so many unanswered questions. His dirt bike was missing. No one knew where it was. Fast forward several months, and here is the rest of the story....

My friend's brother decided to go ride his dirt bike one day while he was home alone. He went to a trail he apparently rode often that was only a few miles from his house. About a mile from the main road he got in a bad wreck and had a compound fracture to his lower leg. He managed to crawl all the way to the main road and flag down a random vehicle to bring him to the hospital. The kind lady got him in her car and was speeding to get him help when she ran through that stop sign and got T-boned.

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This 36 year old dude killed himself trying to jump a fence to get back into the Skybar in Auburn after they kicked him out.

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The kind lady got him in her car and was speeding to get him help when she ran through that stop sign and got T-boned.

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What we all call the Carroll County accident.

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What we all call the Carroll County accident.

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What do you mean?

Yeasr ago, a farmer we knew had lost a leg on a stationary hay baler. One day, he's working on a baler and one of his arms gets caught in the baler. He is literally being bailed. He removes the artificial leg and shoves it in the baler and the baler jams. He lost his arm but he did live.

Not the dumbest death, but I worked an OSHA case years ago where a guy was skinned alive in a pork factory's hog skinning machine. It was awful. It was a complete lockout, tagout failure.

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one of us pulled the club out of his throat. He ended up bleeding to death

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Hate to be a Debbie Downer, but in case of such injuries, you aren't supposed to remove the object

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Do not remove the impaled object!1 Impaled objects create a puncture wound and then tamponade (put pressure on) that same wound from the inside, controlling bleeding. By removing the impaled object, you run the risk of triggering bleeding that now cannot be stopped with external pressure.

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https://www.verywellhealth.com/how-to-treat-an-impaled-object-1298804

The one a few years back where a drunk baw in orange tx went to jump off a bar deck into the river, was told a big gator lived underneath, said aloud, 'frick alligators' and jumped in anyway, right on top of the gator and got Darwined.