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🗓️ 30 May 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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There are many ways a person can kick the bucket, including the most embarrassing of all: their own stupidity. It’s true; an alarming number of pop their clogs each year due to their own blatant lack of risk-assessment and self-preservation skills. Luckily, I’m here to tell you all about them so you can avoid a similar fate. From the biggest dum-dums of the coronavirus pandemic, to people who lost battles against nature, here are some Darwin Award winners who naturally selected themselves out of existence.
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0:56.0 | There are many ways a person can kick the bucket, including the most embarrassing of all, their own stupidity. |
1:02.0 | It's true, an alarming number pop their clogs each year due to their own blatant lack of risk assessment and self-preservation skills. |
1:10.0 | Luckily, I'm here to tell you all about them so you can avoid a similar fate. |
1:15.1 | From the biggest dumb-dums of the coronavirus pandemic to people who lost battles against nature, |
1:20.9 | here are some Darwin Award winners who naturally selected themselves out of existence. |
1:33.3 | They're listening. You're listening, you're listening to be amazed. |
1:41.3 | Of all the places you should never gather a nice, refreshing drink from, a landfill site is pretty high on the list. Or at least it |
1:46.1 | should be. But for one couple from Belarus, a landfill seemed just as good as a convenience |
1:51.2 | store for acquiring drinks back in October 2020. While scouring the local dump, as you do, |
1:57.7 | a man found a bottle filled with a mysterious murky liquid and took the bottle home |
2:02.9 | to share its contents with his wife. It seemed the pair assumed it contained some perfectly |
2:07.9 | safe to drink homemade hooch, and like a nice bottle of wine after a hard day's work, popped |
2:13.2 | it open to share. Unsurprisingly, the next day the couple became extremely ill, and while emergency |
2:20.2 | services were called, it proved too late. The concoction in the bottle, it turned out, had indeed |
2:26.5 | been homemade alcohol, but its owner had seemingly disposed of it after realizing it wasn't |
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