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Embarrassingly Dumb Ways People Died - Darwin Awards Winners (Part 12)

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Science, Society & Culture, History, Leisure, Documentary

5710 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Now, you’d think after so many episodes of this series, we’d be running low on accounts of people who embarrassingly removed themselves from the gene pool. And yet, unbelievably, here I am again with even more stories of idiots that ended themselves in the dumbest ways possible. From attempting to French Kiss a rattlesnake, to laughing in the face of gun safety, here’s a new episode of our never-ending Darwin Awards!  



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Despite all the advancements in modern society, people still find ways to fall through the safety nets and put themselves in danger.

1:07.8

Some people are so dumb that no amount of health and safety regulations can keep

1:12.4

them around past their self-inflicted expiry date. So, without further ado, let's marvel

1:18.7

at the unfortunate souls who selected themselves out of the gene pool, winning a posthumous

1:24.7

Darwin Award in the process.

1:26.7

You're listening. You're listening to you. winning a posthumous Darwin Award in the process.

1:40.9

But of the joke.

1:43.5

I don't often get to pick favorites.

1:46.2

But as far as dumb decisions go, this is probably the funniest dumb decision I've ever heard of. Back in 2009 in Pennsylvania, USA, a 17-year-old

1:53.1

boy was rushed to A&E after claiming bullies had planted an explosive in his backpack.

1:59.6

Obviously, the police were called, but the injuries he sustained didn't match his story.

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