Dumb Ways To Die

[Críostóir]

It actually is a real public safety video, but you have to watch all the way through to see why.

[Hard-up1]

Odd that.

[refujiunderground]

[Saybrooke]

XD Too cute!!!

[Harke the Boeotarch]

Most of those things will probably not kill a healthy person.

Moreover I suspect most victims of trains are deliberate suicides.

[Hard-up1]

They sure are devastating to those jelly beans.

[Críostóir]

Most of those things will probably not kill a healthy person.

Moreover I suspect most victims of trains are deliberate suicides.

Why don't you try several of them and report back? Then we'll know for sure.

[Harke the Boeotarch]

Why don't you try several of them and report back? Then we'll know for sure.

I already survived two of them. Didn't trust those piranhas though.

[CupidBoy]

Thought it was going to end up being about STDs.

[reone]

All gruesome ways to die, but the portrayal was very cute. The song was actually catchy, but I wouldn't want to walk around singing it.

[cgymike]

One way of death was not mentioned and that is ASS phyixiation...by stuffing a huge quantity of things up the butt thus plugging up the "exit" and causing death by impaction.

[Paws]

I've seen that already some days ago. Catchy song sociopathic message Apparently there's a follow-up video of a kid eating glue from a tube, but I don't know what happened to him in case it was real glue.

[Dobson73]

Most of those things will probably not kill a healthy person.

Moreover I suspect most victims of trains are deliberate suicides.

Sadly in this instance I'd say you're wrong. Many (if not the vast majority) of level crossing deaths are people ignoring the crossings and lights. Several of them elderly; the last one was a truck driver talking on him mobile phone. There are several suicides from people jumping in front of trains (A girlfriend of mine witnessed one and it destroyed her life) but the crossing accidents here in Melbourne that the ad is targeting are all too common and all to easily avoided.

[M10000]

" . . . as opposed to eating medicine not out of date"


I saw an Indian woman jump onto the track and place her neck across the track like it was nothing.

A man placed himself between the platformand the train and when the train hit him, his body turned about 8 times in 2 seconds. His body was pinned against the platform and the train

There is a video compilation of train suicides from the engineers point of view.

Some have probably seen that woman that runs across the tracks and gets hit by a train. The man stopped in his tracks just in time.

I think there are alot of train suicides. Technically its an easy way to go. If I was in a position like Alexander Mcqueen who was so distraught oiver his mom's death and he killed himself, I thought about it and I woud use the train.

[Essex Boy]

I'm not sure if they show Horrible Histories on TV outside the UK. It has a regular slot devoted to this subject. If you search 'Horrible Histories Stupid Deaths' you can see some on Youtube.

[Laufey]

Is it really possible to die from eating an outdated pie?

[FPNY]

Is it really possible to die from eating an outdated pie?

Only if its hair pie.....

[freefall]

Is this video becoming a recent Internet phenomenon? I can swear I can see this everywhere, shared by everyone.

But yeah, the butchered, skewered, grilled, and ground jelly beans are cute as fuck

[Críostóir]

I think there are alot of train suicides. Technically its an easy way to go. If I was in a position like Alexander Mcqueen who was so distraught oiver his mom's death and he killed himself, I thought about it and I woud use the train.

I've thought about things like this. I've concluded that you don't have the right to "draft someone to be your executioner," as Zenna Henderson put it. But then if you're thinking about the impact on other people in a compassionate way, it pretty well lets out suicide unless you're severely delusional. Even if the world hates you, most people don't want to watch you die a gory death.

Is it really possible to die from eating an outdated pie?

A two-week-old unrefrigerated meat pie? Probably. Non-meat, maybe not so much.

Question for Australians: when someone says "pie" in Australia, do they generally mean a meat pie by default?

Generally, a lot of these are, as Harke pointed out, eminently survivable. I think the point is that if you DID die from one of these causes, it would be incredibly stupid, and people would be saying "what was he thinking?" instead of "why him?" at your funeral.

[pat grimshaw]

...Question for Australians: when someone says "pie" in Australia, do they generally mean a meat pie by default?...

Yes, generally,mostly.

Considerate Melbournian suicides should jump off the Westgate Bridge rather than doing it on the local train tracks.

[TheLyingGame]

I want one as a pet

[Harke the Boeotarch]

Sadly in this instance I'd say you're wrong. Many (if not the vast majority) of level crossing deaths are people ignoring the crossings and lights. Several of them elderly; the last one was a truck driver talking on him mobile phone. There are several suicides from people jumping in front of trains (A girlfriend of mine witnessed one and it destroyed her life) but the crossing accidents here in Melbourne that the ad is targeting are all too common and all to easily avoided.

Are you sure?

We have one every other day (last year there were 202) in a country with 17 million inhabitants (The Netherlands).
They aren't reported in the media because psychiatrists fear that it will lead to copycat suicides.

I don't have the numbers about other deadly train accidents here.

[star-warrior]

[operafan]

Florida man who died after live cockroach eating contest choked: medical examiner

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...#ixzz2Da0RfS4j

[JP.]

It actually is a real public safety video, but you have to watch all the way through to see why.

How eerie similar those songs are? I sensed plagiarism

[Kabluey]

^ No one dies in that song

[Paws]

Uploaded on Nov 25, 2012:

[Críostóir]

Paws, want to tell us what that was before it was removed for YouTube TOS violations?

[Paws]

Can't really remember, this weekend I watched a few videos of Russian teenagers trainsurfing and reported pretty much every one of them (guess for once the Youtube employees did some work). I think it was the one where you see some kids on the roof of one speeding train, then another train comes up and they're both driving parallel at the same speed. There are kids on that train too who jump over to the other one... no death/accident happens, but it was really dumb.

[ZmercTheDuke]

I remember there was a case, where a teenager got hit by a metro train. his body exploded, and his leg hit an elderly lady breaking her hip. So the old bag sued the kids parents.... heartless witch.

[Críostóir]

I remember there was a case, where a teenager got hit by a metro train. his body exploded, and his leg hit an elderly lady breaking her hip. So the old bag sued the kids parents.... heartless witch.

Seems like it from that. Was this in the US? Because she may have had no way of paying for her care otherwise...our terrible healthcare system leads to horrible results like that sometimes.

[Keeland]

I remember there was a case, where a teenager got hit by a metro train. his body exploded, and his leg hit an elderly lady breaking her hip. So the old bag sued the kids parents.... heartless witch.

Did she win?

[Harke the Boeotarch]

Did she win?

I think she did.

[Harke the Boeotarch]

I think she did.

Sorry. I was wrong.

She sued the two railway companies involved and Joho's (the victim) estate. The trial court ruled that she could not clain anything from any of those three parties, because the train companies bore no responsibility and the victim's death was an accident.

She then appealed and Joho was found to have been negligent (the railway companies were stil not held responsible).

I think it means she's still suing the estate at this moment but can't find that information anywhere.

[Keeland]

^^^ Thank you.

[JP.]

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/natio...-subway/59600/

[Laufey]

How is it dumb if you got pushed?

[JP.]

the victim is not dumb- the circumstance is very dumb.

[Laufey]

Those places freak me out, maybe because I'm not used to them.

When I visited London and saw a underground train for the first time I was kinda shocked to see there were no walls to prevent people from being able to enter the tracks. I was always glued to the wall you couldn't get me any closer until the train had arrived.

[goldenmoth]

All I need is to hear a few bars of it in the morning and it's stuck in my head all day!

[FPNY]

One way of death was not mentioned and that is ASS phyixiation...by stuffing a huge quantity of things up the butt thus plugging up the "exit" and causing death by impaction.

!that's one of the ones Harke survived......

[Críostóir]

the victim is not dumb- the circumstance is very dumb.

That would apply to anyone who is murdered at any time. That's not what this thread is about. That guy was shoved onto the tracks by a mentally-ill person.