The Silliest Ways People Died | Darwin Awards 7th Edition

[@CuriosityVaultChannel]

I pronounced ''Saguaro'' wrong 😬I apologize to the good people of Arizona 😎

[@chaaegis9859]

You got a lot closer than most folks not from Arizona. So I'm not mad. 😝

[@HikaruKatayamma]

No problem. I’ll just call those giant hopping rodents kangawoos from now on. 😆

[@CuriosityVaultChannel]

@@HikaruKatayamma You have me mistaken sir, I'm from New Zealand. Think of us as Australia's Canada 😂

[@TheReubenShow]

Bless your heart. Thanks for clearing that up. I love AZ a lot. I hope you get to see it someday. It's not all cactus. We can ski 140 miles from town. and, the food is great. My Dad told me about this one when I was a kid.

[@CuriosityVaultChannel]

@@TheReubenShow Hopefully some day. So far in terms of the USA I have visited just New York in 2023.

[@vickil3256]

Poor Cactus 🌵💚

[@Sammyfrommyhammy]

Gotta say, the 🌵 got the last laugh😂

[@vickil3256]

@@Sammyfrommyhammy Damn right! 😂

[@rc70ys]

Well Done 👍 Cactus 🌵 Funny 🤣 AF !

[@brookelynnenewcomer943]

​@Sammyfrommyhammy the catus didnt go down without a fight😂

[@LtFoodstamp]

"Yeah, Dad, I've thought it all through." *Slips* "No..." He did not, in fact, think it all through.

[@TomFynn]

I doubt he thought *at all*.

[@jldisme]

I wish Austin Howell could have valued his own life more. He didn't face any long-term consequences. His family and friends are left to face the consequences of his death. Parents are never really the same after having to bury a child. I hope they are doing okay.

[@DJZLOY]

Exactly!

[@RobertFreeman-dt4zh]

I graduated with his dad. His dad died of covid around a year ago.

[@umbrellacorp.]

Can you free climb better than him?. His father knew something bad was going to happen to him. The guy said so in the video we just watched.

[@ManfromJapan12]

Austin No Powers

[@tornagawn]

“The leader must not fall” applied to free solo!

[@declamatory]

I hope the shark didn't suffer any negative health issues for swallowing any of Cohen's body parts.

[@johnsweeney6072]

It’s not the fall that kills you. It’s that sudden stop. 🛑

[@tinymetaltrees]

🌵

[@malfunctionjunction6212]

Deceleration trauma.

[@TomFynn]

That is why I am not afraid of heights but of grounds.

[@TaigaShaman]

Ego killed him

[@allanshpeley4284]

This joke never gets old.

[@NotTrundle]

Someone: "SHARK, EVERYBODY OUT!" Some Guy: "I should go feed it my leg."

[@nhmooytis7058]

Altruism can backfire.

[@machendave]

Typical British “Look here, you don’t tell me what to do”

[@nhmooytis7058]

@@machendave are you joking? Pommies are sheeple 🐑🐑🐑

[@nhmooytis7058]

If he’d lived the first guy would have faced a charge of 🌵 Cacticide. The cactus had his hands in the air!

[@brookelynnenewcomer943]

😂 that was horrible but funny

[@TomFynn]

It was a prickly situation.

[@sirridesalot6652]

He most likely would have been charged with the destruction of the cactus as they are protected by law.

[@Bruce-v7h]

​@@TomFynnHee Hee

[@MountainCry]

I feel bad for Austin Howell's parents. His dad knew what was coming but couldn't stop him from trying to climb. If the first fall didn't teach him a lesson, the second one definitely should have. Just because you enjoy doing something doesn't mean you're good at it.

[@CuriosityVaultChannel]

I think he was just very passionate about it, but I think at the end of the day, its just too dangerous and it will catch up to you and sadly it did.

[@tomperkins5657]

Professonal climbers state that Austin Howell is considered the greatest free soloist ever next to Alex Honold. Do some research on this one. Yes, he was ill, and ironically it was that illness that produced the most dramatic successful climbs in history.

[@bccsivxx-xxivvii]

Rock climbing even with ropes is idiotic and pointless.

[@alphagt62]

I think he had a death wish, he practically told his dad as much.

[@bryansummers3219]

"Free climbing has been very, very good to me." -Austin Howell Me: "Did he have health or life insurance??"

[@alolkoydesigns]

That saguaro photo is of an old 200 year old giant that died a couple of years ago at Catalina State Park in Oro Valley, Arizona along the Romero Ruin trail. I took many photos of it over the years. I was sad to see it go.

[@skylark.kraken]

Generally us Brits are not Sharks' #1 choice because of all of the bile (you should see our gall bladders, they're huge) but if there's nobody else around they'll settle for the unpleasent taste

[@Sammyfrommyhammy]

🤣🤣🤣 spot on🤕

[@nhmooytis7058]

Plus your food is awful and sharks know we are what we eat.

[@NathanEllisBodi]

No one was around to video that poor shark chucking up his guts somewhere quiet a few hours later.

[@CartoType]

Who are you to make unpleasant remarks about the British? Substitute any other group and it would be called racism.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

Is it all that Cheddar and Newky Brown?

[@josiej6023]

I've been waiting for this series to continue. Thanks for posting!

[@CuriosityVaultChannel]

Thanks for tuning back in 😎 I definitely plan to try keep it going 🥰

[@ChrisTopherBunnell]

Saguaro Cacti are protected in Arizona, so one could say that Darwin had Karma's help too.

[@gweilojohn8550]

As a Brit I can confirm that we genuinely believe sharks don't like the taste of us! Had he been smart enough to have taken his passport in the water with him he'd still have all his limbs!!

[@TomFynn]

"I say, old bitey, that's not cricket, eh?" "Oh, sorry, guv, didn't see you there, guv." "Alright, alright, just never let it happen again, hm? Now swim along, be a good shark."

[@Sammyfrommyhammy]

I'm a similar story to the T-top "slip and slide", a former friend of mine decided rather than stop to relieve themselves, after partying in Orlando heading back to Daytona bch, they decided to take a flying P out the window of their vehicle, the driver lost control and rolled the vehicle over while my friend was hanging out to relieve himself. Unlike moose ppl, he did survive but was to a wheelchair for the rest of his life. No accounting smarts when alcohol and driving come together.

[@CuriosityVaultChannel]

Eeeeek 😬 that's my worst fear when having my arm out the window.

[@JoshK-g2c]

​@@CuriosityVaultChannelWhat is your worst fear, getting your arm peed on by the vehicle ahead of you? 😂 jk I know what you meant.

[@TinkSalsa]

ironic that austin was a freesolo climber but that first fall that hurt him bad was a regular indoor rock wall, which probably even had mats under it

[@Feline_Frenzy53]

Cactus Killer...how utterly stupid.

[@randydicotti3975]

Meh, the planet is better off.

[@nhmooytis7058]

Everything in Aussie is ‘slightly more aggressive”😂 Especially Drop Bears!

[@chriswelcome8102]

Dem Dropbears are no joke. Like Hoop Snakes

[@nhmooytis7058]

@@chriswelcome8102 never heard of hoop snakes, do tell!

[@chriswelcome8102]

@@nhmooytis7058 They snakes that bite their own ass so they can roll like a hoop, to chase you. Then when they are near you they stop biting their ass to leap and bite your ass instead

[@chriswelcome8102]

@@nhmooytis7058 Avoid em. They scary

[@brookelynnenewcomer943]

​@@chriswelcome8102 the probability extra aggressive cause how goofy the look

[@TheEudaemonicPlague]

I've had t-tops, but never in my nightmares would I consider climbing out while the car was moving. On the other hand, when I was around twenty, me and some friends climbed a few buildings, mostly on the university campus, but one downtown. There were four or five of us that climbed a five or six story building that had an iron ladder attached...no safety cage, and pavement below. We climbed to the roof, and found a door--none of us were thrilled by the idea of going back down that ladder, and I'm just glad none of the others fell, because I was the last one up--and they'd have taken me out, if they'd fallen. That's the most dangerous climb I've done, but I've also climbed a big lighting tower in our football stadium. Only got caught once, which is why we stopped climbing campus buildings. Never felt like taking my chances on cliffs.

[@Crocogator]

he went FIFTY metres out? Dude is lucky.

[@nhmooytis7058]

Living in CA I was always scared of being in a porta potty when the Big One hit 😂

[@angelmessenger8240]

Brits have not been eaten by sharks off our shores because our weather is dreadful and the sea is cold so few go in the water, plus we usually only have basking sharks in our waters.

[@danielkokal8819]

been to UK 2x. people go to the "beach" and spend the time sitting in their cars ! oh well... if the sun dont come you get your tan by standing in the English rain. goo goo gajoob.

[@TomFynn]

The sea is so cold, even sharks don't go in the water.

[@ontheroad5317]

Solo climbers that die of old age: no data yet.

[@helpyourcattodrive]

I love these videos!❤❤

[@CuriosityVaultChannel]

Thanks 😎😎

[@StAlphonsusHasAPosse]

Boosting the algorithm 👊

[@josephpk4878]

There was a story told - back in the day - about two teenagers, on mushrooms, that pulled down a weather balloon and climbed inside to experience the voice effects of pure helium. They were found the next day with their feet sticking out of the deflated balloon, because they suffocated themselves. Wondering if it's true and if it's been covered.

[@CuriosityVaultChannel]

I had a wee search but was unable to find any news articles on it.

[@josephpk4878]

I found an article from 2006. Search "teens die weather balloon helium" and there's a WIS-TV result, but that's the only reference of it. (Heard it on a "Larry and Willie" radio show on The Fox Radio from Vancouver BC - they ran a Darwin Awards set for a while... find that series and you'll find some good content.

[@damiangreen3510]

Great job mate

[@loshobittos959]

I was on that same beach less than two months afterwards. Didn't even know about the attack or maybe I don't remember anymore. Cape Town wasn't worth the trip even back than, now even less so.

[@mackdog3270]

Thank goodness he was willing to take the consequences. Who knows how gravity would have reacted if he wasn't. I shudder to think.

[@popjaw1andOnly]

So far, gravity is undefeated. Even if it's opponents survive, which Austin did multiple times, in the end, gravity takes them down. And if they keep coming back for more, eventually there'll be one last fall.

[@Jo_Lori]

Commenting for the engagement algorithm. ❤

[@martymoser8661]

I appreciate your accent ( i think some of the rough edges have been smoothed, though) and i liked the South African clip as well.

[@CuriosityVaultChannel]

Cheers, good to hear 😎

[@wendyschutze2818]

I think if a fool decides to knowingly swim when there is a shark close to shore, they should not expect others to put their lives at risk trying to save them. They made a choice.

[@GoodGrief10]

I think your title is appropriate. It could also have been:" F*ck around, find out" or "Play stupid games, win stupid prizes".

[@queeng5925]

fun fact: there are more shark attacks in just the state of florida alone than the entire of australia per year xxx

[@coreencasey5109]

Yes it makes me smile when people comment about Australia being a dangerous place to live😅

[@queeng5925]

@@coreencasey5109 also the last spider fatality was in 1979. good piece of trivia to remember when ppl from overseas shudder when u say ur from here lol.

[@chriswelcome8102]

@@coreencasey5109 Australia is a big place mate. You can say anywhere is a safe or dangerous place to live depending on location. Bushlands Aus? Little more wild. City? All you gonna encounter is Huntsman spiders. Redbacks, snakes, Funnel Webs etc, you gotta go looking for them if you're in a city area like Sydney/Melbourne

[@andyman8630]

what is wrong with Yanks? why are they attacking sharks? 😳

[@queeng5925]

@@andyman8630 lol

[@coreencasey5109]

Austin pushed limits and paid the price. Your life is not worth being the centre of attention. 😮

[@booster247]

Almost poetic how Kelita was pictured wearing a shirt that said "Mudd" - that's what she became after hitting the guard rail. You can't fix stupid, but you can, at least, prune it out.

[@JoshK-g2c]

And pressure wash it away....😅I'm going to hell, ride with me 😂.

[@timebong8366]

Always get a good belly laugh at these Darwin award recipients

[@Prototyp3m1nd]

If you're looking to continue the equal opportunity award sharing there's a Russian woman who died when she hit a road sign while hanging out of her bikini top and out of her friend's car as they drove along a rain-slicked road. I believe it was somewhere in the Caribbean, but shouldn't be hard to find. There are also the ladies who were killed when they decided to double up in the passenger seat of a Corvette in Cali and had the misfortune of not knowing the driver was in the mood to drive well over 100mph on residential roads. I believe he survived but they very much did not.

[@CuriosityVaultChannel]

Cheers, I'll look into that 😎

[@tornagawn]

“They couldn’t hit an elephant at this dist…..” ⚰️

[@CuriosityVaultChannel]

Hahaha funny enough, I researched that story for potential use in the last one in the series.

[@d.l.l.6578]

Some people get addicted to high risk behaviors and just don’t want to stop. There’s a rush and high to it.

[@wxmyjnsn]

So the climber was suicidal and just kept doing until it happened.

[@Mac_Omegaly]

It certainly could have been interpreted that way. But I'm guessing that it was more of an adrenaline addiction. Either way it's hard to say.

[@JohnStrange-q8r]

That first guy was cactus fooktas.

[@ulrichenevoldsen8371]

4.35 cool-headed guy there 👍🏻

[@catherinespencer-mills1928]

having grown up in the SW US, the correct pronunciation is suh-waa-row. Yeah, I know, it isn't spelled anything like that. This guy isn't the only one to lose his life like that and plenty of people have lost vehicles trying to knock one down. Leave them alone a$$ hats. PS they don't grow near my home town, not enough rain.

[@popjaw1andOnly]

People like that are why we can't have nice things.

[@Kw1161]

I’m from Tucson, Arizona and the DPS spokesman used to come into my step-brother’s used car lot and had trouble holding back his laughter when the idiot who killed a 200 year old cactus treasure. I still wonder if the coroner labeled his death certificate “Murder/Suicide. Have a great day!

[@RemusKingOfRome]

What don't climbers wear chutes ? or Jet packs ? or don't climb at all ??? Young men think they are bullet proof. j

[@JoshK-g2c]

Ummm....because that defeats the purpose of a solo 'free' climb. You either make it, or you don't.

[@ordinaryman2299]

sharks and crocodiles take a bite of a human and instantly regret biting the bad tasting human, but then it's too late, your more chance of being eaten by a crocodile in australia ???

[@stephpicher]

I think the last one could be classified under "people doing stupid things because they're addicted" (to adrenalin in this case, or other natural chemicals).

[@constitutionsupporter1972]

The problem with free climbing is gravity is free also.

[@JoshK-g2c]

Talk about rock bottom prices, what a bargain!!

[@Moreta1redstar]

It is pronounced "so-war-ro" (spanish).

[@CuriosityVaultChannel]

😬😬 I listened to so many of those "how to pronounce" they are all so different 🥲

[@chairmankaga2821]

Listen to this guy. He's right.​@@CuriosityVaultChannel

[@nhmooytis7058]

@@CuriosityVaultChannelhe’s right I used to live in Phoenix!

[@Moreta1redstar]

@@CuriosityVaultChannel my parents live in Tucson just beside the Sonoran Desert, so I've heard it uttered many times by locals, both indigenous and not. So that is how I have heard it, not with a hard G.

[@Ravenseyes10]

I don’t mean to be pedantic, but it’s pronounced SA-WAR-O…. Spelled Out phonetically…. Greetings from Arizona

[@BrokenFootRailfan]

My husband has a classic T top Camaro. I’ll share this episode with him of what NOT to do in a T top! 😂🤦‍♀️

[@CuriosityVaultChannel]

Very responsible 😂

[@zodarian6705]

That first dude, you got your ass kicked by a plant😂😂😂

[@janiprice6117]

For the third story, theres a movie that helped make the Firebird famous called Smokey and the Bandit. In this there a scene where the characters (successfully) switch seats without stoping the car. I feel like there's too much of a connection there for the scene to be unrelated

[@joshuastandlee3455]

Emergency services need to stop saving stupid people. Waste of time and resources when there are many smart people out there that need saving instead.

[@EdwinMartin]

Fortunately, medical workers treat everybody equal 🙂

[@Bendrix27]

​@@EdwinMartin That's not fortunate.

[@tornagawn]

Yeah, right….there have been zero shark attacks in London..

[@tomhaskett5161]

The only sharks are the blokes selling ice creams to tourists...

[@successmeditations110]

Guy who lost his leg is not a Darwin Award unless he lost the potential to procreate.

[@esteemedmortal5917]

As a rock climber, I’m still trying to wrap my head around how that guy suffered a serious fall in an indoor climbing gym. I’ve never seen bouldering walls any higher than maybe 20 feet and you’d really have to have an awkward fall to incur those kinds of injuries (or have an object between your body and the mat). It would be hard to injure yourself rope climbing, though I suppose he could have had an incompetent belayer or didn’t clip in correctly; that could lead to a far worse fall than normal. Or maybe he was climbing on the walls that are exclusively for ropes, since those can go fairly high. But yeah, at least he was under no delusion that he could repeatedly survive this version of climbing…

[@RobertFreeman-dt4zh]

I knew his dad so I kind of kept up with what happened. He had some serious mental issues from what I've read about him. His father died from covid at the beginning of last year.

[@ANYHOO0]

It said he fell 35 feet.

[@esteemedmortal5917]

@@ANYHOO0 ​​⁠yeah, that’s taller than a typical bouldering wall. They’re usually 10-20 feet.

[@kellydalstok8900]

In my town someone died after falling from one of those climbing walls this year.

[@esteemedmortal5917]

@@kellydalstok8900yikes! Do you know if they were bouldering versus rope climbing?

[@ulrichenevoldsen8371]

Obviously men rule the Darwin awards 😂 we are thrill seekers and a bit dense sometimes 😅

[@popjaw1andOnly]

Maybe, but there are a lot of "Selfie Queens" who have slipped and fallen off of high cliffs, too. Definitely more of them could be covered.

[@charlotteryner6583]

I can't even watch the free climb segment. Guess I'll stick with cross stitch!😅

[@thezanzibarbarian5729]

When a _higher authority_ keeps telling you, _"One day. I won't be there to save you if you keep falling off rock faces."_ But you still keep climbing, regardless. That day *WILL* come along... A lesson to be learned. *_Value your life over fun and excitement!_* But if you're going to have excitement, then think about safety first! Not when you're at the Pearly Gates with St. Peter covering his mouth but sniggering, _"I was wondering when you were going to join us. I' had crossed you off my list three times, already! But now you're here."_

[@gittel_malky]

Find a synonym for "however."

[@sirridesalot6652]

My nephew climbs mountains and says that the Golden Rule of Mountain Climbing is to ALWAYS have three points in solid contact with whatever you're climbing ie. two hands ad a foot, or two feet and a hand. To me, free climbing is Russian roulette but played on rock faces. There was another fellow who was free climbing who jumped a gap to catch a small rock protruding from the rock face only to have that small rock break off and send him plummeting to his death.

[@ranjapi693]

Thats what I heard about climbing too. Never have more than one limb dangling free. Sometimes I need to "climb" a little bit when hiking and I always try to think of this.

[@nhmooytis7058]

You must be a Kiwi.

[@CuriosityVaultChannel]

I am 😎

[@nhmooytis7058]

@@CuriosityVaultChannel I lived there in Kerkeri for a year and a half. Nice to hear the EXCINT again 😀

[@CuriosityVaultChannel]

@@nhmooytis7058 haha it's very distinct. One either loves it or hates it 😬😎

[@nhmooytis7058]

@@CuriosityVaultChannel true story when I first moved there I was at a dinner party and told the lady next to me I’d figured out A becomes E, E becomes I and I becomes U as in ‘fush and chups.’ She said “Dear, we don’t say ‘fush and chups’ we say ‘fush and chups.’ I said ‘Ho Kay’ 🤪.

[@CuriosityVaultChannel]

@@nhmooytis7058 😂🤦🤦 I try to catch myself, but when I watch back I realise I failed 😂

[@annacarter6559]

7:47 he was becoming addicted to the replacement attention he never got when he was supposed to, as a child

[@dustincarroll7296]

Ahhhh the beautiful segoro

[@neilgillespie7435]

Well done cactus

[@oneworldawakening]

Made him more bold or Made him bolder.

[@jaisabai4155]

Free rock climber "dropped out of college". 😏

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

"Free solo climbing is a test of human limits [of stupidity]."

[@harryv6752]

That first guy tho, killed by a cactus. That must suck hardcore.

[@AbqRealDeals]

Poetic justice.

[@Ivehadenuff]

Who paid for airlifting ? Most be rich people.

[@kingcosworth2643]

Those cactus in Arizona are so much bigger than I imagined

[@fairladykd6734]

The Rock Wall fall was a warning!

[@baronvonhoughton]

25% didn't die. 50% weren't silly.

[@popjaw1andOnly]

Shark guy lived, but was silly. Cactus guy: silly. Car girl: silly. Climber guy: just plain repeatedly stupid, even _in his own words._ 100% were definitely silly/stupid.

[@andrewhall7930]

Look up Model GINGER MEADOWS, who after watching Crocodile Dundee went to Australia and ignored multiple warnings to stay OUT of water known to ve infested with Salties. Its a sad story, but man she made a bad choice.

[@CuriosityVaultChannel]

Thanks, will check it out 😎

[@2nd_of_3]

Sa wor oh cactus

[@MuckyPup115]

Shotguns don’t fire slugs, it’s pellets. So strange they published it that way.

[@Dragonblaster1]

The guy who lost his legs to the shark could have collected a Darwin Award in person if the shark had made away with his wedding tackle.

[@CuriosityVaultChannel]

😬😬

[@bestboy138]

One time i got killed doing some dumb stuff.

[@newbirth35]

I pronounce it sa-gwa-ro.

[@TomFynn]

Didn't that Cohen guy hear the dun-dun dun-dun- dun-dun sound in the background?

[@C-Here]

I'd like to know why U described the shark attack victim as "walked away" when a leg was missing??? 😂😂😅😅

[@zzzxxzzz3248]

Sharks prefer swimmers that eat snickers candy bars 2-1 over those that don't ! 😊

[@heathermillsphantomlimb9314]

I’m sorry, but the only people I feel bad for in the Austin Howell case are his parents and the rescue teams who had to go pick him up after he fell on his empty head. I’m not at all against people doing what they love, but continuing to free climb without safety gear after falling multiple times and seriously injuring himself should’ve been the wake up call that he needed to use ropes. There’s a reason people wear them when they climb. Normally, I’d say do what you want to do. But, rescue workers have to go risk their lives to save you every time you fall trying to get internet likes, and that’s a bit selfish and endangers other people. It was only a matter of time before he ended up dying from it.

[@heather99111]

Last one does belong. You gonna give every mountaineer that dies trying to summit a Darwin award? Its an extreme sport that most people don't have the capacity to do but that doesn't make it dumb.

[@veronicababy7959]

I was in grad school. My professor studied the Saquaro for his doctoral dissertation so of course we all heard. We laughed. FAFO

[@jyveturkey1894]

I remember a Russian, I think, woman who stuck her head out the passenger window and lost her head to a sign. Music going, she was singing and laughing with a friend. All on video. Nasty sound.

[@FrostFire1987]

No sympathy for free rock climbers dying...I mean what do they expect? Just go parachute jumping without a parachute

[@JoshK-g2c]

No one is asking you to have any, relax.

[@FrostFire1987]

@@JoshK-g2c no, I'm raging! I was just saying my thoughts mate, no harm done, other than an idiot who climbs without safety gear

[@hinz1]

Cactus song: kzbin.info/www/bejne/b5CcfXeCqtdohpY

[@TheTrumpReaper]

1:29 That cactus is male.

[@garyjohnson7133]

It’s not the fall,it’s the sudden stop!

[@DimitriIgnativ]

The litter volume of blood in story 2 doesn't make sense. That would mean he lost more blood than the human body has.

[@nhmooytis7058]

Note free soloing isn’t silly if you’re experienced at it, but climbing with yer junk dangling in the breeze is 🤣🤣🤣. PS Did he say Oh or Ooohhhhhhh...splat? There are old climbers and bold climbers but few old bold climbers.

[@JoshK-g2c]

It definitely is silly, and absurdly pointless.

[@nhmooytis7058]

@@JoshK-g2c sorry you don’t get it. Doesn’t make it pointless. What’s your favorite sport? Sitting on a couch power eating Doritos? 😂😂😂

[@stevemerica8160]

Ty for the females

[@snakedoktor6020]

The climber most assuredly deserves to be on this list. I have no sympathy for him.

[@Alex.The.Lionnnnn]

That climber wanted to die.

[@mexxicokitty]

betcha that was a very expensive shark bite

[@briansmith-l1q]

when people go to a race track, (cars racing) and no accidents happen, would the fans be disappointed ? lol (along with the drivers)