10 Of The Dumbest Ways People Actually Died [Part 5] 

It's not embarrassing to lose a child from a visit to a theme park .... It's bloody tragic !!

The woman dying of drinking water is made worse by the fact that many listeners (I was one being a critical care nurse) were calling in during the contest warning them of water intoxication. It happened in Sacramento, CA

I think a better word than embarrassing would’ve been devastating to the parents who took the child to the theme park who tragically died! It’s not an embarrassment their child died it’s devastating! I think the word embarrassing a little insensitive to the family

I have extreme claustrophobia, so the ones about getting stuck in caves and dinosaurs are terrifying to me!

did you just say it must be embarrassing to have a kid die,, it is not embarrassing it is HEARTBREAKING, homey you have some emotions in turmoil in that brain of yours

Actually, a nurse called into the radio station and warned the two radio hosts of the Water Intoxication and that's why they asked "Is anyone dying back there?". Sadly, the radio nor the hosts were not prosecuted.

3:21 The guy in the dinosaur statue was *INSIDE* the statue. There was a panel in the dino's belly giving access. He then dropped his phone inside the dinosaur and it slid down towards the leg and fell to the floor. The man then tried retrieving his phone, head first, and proceeded to get stuck. With his arms pinned and upside down he didn't last very long. Blood rushed to his head exponentially speeding up the process of falling unconscious. He then had a heart attack and died. He was found by a child, days later. The kid was eager to play on the dinosaur and, through a crack in the dino's leg the kid saw that a person was in there so he told his father who immediately called emergency services. The Dino has since been moved to an area where the public cannot access it. 👍

It must be “embarrassing” to take your kids to an amusement park only to have one die and not come home… Probably not embarrassing, nope not embarrassing.

Humans never cease to amaze me at the lengths they will go to do something so stupid, even if it kills them

I feel bad for the mother who was trying to win a wii for her kids

When that girl saw her friend get fall. She was probably as shocked as she was that she was actually witnessing that!! Scarred for life.

The boy that died from drowning shouldn't have been called "the dumbest ways to die"!!! That was an accident way out of his control. You should be ashamed calling that a dumb way to die!!

The Adventureland park thing. I live 10 miles away. The worker died on the ride because when the ride stops, it only stays stopped for a few seconds, then the ride/raft jerks forward about a foot or so. When I was kid, the workers always had you staying sitting until the jerk happened. For over two decades it’s done that. The worker was helping people off and either didn’t know about the last minute jerk or forgot. When the ride jerked, that’s why he fell. I always thought the jerk at the end was normal. The workers made it seem normal. Two deaths later, I’m thinking maybe it shouldn’t do that. But I know nothing about that kinda stuff. Didn’t get that far in the video yet, but Adventureland was open the very next day and went on like nothing happened. It enraged a lot of people in town. I’ve never met the owners of Adventureland park in Altoona. I lived in a few towns surrounding Altoona. If you ask anyone in any surrounding town about the owners of Adventureland, you will never hear anything good. I’ve heard a lot of horror stories from people who at one time knew the owners, were friends, and had to deal with them in any way. I hear they’re the stuck up rich snobby type who only care about themselves. And aren’t afraid to let people they feel is lesser than them know it in the brutalist way. I heard they’ve had concerns brought to them and they don’t do anything or even pretend to care. I haven’t heard one good thing about them. The shape of the rides show it. Yes they added a lot in the past 10 years. But the older rides are still there and run frighteningly. The Tornado i thought was the worst one. I honestly thought it would’ve been the Tornado roller coaster ride, not the Raging River. Because I was going there throughout my 36 year life. The Tornado and other rides are older than me. The condition is obvious to someone like me. And it’s made of wood, probably the same wood it was built with. The tornado use to run smooth and steady. Now it shakes like it’s gonna fall apart and you can’t stop your head from banging side to side. The raging River, the ride the accident happened. Going through on the raft, there’s no control, the timing between rafts being sent out suck. Depending on the rapids and which ones you hit, it either slows you down or speeds you up. Due to bad timing your rafts have over a 50/50 chance of hitting the raft in front of you, or the raft behind you hitting you. Then when the ride ends. The raft needs to go on a conveyer belt from the water. The line of rafts leading to that is usually about 5 or more deep in a line in the water just waiting to reach the conveyer belt. Which means the only way your raft is gonna stop is by crashing into the raft in front of you hard. I’m guessing all rides like the raging river are like that. But I hated that ride because of that. That ride scared me, I always thought I was gonna get hurt, thrown off it, or it would tip. The rapids they make are so forceful by the opening so the rest of the calmer water moves faster. If you’ve been on the raging river at Adventureland, then you’d know. You gotta lean with the raft a certain to counteract it from tipping. The weight of the raft can’t withstand hitting where the rapids are being created at the side of the wall. Sorry for the rant. But I’ve hated those rides for a long time. Plus I think Adventureland is a death trap. I will say this. I did move to St Louis for a time. We went to 6 flags there. That place was fun and felt safe. After moving back to Iowa. I went to Adventureland a few times after moving back. Now I refuse to go.

85% of young populated would go for that phone themselves rather than seeking help

There’s the guy who worked at a tuna fish canning plant and fell into the pressure cooker. They knew he was in there but they had to wait for the pressure cooker to cycle before they could open it and remove his body. What a way to go...

Technology has killed half of the worlds brain cells🤯

The kid actually saw the person through a Crack in the dinosaurs leg, pointed to it and asked his father what it was, they got closer and realized it was a person. It wasn't because they smelled him.

they weren’t able to recover johns body either😔 the family agreed to have the cave filled with cement. his body is still down there to this day

Umm, I wouldn't say it would be "embarrassing" to take your kids to an amusement park and one of them dies. 🙄 More like horrifying my guy. 😬 *You used a poor choice of words on that story ~ IMO

You clearly dont know what embarrassing means.

Extreme Selfies: proof that natural selection is real.

Nutty Putty cave was permanently sealed with rocks & concrete. His body was just too difficult to remove. There's a beautiful plaque placed over the sealed entrance. An amazing tomb if you will.

Number 9. I would think "embarrassment" was the very furthest feeling for the parents of that poor kid.

The lack of respect this channel has for the dead🥴

As far as death by laughing, in a story by Cornell Woolrich someone was murdered by being tickled to the point they finally died I guess because of a heart attack. At some point I remember reading about a minister who is arrested because they think he killed two of his wives by tying them up and tickling them till they had a heart attack. I'm wondering if you got the idea from the story.

Most of these should be named most unfortunate ways to die. Not dumbest way. It's disrespectful to the the family either way.

Exactly HOW is an amusement park accident "dumb"? It could literally happen to anybody. And John didn't try to wriggle into a spot he couldn't fit. He thought he was in a different part of Nutty Putty Cave, where it opened up to a much larger area.

I've always thought the young apprentice chef that climbed into the industrial dishwasher to hide from her boss & got "dishwashed" in boiling water had the worst death! Or the poor electrician who was inside an industrial clothes dryer to do repairs when an employee unknowingly shut the door & turned it on......Horrific ways to go!

Regarding the nutty putty one, he didn't go upside down for fun. He was looking to go thru the "birth canal" which leads to a big opening but he mistaken an dead end of a birth canal. He kept thinking it's the right way to go and kept on going forward. When he dangled upside down, that's when he realized his mistake. In order to get him out, they have to literally bend and break his knees the other way. Can't do it, he's body still in the cave.

Thanks for the details.

Nutty Putty Cave was sealed off after the death. The park officials decided to turn the cave into a tomb because the body was impossible to recover. To prevent future deaths the cave was filled with concrete.

I heard about an Irish worker at a brewery who drowned in a vat of fresh beer. The other workers rescued him three times, but couldn't reach him the fourth time.

The dude was laughing, realized no one was laughing, laugh turns to awkward laughs, then he has a heart attack

The guy in the dinosaur entered it through the stomach and dropped the phone inside the leg, went into the leg head first and couldn’t get out, but if I’m telling these details to you, you must not follow the strange, dark and mysterious given in story format 🤷🏼‍♂️(MrBallen)

Embarrassing...? More like a complete tragedy! For #9 you failed to mention that there was a problem with the boat they were in being partially deflated on one side( causing it to lean on one side too much) , and how the ride was supposed to have more water in it but it didn't and the park didn't follow through certain procedures for those rides. I believe they were in boat 6 which had recorded accidents prior to this one.

I heard of "Too many cooks spoils the broth" but that is just ridiculous!!

Jeez hate seeing people squeeze into spaces that are obviously to small. Its so scary to even think about trying to crawl into a cave that small

I usually like your videos but you were extremely disrespectful in this one, half of them weren't dumb just terrible accidents. Blaming parents for taking a child on a theme park ride? You got the details of at least 2 of the cases wrong, whether intentional or you just didn't bother to research for your video I don't know. Unsubscribing.

I would be really offended if a Crocodile only half-ate me...

Climbing into the dinosaur is an impressive death. If a 4 year old did it, it wouldn't be that surprising. But an adult....you would think it would dawn on the person how difficult it was to get in this thing.....maybe I shouldn't be in here.

Wow man crazy things happen believe it or not I'm shocked I hate to say this but great video man

The wee game gets worse. Some people had called into the show to warn them of the dangers of water intoxication. The radio ignored them and carried on with the game. :(

Her friend was "absolutely mortified"? She was embarrassed??

I like how in 9 you took a poke at the parents for going to an amusement park and their kid dying. That's neat. You seem nice

So weird to day " it must be embarrassing to take your kids on an amusement park ride only to have one of them die"... REALLY??? The right word would be tragic.. traumatizing...disastrous.. It's not embarrassing at all!!?..and dumb has nothing to do with it!!

If The laughing man smashed his head on the ground he had a concussion. You can tell from the way that he foamed at the mouth, etc.

Wow, you've got to be insane to try and swim in the waters below Niagara falls. When you ride the cable car thing you are above the waters. You can see the whirl pools. The Maid Of The Mist boar stayed away from certain sections where waters were rough.

5:06 - Search and rescue: “I think he’s over here. There’s a large pile of crocodile poop with torn pieces of his shirt in it.”

If I lost my phone in a stegosaurus statue I would find a park employee and ask for help

The woman who died for a Wii story is missing a key detail. A registered nurse called the radio station and warned the two idiot shock jocks how very dangerous what they were doing was. She said the people could die. As they dumped the call, one quipped that as all these people had signed releases from liability, they, personally, were covered as was the station. Also, at the time it happened it was reported in my local news that she did in fact win the Wii.

OMG! Terrible deaths. So frightening!

Glad to see I wasn't the only person that was baffled by him calling the death of a child EMBARRASSING???

Idiotic to think a child dying at an amusement park is embarrassing to the family.

They kind of missed a small detail on the peeing contest: the woman won second place and got tickets to a Justin Timberlake concert.

I am claustrophobic. You won't have to worry about me getting stuck in a dark cave.

The exact details of the dinosaur was underneath it belly was an opening. The guy decided to crawl inside, his phone slipped into its leg he tried to get it and ended up being stuck there until he died. I live in SLC he didn’t realize he was upside down because of the way the cave is designed. It was sad and it’s been closed because it’s so dangerous! Heard a few on Mr Ballen.

I genuinely hope I die laughing

"..must be embarrassing to take your kids to an amusement park only for one of them to die..."........ embarrassing?

I never knew the Joker and his laughing gas was real

A few years ago I heard of a similar radio station challenge about drinking the most water. It could have been the same one referenced here, don't know for sure. But I remember a doctor called the radio station and very firmly told them that someone could die from water intoxication. One of the DJs said carelessly, "everybody has to sign a waiver so we're covered." Sure enough a participant died. The big storm erupted over the DJs lack of concern for a human life and just covering their butts against liability. Don't know if anything legally resulted from the incident.

9:01 what an appealing story, i guess he really had a slice of life! XD

Watching a donkey eat figs would actually be pretty funny

You need a Phonics lesson on adjectives. That girl who watched her friend fall, I doubt she was “absolutely mortified” at that moment.

Dinosaur dude: I could not even imagine the horror that he went through while he was waiting to die??

John Jones’s body is still in the Nutty Putty cave as rescuers think its too risky to retrieve the body

6:27 what radio station was it? Please say?

Wild🤙🅰️

I don’t know how many times people have took risky selfies but it’s probably a lot cuz I was on vacation somewhere with my dad, sister, and mom. And we were at this cool place it was super high up tho but it was safe for us as long as we didn’t go off the path. And we could take photos that wouldn’t be risky but still look good. And there were other people with us and me and my mom saw two teenage girls before I say what happened I need to explain it so you understand. So, there was this railing to keep people safe from falling down like this huge slope or something and you could die if you fall down most likely. And me and my mom saw one of the girls ON THE RAILING and the other girl taking a selfie of her there! She survived but she couldve fell down there and died. All of that, FOR A LITERAL SELFIE! Crazy right?

I can't believe people can be this careless with their lives😢

Freak accidents do not count as dumb ways to die

Wow 😯

I knew at least one of these were going to have something to do with a selfie. 🤦🏽‍♀️

Thanks...

The guy in the dinosaur found the hatch in the stomach of the dinosaur, climed in to take the selfie and his phone slid down the leg by accident so rather than get out he went head first and couldnt pull himself back up. SMH

Couldn’t dinosaur dude have said “hey Siri, call 911”

He found himself in a pickle and the crocodile ate the pickle? Musta been a really BIG pickle!! I'm soooo confused!!

Wow ♐ 👌

Dude it is not embarrassing

Must be embarrassing to take your kid to amusement to have them tragically die? EMBARRASSING? Dude, embarrassment would've been the last thing on their mind. How would you even blame or judge them for that?? That's trash.

as someone who has scoliosis- new fear unlocked 😭

Must be embarrassing to have your kid die? Um...may wanna rephrase that

The nutty putty cave accident is very sad I was in tears by the end of it. The man just finished medical school just got married and had his first kid and it was Christmas Day. They've been in this cave many times before it wasn't far from where they lived. But they're not exactly sure how but he accidentally took the wrong side passage. And he got in and getting back out or anything so he's like maybe I can go forward and find a new clearing. Unfortunately that was not. There was a national guard woman that can make it into where he was because she was and stayed with him until. They tried four different ways to rescue him in every single one of then failed. The only other way they could think about getting in and out was breaking both of his legs and twisting them out that way. But all the doctors and nurses and rescuers agree that it would be a bad idea. They said it would pretty much result in his death. So the people that own the land decided to seal up the cave entrance with a bunch of rebar rock and concrete. And now it's his tumb.

What size was the pot, to be able to cook the chief alive I imagine it would have to be huge!!

I don't think you're insensitive for bringing up phone insurance, I think you're insensitive for saying "It must be embarrassing to take your kid to an amusement park only for them to die" No. Not embarrassed. How about devastated? Heartbroken? People died, children died. You're incredibly insensitive with these jokes. These are real people with real lives that are gone, no matter how it happened. No respect

7:33 you can pass... from drowning yourself... by drinking too much water 🫥🫥🫥

People are finding creative ways to die

Felt really bad for the mother that wanted to win the console for her kids and died from water intoxication. I actually have heard people can die from something like that but only in theory, this is the first practical case I see.

Some awful ways to die😢😢😢but also crazy...risks..

Some insensitive comments. Too many inaccuracies. Decided that it is not worth subscribing!

A drunk man died years ago on the NYC subways by urinating on the third rail and electrocuting himself.

How is the soup tonite? Asked the hungry customer. It's...umm... very hot!

The thumbnail reminded me of primeval

Death by any means of fire 🔥 😭☹️ I was in 6th grade when my best friend Bobby McGinn asked me to come over after school he needed to talk to me ! To my horror ad I walked up his driveway… his shed exploded and unbeknownst to me it was my friend.. on fire screaming in a ball of flames in front of me! I screamed bloody murder till the neighbor next door heard the commotion & came out & tackled bob till the fire , police& ambulance came !!! I was still at end of driveway crying hysterical when they brought a body on a gurney down n his hand slipped out from the sheet that I saw what looked like a French fry that was left in the deep fryer for a week fall out…. It was my best friends hand Bobby! He died not fast enough 😢☹️ 3 days later! We were alter boys in a catholic school in bucks county Pa … I served his funeral and cried for days & 40+ years later…. I still cry 😭 😘💕💖 you Bobby 🙏🏻 @ age 17 I joined the volunteer fire department and for 30 years gave it all …. I think for him 😎😘🤭 & in that lifetime…. I’ve seen it all & 💯 I’d rather die any other way than by fire ! 💯🙌🏻 NO BULLSHIT ! May GOD rest his soul & everyone else I saw perish in flames ! ☹️🤐

The accident at adventure land was tragic, not dumb and what happened is a raft got stuck and the other hit it and in turn flipped over somehow (if I remember correctly) the other accident happened 5 years prior in 2016 they also reported how emergency crews were confused and had a huge delay in felines time. What happened isnt dumb it’s tragic

Laughing hard has my chest and side hurting really

Whata horrible way to die. The fear of realization. At least croc boy died quick

Too many basic parks are being turned into mini Disneyland's rendering them plain dangerous.

Why the fuck would that be embarrassing? Tragic and sad more like it.

Not everyone has phone insurance.

I would've gotten another phone. It's not worth dying trying to get into a messed up situation