The best part about this is that on the “List of Inventors Killed By Their Own Inventions” Wikipedia article, a gif of this guy’s death is literally the first thing you see.
He hesitated so many times and then just went down like a stone, tumbling over the railing. When he was doing his little hops on that chair, his... barely constructed contraption looked so flimsy, like a bunch of garbage bags stapled together. It never would have worked. What an absolute madman.
@@sentimentalmariner590 1- he didnt fly at all. 2- he went in the opposite direction of the sun. 3- he's not having much peace in death as everyone is making fun of him. 4- sorry.
@@Cristopher.Cthe story of Icarus isn't about literally flying into the sun. It's an allegory on why you shouldn't do such rash things that won't work because it'll get yourself killed.
My favourite trivia regarding this guy is that 2 days before his jump some guy in America accidentally pulled off the whole parachute clothes thing by complete accident when he jumped off the statue of liberty
@@RedShadowAMV sorry, it's a hoax Sorry, he apparently did jump off statue of liberty although the details aren't clear, what he didn't jump off of is the Washington monument
The amount of times he hesitated before jumping tells you all you need to know about what that man was thinking when he submitted his entry into the Darwin Awards.
@scarletgoat173 Yes and no. While his concepts were definitely impressive, the lack of any caution or safety for was an unbelievably dumb way to go about things. So unbelievable, that no one took him seriously when he initially said he wouldn’t be using a dummy. Assuming Huggbees didn’t completely make that part up ofc, lol
He really doesn’t deserve a Darwin Award. A Darwin Award is for someone who removes stupidity from the gene pool. He helped to pioneer parachute technology and probably will contribute more to the gene pool than probably you ever will.
I've watched that video a couple times, and I'm haunted more by his hesitation than the impact, he stands there for a full minute looking over the edge swaying slightly, you can almost hear the thoughts running through his head and feel his fear and indecisiveness
this is a fun one because right at the outset you hear that this is the story of a guy who wanted to design his own parachuting apparatus and you know exactly how the story is gonna end
@tonyhakston536 you're telling me that your God didn't give you good enough eyes to see even through that bulletproof beard to that gorgeous jawline? Clearly, that means you're not worthy of gazing upon a Gods figure, sorry
I laugh my ass off every time I see that footage, not because he fails and hits the ground, but because after they take his body away someone goes to the impact spot and measures the crater he made 🤣🤣🤣
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I remember researching this one time late at night. It's a super interesting question. Also if you count animal deaths I think this first recorded one is Topsy the elephant from the 1903 film "Electrocuting an Elephant"
@@spidertiger585It was an Edison stunt. Basically, he was a direct current evangelist, and wanted to show that alternating current was more dangerous, so he killed Topsy. Anyway, we don’t use DC anymore. AC became the standard, which means Edison killed Topsy for nothing
@@spidertiger585 Yup, the "no animals were harmed in the making of this film" isn't there in modern media for no reason, haha. There's historical precedent to worry about it not being the case.
How many of you remember the Faces of Death VHS tapes that went around way back in the 80's? Back when there was nothing else like that to be found, they had some brutal stuff.
Death by falling from the eiffel tower while wearing a self-made wingsuit is definitely a weird death for sure. Also, he definitely didn't test his shit enough, but jokes on him because he's dead. I mean, even without the gravity death, he'd be dead by now anyway because old.
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You could totally have just shown the footage, The Budget Museum used it just fine and that wasn't even a video about the guy, it was a joke about flying snakes in a video about the non-bird non-pterosaur flying reptiles.
He was probably also cought up in frenzy of flight becoming a thing I'm sure there's tons of stories of people who thought they were the next wright brothers
Watching the footage of his death, I can't tell if he fell into the frozen water or something and it flew all around, but it literally looks like his body shattered into millions of tiny pieces and just scattered like marbles lol
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It's pretty clear cut to me. William's film did exist at one point and it was made before Franz's. It might be gone but like you said, there's enough evidence for it's place in time. I would call Franz's film the /earliest/ we have now, today, in our hands. And imagine if we find out about one even earlier than William's that also doesn't exist anymore. In that event, you'd say William's film was second, and Franz's is still the earliest we have right now. And then I'd preface it all with: "that we know of." Calling Franz's "first" just because his film out-existed William's feels wrong, y'know?
Just came back from watching the film and it's actually not that graphic. Worst part of it is the anxiety buildup from him working up his courage to leap. The impact is from a distance and the leg you can see from them carrying his corpse away doesn't look like a tube sock full of beans. If this happened today the footage would be a lot more graphic with people shoving their phones up his exploded rectum shouting "WOLRD STAR".
Huh weird. When I was in like grade 5 we did this activity in music class were we had to paint what a piece of music made us feel or think of. Anyway the piece made me imagine an old timey guy in a suit and a bowler hat, going up the Eiffel Tower and jumping to his death. Got a good grade too surprisingly.
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I think the hanging counts. I mean... The general idea is that one "caught that on film" is that you recorded the event. My first words were caught on film since my mom was holding the camcorder at the time, but said camera was also run over by a car a decade latter, and the video was never actually transferred to a second storage location. So, as interesting as this, the second filmed death, was in the telling of it, it is still only the SECOND death. Also, I'm a basic bitch. Sugar cookies and chocolate chip are about equal in enjoyment for me.
i like to imagine his skeleton crumpling as he hits the ground and his skin losing to shear forces i like to imagine his nervousness giving way to shock and fear as he tries again and again to deploy the parachute
I’m having fun imaging the same people who saw the first automobile death seeing the first recorded death and saying once again “I hope something like this never happens ever again”
Unfortunately r/eyeblech exists, and you can literally find pictures of dead bodies and videos of people dying on that, so uh... Yeah. Definitely still happening and much easier to access. ._.
There's a British kids show called Horrible Histories and on the show there's a segment called Stupid Deaths that as you can guess talks about people in history who died in really stupid ways. The reason I bring this up is because Franz Reichelt was one such hilariously stupid death. Clement Vallandingham (whom Huggbees mentioned in a previous video) was also mentioned.
There's precedent for that. People were jumping off of increasingly high bridges into the water below as a popular stunt, until someone jumped off of the tallest bridge in the world and died.
