When Stupidity Goes Wrong

Number 13 Wayne Roth In November 1997, Wayne Roth, a Pennsylvania man, was at the house of his friend, Roger Croteau, who had a pet cobra. Roth decided that he wanted to play with the highly venomous reptile. He reached into the tank, but the cobra perceived him as a threat and bit the 38-year-old

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he picked it up. Despite warnings from his friend and against what most would consider common sense, Roth did not go to the emergency room. Instead, he believed that he would be able to resist the reptile's venom and reportedly told his friend, "I'm a man, I can take it." Instead of the hospital, Roth went to a bar, where he had a few drinks and bragged to other patrons about having been bitten by a cobra.

The animal's venom attacks the central nervous system, but generally acts quite slowly. Despite Roth's belief in his masculine impenetrability, he ended up dying a few hours later. Number 12 Stephen Whinfrey On New Year's Day 2015, British man Stephen Whinfrey was hunting rabbits near his home in Doncaster, South Yorkshire. On January 2, a passerby found the 50-year-old man with half of his body sticking out of a rabbit hole. Whinfrey's head was inside him, while only her legs and his torso were visible. The man had been dead for several hours. The ferrets he had been using to hunt were found in bags, while his dog was found tied to a nearby tree.

Next to the man's lifeless body was a mound of dirt and a dead rabbit. Judging by the scratch marks on the floor, Whinfrey had struggled to get out, but his efforts were in vain. He had succumbed to asphyxiation after sticking his head into the hole and becoming trapped. Number 11 Daniel Kiluba On January 14, 2021, a teenager from the Bena Dibele region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo died after hitting a soccer ball filled with hardened concrete. The team in which 18-year-old Daniel Kiluba played had brought the ball and intended to use it to play a prank on their opponents.

However, the players decided to warm up with the concrete ball and test their kicking skills. Kiluba asked for a header and his teammate passed accordingly. The teenager hit the ball with his head and the impact caused serious injuries. Kiluba died as a result, while the player who had passed him the ball was reportedly facing charges. Number 10 Quimby Ghilotti On June 2, 1997, teenager Quimby Ghilotti was killed in an accident involving 32 other students at Napa High School in California. They were on a senior trip to Waterworld USA in Concord. The students wanted to see how many of them could fit on a single section of the 40-foot-tall Banzai Pipeline water slide.

By piling on it, they subjected the ride to weight forces three times greater than those for which it had been designed. A section of the slide broke and twisted as it fell, causing the students to fall to the ground. Ghilotti, 18, died while more than a dozen students were hospitalized as a result of the accident. Number 9 mauled by Bengal tigers In May 1999, two elderly German tourists were mauled to death by three Bengal tigers in a nature park in the Spanish province of Alicante. The unidentified couple, both in their 70s, ignored warnings issued by Safari El Vergel staff.

The park's safety guidelines stated that visitors should drive through the land with their windows closed. Signs, written in several languages, informed the couple that they were in a dangerous area and that, under no circumstances, should they leave their vehicle. Even though their lives were at stake, they still got out of the car. Soon, three huge Bengal tigers pounced on them. The felines quickly inflicted devastating wounds on his neck, to which the man and his wife would later succumb. Explosive selfies number 8 In January 2015, two young people traveling through the Ural Mountains of Russia found a live grenade and decided to take a selfie with it.

Some sources report that they discovered the explosive weapon without a safety pin, while others claim that they removed the safety pin specifically for the selfie. Whatever the case may have been, an unlocked grenade is extremely dangerous as this means it is cocked and ready to use. Both men were instantly annihilated

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the grenade exploded in their faces. Only the phone with the photo remained and it served as evidence of how they had died. In 2017, another grenade selfie went horribly

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. Russian Alexander Chechik had sent photographs to a friend of him holding the armed explosive in his hand.

It is believed that the man was unable to replace the safety pin, at which point the gun went off, killing Chechik by splitting his body in half. Number 7 Clifford Ray Jones In 2016, Detroit man Clifford Ray Jones died in a car accident, under quite unusual circumstances. He was watching an X-rated movie on his phone while he was driving down I-75, without pants. Jones' seat belt was not fastened and the sunroof of his 1996 Toyota was open. At some point, the 58-year-old man became too distracted and crashed into a highway ramp. His vehicle overturned and Jones was ejected through the sunroof, suffering fatal injuries.

Upon arriving at the scene of the accident, a Michigan State Police lieutenant referred to the incident as the strangest thing he had ever encountered on the road. Number 6 David Monk British David Monk died in the Italian Alps in 2008 in an accident with an improvised sled. Monk, 46, and some of his friends had removed some of the foam barriers that were used as protection at the end of the race. The men then used them as sleds and sped down the ski slope. In a dark and ironic twist, the men crashed into the same fence where they had earlier removed the foam barriers.

Monk hit a post with his head and died instantly. Two of his friends were also seriously injured but survived. Number 5 José Tony Álvarez Umanzor On July 4, 2020, a Washington DC man died following a fireworks accident. José Tony Álvarez Umanzor, 33, was reportedly holding a commercial-grade firework over his head. The mortar-style pyrotechnic device was described as so powerful that it was considered illegal in the state. However, Umanzor held it over his head after lighting it. Once lit, the base of the fireworks was ejected downward causing critical injuries to the man's head and upper body. Umanzor was rushed to the hospital where he was eventually pronounced dead.

Number 4 Sukhram Yadav In January 2021, Indian Sukhram Yadav died after what was described as an “air compressor enema.” The incident occurred in Katni district of Madhya Pradesh state. Yadav had been suffering from constipation and asked his friend, Vino Thakur, 35, to help him solve the problem by inserting an air compressor nozzle into his rectum. Thakur did as he was asked and within seconds, Yadav's stomach swelled and he became unconscious. He was rushed to the emergency room and then transferred to another hospital, where doctors performed three surgeries in an attempt to save his life. Unfortunately, the man succumbed to his extensive internal injuries.

Although the matter was attributed more to ignorance than malevolence, Thakur was arrested by the police. Number 3 Cynthia Covert In May 2020, Cynthia Covert was visiting a friend on Kiawah Island, near Charleston, South Carolina. At some point, the 58-year-old beautician saw an alligator near the pond behind her friend's house. She covert decided she wanted to pet the beast, frequently cited among North America's deadliest predators. Her friend warned Covert that she had seen the alligator snatch a deer from the water's edge just a few days earlier. The woman responded that it didn't look like a deer and she continued with her plan to touch the animal.

She was still submerged in the water when Covert leaned down and reached out to pet him. In an instant, the beast pounced on the woman, grabbed her leg, and dragged her into the pond. A struggle ensued from which Covert emerged, albeit briefly. She only had the opportunity to jokingly state that she “won't do that again” before the alligator bit her once again. The attack ended with the beast dragging the woman underwater and drowning her. Local wildlife officials later reportedly killed it, although it was argued that the beast had simply done what was inherent in its predatory nature.

Today's topic was requested by David Chalmers and ForeverArmy_04_82. If she has other topics you'd like to learn about, subscribe and let us know in the comments section below. Number 2 Henry Hill Jr. In November 2020, a Kershaw County, South Carolina man died in a fire, under what were considered entirely preventable circumstances. Henry Hill Jr, 68, had been trapped in his mobile home when it caught fire in the early hours of the morning. Hill and two others managed to get out. However, according to responding firefighters and witnesses at the scene, Hill returned inside the burning structure to retrieve a pair of pants.

The man was found dead on the bedroom floor after succumbing to intense heat and smoke inhalation. Number 1 Michael Anderson Godwin In the 1980s, Michael Anderson Godwin was convicted of murder and sentenced to death by electric chair. However, that verdict was eventually overturned on appeal and Godwin was sentenced to life in prison in 1983. Still, Godwin would end up dying of electrocution several years later. In 1989, the 28-year-old was sitting on a steel toilet in his cell. At the same time, he was trying to repair a pair of headphones that were still connected to his television. Godwin would make the fatal mistake of biting the cable as he attempted to split it and reconnect it.

He suffered a massive electric shock and was found dead in his cell at the Central Correctional Institution in South Carolina. The combination of conductive metal and frayed wire essentially meant that Godwin had died in an electric chair that he had inadvertently designed. Thanks for watching! What's the dumbest thing you've ever done that caused you physical pain? Let us know in the comments section!