How about the one where a man is electrocuted by urinating on a electric fence. Mythbusters did a similar episode about urinating on a live railroad track but concluded the stream wasn’t strong enough.
HEY 
I live in Halifax too 
I remember that 
And it was amazing how he didn’t die cause he lost SO much blood…
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My boyfriend and I watch this show every so often and I always wonder…"How the hell do they know what really happened ?
so , by saying that, my opinion is that they are based off of true deaths but the stories are exaggerated.
I think my favorite episode though is the one with all the furries and the man that tried to get it on with a REAL bear xD
I searched everywhere looking for the answers to a couple of these supposed “real deaths” and could not find ANYTHING to corroborate the deaths. I think they probably had “100 Ways to Die” but that would have run out in one season…so, it seems that a majority have been fabricated. I checked Snopes.com as well as regional on line papers to verify some of these and found…NADA!!!
AS far as the woman with breast implants that exploded on a plane- the cabin is pressurized. I don’t think that could happen. The same goes for the Tea Party spokeswoman who impales herself on a bayonet. THAT would have been BIG news. And there is NOTHING anywhere to corroborate it. Again- most papers seem to take their own subjective view on what is “newsworthy” these days. The Tea Party death not being reported is beyond believable- until one considers that my local paper, The Palm Beach Post, waited 9 days before FINALLY publishing a 100 word “blurb” on the ACORN scandal. And that was combined with their barely reporting the Black Panthers blocking polling places in Philadelphia…they don’t seem to care or represent anything resembling objective news-reporting. So, we are left with watching the garbage like 1000 Ways to Die and wondering if they are true or embellished and/ or completely fictional.
Sounds to me this is a rehash of the real-life death of dancer Isadora Duncan, who died from having her scarf being wound around the wheel of a moving convertible (and her neck), back in the 1920’s.
I find it funny that this thread keeps getting zombified.
There are two NHL hockey players i know of that had their throats slashed by skates. One was in Sunrise, FL. The Panthers, Richard Zednick, had his throat slashed by Ollie Jokinen’s skate in a game against the Buffalo Sabres. He slated off the ice and returned to action the next season. The other was a Sabres goalie, it happened in Buffalo. I cannot recall if he lived, though…but both accidents are a far cry from what was shown on 1000 WTD…
Did you see the one where the angry Hollywood star had his colon sucked out by a Jacuzzi vacuum…?? Lol…they are really stretching these out…
i think they get away with it because the name of the show is “1,000 Ways to Die,” and not “1,000 Ways People Have Died in Real Life.” Yes, the “re-enactments” make it seem as if the events happened, but maybe they’re just bringing a fictional account to life. In any case, I have been able to watch only about 10 minutes before switching the channel to something more entertaining.
You mean it’s… 1,000 ways to lie?!
Years ago I saw a little girl and her family on a talk show. She had her insides sucked out by a faulty pool drain or filter or something and they were suing the company. A couple of years ago I heard of it happening again.
I think the causes of death are real, but the events surrounding the deaths are manufactured and clearly played for laughs.
Whatever research they do is very superficial. Basically, they just rummage around for a good story and run with it, without bothering to check out the story–and anyway, who wants facts to get in the way of a good story? One bit, the one with the guy who supposedly installed a jet engine on top of his car, is definitely not true.
The show’s morbid fun but needs to be taken with a bowling ball sized grain of salt.
Same here…some of those scenarios I know for a fact aren’t real.
The problem looking these up is that the details of the death may have nothing to do with the “way to die” that is portrayed. So, it is possible that someone slipped and impaled themselves on a bayonet on a musket, but it was not a Tea party candidate at a rally and it may not have even made local news. Someone may have died from an implant rupture after riding in a plane, but did not explode all over the cabin, or even die on the plane. Someone may have had a scorf get caught on a fan or other spinning object like the Isadora Duncan incident mentioned earlier) and choked before they could free themselves, but did not get picked up and flung around the room.
This show is just a pile of shit, from what I gather. I saw the episode with the Russian chess computer that “purposely” killed its opponent, and my BS meter was instantly set off. Nothing about it was remotely plausible. Here’s the video. This was a computer (the “Comrade 5000”) in the '70s, that supposedly was so advanced that it could beat “the unbeatable Nikolai.” Supposedly, when Nikolai went in for the checkmate (or a series of moves that would have forced checkmate), he was electrocuted. “Willfully,” being the impression made by the program.
Anyhow, steaming pile of BS. First of all, the 1970s? No chess program was that advanced in its day to purport beating a human grandmaster. Second of all, who the hell is this unbeatable “Nikolai” guy? Nikolai Gudgov is the best answer I could manage through a Google search. Finally, this story appears to be stolen from a “Weekly World News” tabloid story. Nothing about it rings true.
ETA: I should add, I’m leaving out the most important bit: that this computer generated enough self-awareness and whatnot to want to kill its human opponent. Do people honestly believe this shit?
Impossible.
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An out of work MRI Tech.
With respect to a top mounted jet turbine, perhaps this is true. But note the fun this Mechanical Engineering PhD had with his Volkswagen Beetle mounted with a jet engine.
FWIW, the title of the show should be “A 1000 ways to create enough episodes for syndication and residuals fuh evah.”
I’ve read of two incidents where ladies who have had really cheap and bad implants had exploded. Neither one of them had died or anything and I don’t even think the skin ruptured. I think the show just takes incidents and embellishes on them. It’s based on True Events.
Saw one last night. Two friends, one always bumming cigarettes from the other. Guy is fed up so he puts some cigarettes in a shotgun shell (removed the pellets) and fired at his friend. The cigarettes penetrated the guy’s skull and killed him.
I’ve seen photos following hurricanes and tornadoes, where wind power propels things through wood and steel, etc. But does a shotgun generate enough force to put a cigarette through bone?
This reminded me of the blank-shell death of actor Jon-Erik Hexum, where a gun with blanks fired into his temple ended up killing him. There was paper wadding keeping the gunpowder in the cartridge, and it was shot with enough force to break a chunk of his skull. The skull fragments caused hemorrhaging, and he died of the wound.
Mind you, a 44 Magnum isn’t the same as a shotgun, and I guess it depends on placement of the gun vs the head, but if the cited case did happen, my guess is that it was actually blunt force trauma and bone fragments that did the real damage, not wounds from cigarettes proper.
The Sabres goalie was Clint Malarchuk, and he did live.
Some of these shows I know happened. A airline stewardess was sucked out an airplane about 20 years ago, I think it was Hawaiian Airlines. A couple years ago a child was in an MRi and unfortunately there was an oxygen tank left in the room and it was pulled into the MRI at great speed and killed the child. Recently in Oregon a man
was skinning a dead animal and contracted rabies. Another one was a child who was sucked into a hot tubs motor and drowned the parents could not pull her out because of the suction. Also in Sierra Vista Az a man picked up a baby rattlesnake to show his children, he was bitten and died.