The narrative is a collection of stories about individuals who have made poor decisions, leading to their unfortunate demise. Here's a concise summary:
1. A couple from Belarus found a mysterious bottle in a landfill, assuming it contained homemade alcohol. However, it was actually poisonous, leading to their deaths.
2. A man in Brazil built an electric fence around his car to deter thieves. When he forgot to turn it off, he was electrocuted.
3. A man in Detroit dove into a partially-frozen river to retrieve his phone, leading to his death due to the cold water.
4. During a funeral in Serbia, the bishop's death was caused by coronavirus, but the funeral did not follow safety measures, leading to the church patriarch's illness and death.
5. A man in Australia was thrown from a forklift and fatally crushed by his payload while filming a safety video.
6. A woman in Cauca, Colombia, ignored safety warnings and fell over a waterfall, leading to her death.
7. In 1984, a man in Florida was crushed by a vending machine after attempting to shake it.
8. In 2020, several people in Manatu, India, were electrocuted while riding on the roof of a bus.
9. In 1982, a woman in Minnesota froze to death while waiting for alien contact.
10. In 1900, several football fans in San Francisco were killed when the roof of a glass factory collapsed.
11. In 1889, a magician was accidentally shot and killed by his own assistant during a bullet-catching trick.
12. In 1982, a man in Arizona was killed when he leaned against a cactus that fell on him.
13. In 2020, a woman in Sao Paulo, Brazil, was killed when a statue she was leaning against fell on her.
14. In 2020, a woman in Kiawah Island, South Carolina, was killed by an alligator while trying to pet it.
15. In New York, a man was electrocuted while trying to fix power lines by himself.
1. The narrator discusses the unfortunate souls who have selected themselves out of the gene pool, winning a posthumous Darwin Award in the process.
2. The narrator describes a couple from Belarus who found a bottle filled with a mysterious, murky liquid in a landfill site. They assumed it contained homemade hooch and shared it, resulting in them becoming extremely ill and dying.
3. The narrator recounts a story about a Brazilian man who built a miniature electric fence around his car to protect it from thieves. He forgot to turn off the electric fence, which electrocuted him when he tried to move it aside to get into his car.
4. The narrator tells the story of a man from Detroit who dived into an icy, partially-frozen river to retrieve his phone. He failed to realize that sudden submersion in ice-cold water can be dangerous and didn't re-emerge until several hours later when emergency responders pulled his lifeless body from the water.
5. The narrator recounts a story about a Serbian Orthodox church in November 2020, where a high-ranking bishop's death was caused by coronavirus. The funeral held at the church showed no regard for the types of conditions that lead to such an infection.
6. The narrator describes a motorcyclist who took a risky ride near Manasota Key in Florida. He ignored the flashing red lights warning drivers to stay away from the bridge and attempted to accelerate, hoping to jump the ever-growing gap. He crashed head-first straight into one of the gates and was instantly swept from his bike and onto the asphalt.
7. The narrator recounts the story of Robert Emmet Odlum who set out to be the first man to jump into New York City's East River from the Brooklyn Bridge in 1885. He attempted to stay straight in the air, but a strong wind blew him into a diagonal angle of descent. When he eventually struck the water, the angle of impact caused some serious damage.
8. The narrator tells the story of two guys who suddenly landed on a sense of hazard awareness after doing something incredibly dangerous and stupid back in 2002. They attempted to pick up a live, high-voltage wire to move it to prevent danger, and the powerful current passed through them, fatally electrocuting one of them.
9. The narrator recounts the story of a man who met his untimely demise in Australia in 2017 while filming a forklift safety video. He broke several crucial rules to forklift safety, including driving over rough, uneven terrain at high speed, and not wearing a seatbelt.
10. The narrator tells the story of a woman on a pleasure-trip to a natural waterfall at a tourist hotspot in Cauca, Colombia in January 2020. She ignored safety warnings about wandering too close to the edge of the waterfall and ended up plummeting over the waterfall's edge, straight down into the boulder-and-rock-filled pool below.
11. The narrator recounts the story of a man who had been attempting to get a can of soda from the vending machine in his apartment complex's recreation center in Safety Harbor, Florida in 1984. He was found, utterly crushed, with the vending machine on top of him.
12. The narrator tells the story of several people who were transported to a wedding venue on a very over-crowded bus in Manatu, India in 2020. They climbed up onto the roof-top for the ride and were electrocuted when they struck the exposed wire directly.
13. The narrator recounts the story of a woman who believed she'd been contacted by some type of intergalactic power in 1982. She