We all know that Darwin proposed the theory of evolution, which is inseparable from the important idea of natural selection. This theory can be used to explain why humans can continue to multiply and survive on Earth. However, in human society, there are still people who continue to do stupid things, and they seem to want to prove the correctness of natural selection, so someone has created a half-joke award called the "Darwin Award" to record those who have committed stupid acts to throw themselves or almost lose their lives. From people skydiving the Eiffel Tower to people who put lava lamps on the stove and bake them. Today, Andy sorted out 4 people who lacked scientific common sense and lost their lives in a very stupid way.
The Eiffel Tower has been a Paris landmark for hundreds of years, and although it is one of the city's most popular tourist attractions, more than 300 people have died in the building, including a man who calls himself inventor, Franz Richter. What happened to him in 1912 was filmed and stored in Britain. Franz Richter, the owner of a tailor shop in the city, was inspired by parachutes and began making life-saving parachutes using materials from his home. But unfortunately, his stupidity caused him to lose his life. To make his parachute, he used a piece of fabric similar to canvas, which at first reached 70 kg, but after improvements it was reduced to 25 kg. During the testing phase, he used multiple dummies, but all failed. Eventually he decided to test it himself.
However, most of the jumping sites he wanted to try were not permitted, and it wasn't until he claimed he was going to be conducting a dummy experiment that the Eiffel Tower granted his request. However, when the day of the experiment came, he did not use a dummy, and he jumped down wearing a parachute, and as a result, the parachute did not open at all, and he hit the ground hard, and eventually died of serious injuries.
Usually, the plots we see in movies about bank robbers, the criminals give the impression that they have used extremely clever techniques, but in reality most cases are not like this, and some are even very stupid. In 2003, near Erie, Pennsylvania, pizza delivery man Brian Wells came to the bank with a 15-minute timed bomb device around his neck and asked bank employees to quickly remove $250,000 from the vault to fill the bag, which must be operated within 15 minutes. However, the cashier could not enter the vault and had to hand him a bag of $8702 in cash. He drove away with the money, the cashier called the police, and about 15 minutes later, state police found and surrounded Wells. He quickly begged for forgiveness and told the police in despair that he had been threatened with a bomb to commit a crime. However, the police were unable to disarm the bomb before it exploded, and he died as a result of the bomb explosion.
Although he claimed to have committed the crime because of threats from others, the police found that the man had committed crimes in the past, so not many people believed that he was threatened. It wasn't until 2005, when a drug dealer named Kenneth Barnes was caught and confessed to his threat and help to Wells' crimes, that it was believed.
Lava lights look very interesting and can satisfy many people's fantasies about touching volcanic lava, but you can't think of them as real lava. However, Philip Quinn, a 24-year-old man in Washington, D.C., did something extremely stupid using lava lamps. He probably thought that if he put a lava lamp on the stove, he could make it boil, so he did. As a result, the lava lamp exploded as the temperature rose as he stood nearby, a sharp piece of glass piercing into his heart. His parents later found his body in his trailer. This shows that he did not die immediately, but gradually died after returning to the room.
There are many people in the United States who legally own guns, and most of them must attend mandatory safety classes before they can legally obtain a weapon in order to obtain a permit and possess a firearm. An older man named Glenn Seymour went through all the steps, but he was taking a course when he was taking a normal concealed carrying gun course, and his arrogant attempt to aim his weapon at his body while removing the safety device resulted in a gun that accidentally hit him in the chest and he died as a result.