6. The Home Made Bungee Cord
Eric Barcia of Virginia decide to prove that a home made bungee cord could be every bit as effective as paying to use a safety tested cord. He measured up the drop at 70 feet and then bought some scrap bungee cord which he tied together to form a “just shy of 70 feet” cord. The trouble is that poor Eric had forgotten one thing – bungee cord stretches when it’s in use.
7. The Wrong Time to Reach for a Cigarette
Smoking is a filthy habit and it’s well known that smoking can cause cancer and all sorts of other horrible injuries. What’s also fairly well known is that it’s a really bad idea to drink gasoline. Yet Gary Allen Banning apparently didn’t know that second fact so after downing a glass of gasoline at a friend’s house by mistake – he decided he couldn’t wait for cancer to finish him off and lit a cigarette. Unsurprisingly this led to self-immolation and Gary caught fire before coughing his last hurrah.
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