From reports of deaths that have resulted from attempted pranks and stunts on social media since 2018:
Collided with an oncoming car while playing a game of chicken
Fell sixty stories after doing pull-ups off the edge of a skyscraper
Got shot while blindfolded and pretending to be a hostage in a staged kidnapping
Got shot in the chest at close range while attempting to demonstrate that an encyclopedia was bulletproof
Got shot in the parking lot of a trampoline park after running toward a group of strangers with a butcher knife
Several more examples at the Harper's Magazine source. Info re the Darwin Awards.
Three out of five of these involve firearms. Res ipsa loquitur.
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