A tourist visiting Australia has unknowingly had a brush with death after filming themselves handling a very dangerous creature.
Footage uploaded to Reddit shows the unwitting tourist holding a deadly blue-ringed octopus in their hand.One Reddit user claimed the Mandarin writing on the video says: “Such a beautiful octopus.” The video shows the person shaking the octopus to get it off after they were done filming it.Luckily they put the octopus back in the water before it had a chance to sting them.


The blue-ringed octopus is recognised as one of the world’s deadliest marine animals and carries enough venom to kill 26 adult humans within minutes.

Commenters were understandably horrified by the video.

“Do they even know how lucky they are to be alive after doing something that monumentally stupid?” one person asked.

“This is how tourists become statistics,” another said.

www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/unwitting-tourist-holds-deadly-animal-on-australian-beach/news-story/819ecf93ee98a4ed0e690fe53f272fff

Because we all know how famous Australia is for its non-threatening wildlife 😒

While the guy didn’t die or get injured in the video article it definitely reminded me of the Darwin awards and he is incredibly lucky.




The Darwin Awards are a tongue-in-cheek honor, originating in Usenet newsgroup discussions around 1985. They recognize individuals who have supposedly contributed to human evolution by selecting themselves out of the gene pool via death or sterilization by their own actions.

- Wiki

Basically the Darwin Awards are an honour given to people who have died due in the most idiotic way possible. I remember my dad telling me about the #8 story on the video when I was a kid and he won the “award”. (A guy shoulder charged a 24th story window because it was unbreakable...and died)

2018’s Winner was the guy that tried to make contact with the isolated Sentinelese tribe and was murdered by them. The arrows being shot at him should have been his first hint.
darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2018-13.html

It’s got to suck for the family/friends of the deceased to lose a loved one in a way that was completely preventable. We’ve all done stupid things ..just not to that extent.

Do you know of any stories yourself or someone that has come close?
(Or very unfortunately made a fatal mistake)


Discuss!

That 2018 was a story I followed for it's wildness. Poor dude tried to teach them religion, escaped once, came back and got killed. Silly. People need reasons to live for and sometimes choose some weird shit to live for.

The running into the window thing is insane though.

I strongly believe that modern society is making us stupider as a race.
All of the rules we have now around safety etc. we don't trust anyone to take care of their own selves, we legislate everything.
As a result, we're protecting stupid people from themselves.... And they're passing on their genes.
Same deal for sick people we keep alive... Maybe we are now past peak humanity?

2019 contender even though she’s still alive.

Jan 30, 2019 21:57:00 GMT iNCY said:

I strongly believe that modern society is making us stupider as a race.
All of the rules we have now around safety etc. we don't trust anyone to take care of their own selves, we legislate everything.
As a result, we're protecting stupid people from themselves.... And they're passing on their genes.
Same deal for sick people we keep alive... Maybe we are now past peak humanity?

We make it far too easy, for stupid people to stay alive.

Walk past any food-court and you'll see an absolute menagerie of uninspired, ugly people and their equally ugly children eating themselves to death, only for modern science to keep the fuckers alive.