Random Most Ironic Deaths (10 items)

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  (#1) Man Shouts '[Screw] Alligators,' Is Eaten By One

  Some things are just not smart to do, like taunting an alligator, for instance — especially an 11-foot-long one. Jumping in the water with an alligator is also not a good idea. But jumping in the water with an 11-foot-long alligator after taunting it is an even worse idea.

  According to the Daily Mail, 28-year-old Tommie Woodward, a man known for wearing straw cowboy hats and a T-shirt reading "Class Motherf*cker," was slain by an alligator in the Texas bayou after shouting "F*ck the alligators!" and jumping into the water with the aforementioned carnivorous reptile.

  According to a witness on the scene, "I saw his body floating face down, and then he's up there for a couple seconds and then he gets dragged back down and pulled off."
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  (#9) Soldier Passes From Hiccups-Related Gunshot Wound

  Isaac Lawrence Young died when a fellow soldier stationed at Ft. Hood in Texas pulled out a gun, just to scare the hiccups away, and ended up discharging the weapon in the general direction of Young’s face.

  The incident went down in the men’s living room where they, and a third soldier, were watching Sunday night football and drinking. Patrick Edward Myers took out a handgun to help Young triumph over his temporary affliction and ended up slaying him before he could be transported to a nearby field where a helicopter was waiting to take him to a trauma hospital.

  Myers was later charged with manslaughter. 
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  (#2) Co-Founder Of ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Drowns

  On August 16, 2014, just as the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge was at the height of its virality, it's co-founder, 27-year-old Corey Griffin, drowned in an unrelated diving accident off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts.

  Griffin helped co-found the viral craze that involves dumping ice water over your head and plastering it all over social media to help raise donations to fight Lou Gehrig's Disease. He came up with the idea after his friend Pete Frates was diagnosed with it.
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  (#4) Anti-Seatbelt Activist Dies After Being Thrown From SUV

  Derek Kieper was an honors student, a friend, and most notably, an anti-seatbelt rebel.

  Kieper described himself as being part of “a die-hard group of non-wearers out there who simply do not wish to buckle up no matter what the government does.” So staunch was he that the government shouldn’t have any say in the safety precautions folks take while in motor vehicles, he took to the pages of the Daily Nebraskan a mere three months prior to his passing, to extol his position to the readers of the paper.

  Practicing his unwavering allegiance to keeping his seatbelt holstered, Kieper and two of his seatbelt-wearing frat brothers were returning from a trip to San Antonio, Texas, when the SUV they were traveling in hit an icy patch and flew off the road before rolling over several times in a roadside ditch. Both the driver and the front-seat passenger survived the crash with non-life threatening injuries while Kieper, who was ejected from the car when it careened off the highway, perished on impact.
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  (#10) Japanese Actor Excels Onstage, Chokes On Fish

  Bando Mitsugoro VIII was a Japanese kabuki actor and food daredevil. He was active on the kabuki circuit from the 1930s until his passing and was even declared a “living national treasure” by the Japanese government in 1973.

  The man was so famous in his native land that when he walked into a restaurant in Kyoto and ordered an illegally large helping of fugu, which is also known as pufferfish — in case you’re familiar with that lethal food — the chef couldn’t bring himself to say no to the actor who told the four fatal fish to bring it on.

  Mitsugoro had a generally cavalier attitude about the whole thing, telling his dinner companions that he could take the toxins, but passed later that night after enduring seven hours of convulsing and paralysis brought on by the absurd helping of fugu.

  The chef was a victim, too; he lost his license after the incident.
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  (#7) Man Proves Strength Of Window Glass, Frailty Of Window Pane In Fatal Fall

  Gary Hoy, a lawyer in Toronto, Canada, had a real affinity for demonstrating to visitors the strength of the glass in his 24th-story office. On a fateful day in July, Hoy was giving a demo of the glass’ strength by throwing himself at full force into the pane. On what was apparently his second demo of the day, Hoy’s shoulder knocked the window free of its frame and he and the glass piece fell 24 stories down to the street below, much to the horror of the law students he was trying to impress.

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