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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  (#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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  (#3) Rapper Says 'YOLO' To Drunk Driving, Passes 20 Minutes Later

  Aspiring rapper Ervin McKinness, known as Jew'elz and Inkyy in the music community that had recently awarded him a recording deal, never got a chance to make any music professionally because 21 minutes after he said “f**k it” to driving drunk, the SUV he was in skidded into a wall and killed all five of the car’s occupants, including the would-be rapper.
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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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  (#5) Woman Passes Because Of Water Poisoning Trying To Win A Wii

  The incident transpired when Jennifer Strange, a 28-year-old mother of three, took place in radio station KDND’s “Hold your wee for a Wii” contest. The winner would be the contestant who could drink the most water without breaking for a pee. Other participants speculated, after the game had ended, that Strange and some of the others participating in the contest had drunk upwards of two gallons of water in their efforts to win a $250 game box.

  Far from being ignorant of the potential for harm involved in drinking that much water, several incidents of water poisoning were referenced on the air while the game was underway, and a nurse even called the radio show to warn that the contestants could face health risks if they continued. 

  But Strange soldiered on and even went to work after the contest ended, eventually heading home in tremendous pain later in the day. Her mother found her corpse in her home shortly thereafter.

  Strange came in second in the contest and did not win the Wii.
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  (#6) Tenor Sings 'You Can Only Live So Long' And Perishes

  62-year-old opera veteran Richard Versalle was beginning to sing in the premiere of The Makropulos Case at the Lincoln Center in New York City when he basically told the audience he was about to perish. Well, not Versalle so much as his character (a clerk) who was standing on a ladder, fetching a file from a cabinet. After singing the line “you can only live so long,” he had a heart attack and fell 15 feet to the stage below.

  The performance halted and the house doctor declared Versalle deceased.
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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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  (#8) Girl Tweets Her Thanks To God For Another Year Of Life And Passes

  Arianne Noelle Patterson, a student at North Carolina’s Gardner-Webb University, got down on one knee and celebrated her 21st birthday by saying “Thank you God for another year of life” to all her followers in the Twitterverse.

  And then she passed from a heart attack. In the middle of her religion class.
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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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  (#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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