you could die when you least expect it especially if you don’t expect these things to make you die let’s talk about that good mythical morning being alive is dangerous we all know that today we open your eyes to the seemingly innocuous items that are right there under your nose but they’re lurking waiting ready to take your life so this episode is about scaring you’re scaring the pants off no well not scaring the pants off of you it’s like scaring if you wearing shorts it’s gonna make them sag a little bit I didn’t make any sense to me but we’re gonna make you shorts AG by talking about things that could kill you maybe even help you survive something ok it’s winter time you look up you see some beautiful ice cones hanging from that awning yeah all those are beautiful and then it stabs you to death well that’s what happens a lot more than you would think icicles kill people icicles are deadly ice swords that impale people in public ice swords ice cones 15 people a year in the United States alone killed by icicles falling really yes but what’s the anatomy of this is it like they just happen don’t know where it hits you it hits it’s on a weak spot like people like look up and it goes in through the eyeball I mean if I see might have happened to somebody it might be on my head somebody’s mouth this is morbid hmm I’m gonna try to swallow that falling ice ward no what happens is you’re out minding your own business in a big ice cone falls on you impale just to give you an idea of what this might seem like there’s an article in 1903 in the New York Times Wow you dig deep about Charles one Charles Daniels not Charlie Daniels this guy was a an officer said Charles Daniels was killed last night by a huge icicle which fell upon him as he was making his rounds and cut off the top of his head oh gosh so it’s not pretty it is definitely not pretty it is ugly it is not a good way to go but if you do survive one of these icicle fallings you get a new body piercing and it’s sterile because it’s so cold all right I got to go in for you imagine your hankering for snack and you go up to a vending machine you feed that dollar in there do you find yourself thinking I could die at any moment I thought that well listen finding on the item vending machines are giant monolithic body crushers have you heard about this that people get death by vending machine between ninth I haven’t been afraid of vending machines until now I’m well welcome to the welcome to the reality between 1978 and 1995 at least 37 people achieved death by vending machine not an achievement these things can weigh up to a thousand pounds and do you know how it happens yeah I’ve seen people do this I’ve seen what the shake in the shake rattle and roll man no you put in you get your kin candy bars coming out and that coil starts turning mmm you just start to get mesmerized by it and you’re about to fall over you grab that thing and it’s a thousand pounds right on you that’s never mesmerized Asia has never happened you shouldn’t spread things like that all right they shake it like a Polaroid picture and then it falls on I mean is it really worth getting that package of Famous Amos cookies yes it risk getting smushed P no listen people risk their lives for food oh that’s what the history of mankind is all about is putting yourself out there risking your life for a little grub that’s that that is human existence man so somebody who gets killed by vending machine is just carrying on the tradition of humans vending manufacturers recommend to not tilt a vending machine beyond 20 degrees that’s why I take my protractor every time I that’s why you’ve had a project order or something up out of a vending machine who in their anger pulls out of petroi 18° barb starts you’re not gonna die okay you’re on a tropical vacation mom and I’m trying to set this yeah I’m really working and yaaaah you’re drinking your little cocktail out of a coconut next thing you know BAM a magical orb of death hits you in the head and it is a coconut you want your drink you note that one like out of a tree now interestingly a lot of people quote this thing 150 people died from coconuts falling on their heads every single year worldwide in fact more people die from coconuts and shark attacks and that’s not true that’s our urban legend but it is a strong urban legend because of a 1984 research paper by dr. Peter bars entitled injuries due to falling coconuts people miss applied or misinterpreted his data and came up with this figure that 150 people die every year not true there’s probably a couple every every couple of years if you go to the Wikipedia entry for death by coconut which there is one you see that every couple years there’s a report like in August 2010 69 year-old man was killed by a coconut that fell out of a 12-meter 39 feet tall palm tree while he was sitting in a rocking chair outside his home in Melgar Columbia I mean this is cartoon stuff like you know you can I can I know what sound is going to make and everything this is blunt-force trama because when it’s falling the thing is weighs four and a half pounds on average palm trees can be eight stories tall so nothing picks up that speed it’s like a ton of force on top of your head I’ll goodness and I think this calls to earth I think this calls for hard hats on the beach I mean next time I go on a tropical vacation I’m going to be in my speedo but I’m gonna have on a hard hat and a pair of sunglasses like a minute work music video alright here’s another one typically answer just an annoyance until they gang up on you and kill yourself a fire ant hmm kill over 30 people per year now there’s there could be up to 20 million fire ants in a colony we know about fire ants because they’re in North Carolina are they typically attack small animals but they they kill humans that what step on them fall asleep near their mouths like don’t look at a mound of dirt and say oh that would be a perfect pillow I mean it’s anaphylactic shock people who are allergic to allergic to em I am allergic to that I’ve done allergic yourselves to ant and there’s a correlation if you’re allergic to bees or wasps you may be allergic to fire ants and they’re not just in the southeast anymore they’re coming to California coming to California they are following us here Oh probably not anyway just anyone’s on its own if you’re know that for us no no no we didn’t have anything to do with it so a don’t use a fire ant mound as a pillow but then you can also try to get them into a death spiral you can make ants follow their own scent trail in a circle and and they will do it until they die where you get like a big donut or something I don’t know how does this work put them on a plate or just direct them to where they create a circular path and they will do it until they die or you could just pour molten aluminum into their anthill and make art that’s the thing it’s a thing and it’s pretty awesome okay uh now out here in the California we like to wear the flippy floppies we call them thongs some thongs feet–the office I do not uh but they are instruments of death okay not so much instruments of death but do you know that in the UK in 24 2002 fie 2002 over 55,000 people went to the hospital with flip-flop related injuries but it is a 5000 they didn’t die though well some of them may have that’s not in the stats I hope not there were two hunti ten there are 200,000 flip-flop related injuries causing the British National Health Service over 40 million pounds now you might be saying oh no no how are these things dangerous it’s like it’s kind of underwhelming it’s like tendonitis and stuff like that apparently wearing flip-flops is incredibly bad for your joints and your tendons and people do and I am one of them have horrific injuries because of flip-flops I didn’t die but on my recent vacation a few weeks ago with my family I was walking in the front yard of the place we were staying and I stepped in a little bit of mud and I tried to pull my foot back out and the thong on the thing just flat I all I did some kind of 360 and caught me now I got a bad back myself and I’m thinking I hope nobody saw that I mean I could see how if I had been on cliffside or something like that I could have died and now this tendinitis stuff has got me scared not a mission 18,000 types of bacteria on a typical pair of flip-flops including staph bacteria yeah that could carry and I’m not talking bacteria that works for you I’m talking back here that can kill you flesh-eating bacteria stay away from flip-flops I like flip-flops I used to like icicles I used to like ants even I mean they were strong you shouldn’t wear flip flops around ant hills either I don’t know maybe we’ll balance this episode one that’s the bright side of all these things that could kill you but for now just thanks for liking and commenting on this video and remember you can support the show by checking out lynda.com/rhettandlink with a wide calm go to Linda with a wide calm slash rhettandlink get a free trial you know what time it is hi I’m Emily from Illinois and it’s time to spin the wheel of mythicality make sure you check out our facebook we’ve got exclusive videos of us competing against one another in ridiculous contests and you can win merch when that merge merge also click through to good mythical more where we explore 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