Dumb Ways to Die is an Australian announcement by Metro Trains, warning people to be safe around trains and lists train-related deaths among a list of slapstick deaths. As you can expect from a song about death, people do die.
List of Deaths
- Numpty-sets fire to his hair.
- Hapless-pokes a stick at a grizzly bear. He dies when the bear bites his head off.
- Pillock-eats out-of-date medicine and then gets a bizarre rash and dies.
- Dippy-Uses his privates as piranha bait and the piranhas eat his bottom half.
- Dumkopf-Gets electrocuted trying to get his toast out with a fork.
- Dimwit-dies in a house fire after doing his electrical work.
- Stupe-His head falls off in a plane crash.
- Lax-dies of food poisoning after eating a pie that was unrefrigerated for two weeks.
- Unseen victim-killed by the psycho killer.
- Doomed-killed when the drug dealer hits him with a bat.
- Numskull-their head explodes when she takes her helmet off in space.
- Bungle-dies while hiding in a clothes dryer.
- Mishap-dies when his pet rattlesnake bites him.
- Dunce-dies after selling both his kidneys on the internet.
- Calamity-dies after swallowing superglue.
- Ninny-killed in an explosion after pressing a red button.
- Botch-shot after being mistaken for a moose.
- Doofus-stung by wasps.
- Stumble-ran over by a train after standing on the edge of the platform.
- Bonehead-ran over by a train after driving around the boom gates.
- Putz-ran over by a train after crossing the tracks.