Dumbest Ways People Died

A lawyer in Toronto fell to his death while demonstrating that the windows in his office building were unbreakable.

One man died trying to invent a rocket-powered chair using fireworks on the Fourth of July.

A man drowned while trying to prove he could hold his breath longer than a dolphin.

A thief was crushed to death by a vending machine he was trying to tip over to steal snacks.

In the 1800s, a U.S. congressman died after laughing too hard at his own joke.