Spike TV's 1000 Ways to Die

Anyone seen this? Caught a couple episodes the other night. Pretty crazy. Poor yet comical reenactments, and really crummy situations if they're in fact true.

Probably the most gruesome was some armed robber on the run from the cops. He decided to escape them by going into a drainage pipe. The cops gave up pursuit and he kept going farther and farther into the pipe until he got stuck. Then a horde of rats came upon him and they wanted to get out, so they ate through his body, apparently going through his eye socket. One of the interviewed doctors said that he most-likely felt everything as they ate their way through his entire body.

EDIT:

Found this summary of the first two episodes:

First episode:

* A ?chubby chaser? (as the show described him) salesman is crushed while having sex with a 400-pound woman
* A guy sets another guy on fire with his fart
* A girl who played her violin in her lingerie falls down the stairs and breaks her neck
* A criminal on the run gets stuck in a drainage pipe and then eaten by rats
* A ?french maid lap dancer? kills an old man when she plugs in some Christmas lights and wraps them around her. The extra juice from the lights cause the house fuse to blow, and the old man?s respirator shuts down
* A man who is forced to dig his own grave by two mobsters tosses an unexploded WWII grenade from the dirt, which explodes and kills the mobsters
* A guy ends up taking nine viagra pills and dies from his blood vessels closing down while doing the nasty

The second episode:

* Guy with a metal plate in his head gets sucked into an MRI machine by the electric magnetic pulse it emits when it is activated
* ?Cactus worshipers? trip out on peyote, believe a cactus tells them they are going to die, an as they run in terror they are impaled by the cactus? in their cactus garden
* Biker chick who was ?getting off? on the motorcycle she was riding on ends up falling off
* Necrophiliac undertaker gets slammed through his van when he hits the breaks and the coffin behind him rolls through the van and smashes him through the windshield
* Guy tries to hold up a gun store, but is shot seven times by the customers
* Hockey player gets throat cut by other players skate when he falls down
* Drunk Russian soldier tries to get his freak on with a raccoon, but the raccoon bites off his junk, and the soldier dies of blood loss


And here's the eaten by rats reenactment.

 

This show is hilarious.

 

I admit, this show is funny in a sick way.

 

My personal favorite was the guy who thought he could get a jump start on evolution by letting his collection of snakes and spiders bite him repeatedly until he gained a natural immunity from the venom.

Apparently, he didnt get the memo that mongooses, secretary birds, and honey badgers have all had thousands upon thousands of years of evolution to achieve their tolerance to venom....and even then, its just a tolerance and not an outright immunity....

 

The best one was where the ex-con hides the pepper spray in his rectum so the cop doesn't find it. He gets shoved up against a van and it goes off inside of him.

 

I've seen the one where the guy patroling his property gets shot by his own gun when a snake wraps around the trigger when he put it down. Also the showgirl who dies of a flesh eating diease she got from a rusty razor blade that cut her leg. There was also on where a woman uses a peeled carrot as a "toy" and cuts inside herself open, then the motion forced in air giving her an aneurysm. Last there is one where a guy got hit by a bullet sized meteorite kiiling him instantly.

 

pure excellence

 

The scariest one I think is where a dancer in Vegas cut her leg while shaving and days later dies from a flesh eating virus.

 

My personal favorite is the guy who hooks up a cow's heart to his 110VAC house current and then ****s it. That changed my life.

 

Byaahaha I saw this one the other night. Brilliant.

 

Whenever I see this show I'm reminded of this hilarious book:

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It's worth getting.

 

One episode I watched had one about a woman who was a boss in a office building, who was the uptight type nobody liked, and when she was in an elevator as the power went off, she scrambled to get out of the elevator, opening the doors just as it was moving between floors and getting squashed between them .

 

Yeah, this show can be darkly funny, like the girl who decided to move to Vegas to be stripper. She had a really cheap boob job and her shoddy implants exploded on an airplane.

 

Yes, it's a great show. I always learn something.


MANswers would be up there too, except I hate how the narrator always yells at me while I watch it.

 

MythBUSTED.

1. Pressurized airplane cabins. Same reason that cans of soda and bottles of water don't explode in midair.

2. A woman EXPLODES on an airplane. REALLY? A LOT of people would know about it LONG before it ever hit late night TV. The plane would instantly have to land, EMTs would be going over it, law enforcement/TSA would be interviewing any and all of the witnesses, MOUNTAINS of government paperwork and autopsy reports.

3. Spike TV has such ***** programming that they rely on boobs and Star Wars to keep an audience.

So in a nutshell....if it were any more bull****, Penn and Teller would feature it on Showtime.

 

Yeah well any story about a guy who ****s an electrified cow heart is worth at LEAST an Emmy in my book.

 

That's a def never happened.

 

Then there's the scuba diver chick that blew up when somebody opened the decompression chamber she was in by accident.


And the show is darkly entertaining. I try to watch as many episodes as I can during Spike's practically-every-other-day marathon of the show.

 

Not possible. Decompression chambers are used to simulate the atmospheric pressure put upon you at a certain depth to even out the Nitrogen levels in your bloodstream if you've developed Nitrogen Narcosis, or made to quick an ascent from a depth of greater than 30 feet. They are ALL operated by PADI certified technicians and the divers' computers are ALWAYS checked and verified by the technicians.

This is an old myth, as are several of the stories on that show.