Somebody needs to make an "unnatural billionaire death" bingo card. So far we got submarine implosion and death cage.
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Idk about billionaire, but the Bed Bath Beyond CEO threw himself out a window just before the company failed, maybe a couple years ago now.
But a normal person could die that way easily, what we need is ways in which people died that wouldn't have been possible without a fuckton of money.
A normal person couldn't afford a $250,000 trip to the bottom of the ocean or a party with a stage elevated by a crane.
I'll accept single pane glass in a high rise.
What's the movie where they have an executive get onto a conference table and run through a window, and then later another exec does exactly the same thing but they've replaced the glass and he just bounces off, and the people in the meeting juat continue with work?
The Hudsucker Proxy! Great movie in general, very funny.
Here's the initial "jumper" scene (trigger warning for self-ending via jump) https://youtu.be/-FPuyMHo2N8?si=xCqAaS8mF0u1XP9U
And here's the failed follow: https://youtu.be/Jqe6tBKmFJA?si=zntGnFBNSIidQzAA
I thought that might be it! Fantastic movie.
"You know, for kids!"
That happened in real life to a friend of mine who used to work in a high rise. This was back in the early 90s and they were in an insurance office, where the central elevator opened right into the cube farm: if you could get into the building, you were free to go anywhere that did not have secondary security, and this place didn't. Additionally, the elevator doors opened to a clear path to floor to ceiling windows, which was a great view if your desk happened to be facing that way.
So one day my friend and their coworkers are all working at their desks on the 26th floor or whatever it was, and with no warning at all some guy gets off the elevator, goes running as fast as he can across the floor to the window and launches himself at the window, only to bounce off and land on his ass on the carpet. Without a word he then got up and did it two more times with all his might before he figured out the glass wasn't going to break, and then just walked back to the elevator and left.
It all happened so quickly no one had any time to react, and they never found out who he was. But while it was an older building, built in the 60s, all the glass had already been replaced years before to prevent just that. He was denied before he ever even got there, poor guy.
Oh what about the Segway owner driving a Segway off a cliff? I don’t think he was a billionaire but there were quite a few less 13 years ago, and he was worth $438 million USD, so maybe he can count too?
Something something Undertaker.
"It looks like the CEO was... sunglasses ...let go."
Wait, I've seen this before. Undertaker vs mankind?
This one seemed more Owen Hart
When you're a CEO, don't pretend you're a rock star.
Or if you do, pay enough to the engineers designing your equipment. I'd bet they cheaped out on this stunt and just got someone to Jerry rig it.
That's why rock stars have very complicated contracts with venues for live shows.
Jerry-rigged. Makes sense now. 
Definitely fell as hard as a rock though lol.
Here’s the video https://x.com/darwinmedals/status/1748851166404821194?s=46 pretty awful :-(
Who the fuck thought that was a good idea? Flames and chains do not go together like boats and hoes.
I backpacked through India maybe 25 years ago. Safety just wasn't a thing. If there was a big hole in the road, there wasn't any effort to stop people from falling in. If a kid blew his hand off with fireworks during Diwali, then they would just let kids shoot off more next Dwali.
Damn
Oh man.. that is soooooo India.
That guy in the hat knew something was going to happen. He'll be viral famous now. LOL
Celebration of success before they go back to lay off people?
They just cut out a ton of unnecessary pay by accident. Maybe the layoffs can wait?
The Glassdoor reviews suggest management sucks but where are you seeing that they were laying people off?
Just a trend in tech. Big splash, followed by layoffs. My own company did it.
Sure but I expect better from people than to peddle fake information.
I think Abe Lincoln said it best by saying, "don't believe everything you read on the internet." Or maybe Winston Churchill saying, "relax, man, it's for shits and giggles."
Winston "The Dude" Churchill
It’s only a matter of time.
This is a very…Reddit response.
Lol. Lmao. Edit: just watched the video. Sorry for my previous callousness, the video is hilarious.
Fortunately, nothing of value was lost.