You're Dead, Jim, You April Fool.

Someone once said "Jim Bailey was a thrill seeker." Someone also once said "Driving a car without good breaks is like skydiving without a parachute." Unfortunately, Jim Bailey never heard that phrase before. In fact, he didn't think he was about to go skydiving at all when he decided to try out his stunt.

Suspended from an airplane by a flimsy harness, Jim Bailey went from stunt man to stunted man once the damn thing broke. He managed to put up a little fight, hanging from the axle by his hands, but it wasn't enough. There are a few things that made this situation worse. First of all, he had no parachute. Secondly, it's all on video. I wouldn't post the video here if it was full of gore and nasty, but it isn't. Thidly, this was on April 1st, 1981. Tempting the fates of the fools much?

So take it all in and remember, don't do stupid shit. It will kill you.

Jim Bailey (? - 1981)

Hang "10" Dead Dude

Subway surfing, or "skylarking", as the NYC transit authority calls it -- why are you so weird transit authority? -- involves riding atop a moving subway car.

Sounds safe enough, right? Provided, of course, that you have Spider-man-like reflexes to avoid all of those steel girders coming at you at 50 miles per hour.

Unfortunately, 21-year-old merchant marine Brian Hochstetter seems to have never been bitten by a radioactive spider in his short life, because in 2005, while performing the aforementioned stunt, he was struck by a girder, causing a skull fracture, and his eventual death.

I understand some people are born daredevils who need that extra adrenaline rush every now and then. But, don't do stupid stuff like surfing on a subway car, unless you've got the panache to do it without slamming your head into a steel girder like a moron, moron.

Brian Hochstetter (1984 - 2005)

Source: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D07E2DE1338F936A25752C1A9659C8B63