"Dead Weight", Way to Die #102, is the third death to be featured in "Gratefully Dead", which aired on January 13, 2010.
Plot[]
A drunk weightlifter named Pete makes a bet with his workout partner Hank that he can lift a 350-pound I-beam he found at a construction site. Pete tells Hank to watch how he could lift "The Crusher", but Hank left. However, he lifts it too high, loses his grip, and drops it. "The Crusher" crushed Pete's windpipe, killing him instantly, sending him to Heaven.
"Unfortunately, The Crusher...crushed Pete's windpipe."
Transcript[]
([] is playing, Pete boxes)
Narrator: Pete, was a workout warrior.
Pete: Yes!!
Narrator: All his free time and every penny earned at his construction job, was invested in his physique.
Pete: (SCREAMS)
Narrator: He pounded the heavy bag, shadowboxed, and did everything he could, to puff up his pecs.
Pete: (SCREAMS)
(Pete headbutts the heavy bag)
Jeff Mulvin: The exercise gives you a sense of well-being and feeling great and so they do as they start to little more, little more...
Pete: (SCREAMS)
Jeff Mulvin: really basing with they do they just replacing that as an addiction for drinking or drugs, 'cause you get that same euphoric feeling for the workout.
Pete: (Screams)
(Later, Pete & Hank drink)
Narrator: But Pete enjoyed drinking as well. He and his workout partner would pound down shots of tequila and play the dead weight challenge.
Pete: Let's go!!
(Hank flips the table; both are ready to dead weight challenge)
-Pete: Watch.
-Narrator: Pete and his buddy Hank tested their manhood on various pieces Pete collected from construction sites.
Pete: (Growl-laughing)
Jeff Mulvin: If you're drinking and you start lifting weights, the first tendency you have is to think "Oh, I can pop a lot of weights, I can do a faster and stronger"...
(Hank lifts)
Pete: You ain't got it.
Jeff Mulvin: The muscles, first they can pump real hard. and so they'll overdo it, and they've already gone beyond where they should go and then all of a sudden, the muscles just give out right away.
(Hank decides to give up)
Narrator: But nothing was too heavy for these muscle heads.
Hank: You see?
(Hank pushes Pete)
Pete: Watch this, watch this! Watch.
Narrator: Pete liked to call the 350-pound piece of I-beam: "The crusher".
Hank: Yeah, whatever, man...
(Hank leaves the room; Pete lifts the crusher, he lifts it too high, loses his grip, and drops it. "The Crusher" crushed Pete's windpipe, Medical Device Death is playing)
Pete: (Moans)
Narrator: Unfortunately, The Crusher... crushed Pete's windpipe.
Dr. Ramon Cestero: Most likely, this individual died from a trachea obstruction, from a...
(CGI shows the I-beam crushes the chest, rib stabs the lung)
Dr. Ramon Cestero: crushed larynx or trachea, once they are crushed, it's very difficult to open them back up. So, this person most likely suffocated.
(CGI human bleeds out of this nose & mouth)
Narrator: Pete's pecs had pumped their last piece of iron.
Interviewees[]
- Chille DeCastro - Pete (Lead: Intended victim)
- Toyin J. Koyejo - Hank (Lead)
- Jeff Mulvin - Personal Trainer
- Dr. Ramon Cestero - Trauma Surgeon
Trivia[]
- This is one of the deaths where people are basically playing chicken.
- This is similar to the death of Mark Frechette.
Segment Nicknames[]
- Crushed
- Dead Fitness
- Deathlifted
- I-Beamned
Foreign Names[]
- Peso Muerto (Dead Weight) - Latin American Spanish and European Spanish dubs
- Peso Morto (Dead Weight) - Brazilian Portuguese dub
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