"Guns N' Noses", Way to Die #465, is the fourth death featured in "Killing Them Softly", which aired on March 9, 2011.
Plot[]
After capturing and killing a diamond smuggler and put the rough diamonds in a tray, a ruthless and sadistic warlord named Tomo celebrates by snorting the Sierra Leone dealer's drug of choice, "brown-brown" (cocaine laced with nitroglycerine-laced gunpowder). After some hits of it he starts writhing in pain, beginning to bleed from the nose and mouth, before collapsing onto the desk dead. However, the death wasn't by the combination of cocaine and gunpowder.
Rather, he was completely unaware that the tray holding the mixture, as well as the overall air in the room, was contaminated with near-invisible diamond dust from the rough diamonds that his compound mines; when he snorted the mixture, the particles quickly made ribbons of his arteries, ripped up his lungs, and finally sliced up his heart, causing him to bleed to death (though the effects of the brown-brown meant he didn't feel all the pain), sending this ruthless warlord of a bastard to hell as he deserved.
Transcript[]
(Shows footage of the jungle and diamonds)
Narrator: Sierra Leone: known for its rich deposits of diamonds...
(Cuts to the shack of Tomo)
Narrator: And its warlords.
(Tomo gets up and starts firing off his AK-47 at the wall)
Tomo: AGAIN!!
Narrator: And Tomo, was as ruthless as they came.
Tomo: Take him to the back. Blow his head off.
Soldier: Yes boss.
Runner: No!
Narrator: Tomo just had a diamond runner executed. And stole all his uncut gems. He celebrated with a big fat rail of brown-brown. Brown-brown is cocaine mixed with gunpowder. Its the stimulant of choice in war-torn West Africa. It has a very unique effect, because the gunpowder contains nitroglycerin.
Narrator: Tomo was really going at it, snorting line after line of the drug.
(Tomo keeps snorting lines before he groans in pain, and then vomits up blood, and starts coughing up some more as he gets up out of his chair)
Narrator: The brown-brown was making Tomo... 'bleed-bleed.
(Recap, Death by Bells is playing)
Narrator: But not from the gunpowder-coke mixture. The bag of diamonds he dumped on his desk, left a thin sheet of diamond dust and nearly invisible blade-like crystals. The numbing effect of the cocaine kept Tomo from feeling the thousands of microscopic diamond knives,
(CGI recreation of the diamond dust tearing through the arteries of his body)
Narrator: as they tore through his arteries, ripped up his lungs, and sliced through his heart.
Narrator: Tomo: the gun-shooting coke and gunpowder tooting warlord learned a valuable lesson. Diamonds don't last forever...Being dead does!
Cast and Interviewees[]
- Willy Louis-Charles - Tomo (Lead: Intended victim)
- Dr. Vyshali Rao - Cardiologist
Trivia[]
- Also called "Blood Diamonds" on the Spike TV (now Paramount Network) website.
- This is the only death to take place in Sierra Leone.
Segment Nicknames[]
- Blood Diamonds (Spike TV)
- Cocaine-Fueled Cut
- Diamonds and Powder
- Powder-keg'd Warlord
- Snort Diamonds Every Day!
- Diamonds in the Nose
Foreign Names[]
- Nariz Cargada (Loaded Nose) - Latin American Spanish dub
- Hasta las Narices (Up to the Noses) - European Spanish dub
- E Ai? Tomo? (So? Tomo?) [A play on Tomo and "Tomou", the past tense of "Tomar" (To take or to drink)] - Brazilian Portuguese dub
- Guns 'N' Noses - German dub
- Nalaan diyamante ka naris (Getting Diamonds for your Nose) - Lazoran dub
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