"Hot Shot Part D'uh", Way to Die #513, is the fourth death to be featured in "The One About Dumb People Dying", which aired on February 8, 2011.
Plot[]
Charlie and Jevetta. a bottom-feeding thieving couple, return to their hotel room after robbing luggage from an airport. Jevetta had recently stolen some jewelry and clothing, and Charlie takes pictures of her wearing the jewelry. As Jevetta goes to the bathroom to try on one of the dresses and put on make-up, Charlie finds a bottle of what he thinks is imported rum. He drinks the liquid and immediately feels what he believes is intoxication then an immense overheating, as it speeds up his heart so much that it explodes, and by the time Jevetta returns he starts convulsing and then falls on the bed, dead from a massive cardiac arrest, and sending him to Hell where he belongs. Jevetta tries to wake him up, but it's no use.
What Charlie didn't know- the "rum" was in fact liquid cocaine he inadvertently stole from a drug smuggler. Charlie had drank the equivalent of 3 ounces of pure cocaine with an extra kick of kerosene mixed in.
Transcript[]
(Shows Charlie and Jevetta in the hotel room)
Narrator: What, do we have here?
Jevetta: Here's mine
Narrator: A couple returning from a shopping spree?
Charlie: Look at this!
Jevetta: Oh my god.
Narrator: Not exactly. Charlie and Jevetta are bottom-feeding thieves who rob luggage from airports. It's a scam played out every day, all across the country.
Percy Smith: Thousands of bags across the United States are stolen...from airports. Because it's so easy to come into the airport. No one checks you. Once people get their bags, a person who wants to steal, they'll look, see a nice, fancy bag, pick it up, and just walk straight out of the door.
Narrator: The two went back to their robber's nest to take a little inventory.
(Charlie lifts up a sport coat)
Narrator: Some they'll hawk.
(Jevetta grabs a sequined dress)
Narrator: And some they'll keep.
Charlie: Oh, oh, oh. Put that on.
(Jevetta goes to the bathroom as Charlie picks up a bottle of alcohol)
Narrator: Oooo. What do we have here? A nice imported rum.
Charlie: Oh yeah!
Narrator: Bottoms up.
(Charlie recoils back from the strength of the drink)
Charlie: Oh!
Jevetta: Baby, we really cleaned up this time.
Charlie: Woo!
(Charlie removes the leather jacket he stole)
Charlie: Ugh. It's getting hot!
(He then removes his shirt as well, as he starts getting disoriented)
Jevetta: That sounds sexy tiger.
(Charlie keeps groaning in pain as he clutches his heart)
Jevetta: Yeah, I can't wait!
(Charlie still keeps moaning in agony)
Narrator: When Jevetta was finally ready to heat it up....
(Charlie keeps breathing heavily, looking flushed)
Narrator: she found her man already overheated.
Jevetta: What is this? What did you do?! Charlie! Charlie!!
(Charlie falls down on the suitcase)
(Flashback to them walking through the airport)
Narrator: Charlie had inadvertently taken the bag of a drug smuggler. That wasn't rum he just drank. It was liquid cocaine.
(Shows footage of bricks of cocaine and people making cocaine)
Narrator: Liquid cocaine is actually a highly-concentrated mixture of cocaine and kerosene.
(Flashbacks to Charlie opening the bottle and drinking it)
Narrator: It's the final step in the process before the cocaine's extracted, in the form of crystals. Charlie ingested the equivalent of three ounces of pure cocaine. The kerosene added an extra kick.
(CGI recreation of ingesting the liquid cocaine and the crystals going into the bloodstream, causing rapid heartbeat and eventual disintegration of the heart itself)
Dr. Steven Burstein: When you ingest liquid cocaine, it gets to the nerve endings and causes release of adrenaline. The consequence of this huge adrenaline release is an increase in blood pressure, an increase in heartrate, spasm of arteries, and the way you die is a big heart attack.
(Recap, Bittersweet Ending is playing)
Narrator: Charlie was a thief; he wound up stealing from a drug dealer. But what happened to him wasn't exactly criminal; it was just a really nasty way to die. Sorry, Charlie.
Cast and Interviewees[]
- Darius Frye - Charlie (Lead; Intended victim)
- Akilah Ife - Jevetta (Lead)
- Percy Smith - Himself (LAX Airport Security)
- Dr. Steven Burstein - Himself (Interventional Cardiologist)
Trivia[]
- Much like Hard Balled, this death occurs on April 2, 2006.
- Charlie drank 3 ounces of pure cocaine with an extra kick of kerosene mixed in. The kerosene drinking moment is similar to the Family Guy episode "New Kidney in Town" (which was aired exactly a month before this episode), which Peter Griffin drank a homemade Red Bull which was made from kerosene. Unlike Charlie, he survived.
- In the CGI, Charlie's heart literally exploded. Making it one of 3 deaths where someone's heart explodes, the others are Slayer Cake and Dead on Arrival.
- This death is likely based on the death of Maximo Rene Menendez. On July 26, 1990, Maximo slipped into a coma after drinking from a six-ounce bottle of Pony Malta de Bavaria that had been laced with cocaine in an apparent smuggling scheme, and died after doctors disconnected life-support equipment. FBI experts have discovered at least 45 contaminated bottles containing 20 to 40 grams of the drug in a 1,000-case shipment of the soft drink. Article by Los Angeles Times can be read here.
Foreign Names[]
- El Ídolo: Versión Tonta (The Idol: Dumb Version) - Latin American Spanish dub
- Chute Chungo (Crappy Shot) - European Spanish dub
- Drogayanad (Drug Crushed) - Lazoran dub
- Que mal trago (What a Bad Drink) - Pluto TV Latin Spanish dub
- Rum Batizado (Spiked Rum) Brazilian Portuguese dub
Segment Nickname[]
- Ultimate Energy Drink
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