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"Ring-A-Ding Dead", Way to Die #408, is the fourth death featured in "Death, The Final Frontier", which aired July 15, 2012.

Plot[]

Dwight is an obnoxious hipster with a habit of going to yard sales before the sellers could open them, and snatching up anything that catches his fancy without paying as much as a penny for it.

One day, he goes to a yard sale two hours early (while he's still setting it up) and browses the selection for something that he could snatch, when he notices an odd-looking antique ring. The homeowner sees Dwight with the item, immediately realizing that the ring belonged to his grandfather and he had spent a decade looking for it. Already incensed at his early-bird arrival and an attempt to haggle on the price, he quickly gets into a fight with the attempted thief.

But what Dwight did not know was that it was a ring revolver and it was loaded, in the fight Dwight he accidentally pulled the trigger and the bullet hit him in the right eye, crossed the optic nerve and caused massive hemorrhage in the brain that killing him immediately and sent the thief to hell where he belonged.

Segment Description[]

Description as seen on the Spike TV website

  • "An obnoxious Hipster attempts to steal a steampunk-style ring from a yard sale, only to discover (too late) that it's a 19th century ring-gun."

Cast and Interviewees[]

  • Qaddoe Wreegish - Dwight (Lead: intended victim)
  • Ray Dennis - Homeowner (Lead)
  • Casey Noel - Himself (Explosives Technician)

Segment Nicknames[]

  • One Ring To Kill Them All (Spike TV website)
  • Ring of Fire
  • Ringed In
  • Control Ringoff

Foreign Names[]

  • Schussverkauf (Gunshot Sale) - German dub
  • Dedo Mortal (Deadly Finger) - Brazilian Portuguese dub
  • Como Anillo al Dedo (Fits Like a Ring) - Latin American Spanish dub
  • Anillo Mortífero (Deadly Ring) - Spanish dub
  • Kaun ka Lirang, Matarang ta Misin Pistola (Eye is Shot, Parts of Lowered Pistol) - Lazoran dub

Goofs[]

  • Factual Error: The narrator clarifies that the story took place on a Saturday, when June 13, 2008 was on a Friday.

Trivia[]

  • The ring gun featured in this death is a 19th century Dyson LePetit Protector, which is chambered in 5mm (.20 caliber).
  • In the German dub, it shows the actual beginning of Casey Noel's interview.
  • It is the most deserved death on the show according to the Spike TV website.
  • Dwight's death is similar to that of Flippy's eye injury in Happy Tree Friends web series episode, "Without a Hitch" And Damien Brenks's eye shot in Watch Dogs Mission: "Sometimes You Still Lose".
  • This is the final death in the series to be related to a firearm or somebody getting shot.
  • This is the last segment airing with 400's (#400-#499).
Ring-A-Ding Dead

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