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Ring-A-Ding Dead

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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 so 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.

Little did Dwight know was that it was actually 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 haemorrhage in the brain, killing him instantly.

Transcript[]

(View of Dwight walking with a piece of yellow paper in hand, [] is playing)

Narrator: It's yard sale Saturday, and Dwight shows up bright and early.

(Dwight turns to sale area, showing us the paper which promotes a garage sale with an open time of Saturday 8am)

Narrator: Two hours early.

(Dwight goes up to the Ray, [] is playing)

Dwight: Hey man, what's up?

Ray: (Confused) Dude... It's 6 o'clock in the mornin', the sign says 8.

Dwight: Oh yeah, I just thought the sign was a suggestion.

(Dwight hands him the paper and pats Ray's shoulder)

Dwight: Thanks, man.

(Dwight start scuffling through the sale items in a box, [] is playing)

Narrator: Dwight is a dweeb, but he's a smart dweeb. He hits yard sales way before they open, catching sellers of guard and snatching up the best deals.

(Dwight is messing with the items as Ray confronts him)

Ray: Hippie boy! Look, look, look, look. I need you to respect my stuff, okay?

Dwight: Hey man, we're cool. Alright? I got you, I got.

(Dwight throws a few pieces of film onto the floor. When Dwight calls Ray, Ray turns around pissed)

Dwight: Hey, man. You got any porn? Like, like seventies or-

Ray: Dude, who do I look like? Okay?

Dwight: Okay, man. Okay.

(Dwight find a ring revolver inside some clothes or something, [] is playing)

Narrator: Among all the worthless junk, Dwight digs out an old, strange looking ring.

(Dwight checks if Ray is watching before slipping the ring on)

Narrator: and he has no intention of paying for it.

(Dwight grabs a random box from the table)

Dwight: Hey, boss. I'll, uh, I'll give you five bucks for the whole box.

(Ray turns around, slightly annoyed at this point)

Ray: Yo, for real?

Dwight: Five bucks.

Ray: I let you in here early and then you try to cheat me like this?

(Dwight shrugs the comment off as Ray notices the ring and grabs Dwight's fingers)

Narrator: If you're trying to rob a ring, probably best not to leave it on your finger

Ray: (trying to pull of ring) Nah, that's my grandfather's ring. I've been looking for this ring for 10 years.

Dwight: I got it out of an antique shop.

(Ray tugs harder)

Ray: This is my grandfather's ring!

Dwight: Give me it back, I got it-

(Both tumble into a pile of boxes)

Ray: Give me this damn grandfather's ring.

(Ray screams as Dwight tugs hard. This causes the ring to go off, shooting a bullet through his right eye, causing a blood splatter to appear in the right lens of Dwight's glasses. Dwight's head tilts back, then he collapses dead.)

Narrator: Granddad's treasure wasn't just a ring. It was a ring gun, and it was loaded.

Casey: The Dyson LePetit Protector Ring Pistol was invented in the 19th century by a French gunsmith. This ring pistol was five millimetres, which is about .2 calibre. So a little smaller than a 22 and moved a lot smaller.

(CGI showing the situation with the victim skeleton having glasses, with the bullet going through the eye, slicing the brain, and hitting the back of the skull)

Narrator: Even thought the slug was tiny, it hit a bullseye, through Dwight's eye, passing right through he optic nerve and into his brain, where it caused massive bleeding, and immediate death.

(Recap, [] is playing)

Dwight: Do you have any porn?

Narrator: Dwight liked to shop, he just didn't like to pay. When he found an antique that packed a deadly punch,

Dwight: Give me it back, I got it-

Narrator: He tried to steal it.

Ray: Give me this damn grandfather's ring.

Narrator: But in the end,

(Dwight gets shot)

Narrator: He bought it.

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[]

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

Segment Nicknames[]

  • One Ring To Kill Them All (Spike TV)
  • Ring of Fire
  • Ringed In
  • Ring Gunned
  • Control Ringoff
  • Should've Put a Ring On It

Foreign Names[]

  • Como Anillo al Dedo (Fits Like a Ring) - Latin American Spanish dub
  • Anillo Mortífero (Deadly Ring) - Spanish dub
  • Schussverkauf (Gunshot Sale) - German dub
  • Dedo Mortal (Deadly Finger) - Brazilian Portuguese 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).
  • There have been no recorded incident of real deaths with this ring, but they may have been used to scare people away from the user.
  • 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).
  • This is the final death of the victim that wore glasses, and also, the final death in the series where the victim dies with his eyes shut.
  • this death takes place 3 years after Boweled Out.

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