"The Depart-Dead", Way to Die #255, is the third death featured in "Stupid Is As Death Does", which aired on March 29, 2011.
Plot[]
A group of white, teenage wannabe-gangsters from South Boston play a drinking game called "Edward Fortyhands”, in which drinkers have beer bottles taped to their hands, and they cannot do anything (smoke, urinate, leave the room, etc.) until the beer bottles are empty. One of them spits a half-lit cigar under a couch, which starts burning the flammable synthetic stuffing, releasing hydrogen cyanide into the room.
"This was bad. Their starting point was stupid, and then they got really drunk, and wound up breathing in lungfuls of toxic smoke. They were on a slippery slope into the death pit."
Because they cannot open the door, they suffocate on the fumes. The only one who didn't participate in the game arrives too late, and discovers his dead friends, prompting him to ask someone else in the house to call an ambulance.
Transcript[]
Narrator: This was bad. Their starting point was stupid, and then they got really drunk, and wound up breathing in lungfuls of toxic smoke. They were on a slippery slope into the death pit.
(Death by Bells is playing)
Narrator: When the smoke cleared, Boston had four less dummies...
Man #4: Somebody call 911!
Narrator: (Gangster language)...Hey! Why don't you Southies park your car into the parky parking lot? You're dead!
Alternative Description[]
Alternative description as seen on Spike TV's website
Four white wannabe gangsters from South Boston are killed by smoke inhalation because their hands are taped to 40-ounce beers.
Cast & Interviewers[]
- Sarah Grant Brendecke - Erin the Southie (Lead: Intended victim)
- Orson Chaplin - Green Shirt Southie (Lead: Intended victim)
- Sy Ozcan - Red Hat Southie (Lead: Intended victim)
- Unknown Actor - White Hat Southie (Lead: Intended victim)
- Matt Devine - Surviving Southie (Lead)
- Jason Sereno - Drinking Contest Expert
- Dr. Cloyce Martin - Pathologist
Segment Nickname[]
- Gangsta Trapped (Spike TV)
- No Way Out
- Dead Inhalation
- Edward Deathhands
- Edwardian Extinction
- Southie Smoke-out
Trivia[]
- This mass death has the second highest number of deaths (seen) in a story. The highest is a tie between Cult Evaded and Washed And Fried.
Foreign Names[]
- Kein Ausgang (No Exit) - German dub
- Partindo de Boston (Departing from Boston) - Brazilian Portuguese dub
- Ingesta de Gas (Gas Intake) - Latin American Spanish dub
- Juego Mortal (Deadly Game) - European Spanish dub
- Departo pakan ta marin (Departing going too late) - Lazoran dub
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