Discussion Death via Rube Goldberg Machiene

[Gorgon]

What are your thoughts on death via Rube Goldberg machines? A pointless machiene for a pointless death of a pointless life. I think it's rather pointlessly poetic. Would you make one if you could? What would it include? Gallows? Shotgun? Guillotine?

 

[262653]

That sounds surprisingly hilarious by your description. Like including toy trains in a lethal sequence? Kind of how death always occurs, isn't it? One thing leads to another and you're gone for good.

 

[Soul]

Toy trains?! Can we have a real one as well? Whooshing through at the very end, for example, right when you think it's all played out.

A crossbow. Acme Dynamite. A giant weight slamming down. Poison gas. A shark swarm.

 

[Gorgon]

Oh my gosh a life sized Rube Goldberg machine would be awesome like real trains real planes hell yeah

 

[Soul]

End of the Line Amusement Park! Think of the tourism potential!

 

[Codieb1]

It wouldn't even be too hard to create I think. I've thought about doing this if I had the tools. You could do something like setting your phone to vibrate in the middle of the night when you're asleep, so it falls down, causing a rubber band to pull a gun trigger or something.

 

[k75]

LOL

This post reminded me of an article I read awhile back.

Police say a man faked his own murder using a gun and a weather balloon | CNN

When a man was found dead in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, the police initially suspected murder. Their investigation led them to a very different conclusion.

www-m.cnn.com

 

[Soul]

That balloon story appealed to me a lot too.

@Codieb1, that sounds promising as an element in a Home Edition, but can we work a few more steps in? Like ... Your cat walks across your computer keyboard, triggering some obnoxious "go to hell aaaargh" music to blast from a speaker that goes up a pulley to your upstairs neighbour's window. They phone you angrily, setting your phone vibrating ... and voila.

Something like that.

Meanwhile, I already have so many horrendous ideas for the Amusement Park version that I'm starting to worry about myself. 8]

 

[Asta]

What about going in the Sarco? That seems the best to me, other than just disappearing in a puff of smoke! Has anyone heard or read about people who die by spontaneous combustion? Lucky stiffs!

 

[calendulo]

I already know that is invented, but instead of a electric motor to push the syringe.
Sorry, really, seems pervese.