A young woman who accidentally killed herself and her husband by digging a 2.5m deep pitfall trap in the sand is currently the subject of tragic ridicule throughout Japan.
The incident transpired on an Ishikawa prefecture beach, when a 23-year-old woman resolved to “surprise” her 23-year-old husband with a pitfall trap.
Together with “four or five” male friends, she spent the afternoon digging out a 2.5m deep and 2.4m wide hole in the sand using shovels, which she then covered with a sheet, which was further disguised with more sand.
She then waited until nightfall and invited her husband out onto the beach, accompanying him to the site of trap.
As planned, both fell into the trap, but it promptly fell in around them and proved impossible to escape.
Nearby friends heard their screams and called in the fire brigade, but by the time they had rescued them from the hole several hours had elapsed and both showed no signs of life.
The couple were taken to hospital, only to be pronounced dead on arrival. They are thought to have suffocated in the sand.
According to other beach-goers, the group digging the huge hole were warned that they should fill in the hole and go home as it was dangerous, but they only acknowledged the warning and continued their undertaking anyway.
Police are considering pressing charges of involuntary manslaughter against the surviving group.
Such is the awesome stupidity of their deaths that there is even some speculation that there may have been more sinister motives afoot, although there are also those who merely see them as strong Darwin award contenders (2010 was nearly won by the Korean wheelchair vs elevator man).
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This man's biggest mistake in life was marrying this woman.
They were actually just setting up a trap for the next pokemon episode...
RIP Jesse and James -__-
I feel sorry for Meowth, I mean what will he do now?
Maybe he should use this opportunity to go ahead and evolve into a Persian.
Butch... Cassidy... XD
Or band another team... Team Meowth since he's the master inventor of the past group.
Back Team Rocket HQ or back to Hollywood or whatever the hell they called it.
WOOOOOBUFFET!
Meowth can go back to Las Vegas and learn another language there..
I like commenting under the first post so that everyone can marvel at my witty comment.
Oh romeo, oh romeo.
Nearby friends heard their screams and called in the fire brigade, but by the time they had rescued them from the hole several hours had elapsed and both showed no signs of life.
im thinking that the friends just need 5 minutes to dig the SAND on their own, so why fire brigade...?
At 2.5 m deep, it would be dangerous for them, but you gotta wonder if any of them had ever seen the Princess Bride they would have tried to get a rope.
I'm just going to assume that the article doesn't talk about what they tried to do to help, or that the friends who did the digging had already left and the sand became too dangerous to work with.
As much as people should have tried to get them out, if they fell in horizontally and the sand poured in with any decent speed before the screams were responded to, there wasn't much anyone could do.
Even if they were mostly upright, the pressure of the sand on their torsos could have been enough to asphyxiate them.
Possibly they can't do so with the shovel without risking hitting them. However hand digging wouldn't require that long.
This man's biggest mistake in life was marrying a CHARLIE!
Too moe to handle...
Goes to show that the airhead moe girl isn't so great in the 3D world...
This is what happens when you watch too many episodes of Nichijou ~ stupid becomes second nature.
yea....RIP
Now, tactical facepalm everyone.
For what reason would she want to surprise her husband by falling in to 2.5 m deep pitfall that she spent a whole day digging?
This is not the first that I have heard of this sort of trap. Does it even need to be asked what that type of trap what meant to do? It did exactly what it was meant to do. Yes, it was most likely murder. The question then is whether or not the woman had indeed set the trap and if she had intended to go down with her husband. It is also possible that they were both murdered by her friends.
Or more likely, she just thought it would be funny/romantic, and didn't realize that beach sand caves in quite easily, and is difficult to escape from. If it was meant as murder, her and her friends wouldn't have dug the hole throughout the day in direct view of lots of other people.
People dig holes like this at the beach all the time. There was a teenager in California who was digging a tunnel in the sand and had it cave in on him just a few weeks back. In that incident, a lot of other beach-goers immediately pitched in to help, and managed to get to him in about half an hour...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2022375/Teen-survives-buried-alive-beach-30-MINUTES-tunnel-built-sand-caved-in.html
This has happened to others as well, many of which haven't been as fortunate. Needless to say, digging a deep hole in beach sand isn't a good idea.
To prove the bitch can save her man in a hole.
Unfortuntely, no one came to save them both
So, is this an EPIC AN HERO???
"Nearby friends heard their screams and called in the fire brigade, but by the time they had rescued them from the hole several hours had elapsed and both showed no signs of life."
What? Nobody thought to DIG THEM OUT? Fucking christ, "Somebody is drowning?! I better go call the police and stand there!"
You guys who think they could have gotten them out fast go to the beach and try to dig a 2 meter deep hole as fast as you can. See you in a few hours.
Unless they where completly covered by the sand, if someone has a little bit of brain, the first thing to do is to get a rope (not that hard on a beach), or at least make one with your clothes tieing up your shirt and jacket to your pants and you get like a 3 meters rope...and also a legal and moral excuse for public nudity (but if you get an erection you are fucked up).
Worse. With the drowning case, it's possible you can't swim, and have trouble finding a boat or something.
"...strong Darwin award contenders"
Plural? Unless you mean the man should receive a darwin award for marrying such a dumb bitch.
Actually I think that there is rule that disqualifies her due to taking somebody else with her.
The 2010 winners were a pair who decided to have sex in a car in the middle of a foggy highway, so I'm not sure how consistently any such rule is applied.
The highway quickie couple in 2010 qualified because it was consensual sex, meaning they both knew exactly what they were doing.
With this pitfall case, I'm pretty sure she would be disqualified as she took someone "innocent" with her. Her husband had no clue of the pitfall since it was supposed to be a prank. For the wife she died because of her stupidity whereas for the husband it was a complete accident.
Now, for the obligatory sexist joke:
He must have known she's dumb. After all, her rightful place is only the kitchen. He's only dumb for taking her outside that kitchen, lol.
that didn't even make sense?
You are a little shit.
It's not an "obligatory sexist joke", it's a pathetic little loser's obligatory trolling. You fail at life, kiddie.
And one thing: how did they know it's the woman's own idea to dig a hole to surprise her husband? She's dead and you can't ask her for comment. Or she's blamed for all this, and suddenly her "friends" have amnesia? And why didn't her socalled male friends try to dig them up with their hands or get help e.g. use the same shovels they used for digging the hole and start digging, well, at least the article didn't mention what these "friends" has tried to save the couple, they just call the fire brigade.
Because thrusting shovels in the sand where there may be people inside would kill them if the sand already didn't. They tried to dig them out, but too late.
This woman obviously watched too many "Roadrunner" cartoons as a kid. Hole was dug with Acme excavation kit.
The Japanese press: "Demands the banning of "foreign" cartoons as they are a detriment to Japan"!
Or maybe she was an adamant Team Rocket/Dorombo Gang fangirl.
Wow that's sounds like a wonderfully geeky wife, too bad she didn't follow the example of the Myth Busters and used a test-dummy first before going in herself.
This whole incident stinks of murder. What do you mean friends heard their screams and called in help?? Did they not do anything and somehow the couple suddenly died? There is just too much doubts inbetween their friends arriving and calling in the brigade and to their death.
She dug her own grave and her husband.
The guy probably wished that he should have died with a dakimakura by his side instead.
Reminds me of an episode of Mythbuster the Killer Quicksand here is the video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BhVebTMiiY
He should have killed her and used her bones as a ladder.
With self-bury feature. She saved so much on burial services.
If the people who attend that funeral can keep from laughing, they have my respect.
"I'm the kind of guy who laughs in a funeral. Can't understand what I mean? You soon will."
Where I live, it's customary for undertakers to dig the hole for the grave at least 7 feet deep. I know because funeral management was part of my extra curricular activities in college(don't ask why I joined such club...).
That woman dug 2.5 meters, which is roughly 8.3 feet.
She literally dug her own grave(and her husband's).
Well, she managed to kill her husband but I don't think she expected him to grasp her wrist at the moment of the fall and take her down with him.
That is how I imagine it most likely happened.
Yes, stupidity can kill, this is another perfect example.
3D women, the death of every man.
You will stay forever virgin.
At least he will stay alive.
And themselves.
I don't like sand. It's hard, and rough, and it gets everywhere.
Memorable lines from a star wars film that nobody should recognise as been made.
Did they have kids yet?
If not, instant Darwin Awards contenders...
Where'd they learn about digging in the sand, Minecraft?
Only one of them is a contender... and that person also happens to be a murderer.
So who gets your vote of stupidity?
1. The woman digging her own and her husband's grave
2. Her husband who married her.
3. Their (or woman's) friends went away to call help and did nothing for several hours.
Eh, I don't see why everyone is so hard on her. People are always using hindsight to sound intelligent, but at the end of the day it was just some people trying to have fun. People do this kind of thing all the time. Sure this time was tragic, but you guys act like we should never do anything remotely fun or dangerous. I hope they don't charge the other people. It's a common prank.
>Oh, come on. Who hasn't dug a gigantic
>pit and tried to lure a victim
>into it?
I can say I've _never_ done anything like that.
It sounds really dangerous.
I agree, it's a pretty common prank. I fall into 2.5m holes every fucking day. It's ridiculous, I tellz ya!
C'mon, man... you don't need to study Geography until BcS to know just how dangerous beaches are. It's common sense!
Water + land so weak you can dig with just your hand = disaster
Maybe it's cause she not only got herself killed, but she killed her husband too.
How often do people dig 2.5 m deep holes and lure people into it during the night with no one around to help?
I think it just happens. People severely underestimate the dangers of the beach such as sand caving in, some quicksand effect on wet beaches, rip tides, jellyfish, sunburn, bacterial infections, etc etc.
People should really ought to try to have more respect for nature.
Yeah, beaches are beautiful but can be really dangerous... someone I knew got swept by a current and died a while ago too, be careful!
Its a scary experience I use to live in Panama where in one beach had a deep hole with Water as a kid I accidentally fell into lucky my dad pull me out of that hole.
Digging a deep hole in soft grounded beach for a prank? I don't think you can easily pass this by saying "this time was tragic".
You might as well drill a hole in the middle of frozen lake and push someone in.
Hee course everyone makes blunders like this .:P
More funny if someone had time to shoot the whole scene to Youtube.. but do not do something useful :\.... sincerely... rescue does not work anymore in Japan?
And the stupid helpers not remember to take a rope,ladder or something to take them after the joke?
I have to admit this, the wacky Ishihara is right... the young Japanese are dumbing down
I actually have made a pitfall trap with some friends in the past, but it was in the woods and it wasn't that deep (and ended hilariously, not tragically). A little more research would've done this woman some good. Still, that's hindsight, like you said. This was just an innocent prank gone wrong.
This is like that South Park episode with Captain Hindsight where everyone tried to sound stupid smart after the fact.
I spend all day digging huge holes to have people fall into all the time.
Oh wait I don't you fucking idiot.
Sadly, once again the Darwin award is attributed posthumously. It's seems to be a constant phenomena these days.
...so the group didn't have a backup plan of getting the people out of the hole?
I feel sorry for the man, killed by his wife's stupidity.
awesome stupidity
I would be lying if I say I never entertained the idea of making a pitfall. Real life sucks most of the time, doesn't it? ={
I've checked. The fact that her stupidity also cost live of her husband disqualifies her as Darwin award winner.
Japan quality is China quality. People of the same origin.
This doesn't sound feasible.
same thing happened in California once except the guy survived. http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/orange_county&id=8288105 [http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/orange_county&id=8288105]
I lol'd, how stupid can people be? oO
Was she trying to initiate a romantic moment by doing this? Someone was too much TV
Why did it take the fire brigade several hours to show up? It seems like that's what killed them.
Or maybe one of the "nearby friends" is to blame. Obviously their heads were originally exposed enough for them to scream, so why did the nearby "friends" who called the fire brigade let them continue to get buried by sand instead of digging them out? Assuming they were both at least 1.5 meters tall (average height for a female in Japan according to wikipedia) that means their heads were only 3 feet below the surface of the sand, so the friends could have kept their faces exposed without risk of being buried alive themselves.
They didn't say that it took the rescue team hours to arrive, only that it was hours before they were pulled out. They probably weren't neatly standing in the hole when the walls collapsed, seeing as they fell into it, at least one of them unexpectedly. They may have been laying at the bottom under a couple meters of sand, where it could easily take hours to dig them out without enough people there to help.
Prepare for trouble
And while your at it, make it double
LMAO! women... it quite literally was the death of him
What does gender have anything to do with it? A woman and FOUR OR FIVE MEN dug the hole.
For all we know, a woman could have been the one who warned them.
Ah yes, the Darwin awards. Laughing at others misfortune has never been so fun, or justified.
*Forms hand seals* SABAKU TAISOU!!!!
And the coroner ruled it 'death by stupidity'.
Looks like someone played too much Monster Hunter.
I guess the jokes on them
Y'know, it's good that they died together. Imagine the guilt the wife would feel if she survived. At least they went down embracing each other.
Dumbest thing I ever heard...
Japanese is really something in many ways......
Aww...that's terrible. It sounds like they were such a cute couple to pull a prank like this. Well, I guess I should cross off pitfall trap off the list of things I want to do in my life.
when I read the title I thought "Team Rocket" lol