Had a near Darwin award happen to a single mine explorer inside Yuma Proving Ground.
He rappeled with too short of a rope down a mine. Went off the end, fell a dozen feet onto a debris pile. Did not tell anyone where he was going. He survived the fall, but had no way to reach the end of his rope (pun intended).
When he did not show up for work on Monday, people mentioned his propensity for exploring old mines. The base used up some helicopter time to do a search. They spotted his pick-up near an old mine shaft, 40 miles away, near the North end of YPG. People investigated. He was still alive and able to communicate when they investigated the old mine.
I like this one: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/parachutist-plunges-to-death/
Woman jumps in Yosemite to protest the ban on BASE jumping there (the Park Service insisted it wasn’t safe); when told she’ll be arrested and her gear will be confiscated, she switches with someone else with a cheaper rig. The “drag-chute” you pull out (to drag your main chute out) is located in another place, and her husband films her falling to her death because she doesn’t open the chute.
I guess the Park Service was right...