AUTHOR'S NOTE: The death "My Will Be Done-Immediately!" has been skipped as it is not present in the US version of 1000 Ways to Die.
Ruby winces as she examines the contents of the file containing incident 0110261999.
Ruby: "Our next death will, like, give us a quick lesson in both chemistry and psychology."
The picture on the file shows some human remains partially submerged in a pool of a clear-looking liquid. Most of the body's skin has been turned black.
Shannon: "There's a reason courts can issue anger management classes as penalties…"
Zoom in.
The video begins with a brown-haired man, dressed in a white shirt and blue jacket, walking through what appears to be a warehouse of sorts.
Date of Incident: October 26, 1999
Location of Incident: Tool & Die Works, Akron, Ohio
Shannon: (Narrating) "It's not hard to see how this guy got his nickname."
A new shot shows the man in his car.
Unnamed Man: "IT'S THE FAST LANE, YOU IDIOT!"
Shannon: (Narrating) "Angry Ed."
Ed honks his horn.
Angry Ed: "GOD!"
The next shot shows Ed having a sandwich in the warehouse's break room. He attempts to open a can of Coca-Cola, but accidentally spills it on his sandwich. He throws the can down and begins slamming his palms against the table in a rage.
Shannon: (Narrating) "A low seething boil was his relaxed state."
We now cut to the warehouse itself where various stations of metalworking equipment are laid out. Ed is hammering a long piece of steel into shape.
Shannon: (Narrating) "There wasn't much that didn't make Ed see red."
Ed accidentally slams the hammer down on his finger. He shouts furiously as he holds it in pain. He takes off his glove to reveal his finger is now stained red with blood. We see some of the other employees smile at this.
Shannon: (Narrating) "At the tool shop where Ed worked, his anger was a running joke."
Ed begins throwing his tools down on the ground. At this point another man enters, clad in a black jumper. He has his hands folded, and his face has an expression of disapproval etched on it. Realising his presence, Ed looks away, worried.
Shannon: (Narrating) "But to his foreman, the joke had run thin."
Cut to the foreman interrogating Ed elsewhere in the warehouse.
Foreman: "THAT IS IT, ED! YOU ARE FIRED!"
The foreman walks off in a huff.
Ruby: (Narrating) You know, from my psychology knowledge someone with that much anger would be thinking in terms of spite and revenge and manipulation… and how they can get back at those who have wronged them."
Ed soon heads in the same direction his ex-foreman went.
Shannon: (Narrating) "Getting fired turned Ed into a heat-seeking anger missile."
Ed storms through the facility until he finds his foreman inspecting several vats filled with a bubbling clear liquid. The foreman has a pencil and clipboard in his hands and is seemingly taking notes on something.
Shannon: (Narrating) "His target, the foreman."
Ed quickly climbs up the stairs leading to the platform that houses the vats and charges at the foreman. A brief wrestling match ensues before the foreman ends up throwing Angry Ed over the side of one of the vats.
Shannon: (Narrating) "Ed goes hand to hand, and ends up taking a bath…"
Ed splashes down into the liquid, and begins screaming as the liquid fizzes around him.
Shannon: (Narrating) "...in a vat of hydrochloric acid."
Ed begins screaming in agony and splashing as his skin turns black from burns.
Cut to Ruby in the office.
Ruby: "I imagine falling into hydrochloric acid would be an excruciating way to die since your entire body would be being burned simultaneously."
One of Shannon's CGI shots shows Ed's body being submerged in the acid. His skin soon turns black.
Shannon: (Narrating) "The acid begins by dissolving his skin and melting his eyeballs, before travelling down his wide-open throat."
We see the acid pour down Ed's throat and begin dissolving his internal organs, starting with his heart and lungs and working its way down.
Shannon: (Narrating) "Once inside his body, the acid would then destroy his vital organs within seconds."
Back to Ruby.
Ruby: "I imagine he, like, went into shock from seconds due to fluid loss and the destruction of his tissues, and died quickly."
Back in the warehouse the splashing has stopped and Ed's body has sunk to the bottom of the vat, but it is not easily visible through the bubbles.
We then see a series of flashbacks of the events leading up to this incident, beginning with Ed being fired…
Shannon: (Narrating) "This wasn't just Ed's last day of work."
Then we see a flashback of the struggle and Ed being thrown into the acid.
Shannon: (Narrating) "His uncontrollable, blood-boiling rage made sure this was Angry Ed's last day… period."
We see a final shot of Ed's partly-melted body in the vat.
WAY TO DIE #610
DEEP FRIED
Return to the Sharuby couple in their office.
Ruby: "Do you reckong the foreman could be charged with manslaughter there?"
Shannon: "Eh, I'm sure it could be deemed self-defence. Your turn to narrate."
Ruby closes the file and marks it before wheeling over to get the next one.
