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Daredevil

The Resume

    (October 24, 1855-April 29, 1921)
    'Niagara Falls Plunge (October 24, 1901)' and 'Heroine of Horseshoe Falls'
    Niagara Falls, New York Daredevil
    Featured in an IMAX movie

Why she might be annoying:

    Risked her life for attention and money.
    She saw her stunt as a moneymaker.
    While other grandmothers were out baking cookies, she was riding a barrel.
    She lied about her age when she went over the Falls, saying she was forty-two.
    She felt the need to hire a manager prior to her stunt as she felt she'd soon be rich.
    She was poor when she arrived at Niagara Falls and penniless upon death since her moneymaking scheme failed.
    She was featured on 'Ripley's Believe It or Not.'
    There are conflicting facts in some of her biographies.
    Supposedly her fame was halted 'once the public discovered a short, plump woman inside the barrel.'

Why she might not be annoying:

    She was the first person and the first woman to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel (and survive). Her only injury was being dazed.
    She was sixty-three at the time of her stunt.
    She designed her own barrel.
    She worked twenty years as a Niagara Falls street vendor.
    She advised others not to do it when she emerged from her barrel.
    She reached her goal of fame even though her goal to riches failed.
    She was once a Bay City, Michigan school teacher.

Credit: Skunk Butt


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 77 Votes: 49.35% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 2 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 9 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 7 Votes: 42.86% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 8 Votes: 62.50% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 39 Votes: 64.10% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 56 Votes: 78.57% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 14 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 34 Votes: 58.82% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 52 Votes: 73.08% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 25 Votes: 72.00% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 90 Votes: 58.89% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 110 Votes: 47.27% Annoying
    In 2005, Out of 190 Votes: 53.68% Annoying
    In 2004, Out of 234 Votes: 50.43% Annoying
    In 2003, Out of 141 Votes: 46.10% Annoying