Adorable Cartoon Characters Illustrate Dumb Ways To Die

Dumb Ways to Die is pretty much exactly what it sounds; adorable cartoon characters getting killed thanks to their own stupidity. And now it's in GIF form!

The cartoon was developed by the Melbourne, Australia, transportation authority. As anybody who lives near a railroad is all too aware, people act like idiots around trains. In fact, people are so stupid around trains that your average train engineer will kill three people, on average, over the course of his or her career.

So, to illustrate just how stupid it is to misbehave around trains, the authority put together a viral video hit ... and a few GIFs for your pleasure: