Darwins award

[Eager Beaver]

> In case you haven't received them yet, here are this year's Darwin Awards
> > -- the annual honor given to the person who improved the "gene pool" the
> > most by killing themselves in the most extraordinarily stupid way.
> > As always, competition this year has been keen. And the
> > candidates this year are.............
> >
> > * IN Detroit, a 41-year-old man got stuck and drowned in two feet
> > of water after squeezing head first through an 18-inch-wide sewer
> > grate to retrieve his car keys.
> >
> > * A 49-year-old San Francisco stockbroker, who "totally zoned when
> > he ran,"--accidentally jogged off a 100-foot-high cliff on his
> > daily run.
> >
> > * Buxton, NC: A man died on a beach when an 8-foot-deep hole he had
> > dug into the sand caved in as he sat inside it. Beach-goers said
> > Daniel Jones, 21, dug the hole for fun, or protection from the
> > wind, and had been sitting in a beach chair at the bottom Thursday
> > afternoon when it collapsed, burying him beneath 5 feet of sand.
> > People on the beach on the outer banks, used their hands and shov!
> > els, trying to claw their way to Jones, a resident of Woodbridge,
> > VA, but could not reach him. It took rescue workers using heavy
> > equipment almost an hour to free him while about 200 people looked
> > on. Jones was pronounced dead at a hospital.
> >
> > * Santiago Alvarado, 24, was killed in Lompoc, CA, as he fell
> > face-first through the ceiling of a bicycle shop he was
> > burglarizing. Death was caused when the long flashlight he had
> > placed in his mouth (to keep his hands free) rammed into the base!
> > of his skull as he hit the floor.
> >
> >
> > * Sylvester Briddell, Jr., 26, was killed in Selbyville, Del, as he
> > won a bet with friends who said he would not put a revolver loaded
> > with four bullets into his mouth and pull the trigger.
> >
> >
> > HONORABLE MENTION:
> > * Paul Stiller, 47, was hospitalized in Andover township, NJ, and
> > his wife Bonnie was also injured, when a quarter-stick of dynamite
> > blew up in their car. While driving around 2 AM, the bored couple
> > lit the dynamite and tried to toss it out the window to see what
> > would happen, but apparently
> > failed to notice the window was closed.
> >
> >
> > RUNNER UP:
> >
> >
> > * TACOMA, WA Kerry Bingham had been drinking with several friends
> > when one of them said! they knew a person who had bungee-jumped
> > from the Tacoma Narrows Brid ge in the middle of traffic. The
> > conversation grew more heated and at least 10 men trooped along
> > the walkway of the bridge at
> > 4:30 AM.
> >
> > Upon arrival at the midpoint of the bridge they discovered that no
> > one had brought a bungee rope. Bingham, who had continued
> > drinking, volunteered and pointed out that a coil of lineman's
> > cable lay nearby.
> > One end of the cable was secured around Bingham's leg and the other
> > end was tied to the bridge. His fall lasted 40 feet before the
> > cable tightened and tore his foot off at the ankle. He
> > miraculously survived his fall into the icy river water and was
> > rescued by two nearby fishermen. "All I can say" said Bingham, "is
> > that God was watching out for me on that night.
> > There's just no other explanation for it." Bingham's foot was never
> located.
> >
> >
> >
> > AND THE WINNER:
> >
> >
> > Overzealous zookeeper Friedrich Riesfeldt (Paderborn, Germany) fed
> > his constipated elephant Stefan 22 doses of animal laxative and m!
> > ore than a bushel of berries, figs and prunes before the
> > plugged-up pachyderm finally let it fly, and suffocated the keeper
> > under 200 pounds of poop!
> > Investigators say ill-fated Friedrich, 46, was attempting to give
> > the ailing elephant an olive oil enema when the relieved beast
> > unloaded on him.
> > "The sheer force of the elephant's unexpected defecation knocked
> > Mr. Riesfeldt to the ground, where he struck his head on a rock and
> > lay unconscious as the elephant continued to evacuate his bowels on
> > top of him" said flabbergasted Paderborn police detective Erik
> > Dern. '
> > With no one there to help him, he lay under all that dung for at
> > least an hour before a watchman came along, and during that time he
> > suffocated. It seems to be just one of those freak accidents that
> > proves that "**** happens!"
>
Kay Heck
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kheck

[mudwitch]

Thanks Beav , I needed that!

[SnakeDoctor]

That made my day..Thanks

[Moose1am]

good one

[Billbob]

last one is #1

[Crappie Reaper]

Here's the link for those who want more. I have been reading these for a couple of years now.
http://www.darwinawards.com/

Have fun!

[Moose1am]

..quote=Crappie Reaper]Here's the link for those who want more. I have been reading these for a couple of years now.
http://www.darwinawards.com/

Have fun![/quote]

[c1bigocarp]

You gotta love the top of the gene pool!