This Years" Darwin Awards

Penn

Dancing Up A Storm
This Years' Nominees Are:


(1)An Unidentified man, using a shotgun like a club to break a former
girlfriend's windshield, accidentally shot himself to death when the
gun discharged ... blowing a hole in his gut.


(2)James Burns, 34, (a mechanic) of Alamo, MI, was killed in March as
he was trying to repair what police describe as a "farm-type truck."
Burns got a friend to drive the Truck on a highway while Burns hung
underneath so that he could ascertain the source of a troubling noise.
Burns' clothes caught on something, however, and the other man found
Burns
"wrapped in the drive shaft."

(3)Ken Charles Barger, 47, accidentally shot himself to death in December
in Newton, NC. Awakening to the sound of a ringing telephone beside his
bed, he reached for the phone but grabbed instead a Smith & Wesson 38
Special, which discharged when he drew it to his ear.


(4)A terrible diet and a room with no ventilation are being blamed for the
death of a man who was killed by his own gas emissions. There was no
mark on his body, and an autopsy showed large amounts of methane gas
in his system.

His diet had consisted primarily of beans and cabbage
(and a couple of
other things). It was just the right combination of foods. It appears that
the man died in his sleep from breathing the poisonous cloud that was
hanging over his bed. Had he been outside or had his windows been
opened, it wouldn't have been fatal. But the man was shut up in his
nearly airtight bedroom.

According to the article,
"He was a big man with a huge capacity for creating this deadly gas."

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AND LAST, BUT NOT LEAST:

(5)A cigarette lighter may have triggered a fatal explosion in Dunkirk, IN.
A Jay County man, using a cigarette lighter to check the barrel of a
muzzle loader, was killed Monday night when the weapon discharged
in his face, sheriff's investigators said. Gregory David Pryor, 19, died
in his parents' rural Dunkirk home at about 11:30 PM. Investigators
said Pryor was cleaning a 54-caliber muzzleloader that had not been
firing properly. He was using the lighter to look into the barrel when
the gunpowder ignited.


PS: There will be no poll taken here, but you are expected to name your choice for most Darwinian Example of Humankind among these listed.

Thank You,
The Management
 

fttrsbeerwench

New Member
Same here, #5 and #2. The others I can understand , as with #4, men bask in the glory of their flatulence, he probaly had never lit a fart in his life , therefore, had no clue it was flammable. # 1 I can contribute to high emoptions , which can cause a person to think irrationally. Then there is #3, which is just a case of sleepy head, my littel brother would pee on the nightstand , thinking he was in the bathroom.

HAHA!
 

willie

Well-Known Member
#4. The guy obviously was not a smoker.
 

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Penn

Dancing Up A Storm
I'm sorry, there was one more nominee for this years' consideration, and in my haste to post the previous exemplars of society, I missed this one:
Reuters, Mississauga, Ontario

A man cleaning a bird feeder on the balcony of his condominium apartment
in this Toronto suburb slipped and fell 23 stories to his death.

Stefan Macko, 55, was standing on a wheeled chair when the accident occurred, said Inspector D'Arcy Honer of the Peel Regional Police.

"It appears that the chair moved, and he went over the balcony," Honer said.
 

Vince

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Penn said:
I'm sorry, there was one more nominee for this years' consideration, and in my haste to post the previous exemplars of society, I missed this one:
Reuters, Mississauga, Ontario

A man cleaning a bird feeder on the balcony of his condominium apartment
in this Toronto suburb slipped and fell 23 stories to his death.

Stefan Macko, 55, was standing on a wheeled chair when the accident occurred, said Inspector D'Arcy Honer of the Peel Regional Police.

"It appears that the chair moved, and he went over the balcony," Honer said.
Duh, this ones got my vote.
 

Penn

Dancing Up A Storm
willie said:
#4. The guy obviously was not a smoker.
I'm thinking that this is an excellent example of a single-stage, "hard light" afterburner, used in many of our Navy's jet fighter aircraft. :biggrin:
 
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Kizzy

Guest
#2 and the bird feeder guy. :cheers:

But if I had to only pick 1, I'd say the dummy in #2. I cannot believe he would hang under a vehicle to try and find a noise. Betcha he will not do that again. :lmao:
 

ylexot

Super Genius
Well, since I debunked the one in the other thread, I figured that I would ruin the fun here too. To my surprise, I could only find one of them at snopes.

#4 Debunked
 
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