This Year's Darwin Awards (Warning - put down your coffee cup before reading)

[Clancy]

Yes, it's again that magical time of the year when the Darwin Awards are
bestowed, honouring the least evolved among us, including those who
removed themselves from the gene pool for the sake of all humanity.

Here is the glorious Winner:

1. When his 38-caliber revolver failed to fire at his intended victim
during a hold-up in Long Beach , California , would-be robber James
Elliot did something that can only inspire wonder. He peered down the
barrel and tried the trigger again. This time it worked.

And now, the Honourable Mentions:

2. The chef at a hotel in Switzerland lost a finger in a meat-cutting
machine and submitted a claim to his insurance company. The company,
expecting negligence, sent out one of its men to have a look for
himself. He tried the machine and he also lost a finger.
The chef's claim was approved.

3. A man who shovelled snow for an hour to clear a space for his car
during a blizzard in Chicago returned with his vehicle to find a woman
had taken the space. Understandably, he shot her.

4. After stopping for drinks at an illegal bar, a Zimbabwean bus driver
found that the 20 mental patients he was supposed to be transporting
from Harare to Bulawayo had escaped. Not wanting to admit his
incompetence, the driver went to a nearby bus stop and offered everyone
waiting there a free ride.

He then delivered the passengers to the mental hospital, telling the
staff that the patients were very excitable and prone to bizarre
fantasies. The deception wasn't discovered for 3 days.

5. An American teenager was in the hospital recovering from serious head
wounds received from an oncoming train. When asked how he received the
injuries, the lad told police that he was simply trying to see how close
he could get his head to a moving train before he was hit.

6. A man walked into a Louisiana Circle-K, put a $20 bill on the
counter, and asked for change. When the clerk opened the cash drawer,
the man pulled a gun and asked for all the cash in the register, which
the clerk promptly provided.

The man took the cash from the clerk and fled, leaving the $20 bill on
the counter. The total amount of cash he got from the drawer: $15

7. Seems an Arkansas guy wanted some beer pretty badly. He decided that
he'd just throw a brick through a liquor store window, grab some booze,
and run. So he lifted the brick and heaved it over his head at the
window.

The brick bounced back and hit the would-be thief on the head, knocking
him unconscious. The liquor store window was made of plexiglass. The
whole event was caught on videotape.

8. As a female shopper exited a New York convenience store, a man
grabbed her purse and ran. The clerk called 911 immediately, and the
woman was able to give them a detailed description of the snatcher.
Within minutes, the police apprehended the snatcher. They put him in
the car and drove back to the store. The thief was then taken out of
the car and told to stand there for a positive ID. To which he replied,
"Yes, officer, that's the lady I stole the purse from. "

9. The Ann Arbor News crime column reported that a man walked into a
Burger King in Ypsilanti, Michigan, at 5 am, flashed a gun, and demanded
cash. The clerk turned him down because he said he couldn't open the
cash register without a food order. When the man ordered onion rings,
the clerk said they weren't available for breakfast.
The man, frustrated, walked away.

10. When a man attempted to siphon gasoline from a motor home parked on
a Seattle street, he got much more than he bargained for. Police arrived
at the scene to find a very sick man curled up next to a motor home near
spilled sewage. The police spokesman said the man admitted to trying to
steal gasoline and plugged his siphon hose into the motor home's sewage
tank by mistake.

The owner of the vehicle declined to press charges.

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[Braggi]

https://pandagon.blogsome.com/2007/1...ubber-kink-on/

[Zeno Swijtink]

Yes, it's again that magical time of the year when the Darwin Awards are
bestowed, honouring the least evolved among us, including those who
removed themselves from the gene pool for the sake of all humanity.

Here is the glorious Winner:

1. When his 38-caliber revolver failed to fire at his intended victim
during a hold-up in Long Beach , California , would-be robber James
Elliot did something that can only inspire wonder. He peered down the
barrel and tried the trigger again. This time it worked. (...)

https://darwinawards.com/

Where did you find this list? It's not the 2007 Darwin Awards list, which will not come out until January 1. [People can still vote]

Not all of these are even candidates for a Darwin Award, since these honor only those who improve the species by accidentally removing themselves from it.

Your list has been floating online at least since 2002!

Kids, put your gratitudes from this erroneous posting, diluting the significance of the venerable Darwin Awards.

[decterlove]

Kids, put your gratitudes from this erroneous posting, diluting the significance of the venerable Darwin Awards.

Eh....it's funny as heck to those of us who haven't seen them even if it has no relationship to the DAs and even if he made em all up! Besides that first guy who checked his barrel....he's out of the gene pool right?