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The Darwin Awards!

Unread postby Kylon » Sun 13 Jan 2008, 21:12:26

http://www.darwinawards.com/

Great website for those who think the world is overpopulated.
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Re: The Darwin Awards!

Unread postby Kylon » Sun 13 Jan 2008, 21:43:49

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('The Darwin Awards', ' ') Robert, 37, shot himself while explaining gun safety to his wife in Glendale, California, when he placed a .45-caliber pistol he thought was unloaded under his chin and pulled the trigger. Shovestall's wife told police that the incident occurred after her complaints about her husband's 70 guns prompted him to demonstrate their safety.
A 23-year-old bar-brawler who had been escorted out of the Turtle Club in Florida by a bouncer, sneaked back in and leaped off a staircase, aiming a kick at another man, but was killed when he landed on his head.

Iraqi terrorist Khay Rahnajet, didn't put enough postage on a letter bomb, and it came back marked "return to sender." He opened the package and was blown away.

Two animal rights activists were protesting the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughterhouse in Bonn by freeing a captive herd. Suddenly all two thousand of pigs stampeded through the gate they were opening, and trampled the hapless protesters to death.

News of the Weird reports that in September 1996 a man was crushed to death on a stairway at the Sammis Real Estate and Insurance office in Huntington, N.Y., while he was stealing the office's 600-pound safe. He apparently violated that cardinal rule of hauling massive objects: Never stand on a step lower than the one the safe is on. The safe was empty at the time of the incident.

In San Jose, California, Herman, an avid hunter, used the butt of his shotgun to bash his girlfriend's windshield during an argument. But his loaded gun accidentally discharged into his stomach, killing him and ending the argument.

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Re: The Darwin Awards!

Unread postby mekrob » Sun 13 Jan 2008, 21:53:04

I hate to laugh at the fact that people died, but this shit's pretty funny. God rest their idiotic souls.
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Re: The Darwin Awards!

Unread postby hubbertspeak7777777 » Sun 13 Jan 2008, 22:10:05

I'll probably win one of those awards one day... I'm always doing stupid and dangerous stuff.
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Re: The Darwin Awards!

Unread postby smallpoxgirl » Sun 13 Jan 2008, 22:27:37

Yeah. It's a fine line. It would also be pretty idiotic to die in your bed of old age after spending a life doing what everyone else told you to do.
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Re: The Darwin Awards!

Unread postby master_rb » Sun 13 Jan 2008, 23:41:57

1) Khay Rahnajet rules
2) Bonn animal freaks - not bad but not as ironic as the first one

other's kinda stupid but not as funny

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Re: The Darwin Awards!

Unread postby FreakOil » Mon 14 Jan 2008, 07:46:05

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('hubbertspeak7777777', 'I')'ll probably win one of those awards one day... I'm always doing stupid and dangerous stuff.


I'm probably gonna die a really dumb death without anybody knowing about it. Whenever I'm hiking or walking along the coast, I always see some big rocky outcrop and think, "man, I've gotta get to the top of that." It's only a matter of time before I fall and crack my head open. I've already had enough close calls, but I can't help it. It's an addiction.
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Re: The Darwin Awards!

Unread postby hubbertspeak7777777 » Tue 15 Jan 2008, 00:22:20

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('FreakOil', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('hubbertspeak7777777', 'I')'ll probably win one of those awards one day... I'm always doing stupid and dangerous stuff.


I'm probably gonna die a really dumb death without anybody knowing about it. Whenever I'm hiking or walking along the coast, I always see some big rocky outcrop and think, "man, I've gotta get to the top of that." It's only a matter of time before I fall and crack my head open. I've already had enough close calls, but I can't help it. It's an addiction.


At least it's better than dying in one of those old age homes. And you'd get to die doing something you enjoy.
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Re: The Darwin Awards!

Unread postby uNkNowN ElEmEnt » Tue 15 Jan 2008, 04:54:24

I love these things. One of the contenders a couple years ago was a drunk who took up his buddies suggestion to use a "ball" washer at a golf course.... On himself....

Or the guy who lit a match to see how much gas was left in the gas tanker he was supposed to fill up a service station with...
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Re: The Darwin Awards!

Unread postby smallpoxgirl » Tue 15 Jan 2008, 12:20:46

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('uNkNowN ElEmEnt', 'I') love these things. One of the contenders a couple years ago was a drunk who took up his buddies suggestion to use a "ball" washer at a golf course.... On himself....


As I recall he won the award only by taking himself out of the gene pool though, not by actually dying.
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Re: The Darwin Awards!

Unread postby Flowerr » Tue 15 Jan 2008, 21:58:28

Here are some that are removing themselves from the gene pool in another way.
Good thing they are priests.

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Re: The Darwin Awards!

Unread postby uNkNowN ElEmEnt » Wed 16 Jan 2008, 05:25:20

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('smallpoxgirl', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('uNkNowN ElEmEnt', 'I') love these things. One of the contenders a couple years ago was a drunk who took up his buddies suggestion to use a "ball" washer at a golf course.... On himself....


As I recall he won the award only by taking himself out of the gene pool though, not by actually dying.


LOL I guess that is all it takes to be a contender, one small....step for a man, one big save for mankind. Poor bastard. I wonder if the pain was similar to childbirth....
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Re: The Darwin Awards!

Unread postby Novus » Wed 16 Jan 2008, 18:12:29

This one is pretty funny:

(March 2000, Idaho) A teenager who imitated a scene from the hit movie "American Pie" was severely burned when he tried to shag a hot apple pie. Dwight Emburger, 17, was rushed to the hospital with serious burns to his penis. He apparently could not quell his desire until the tasty pastry had cooled, and his reward was a penis badly scarred and scalded by the hot filling. A hospital spokesperson in Boise said, "This demonstrates that producers should consider the effects their films have on the idiot gene pool."
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Re: The Darwin Awards!

Unread postby FreakOil » Thu 17 Jan 2008, 01:13:50

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Novus', 'T')his one is pretty funny:

(March 2000, Idaho) A teenager who imitated a scene from the hit movie "American Pie" was severely burned when he tried to shag a hot apple pie. Dwight Emburger, 17, was rushed to the hospital with serious burns to his penis. He apparently could not quell his desire until the tasty pastry had cooled, and his reward was a penis badly scarred and scalded by the hot filling. A hospital spokesperson in Boise said, "This demonstrates that producers should consider the effects their films have on the idiot gene pool."


I wonder if anyone has died as a result of those "Jackass" movies? Those nutjobs may have done a service to humanity.
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Re: The Darwin Awards!

Unread postby gg3 » Thu 17 Jan 2008, 01:34:04

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Any idiot can drink, drive, & die. Takes a real winner to earn a Darwin Award.

Khay Ranajet is typical of the kinds of morons Al Qaeda has to recruit. There was a story about a guy who they told to go out and blow up a bus. He came back and said he couldn't do it because he kept burning his lips on the exhaust pipe.

IMHO mountain climbing is really dumb, no offense. OTOH we have to get from 6.5 billion humans down to about 2 billion during this century, one way or another. May as well go out doing something you love. For which reason the media should be promoting extreme sports. Legalizing opiates and installing cigarette vending machines in highschools would also be useful.

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Re: The Darwin Awards!

Unread postby deeciduous » Thu 17 Jan 2008, 02:25:31

Let's be fair.
No more children anywhere for anyone and in 30 years we would be at appropriate levels.

that is the level that would make a diference. Anything short of this and we all crash.
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Re: The Darwin Awards!

Unread postby FreakOil » Fri 18 Jan 2008, 07:50:39

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('gg3', 'I')MHO mountain climbing is really dumb, no offense. OTOH we have to get from 6.5 billion humans down to about 2 billion during this century, one way or another. May as well go out doing something you love. For which reason the media should be promoting extreme sports. Legalizing opiates and installing cigarette vending machines in highschools would also be useful.[/i]


Sports just aren't extreme if you're wearing pads. My impression of America is that everyone dresses up like a hockey player just to go outside and get the mail.
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