- Offizieller Beitrag
The Darwin Awards, for those not familiar, are for those individuals
who contribute to the survival of the fittest by eliminating themselves
from the gene pool before they have a chance to breed.
8. A young Canadian man, searching for a way of getting drunk cheaply,
because he had no money with which to buy alcohol, mixed gasoline with
milk. Not surprisingly, this concoction made him ill, and he vomited
into the fireplace in his house. This resulting explosion and fire
burned his house down, killing both him and his sister.
7. A 34-year-old white male found dead in the basement of his home died
of suffocation, according to police. He was approximately 6'2" tall and
weighed 225 pounds. He was wearing a pleated skirt, white bra, black
and white saddle shoes, and a woman's wig. It appeared that he was trying
to create a schoolgirl's uniform look. He was also wearing a military gas
mask that had the filter canister removed and a rubber hose attached in
its place. The other end of the hose was connected to a one end of a
hollow wooden tube approx. 12" long and 3" in diameter. The tube's
other end was inserted into his rear end for reasons unknown, and was the
cause of his suffocation. Police found the task of explaining the
circumstances of his death to
his family very awkward.
6. Three Brazilian men were flying in a light aircraft at low altitude
when another plane approached. It appears that they decided to moon the
occupants of the other plane, but lost control of their own aircraft
and crashed. They were all found dead in the wreckage with their pants
around their ankles.
5. A police officer in Ohio responded to a 911 call. She had no details
before arriving, except that someone had reported that his father was
not breathing. Upon arrival, the officer found the man face down on the
couch, naked. When she rolled him over to check for a pulse and to
start CPR, she noticed burn marks around his genitals. After the ambulance
arrived and removed the man who was declared dead on arrival at the
hospital - the police made a closer inspection of the couch, and
noticed that the man had made a hole between the cushions. Upon flipping
the couch
over, they discovered what caused his death. Apparently the man had a
habit
of putting his penis between the cushions,down into the hole and between
two electrical sanders (with the sandpaper removed, for obvious reasons).
According to the story, after his orgasm the discharge shorted out one of
the sanders, electrocuting him.
4. A 27-year-old French woman lost control of her car on a highway near
Marseilles and crashed into a tree, seriously injuring her passenger
and killing herself. As a commonplace road accident, this would not have
qualified for a Darwin nomination, were it not for the fact that the
driver's attention had been distracted by her Tamagotchi key ring,
which had started urgently beeping for food as she drove along. In an
attempt
to press the correct buttons to save the Tamagotchi's life, the woman
lost her own.
3. A 22-year-old Reston, VA man was found dead after he tried to use
octopus straps to bungee jump off a 70-foot railroad trestle. Fairfax
County police said Eric Barcia, a fast-food worker, taped a bunch of
these straps together, wrapped an end around one foot, anchored the
other end to the trestle at Lake Accotink Park, jumped and hit the
pavement. Warren Carmichael, a police spokesman, said investigators
think Barcia was alone because his car was found nearby. "The length
of the cord that he had assembled was greater than the distance between
the trestle and the ground", Carmichael said, Police say the apparent cause
of death was "Major trauma".
2. A man in Alabama died from rattlesnake bites. It seems that he and a
friend were playing a game of catch, using the rattlesnake as a ball.
The friend - no doubt, a future Darwin Awards candidate - was
hospitalised.
1. Employees in a medium-sized warehouse in west Texas noticed the
smell of a gas leak. Sensibly, management evacuated the building,
extinguishing all potential sources of ignition lights, power, etc.
After the building had been evacuated, two technicians from the gas
company were dispatched. Upon entering the building, they found they
had difficulty navigating in the dark.
To their frustration, none of the lights worked (you can see what's
coming,can't you?).Witnesses later described the sight of one of the
technicians reaching into his pocket and retrieving an object, that
resembled a cigarette lighter. Upon operation of the lighter-like
object, the gas in the warehouse exploded, sending pieces of it up to
three miles away. Nothing was found of the technicians, but the
lighter was virtually untouched by the explosion. The technician suspected
of
causing the blast had never been thought of as bright' by his peers.