They are finally out again. Darwin Awards 2004

[Pantera]

Hope these are not too offensive.

They are finally out again. You all know about the Darwin Awards.
Its an annual honor given to the person who did the gene pool the biggest service by killing themselves in the most extraordinarily stupid way.

Last year's winner was the fellow who was killed by a Coke machine which toppled over on top of him as he was attempting to tip a free soda out of it.

And the nominees are:

1.) 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.

2.) 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.

3.) A 22-year-old, Glade Drive, 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 one 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."

4.) 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 hospitalized.

5.) Employees in a medium-sized warehouse in west Texas noticed the smell of
gas and presumed a 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.
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 the warehouse up to three miles away. Nothing was found of
the technicians, but the lighter, being at the exact center of the resulting
mêlée, was virtually untouched by the explosion. The "technician" suspected
of causing the blast had never been thought of by his peers as "all there."

And the Winner:

6.) Based on a bet by the other members of his golfing threesome, Everett
Sanchez tried to wash his own "balls" in a ball washer at the local golf
course. Proving once again that beer and testosterone are a bad mix, Sanchez
managed to straddle the ball washer and dangle his scrotum in the machine.
Much to his dismay, one of his buddies upped the ante by spinning the crank
on the machine with Sanchez's scrotum in place, thus wedging them solidly in
the mechanism. Sanchez, who immediately passed his threshold of pain,
collapsed and tumbled from his perch. Unfortunately for Sanchez, the post of
the ball washer was more than strong enough to support his body weight, and
his sack was the weakest link. Sanchez's scrotum was ripped open during the
fall, and one testicle was plucked from him forever and remained in the ball
washer, while the other testicle was compressed and flattened as it was
pulled between the housing of the washer and the rotating machinery inside.
To add insult to injury, Sanchez then broke a new $300.00 graphite shaft
driver that he had just purchased from the pro shop and was attempting to
use as a cane. Sanchez was rushed to the hospital for surgery, and the
remaining threesome was asked to leave the course.

This last one wouldn't normally count, because the golfer didn't die. But because he cannot reproduce as a result of his qualifying act of stupidity, we have allowed it.

[moparts]

O man the pain.... the laughter....the pain.....the laughter.

[djunod]

Where did you get that?

From what I see at www.darwinawards.com the 2004 Awards aren't out yet...

I didn't feel like comparing it to all there (it's not the 2003 version)...

[jg95z28]

Some of those are old. The bungee jumper was a 1997 finalist.

http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin1997-05.html

[Mr70]

He Bounced back!

[Pantera]

I have no idea if they are 2004 for sure or not. This was just funny and someone sent it to me and I thought I would post it. With all the hard feelings going on with some of the posts on other subjects I though a good laugh would be a good idea.

[Canucklehead]

i Like the old one about the guy who strapped a booster rocket to his impala then slammed into the cliff wall once he became airborn.

[djunod]

My "tone" sounds like I'm giving you a hard time as well... that's just my style of wording... Even though I've read them before, they are still funny

Thanks!

[396L35]

That is great Larry... I like the golf story but I think the gas technicians are better... Who would ever think that gas leak would explode with a lighter???? Mark