Here's the sixth place Darwin Award winner ...
#6 - A 34-year-old white male found dead in the basement of his home dead 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 one end of a hollow tube approx. 30" long and 3" in diameter.
The tube's other end was, for reasons unknown, inserted into his rectum and was the cause of his suffocation. Police found the task of explaining the circumstances of his death to his family very awkward.
That was #6 Ben ... still five better or sicker, depending on your perspective!
Here's Fifth place:
#5 - 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.
Yep ... that's the whole beauty of the Darwins. Can't perpetuate those characteristics, so they are honored for their sacrafice.
Here's fourth place ...
#4 - A 22-year-old, 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 assembled was greater than the distance between the trestle and the ground" Carmichael said. Police say the apparent cause of death was "Major trauma."
Let's just hope that they won the award
BEFORE they had a chance to breed!
Breaks over...see ya in a few.
What did you have in mind Ben?
btw ...I don't buy in to the "genetic intelligence" at this level. Most of this is a product of their environment and influences from others during their "formative" years.
And now third place ...
#3 - 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.
post script - Hey he's from Alabama! What do you expect? :wink:
I've seen results ... when they were taken out of that environment and provided "proper" perspective on cause and effect relationships, they made "correct" choices. Conversely, take some one who was thought to be of sound mind and put him/her in a position where peer pressures are allowed to overcome sound judgment ... anything can and does happen.
and that brings us to second place ...
#2 - 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. 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.
ok point taken...but then again you just can't make the assumption that genetically stupid people will always make the right choice when handled in a proper environment...even when shown a proper perspective on cause and effect...since it goes down to the core of their genetics
benoutwitted wrote:ok point taken...but then again you just can't make the assumption that genetically stupid people will always make the right choice when handled in a proper environment...even when shown a proper perspective on cause and effect...since it goes down to the core of their genetics
My position is that if you take the baby out of Appalachia and raise him/her in an enriched environment ... you'll see marked improvement over siblings left behind. This excludes genetic brain deformities and syndromes ... which all of the Darwin winners "don't have". :wink:
