Darwin Awards

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>> I've met some of these people in my lifetime.
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>>                       It is always good to give credit to those that have
>> excelled to the
>>                       apex of their particular activity.   This years
>> winners of the Darwin
>>                       award of questionable evolution are as follows :
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>> And the glorious Winner for 2008 is:
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>> 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.
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>> And now, the Honourable Mentions:
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>> 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.
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>> 3. A man who shoveled 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 5. A Texas 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.
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>> 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 was $15.
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>> 7. Seems an Arkansas guy wanted some beer pretty badly. He decided that
>> he'd just throw a cinderblock through a liquor store window, grab some
>> booze, and run. So he lifted the cinderblock and heaved it over his head
>> at the window. The cinderblock bounced back and hit the would-be thief
>> on the head, knocking him unconscious . The liquor store window was made
>> of Plexiglas. The whole event was caught on videotape.
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>> 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
>> her. That's the lady I stole the purse from.'
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>> 9. The Ann Arbor Michigan News crime column reported that a man walked
>> into a Burger King in Ypsilanti , Michigan , at 5 a.m., 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.
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>> ******THE 5-STAR STUPIDITY AWARD WINNER*****
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>> 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. A police spokesman said that 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, saying that it was the best laugh he'd had in a very long time.
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>> In the interest of bettering human kind please share these with your
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