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Posted by Saltah'na (Member # 33) on :
 
I found this somewhere this morning, but I'm not so sure if this is the 2000 Darwin Award Nominee listing.....


For those not familiar with the Darwin Award - It's an annual honor given to the person who did the gene pool the biggest service by killing themselves in the most extraordinarily stupid way. As always, competition this year is keen again. Some have trained their whole lives for this event.

DARWIN AWARD CANDIDATES

BUXTON, N.C. A man died on a beach when an 8-foot-deep hole he had dug into the sand caved in as he sat inside it. Beachgoers said Daniel Jones, 21, dug the hole for fun, or protection from the wind, and had been sitting in a beach chair at the bottom Thursday afternoon when it collapsed, burying him beneath 5 feet of sand. People on the beach on the Outer Banks used their hands and shovels, trying to claw their way to Jones, a resident of Woodbridge, Va., but could not reach him. It took rescue workers using heavy equipment almost an hour to free him while about 200 people looked on. Jones was pronounced dead at a hospital. "You just wouldn�t believe the outpouring of concern, people digging with their hands, using pails from kids," Dare County Sheriff Bert Austin said.

In February, Santiago Alvarado, 24, was killed in Lompoc, Calif., as he fell face-first through the ceiling of a bicycle shop he was burglarizing. Death was caused when the large flashlight he had placed in his mouth (to keep his hands free) crammed against the base of his skull as he hit the floor.

According to police in Dahlonega, Ga., ROTC cadet Nick Berrena, 20, was stabbed to death in January by fellow cadet Jeffrey Hoffman, 23, who was trying to prove that a knife could not penetrate the flak vest Berrena was wearing.

Sylvester Briddell, Jr., 26, was killed in February in Selbyville, Del., as he won a bet with friends who said he would not put a revolver loaded with four bullets into his mouth and pull the trigger.

In February, according to police in Windsor, Ont., Daniel Kolta, 27, and Randy Taylor, 33, died in a head-on collision, thus earning a tie in the game of chicken they were playing with their snowmobiles.

In October, a 49-year-old San Francisco stockbroker, who "totally zoned when he ran," according to his wife, accidentally jogged off of a 200-foot-high cliff on his daily run.

In September in Detroit, a 41-year-old man got stuck and drowned in two feet of water after squeezing headfirst through an 18-inch-wide sewer grate to retrieve his car keys.

In September, a 7-year-old boy fell off a 100-foot-high bluff near Ozark, Ark., after he lost his grip swinging on a cross that marked the spot where another person had fallen to his death in 1990.

DARWIN AWARD WANNA-BE'S

In Guthrie, Okla., in October, Jason Heck tried to kill a millipede with a shot from his .22-caliber rifle, but the bullet ricocheted off a rock near the hole and hit pal Antonio Martinez in the head, fracturing his skull.

In Elyria, Ohio, in October, Martyn Eskins, attempting to clean out cobwebs in his basement, declined to use a broom in favor of a propane torch and caused a fire that burned the first and second floors of his house.

Paul Stiller, 47, was hospitalized in Andover Township, N. J., in September, and his wife Bonnie was also injured, by a quarter-stick of dynamite that blew up in their car. While driving around at 2 a.m., the bored couple lit the dynamite and tried to toss it out the window to see what would happen, but they apparently failed to notice that the window was closed.

Taking "Amateur Night" Too Far: In Betulia, Colombia, an annual festival in November includes five days of amateur bullfighting. This year, no bull was killed, but dozens of matadors were injured, including one gored in the head. Said one participant, "It's just one bull against [a town of] a thousand morons."

STUPID CRIMINAL TRICKS

Jeffrey J. Pyrcioch, 19, and an alleged accomplice were arrested in West Lafayette, Ind., in May on theft and fraud charges. Pyrcioch allegedly cashed checks that he had written with disappearing ink, apparently believing the checks would be blank by the time they were presented to the bank for collection. However, traces of ink remained, and police said Pyrcioch would have a better chance of getting away with it if he had not used checks pre-printed with his name and account number on them.

In August, 12 men were arrested near Szczecin in northern Poland as they were digging up a road because they had heard a rumor that it was built with a large stockpile of police-confiscated hashish. The hashish had been sold to a chemical plant to be incinerated into ash for road construction.

Paul Carthy, 25, pleaded guilty in Exeter, England, in September to theft subsequent to his original charge of shoplifting from a liquor store. In the second theft, he had stolen the magnetic letters off the name board that was held up to his face when his mug shot was taken.

In September, according to police in Junction City, Kan., David Bell, 30, just released from jail for car theft, walked out the door and stole another car to get home.

And in October, William B. Singleton, 24, just released from jail in Belton, Mo., on a larceny charge, allegedly broke into a vending machine in the lobby of the police station and stole a 60-cent Strawberry Twisteroo while he waited for his ride to arrive.

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Posted by Baloo (Member # 5) on :
 
Somehow I think it's inappropriate to put a 7-year-old kid on the list. When a child dies because of a lack of judgement, it isn't comedy -- it's a tragedy. After all, at that age, you're not very good at gauging the potential consequences of your actions. Where were his parents?

[Sorry, but the "Father Instinct" seems to take over sometimes -- but I'm serious. If he'd been 27 years old, I would've laughed.]

--Baloo

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
 
Well, it is ironic, if nothing else...

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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
 
To be honest, I've never found any of these particularily funny. Not that I have any problem with laughing at the horrible misfortune of others, but...I don't know, they just annoy me for some reason. I want to smack the hosts of that "America's Dumbest Criminals" show too, if that helps.

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Posted by Pensive's Wetness (Member # 1203) on :
 
i don't think JROTC was this tuff...

no idea where the necrothread pic is but this story made me... well, made me giggle (sadly) cause it WAS SO FUCKING stupid. you miss the murder capital of the US that much, to not even bother to think that crawling into a wheel well is a good idea? one less retard to deal with...

still sad. could this been prevented somehow?
 
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
 
quote:
In February, Santiago Alvarado, 24, was killed in Lompoc, Calif., as he fell face-first through the ceiling of a bicycle shop he was burglarizing. Death was caused when the large flashlight he had placed in his mouth (to keep his hands free) crammed against the base of his skull as he hit the floor.


Years ago, back when I worked overnight for Kinkos, that same sort of thing happend- in the strip mall I worked was a pawn shop and one night cops flooded our parking lot, surrounding the strip.
Eventually a cop came in and asked me what I'd heard (which was nothing as the pawn shop was seperated from Kinkos by another store).

Turns out that some idiot tried breaking into the pawn shop via the roof, got into the "cage" area and then the roof collapsed in- leaving him trapped in the cage with no way out and with the owner's shotgun with him (it was under the counter).

the guy called the police on himself rather than have the owner show up in the morning and find him locked in there.

the cops took it pretty seriously at first, as there was a gun in there, but once they got the guy out, it was all laughs.

Somwhow I'd missed the break in and the partial roof collapse over the sound of our printing machinery going...
 
Posted by Pensive's Wetness (Member # 1203) on :
 
Cocks!
 
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
 
I guess that's what happens when you strap a knife to roosters.

Pity = 0
 
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
 
Barnaby Jones in...The Deadliest Cock.
A Quinn Martin Production


Huh. The guy got cut in the calf and died?!?
That blade must have had all the filth that only a chicken coup can inpart.

Note to self- wash blades before next squirrel fighting match.
 
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
 
If it sliced some heavy-duty blood vessel he could've bled out. Especially if he waited for awhile.

So Jason... the guy was crawling in through the roof... how did he expect to get out?
 
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
 
I've considered it and I have no idea how he would have gotten out- or what exactly could be worth stealing from a closed pawnshop.
You'd assume everything of value would be in some safe or at least locked up.

Police would have a much harder hob if most criminals were not so. damn, stupd.

But in Florida it's realy bad.
 
Posted by Pensive's Wetness (Member # 1203) on :
 
so is your spelling at 2am (then again, so is mine :3)
 
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
 
Yeah- I was working while posting- not conducive to accuracy.

Screw it- we're all friends here: no need to impress overmuch.
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