Subject: THE DARWIN AWARDS



Yes, it's again that magical time of the year when the Darwin Awards

are bestowed, honoring the least evolved among us.



Here is the glorious Winner:




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.

And now, the Honorable Mentions:

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 claim was

approved.



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.

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.



5. An American teenager was in the hospital recovering from

serious head wounds received from an on coming train. When asked how he

received the wounds he said he was trying to see how close he could get his

head to a moving train before he was hit.

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: $15.

(If someone points a gun at you and gives you money, is a crime

committed?)



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.




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."



9. The Ann Arbor 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.





******A 5-STAR STUPIDITY AWARD WINNER*****
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 ever had.

 

Funny stuff.. I like reading those.

 

they're funny, however sorry to spoil your but they're all fake. That is except for the train one. Here's my source:
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/darwin05.asp

 

I anxiously await the Darwin awards every year.... LOL... it seems to get better and better

 

They may be fake but damn they're funny. Wouldn't surprise me if they were real though.

 

Yea I didn't mean to ruin the fun, but alot of those are fake.

There was one posted last year about a guy to tried to stick his ***** in a golf ball washer. He slipped and his ***** stayed put in the ball washer, rendering him sac-less. That made me crindge so I looked it up and unfortunately it was fake.