Yes, these are all true. They are finally out again. You all know about the Darwin Awards. It's an annual honour 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 this year are:
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 resulted in an explosion and fire burned his house down, killing both him and his sister.
A 34-year-old white male found dead in the basement of his home died 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. 12" long and 3" in diameter. The tube's other end was inserted into his rectum for reasons unknown, and was the cause of his suffocation.
Police found the task of explaining the circumstances of his death to his family very awkward.
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.
A police officer in Ohio responded to a 911 call. She had no details before arriving, except that someone had reported that his father was
not breathing. Upon arrival, the officer found the man face down on the
couch naked. When she rolled him over to check for a pulse and to start
CPR,
she noticed burn marks around his genitals. After the ambulance arrived
and
removed the man - who was declared dead on arrival at the hospital - the
police made a closer inspection of the couch, and noticed that the man
had made a hole between the cushions. Upon flipping the couch over, they
discovered what had caused his death. Apparently, the man had a habit of
putting his ###### between the cushions, down into the hole and between
two electrical sanders (with the sandpaper removed, for obvious
reasons).
According to the story, after his orgasm the discharge shorted out one
of the sanders, electrocuting him.
A 27-year-old French woman lost control of her car on a highway near
Marseilles and crashed into a tree, seriously injuring her passenger and
killing herself. As a commonplace road accident, this would not have
qualified for a Darwin nomination, were it not for the fact that the
driver's attention had been distracted by her Tamagotchi key ring,
which had started urgently beeping for food as she drove along. In an
attempt to press the correct buttons to save the Tamagotchi's life, the
woman lost her own.
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."
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.
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.
And the winner is...
Based on a bet by the other members of his threesome, Everitt 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
height of the ball washer was more than a foot higher off the ground
than his
testicles are in a normal stance, and the scrotum 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
broke a new $300.00 driver that he had just purchased from the pro shop,
and was
using to balance himself.
Sanchez was rushed to the hospital for surgery, and the remaining
threesome were asked to leave the course.
NB: This last one wouldn't normally count, because
the idiot didn't die. But because he cannot reproduce as a result of his
qualifying act of stupidity, we have allowed it.
